UN Weapons Inspector? Yes, but a long while ago.Winston wrote: ↑April 11th, 2022, 5:58 pm@Yohan
..... talks to the famous UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter in the videocast below. Apparently, Ritter agrees with him that the Russians are winning the war and are trying their best to avoid hitting civilian targets, contrary to what the Western media is telling you. And that the US is 100 percent to blame for the Ukraine war. Ritter is a professional expert in war and weapons, so his opinion carries a lot of weight. How do you explain that?
24 years ago he resigned.
Famous? Infamous is likely the better word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
About Ukraine and Russia, we will see, in about one month I guess we will know more, Putin is under time pressure, because on 9th May all should be over and Putin can claim his victory.... United Nations weapons inspector, from 1991 to 1998
Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001. He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl. He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of probation. After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his opposition to the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq.
Ritter was arrested again in November 2009 over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl. Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy. The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included "unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation". Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.
In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison. He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.
The end of World War Two is called 'Victory Day', the most important holiday in Russia - it's on May 9.
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Personally I doubt if Russia can occupy Ukraine and to remove its government in such a short time, as Ukraine is a country as large as France with millions of hateful local people willing to fight it out against Russia and they are dispersed in many small villages everywhere in this country - and not to forget, they are supported with weapons and other materials from many Western countries, not only from NATO members.
While the first attack was somehow as a surprise, Ukraine was not really prepared for it - but the second attack will come for sure... likely within one or two weeks? It will be about to destroy whatever can be destroyed in Ukraine, but Russian soldiers will also die....it will not be a friendly welcome with flowers when they move over the border to Ukraine.