Judging Freedom - Scott Ritter : How Close Is Putin to Escalation?

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

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Well, I don't know. I'm one of these people that is often criticized today for being naive for having trust and faith in Donald Trump that he could be sincere about his desire for peace. I mean, he ran on a platform that promoted a number of ideas, one of which was the preservation of the Republic over American Empire. You remember that. Oh, yes. How important it is to maintain this.

I did not have that faith in him, but you did, and I gave you a lot of credit for it. I was hoping beyond hope that this would be the case. And, you know, this is a man who, you know, said things that I, that resonate with me, that he could reduce the defense budget by 50%. I'm like, yes, you can. You can. You can even do it more. And he said, that's what we want.

There's no reason to be spending. this money, he said. We're not here to prop up empire. We're here for America first. I'm like, gosh, he just does this. We'll be doing great. And then the biggest thing that got me was that he was saying that he was supportive of peace with Russia. It now turns out that everything he said was a lie. And it's not just a lie that evolved over time. He was lying to us the moment he said it. We now know this. We, I'll just give you a brief example. You know, when I found out that Julia Gagannis, the former national intelligence officer for the national intelligence community in 2016, who oversaw the writing of the national, of the intelligence community assessment that said Donald Trump was colluding with Russians, we know that's all lies. She did it and she knew it was a lie. She hates Trump, hates Russia, and she was trying to bring them both down. You know, she was put into pasture for a little while. She still was with the CIA, but she was working at a think tank.

But she was brought out. And she was the person briefing the president on the way to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska. When I heard that, I went. What? Yeah, oh, yeah, no. She was brought out of the stables. And Ratcliffe, the director of the CIA, put her right there in front of Trump, briefing Trump on the way to meet Putin.

This is a lady who hates Russia, hates Putin, and hates Donald Trump, or at least hated the old Donald Trump. But Radcliffe did this and set her up by whitewashing her, by putting out a five-page declassified review of what happened with that intelligence collection, intelligence community assessment. And it was all a little mistake, but generally speaking, it was good. And she's innocent. She didn't do anything.

Well, Tulsa Gabbard was back there pulling out the real data. I'll get to that in a minute. But I always believe that this was, you know, a mistake that maybe Ratcliffe was to blame, that Radcliffe was seeking a secret, you know, way of undermining Trump. Nope, Radcliffe put her there and Trump wanted her, because she wasn't there to, you know, Trump wasn't going to meet Putin to try and pursue peace. Alaska was a setup for the Russians. Alaska was designed to create the perception of the spirit of Alaska, to breathe live

into Steve Whitkoff and Kirill Dimitriov's, you know, economic prosperity notion, never intending to do it. Scott Besson to the Secretary Treasury was never going to live. allow the sanctions to be lifted. He wanted to break Russia, bring him to a knees. And I thought Besson was off the reservation. Turns out Besson was doing exactly what Trump wanted him to do. The bottom line is Alaska was setting up Vladimir Putin for failure by deliberately creating the conditions for the creation of a fifth column inside Russia, these new politically elites who were thinking they were starting to spend the money they were going to make with all these great deals

before the sanctions were lifted. Then Trump said, I can't lift the sanctions because of Vladimir Putin. It was all. a setup. And then he tried to kill him, of course. Trump is a liar. I mean, Trump treated the American people like we were the perfect wife. I mean, he bought us flowers. He gave us perfume on our birthday. He whispered all the right things in our ears. He was there for every important event. And then we married him. It turns out he had a mistress the whole time. And that mistress was war. And this is what he wanted. This is the real Donald Trump. He lied to the American people. And now the constitutional republic is

dead in the water. We have a president who puts his own. morality over the rule of law, over the Constitution. He says, I am more important than the Constitution. I am more relevant than the Constitution, and I will be the only one that gets to make these decisions. Constitutional due process is out the window. The Constitutional Republic's in a lot of trouble if it's not dead already. So of what value is the Constitution, of what value are treaties, of what value are contracts, of what value are federal laws, if the president is restrained only by his own sense of morality and, quote, my own mind. There are no value.

None. There's no value. And look, the Russians, I believe, have woken of. I can't speak on behalf of Russia, contrary to popular belief. Vladimir Putin's not on my speed dial. And, you know, we don't confer every. morning. But the fact is I do study Vladimir Putin. I do study the Russian government. I study how they make policy. I believe that the Russians had bought into the notion of Trump's sincerity.

But all it takes is 91 drones coming towards the Russian president's residence to find out that they were targeted by the CIA at the direction of the President of the United States at a time of the president was talking about bettering relations, et cetera. That's a wake-up call. next month, I think February 6th, the New Star Treaty, the last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expires. There was some hope that it could be extended. There was some hope that there could be a voluntary moratorium on capping the nuclear weapons that are linked to that. Not anymore. The Russians, I believe, I'll give you a reason why I believe this.

I was supposed to go to Russia in March and April to participate in a fascinating exercise with the Gorky Institute in St. Petersburg, working with M. Gimaud, the Russian diplomatic university. We were going to hold mock negotiations, mock treaty negotiations, on how to enhance new start. We were going to talk about intermediate nuclear forces and anti-ballistic missiles, and what, you know, what daylike or what agreement could be found. And we had recruiting teams to do this. teams of advisors we're going to go over. The Russians have come back and said, no, we're done.

There is no arms control. There's no future in arms control. We don't believe in arms control, and we're not going to go through the motions of pretending that we believe in arms control. So, you know, that's where we're at. It's dead. It's finished. There is no, we're in a middle of a new nuclear arms race where Russia owns all of the

advantages. Russia has the more modern nuclear assets. Russia has the better doctrine. And you asked a question up front about the Ereschenik. By launching the second Ereschenik, Russia has now said that the Ereschenic missile, this intermediate range missile, is now a foundational part of our nuclear strategic deterrence against Europe and the United States. It's been operationalized. Dmitri M. Biedev's tweet afterwards basically said that. We now have the ability to destroy Europe and it's part of who we are.

Riyabkov, the deputy foreign minister, came out and said, we got Eresnik. And we've got more. We got more coming out better, better stuff. The Russians aren't going to give this way. They have overmatch right now. They dominate. And the whole purpose of arms control is to create parity. And the Russians are like, why would we give up that which guarantees our survival

at a time when you're trying to kill our president? And remember, it's not just trying to kill the president. They launch drone strikes against the bombers. They've launched drone strikes against the early warning radars. you know, they're attacking Russia's oil production capabilities to break the Russian economy. This is straight up war against Russia. And so the Russians are like, well, why would we enter a negotiation that would have us yield these advantages?

We're not going to do that. We have the advantages. You're the enemy. We're keeping this. Sadly, Judge, I have to report that arms control is dead. Does the Kremlin recognize that? Alaska was a setup. What I can say is this, that people who advised the Kremlin and people whose opinion

is considered by the Kremlin, very senior people, who I've been in conversation with, they believe, and they have said straight up that it's a setup, that this process is dead in the water. I think the Russians always keep the diplomatic door open. And keep in mind this. during the Biden administration, there was zero communication between Russia and the United States. That's a very dangerous thing. Right now there is channels of communication.

And I believe the Russians recognize the importance of keeping these channels of communication open. And so they're not going to come straight out and say things. Russia always keeps their cards close to their chest. So they have said we are not ending negotiations with the United States. but they said because of this attack on the president, the character of these negotiations has changed fundamentally, which means that there are no negotiations about the settlement in Ukraine. This war will end violently with Russia, you know, getting everything at once through military force. You know, that's where we're at. But I believe the Kremlin knows this,

but I also believe that the Kremlin is pragmatic and doesn't give away its cards. and therefore they'll keep the pretense of negotiations in play. But they are very open. I mean, that's one thing about the Russians. They're just honest, honest. And they said, now, the nature of negotiations are done. We're not playing that game anymore. So there's no doubt where Russia stands on this.

There will be no negotiated into this conflict. Chris, you can post that full screen. Over the weekend, President Trump proclaimed, himself to be the acting president of Venezuela. Do you think he's of sound mind? No. I believe that that act, combined with his statement about his morality,

trumping law, is de facto evidence that he is no longer fit for office. And I believe that the 25th Amendment should be implemented as soon as possible. I believe if J.D. Vance has a functioning brain cell. He has to understand how dangerous this is. I believe that Scott Besson needs to –

Marco Rubio won't because this is Marco Rubio's dream right now. Marco Rubio, you know, he's dual-hatred. I mean, this is the nefarious nature of Marco Rubio, where he can sit there and pretend to engage in diplomacy with Russia. I mean, my God, how can the Russians ever look this guy in the eye again? Then he puts on his national security advisor hat, holds the secret in a C meeting where he directs the CIA to assassinate the Russian president because this came from Marco Rubio. This came from the National Security Council. You know, so the problem by allowing a president, this is why the Senate is so important.

You know, people always get frustrated during the Senate confirmation hearings about cabinet members. They're like, why not just give the president the people he wants? because if the president goes insane, as this one clearly has, the cabinet, if they're a bunch of similarly inclined, you know, non-constitutional individuals, they won't step in and use the 25th Amendment the way it should be used. He's not literally the acting president of Venezuela. The Constitution prohibits the American president from holding a foreign office. but for him to say something like that as if he believes that. But Judge, I disagree with you. He is acting as, look, tell me how else he can say, we have 30 to 50 million barrels of Venezuela and oil that's going to be sold

and put in offshore accounts, offshore accounts, that I manage. That's his direction. Okay, that's what he's saying. Now, that is patently illegal. Yes. Unconstitutional. This is where the cabinet steps in and says, no, Mr. President, you don't get to do that. It's against the law.

And the fact that you're even considering doing this makes us think you're mentally unbalanced. The vice president, we've come together, and we're removing you. You're done. You're finished. But the fact is, people treat this as a joke. It's not a joke. This is a symptom of the illness, this mental illness that this man has. This is a mentally ill president.

I'm going to play the most offensive statement he made in his two-hour interview with the New York Times. It's only about 20 seconds long. This reinforces your argument about mental instability, and it's a very dark and gloomy tone. Chris, number two. Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage? Is there anything that could stop you if you wanted to? Yeah, there's one thing. my own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that can stop.

And that's very good. I don't need international law. I'm not looking to hurt people. Not looking to hurt people. He just sent Delta Force into a compound, murdered over 100 people, to carry out an illegal abduction, not looking to hurt people. He's looking to murder people. This is a man who gleefully speaks about the necessity of bombing Iran today. as the Iranian government cracks down on so-called protesters, but these aren't protesters. These are violent agitators, organized, trained, equipped and motivated, and led and, you know, instructed by the United States and the Mossad.

This is the CIA Mossad operation. You know, the Iranians broke the code. Hey, Elon, you're not as smart as you think you're our buddy. Letting the CIA and Mossad use Starlink to communicate with these people. The Russians broke that code a long time ago in Ukraine, and they shared that information with the Iranians who read everything, and that's why it's over. They rounded everybody up,

and you know they're going to execute them all because they have the proof. These aren't demonstrators, innocent demonstrators. These are Mossad agents, CIA agents, actively working to bring down a sovereign government. But the president ordered that. He doesn't care about life. And here's the key thing with the American people. He doesn't care about American life. I'm not an expert on, you know, domestic law and all that.

ICE executed a lady in broad daylight. You can come up with all the crap you want about a car and angle. They had intent to do harm when they started. ICE is an occupying army in American cities that are murdering Americans, arresting Americans, and this president is encouraging this and facilitating this. This man is a criminal, a criminal. Thomas Jefferson said it. You hinted at it in your, you know, the tree of liberty has to be washed with the blood of tyrants and patriots on occasion.

Now, I'm not advocating for violent revolution. But what I am saying is that we have constitutional remedies to the insanity that exists in Washington, D.C. today, number one of which is we have the vote of the American people. If this man gets through the midterm elections and the American people have foregone their responsibilities, because, look, if you haven't figured out where, wherever you stand with Maga and America First and all that. This is an insane man who doesn't, he just told you he doesn't care about America. America is defined by the Constitution of the United States of America. We are a constitutional republic. Without the Constitution, we don't exist.

And he just said, screw law. I don't need law. I only need my brain. And it's a sick brain. It's a perverted brain. And I'm not talking about Epstein. I'm talking about the perversion of violence, the perversion of death. And the American people can stop that with their voting.

If they don't, then they punt it. Then we're left to the 25th Amendment, and I don't believe that there's a cabinet right now that's capable of implementing the 25th Amendment. So we now have a dictator who has destroyed, destroyed the Constitutional Republic that I gave an oath to uphold defend with my life. Is Iran ready for the coming attack by Israel and the U.S.? Oh, yeah. Yes, this is the other thing about being insane like Donald Trump. He believes the things that P. Kegseth, another insane person. My God, if we ever had a Nuremberg trial of these people, it would be stunning.

I mean, America, wake up. We are the Germans. We are the Germans of the 1930s. We are asleep at the wheel as a people while this madman takes over, and he is going to be worse than Hitler because he has access to nuclear weapons. All right? we are Germany in the 1930s. We're watching it happen as we speak.

And if there were ever trials, it would be amazing. But this man believes, you know, in the preeminence of American military power. And therefore, I mean, there's other things he said in there. You know, Russia and China aren't afraid of Europe. They're only afraid of me. I got news for you, Donald Trump. They don't fear you. They're concerned about the nuclear weapons you have access to.

But you as an individual, they don't fear. They don't respect you. They despise you. They think you're a joke, but you're a dangerous joke. A very dangerous joke. But Russia and China don't fear you. And you're going to find out one day when you wake up and everything's gone south. Iran could be the place where that goes south because if he goes forward with this stupidity,

you know, because the CIA has breathed a whole bunch of, you know, horse dung into his lungs about Venezuela. Because they bought off a lot of people. and they executed this operation. And the CIA is telling them we can do this in Iran too. All you have to do is bomb the Iranians and the Iranian people are going to rise up and they're going to remove that. I had told, Gaines over, Donnie. All your guys are dead.

Wake up. They're all dead. Yes, 6,000 people were killed. 6,000 spies were killed by the Iranians. I'm sure they were innocent people in there. And I always agree for the innocent. But the point is, Trump believes that he can bomb. the moment you do that, all American bases in the region will be annihilated. Iran's not playing games anymore.

Do we know if any CIA officers were among those arrested? We don't put CIA, they're not brave enough to do that kind of stuff to send their guys into denied areas. No, their guys are all hanging out in Kurdistan and Azerbaijan. Some of them might be down in the Baloch border in Pakistan, running their people. but most of this has done remote control. Again, by Starlink, this is the stupidity of it. You know, sit there in your little, you know, Langley, Virginia, I don't know what floor of these guys are operating on.

Maybe they're in the basement. Who knows? But they're sitting there in their little control room, you know, sending out signals or looking to the big map, the big map, and moving pieces around and all that stuff. They're not there. They don't have the guts to do that. Even Israel isn't going to put an actual Israeli citizen on the ground.

But what's curious is they got the phones of these people. And on the phones, they all had, many of them had the same message from a lady speaking Farsi, dressed in, you know, wearing the flag of the former shaw, giving them instructions about what to do if you're arrested. If you're arrested, you know, condemn the expatriates, make yourself look like a patriot, don't talk about this, that, and the other thing. she's Israeli. She's an Israeli Mossad agent

giving instructions. In the CIA... In Farsi. Yeah. And the CIA did the same thing with Starlink. I mean, again, they have these case officers that think that they're God's gift of the world because nobody

holds them to account and they're playing God. They sit there and they send directions. You know, okay, we have cashed so many Molotov cocktails here. Get your people here. You need to burn this bank. You need to do this. You need to do that to create this unrest in the city, that then we can come bomb security forces.

Then you need to be prepared to move all this. And they're out there drawing big arrows on the board. What they don't realize is the same thing happened in Iran that happened in Iraq. Because I was part of that Iraq thing, not the plotting, but I was aware of it. They used my inspection team. The CIA put 12 covert paramilitary officers on my inspection team in the summer of 1996 to assassinate Saddam Hussein. and they were there on the ground, and they were supposed to be hooking up with the third battalion

of the Special Republican Guard. The one but Special Republican Guard unit, I wasn't allowed to inspect. I said, I wanted to inspect them. No, no, no, no, we got this one under control. Well, they had bought off the leadership. And we were supposed to set up an event that would allow the United States to come in with cruise missiles

and suppress the Special Republican Guard except this one battalion, which was then going to marry up with my 12 paramilitary officers and move in, grab Saddam, and get them out of country. That was the operation. What they didn't realize is that all the guys they were sending in to communicate with the Iraqis were being rounded up by the Iraqis as they came across the border.

The Iraqis had the communications equipment, told the guys, here's the deal. We can torture you to death and torture your family in front of you to death, or we'll let your family live with a pension, and when this is done, we'll kill you quickly, but you have to play the game. So the guy kept sending and receiving messages, and at the end of the day, when the Iraqis turned around and grabbed these guys, they called the CIA station chief in Amman Jordan and said,

we've been reading you the whole time, good luck. And that's what happened here in Iran, too. The CIA is not very good. They're not very good. They can do some things, but they're not as clever as they think, and they're murderous thugs. They don't care about human life. They just sacrifice 6,000 Iranians,

and now they're going to go, oops, onto the next project. Wow. Are there pressures on President Putin to crush the Ukrainian military and destroy the Zelensky government? There's no pressure on him. That's what he's going to do. General Sertivkin, when he took over after the Ukrainian offensive in the fall of 2022, after the United States provided $48 billion worth of training, and equipment, they rebuilt the Ukrainian army.

After the Russians began withdrawing their forces as part of the good faith measure they agreed to in Istanbul, the Ukrainians exploited the Russian weakness. 50% of the Russian army had already been withdrawn. There's huge gaps in the line. They weren't expecting anything. The Ukrainians kept sweeping in. So Russian mobilized 300,000 troops, and they appointed Syrikan to be in charge, and his job was to stabilize the lines.

And once he did that, everybody's like, well, now you're going to do the big arrow in counterattack. He said, we're not here to sacrifice Russian life. We're here to win this war, and we're going to create the conditions of victory through a war of attrition. And that's what Russia's been doing ever since. And they will continue to do this for as long as it takes. I've stopped trying to put a mark on the calendar. I'm not going to do what the Russian government won't do. All right? I'll be more than happy to assess any date that the Russian government puts up on the calendar. They don't do it, which tells me they're not driven by the calendar. They're driven by results, and the results are dire. The Ukrainians are out of reserves. And so now there's an

emergency mobilization order going out to the various territorial recruitment centers. They have to scoop up 50,000 guys overnight and get them to the front lines with no training where they will die. But that's where they're at. They lost 15 to 20,000 guys in Proofs that they should have withdrawn, highly trained troops are gone forever. And now without those troops, there is no fire brigade to move around, and the Russians are exploiting this. You know, so, you know, Vladimir Putin is going to this. Now, the interesting thing is, you know, he had made a promise early on that he wasn't going to kill Zelensky or Zelensky's cabinet. He said, we're not going to do that.

And as a result, the Ukrainian government has been able to act with impunity. I mean, they imagine inviting foreign leaders to the capital of a nation at war and parading around. If they were really at war, there would be no trains to have them come in on, and all the foreign invited, you know, would be dead. But no, Ukraine just, it's open season. Everybody gets to visit, visit, visit, visit, and Zelensky gets to travel, two, fro, and everywhere. And even after he, you know, refused to hold elections, the Russian said he's not the legitimate president, but he is the head of the regime. So they were willing to recognize him as the head of the regime and carry out negotiations with the head of the regime, with the understanding that before the,

the whatever agreement was finalized there had to be elections and a real leader constitutional leader appointed um but at least they were saying Zelensky's the head of a regime after the this events that culminated with the assassination attempt against president Putin they've uh they've called Zelensky a terrorist at the head of a terrorist organization this is a game changing event so this means that it's a death sentence to Zelensky in his cabinet they may not know it yet but they will not survive this they will be hunting down and they will be killed. There will be no, you know, amnesty. Notice they threw that in there as part of the negotiation. You got to have an amnesty. The Russian aren't going to give you amnesty.

You're Stepan Bandera, 2.0. You're a dead man walking. And that's how this is going to end. Does the Kremlin understand that Trump authorized the attack on Putin's house? Yeah, that's why they gave us the chip. Remember the head of the Russian military intelligence handed over a guidance chip to the American Defense Adichet in Moscow. Now, they didn't say anything. They just said, here's the chip. And on this chip is all the information. And on that chip is all the information.

But the thing is, the Americans know what's on that chip because we programmed that chip. We were trying to tell lies because I guess we believe that the drones when they hit would blow up and the chips would be unrecoverable. They had a fully functioning intact chip. Apparently, you have 21 of those. And they gave it to the United States. and when you reverse engineer that as the Russians did, it becomes crystal clear what the target was. It was the presidential residence.

That's what the Russians say, and that's what the data shows. And how it was collected, when it was collected, who packaged it, who processed it. The nature of the digital data on that chip could only have been assembled in one place, not Palantir operating in Germany using commercially available data, which is what the front cover is. Palantir is there doing this, but they're given a data packet from, a United States Department of Defense activity in Europe that packages targeting data for Tomahawk missiles and for other, you know, advanced American weapon systems. They're the ones that took American intelligence data, packaged it into a digital package, gave it to Palantir,

who gave it to the Ukrainians who loaded into the chip. But when you reverse engineer that, you realize that the data could only come from specific assets and assembled in a specific place. The Russians know everything. And when they gave a chip over, they were saying, They were saying, we know everything. What is in, under, or closely affiliated with that residence? Look, it's a presidential residence. If you go to Camp David, there will be a skiff where classified data, and there will be a bunker that the president can retreat to in case of attack. So this is a presidential complex.

The residence is one thing. But there will be a, for instance, there is a presidential communications facility there that maintains all of the connectivity. necessary for, you know, Russia to operate in time of war, in time of peace, in time of emergency. Presidential communication facility. There will be security facilities nearby. You know, also the personnel that manned the place, maintain the residence, just like at Camp David. I mean, I went to the National Fire Academy in Emmettsburg, Maryland, I believe it is. And we were told, don't get drunk and wander in that direction. Because if you go in the woods in that direction, about 100 yards,

there's going to be a Marine in a gilly suit jumping out of the ground and butt stroking you and taking you prisoner because you now have entered into the exclusion zone for Camp David. The Russians do the same thing for this retreat. And so what the United States has tried to say is we weren't targeting the residents. We were trying to target something else. But the Russians are very specific. And again, I know the Russians. If it wasn't the residents, they wouldn't have said the residents.

The fact that they said the residents committed to that and then turned over a chip, means on that chip, it isn't the coordinates for this other facility. That's the lie told by the CIA. It's the coordinate for the residents. Scott Ritter, you're on fire. I love you, my dear friend. Thank you very much for all of your passion and all of your extraordinary knowledge. of these matters. Thank you very much for joining us today, my dear friend.

Thank you very much for having me. Of course. I'll see you again soon. Tomorrow, Tuesday, nothing's going to be more passionate than Scotty just was, but tomorrow, Tuesday, at 8 in the morning, Ambassador Chaz Freeman, at 10 in the morning, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, at 11 in the morning, Colonel Douglas McGregor, at 2 in the afternoon, Matt Ho, at 3 in the afternoon, Colonel Karen Koukowski. Judge the Paul Tano for judging freedom.