Judging Freedom - Scott Ritter : Why Iran is Winning.

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

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Undeclared wars are commonplace. Pragically, our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression with no complaints from the American people. Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. What if sometimes, to love your country, you had to alter or abolish the government? if Jefferson was right? What if that government is best which governs least? What if it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish fighting for

freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom's greatest hour of danger is now? Hi, everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for a judging freedom. Today is Tuesday, March 31st, 26. Scott Ritter will be with us in just a moment. on why Iran is winning this war. But first this. Don't you just cringe when people say, I told you so. Sorry,

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It's a war crime. The United States is a nation that is committing, you know, the most egregious of war crimes, a war of aggression. This was a war of choice. There was no imminent threat from Iran. In fact, what had been articulated as an imminent threat by the United States. Iran's nuclear program was being resolved diplomatically. And that when the United States and Israel carried out,

their surprise attacked, you know, when the Japanese bomb this was called the Day of Infamy. Imagine what the Iranians call it, but it was perfidy. Literally, we were operating under a flag of truce, and then we attacked the Iranians. So we are a war criminal state, and Pete Hagensteth is a war criminal. And we have to start out by this because evaluating everything that follows from this. You know, America, wake up. Our government is committing crimes in your name, our name. We are a war criminal nation.

So now let's take a look at this. Some people would say, well, you know, the ends justify the means. I mean, you know, if we get rid of the Iranian state and we can secure Middle East oil and all this stuff that, well, I mean, what's international law? We've been breaking it. What the hell we invaded an occupied Iraq back in 2003, spent better part of a decade doing that. And nobody, you know, thousands of American die, but nobody cares. For all of you people out there that care about, you, I mean, I just despise these people. We support the troops.

Really? Do you really support the troops? You've never supported them because you haven't gone to the VA and changed a colostomy bag of a guy that got his guts blown out. You haven't held the hand of a wife or a daughter. I just sit there and stare at her husband or father drool into a cup because his brain has been addled by roadside bomb. Nobody cares about the American troops. We like them when they're good looking in a uniform. Girls are like, hey, I'd like to date that guy. Really? You'd like to date that

guy? Why? Because he looks good in uniform. But what happens when he comes back in a wheelchair or a basket case or he comes back with a drinking problem or a drug addiction because of the pain that was inflicted on his body or the psychosis in his mind? Do you love him then? No, you walk away. Then you leave him abandoned. Now his guts are torn out and his heart's torn out. No, America sucks as a nation. don't support our troops at all. And so, you know, we're talking about sending people out to fight and die in a war to achieve what. Pete Head says that this is because we're going to remove the regime in Iran. Forty seven years, those people have been tormenting America. Really? I think it's America's been tormenting them. Iran hasn't sanctioned us. We've been sanctioning them. Iran hasn't assassinated our nuclear science. We've been assassinating theirs. I mean, America, this is the stupidity of the American people is beyond, belief, you know, buying into this notion. We're going to get rid of the Ayatollah, and suddenly the regime is going to collapse. And in the process of collapsing, we'll get them to agree to get rid of their missiles, because that's the other state objective, to stop Iran from launching missiles and drones.

Well, you know, the regime didn't collapse. We killed Ayatollah Al-Iatollah, the regime is there now. His son is now the Ayatollah. Yeah, we got rid of the one Ayatollah, et cetera, it was against the law to produce nuclear weapons, and we're replaced it with another Ayatollah said, well, who knows? Maybe we'll have to reconsider this. Because you guys. attacked us. Nuclear armed nations attacking us when we're supposed to be perfected from this attack by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. It says when you signed the treaty and you've entered a safeguard's agreement, you're sort of immune from this sort of thing. But no, here comes the United States and Israel because we don't care about international law bombing Iran. We didn't collapse the regime.

We made them stronger. So Pete, you lost. If your job was to collapse the regime, they're there. They're winning. You're losing. Now, what about those missiles, Pete? How'd that happen? I don't know. Ask the Gulf Arab nations get bombarded everything. Ask yourself, Pete. Where's the class where I report on the battle damage assessment done to the U.S. bases in the region? They're being wiped off the map, Pete. That's on you, pal. And what about Israel?

Our ally. You know, they're getting slammed every single day. That's on you, Pete. You haven't won anything. We have lost this war. We're losing it now, and we've lost it badly because now the unintended consequences, why I say unintended. They were knowable.

Everybody knew it. The global energy crisis is taking place right now. That's Donald Trump's crisis. He did it. Pete Higg said did it. These war criminals have now also committed, you know, economic crimes against the world. How'd you like to be Japan thinking America is your ally? South Korea, America is your ally, and suddenly wake up one morning, not only to find out that your energy price you're going through, you're going to have to start South Korea rationing gas because they don't have any. They got it all from the Middle East and it ain't flowing right now. But it's not just that. We took away all their air defense too. And send it off to the Middle East because, oh yeah, our air defense sucks. We don't know how to defend against missiles.

So not only did we not knock them out, we can't shoot them down. The Iranians have free reign to strike wherever they want, whenever they want, and there's nothing we can do to stop them. We lost this war. What military's got a tremendous dissertation, my head is off to you. I don't even think you came up for air. What military purpose would be served by the introduction of boots on the ground? None whatsoever.

I mean, look, ostensibly. Let's back this up. In Trump's first term, the Iranian shot down one of our global hawk, I think, drones, big drone, got shot down over the straight-ohr moves for, you know, theoretically flying into Iranian airspace. And Trump, you know, being the blustering fool that he is, said he wanted to bomb them in return. And the Pentagon said, hey, boss, we may have stranded into their airspace. but I don't know where America, you can't shoot down our drones. We have to punish them.

So they drew up a plan to strike Iranian air defense sites, the ones responsible for shooting it down. But the Pentagon said, hey, you hit them, we're going to start a sequence of events. It's going to finish with them blowing the hell out of all of our bases, knocking the crap out of everything else, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. We don't have the forces of raid for this. And they said, here's the important part.

In order to defeat Iran, we would have to defeat Iran, we would have to come in with about 900,000 troops. It would take us usually nine months to one and a half years to assemble these troops. And even once we assembled them, there's no guaranteeing we would get them across the beach because this ain't going to be desert storm where American troops are flying into airfields where nobody's attacking them or landing in ports where nobody's attacking them. The Iranians will be destroying all the infrastructure and they have missiles that can hit our ships as they come close to shore.

You may not want to start this thing, boss. And Trump wisely refrained from striking. So now today you've got people talking about ground action. Understand that anything we come. When we're talking about, what, 10,000 troops? Guys, you can't do anything with 10,000 troops. When I planned, helped plan, I was just a junior lieutenant time. I did the intelligence.

I fixed up the intelligence assessment for the amphibious opt to take Bond or Abbas, which is a major Iranian city. We, you know, we went with 60,000 Marines. That was the plan. 60,000 Marines, and then the Army was going to follow through about 180,000 soldiers. So we have 240,000 guys on the ground to take Bonda Abbas. Major effort. We don't have that capability today.

We don't have the prepositioned ships. We used to have all our stuff on ships so we could come in with amphibious forces, seize the ground, then bring the ships in behind and the port offload them fly in the troops and off they go to fight. We can't do that today. We don't have any of this capability. We'd have to mobilize troops. It takes us six months to get a single heavy army brigade

out of its base in the United States, ready for deployment, to ship down, and go off to Europe to do its little rotational duty. Now you want to talk about moving hundreds of thousands of troops to them. We don't have the shipping to do it. We don't have anything left. We suck as a military. People need to understand it.

So now what do we do? We're going to sit in two marine expeditionary units. Yay, battalion landing teams, the thundering herd, and dark horse. I mean, these are legendary marine units, but Marines aren't immortal. and you put them on a beach without appropriate support, they're going to die. We put multiple battalions across the beach at Iwo Jima

to take on the Japanese. Now, we're going to take card with two Marines, and where's the reinforcements? So the Marines are going to come in to an assault. Think Tarawa for a second, guys. Study it up. Marines waiting a mile and a half, chest deep water, getting machine gun down.

They finally get to the beach and assault through. Thousands died. Where's the reinforcements? There's no more Marines there. Oh, the paratroopers are going to come in. You have guys ever think about airborne operations? They jump in with what they have. What happens when they run out of ammunition and you can't resupply them

because everything is getting shot down or the drones are coming in and hitting them? They all die. They tend to surrender. Think the British, Arnhem, a bridge too far. You might want to look at that movie. What happened to the first British, you know, first British airborne divisions? What's going to happen to any paratroopers we send in? This ground invasion stuff is nonsense.

So the Rangers are going to come in. Really? The Rangers aren't that good, first of all. A bunch of young kids with shaved heads who proved they could do a bunch of of tough stuff, but they're not that good at fighting. And they're going to go in and do what? Die. That's what they're going to do. Die. Delta Force went scud, honey, during Desert Storm. Every insertion was detected by the Iraqis. Every Delta Force team that went on the ground was running for its life in the first hour it was on the ground. That's how good Delta Force is.

Now we're going to go into Iran, which has many, many more troops. We don't have a plan. This is Pete Heggseth making it up as he goes along. The fact is that we're mobilizing these forces now means we didn't think about it up front. So now we are reacting. And when you're reacting, now we come into John Boyd, Colonel John Boyd, the decision-making cycle, you know, the Udoloup, observe, orient, side act, fighter pilot, so it's how you shoot people down. The Marine Corps adopt is part of our maneuver strategy. You want to get inside the enemy's decision-making cycle so that you're acting, they're reacting. And when that happens, you win 100% of the time. Guess who's reacting the United States? The Iranians own our decision-making cycle.

Wow. Are we negotiating or is Trump making this up? He's making it up. The Iranians aren't negotiating. We, this is, Judge, again, I'm laughing because it's just, it's mindbug. Hollywood and couldn't come over the script like this. I mean, people would read the script and go, no, no, this would never happen. That's unrealistic. No diplomat would ever do that. And no nation would allow itself be fooled twice. Donald Trump in June 2025 said, hey, let's have a nuclear deal.

The Iranians went, we're ready, negotiating good faith. We're going to go to bed on Friday night, work Saturday, Sunday. On Monday, we'll show up and we'll conclude this deal. They went to bed Friday night. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Assassinated by Israel using U.S. intelligence. Trump bragged about it. Not making this up, guys.

That's what we did. Perfety. Now we come to this one, and Trump said, we want a deal. And the Marines went, okay. And they sat down, and they made a deal. They actually had a deal ready. people flying into Washington, D.C. To get it signed off on when,

boom, boom, there we go again, surprise attack, perfidy. The Iranians are done. You know, the Iranians have shown so much restraint over the course of the past years. They haven't gone full bore. But now they said, it's all bets are off, guys. We're taking everything out. You want to play this game? We're going to take it all out.

Wait until they started hitting the desalimization plans. They already hit one in Kuwait. When they take them out, there won't be a single nation left. I mean, I love the United Arab Emirates, those fat, stupid Arabs with all their oil money, you know, ruling over a country where 85% of the population isn't Arab, their foreigners coming in, 85% of their military mercenaries, the Sparta of the Middle East. And they're sitting there talking big and bad. Your desalienization plants are about to go, boom.

And when that happens, you won't have anybody left in your pathetic little country. All you'll have is a bunch of sand and good luck. You know, you'll have some oil. You can drink that, maybe. But that's it. You won't be drinking water unless it's, salt water, then you'll die. That's what's going to happen to the totality of the Gulf Arab states if this war continues. And it's on Donald Trump, and it's on them, because they're sitting there

playing the victim. We didn't want anything to do that. B.S., you gave safe heaven to American troops that were then used to attack Iran not once, but twice in the past year. And you want to pretend you're innocent? No, you're paying the price. The only way you get out of this is to kick the United States out, which is one of Iran's principal negotiating positions. But they're not negotiating. They just said, you have to get the hell out of here. This isn't a game of us sitting down to take. Who are they going to sit down with? Steve Whitkoff, Jared Kushner. No, they're the same guys they sat down with the first and second time. They're not going to do that. There's other nations out there that are desperate for a peace deal that are in contact with the Iranians. And Iranians are telling

them, pound sand, we won't negotiate. Then they go to the United States and say, well, we think what the Iranians might want. And Donald Trump then says, I'm in negotiations with the Iranians. The Iranians aren't giving the United States anything. They're not doing it directly or indirectly. This is the fantasy of Donald Trump. I mean, the man is just a psychotic liar. Here's Pistol Pete just a few hours ago, about eight o'clock this morning, trying to convince a skeptical press that negotiations are going on. Chris, cut number 21. Having been with Steve and Jared and the vice president, and Marco and many others yesterday, they are very real. They are ongoing. They're active and I think gaining strength. And we appreciate that. As I said,

in my remarks, we would much prefer to get a deal. If Iran was willing to relinquish material they have and ambitions they have, open this, great. That's the goal. We don't want to have to do more militarily than we have to. But I didn't mean it flippantly when I said in the meantime, we'll negotiate with bombs. Our job is to ensure that we compel Iran to realize that this new regime, this regime in charge, is in a better place if they make that deal. And so we'll continue, we're working hand in hand, but the primary effort is a deal. We want to. We want to, that deal to be accomplished if at all possible. If not, then we're prepared to continue. A headline in the Wall Street Journal saying Trump willing to give up on the straight of Hormuz.

It's like give up. Your ass has been kicked. And Pete, screw you, you lying sack of manure. I mean, this guy is pathetic. A deal, there is no deal, Pete. You lost the war. We're going to, our negotiating is bombing. What the hell of you? you've been doing for the past several weeks, Pete? You used all of your precision got ammunition. You got nothing left, Pete. Nothing. You blew it all. You shot your wad, buddy. And what did you do? Squat. Iranians are still there. And now you've got to come in with what, conventional bombs, gravity bombs? Because that's all you got left. Hey, Pete, you might want to pick up a history book. You know, we spent a couple years bombing the crap out of Nazi Germany. You know, didn't work,

pal, didn't break their spirit. Did the same thing to the Japanese. Bomb their cities. committed war crimes. Dresden, the firebombing of Tokyo. You want a firebomb Tehran? Do it. They're ready for you now, Pete, because Iran doesn't care. They recognize you for what you are. A lying war criminal. They're not going to negotiate with you, and they're not going to negotiate with Donald Trump. Another lying war criminal. This is the problem when the United States operates the way it has, arrogantly and ignorantly. We are liars. There's no credibility. There's no reason for anybody in the world to believe us. Hell, Europe doesn't he, leave us anymore. Italy just said pound sand, you can't use our base. America's like, what? I thought we could use those base. A good planning, Pete. You never thought about your European allies, did you? You might want to check that box off, saying, secure European support before going to war with Iran, where we require European support. Now, Spain, I'm just telling you, when I flew out to the Gulf War, landed in Spain going there, landed in Spain, going back, because Spain's an important intermediary stop. Not anymore. Cigonella, Italy. Nope, can't use that anyway.

Rendez, no, it's all gone. You didn't secure the European support before engaging in your illegal war of regression. And now Europe's telling you to pound sand, and you got your feelings hurt, Pete. You and Marco Ruby are like, oh, NATO didn't come to our assistance. NATO isn't going to participate in your illegal war of aggression,

especially the one that is crushing their economies right now, and you failed to coordinate with them. I mean, this is literally, we were talking about the most amateur, criminal-minded idiots in the world. At least Dick Cheney wasn't incompetent. I can see you're on fire, but this is actually going to raise the heat a little bit. This is also Hegg Seth from this morning. Chris number 17.

As far as President Trump and boots on the ground, I don't understand why the base, which they have already, they understand wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute on this. Look at his track record of pursuing peace through strength, America First outcomes. What he's simply saying, and it's exactly true, and I've said from this podium, too, we're not going to foreclose any option. You can't fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do to include boots on the ground. Our adversary right now thinks there are 15 different ways we could come at them with boots on the ground. And guess what? There are.

So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the President of the United States and this department. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Hey, Pete, you got 15 ways to go into Iran? They got 31 independent autonomous military districts. So let's just say your 15 ways takes out 15 of them. They got 16 left, Pete. I mean, your math sucks, Pete. This is what happens when you have a clown that's been promoted to the Department of Defense,

which he calls, you know, Department of War. Pete can't wage war. He doesn't know how to wage war. Never did wage war. I mean, he went in there and did low-intensity conflict in a limited basis. He's no war hero. He's a joke. And what?

He couldn't even be, he'd be fired. If Pete Higgott said, gave that briefing in my Marine Battalion, I wasn't a commander, I was just in it. But I just tell you, I've done briefings, battalion commander. If you came up and pulled that kind of crap with that kind of semantic structure, fired on the spot. Because it is shallow as it is. There's no substance to what he's saying. He's just out there throwing platitude after platitude after platitude, you know, saying big words, big plans. I want details, Pete.

Boots on the ground. Yeah. Yeah, your president is what, saying all options are on the table. It's not about options, Pete, it's about capabilities. All right, Pete? I mean, my God, man, stop bench pressing, stop doing pushups and start thinking, oh, you can't think because you're Pete Higgs up. This is frustrating because Americans are dying and Americans are going to die.

Here's one of your fellow Marines, a young man by the name of James Webb. His grandfather, whom I knew, was the Secretary of the Navy under Ronald. Reagan and then became a U.S. Senator from Virginia. The grandfather was a great man. This young man told our friend and colleague Tucker Carlson, he would never let his sons join the Marine Corps because he didn't want them to become mercenaries fighting a war for a foreign country. Then he began to talk about war games in which he participated and it didn't go well. Cut number eight, Chris. We have war games this and it didn't go well. The other parts of it are the if you look at the terrain of iran um it is afghanistan but worse uh with a larger

population that is obviously well more equipped um than any other war we fought in recent memory that's why it's the oldest empire in the world probably geography matters absolutely um and their traditions matter like they have survived for two millennia uh you know and a lot of that was by having to fight um You know, they're not pushovers. I'm not a fan of their policies. I don't want to live in Iran. But at the same time, you have to recognize realistically who you're dealing with. And they're not a backwater.

They are a very advanced philosophical mathematical, mathematical society. They've given the world a lot. And if you don't take that into account, you rely on hubris to make your planning, you're going to walk into a trap. hubris. Trump, Heggseth, hubris on spades and spades. 100%. I mean, look, you and I share a great affinity for James Webb, the former secretary of a, you know, he is a war hero. He highly decorated Vietnam war hero. And he's just a hell of a guy. I remember when he ran for president, the thing that lost in the presidency is he said, what was one of those adversarial relations?

relationships in life and how to work out for him. He said, well, that North Vietnamese guy that threw a grenade at me and I threw it back and killed him. It didn't work out for him. The American people couldn't understand that, so they didn't vote for him. But I understood it. He would have made a great president. But, you know, look, his son, I respect his son. Let me just correct the record here. If you've never been to Iran, don't ever talk about Iran, all right? He said he wouldn't want to live there. You haven't been there. Okay. Iran is a fantastic country. You know, filled with this loving people, intelligent people, I've been to Iran. And I have to tell you, I was never treated better. They, well, I mean, I was treated pretty good in my last trip to Russia. But when you're friendly with people, they tend to treat you well. And if you're friendly with the Iranians, they would treat you well. And, you know, he speaks of their scientific. Yes, these are some of the best scientists' world.

Is it possible to defeat Iran? Guys, Iran was occupied by the United States, Great Britain, and Russia during World War II. So it's possible to defeat Iran. I mean, you can talk about history all you want. Learn your history, Mr. Webb, before you speak and study about Iran. I agree with his basic sentiment, but you can defeat Iran. They've been defeated in the past. It's not as though they're invincible.

But Pete Higgsett and Donald Trump aren't going to defeat them. The terrain is a factor, but not in the factor the way. Again, no one's talking about landing and Bandar Abbas and surging across the mountains in the desert to get to Tehran. If you're going to do Tehran, you come in through Azerbaijan, you go down the Caspian Sea coast, and you do an amphibious hook. we've been planning that one too. Can't do it anymore because we don't have the troops and resources. But if we're going to go in, we could secure the Strait of Hormuz, but it would be a major effort.

I'm talking about major effort, World War II-style D-Day Battle of Okinawa effort, where we're going to lose 10 to thousands of troops. For what? For what? I mean, 10 to 1,000, we only have 10,000 there now. I'm talking about if you want to secure the Strait-Harmuz, you better bring 20,000 body bags because that's what's going to take. Let me correct myself.

You probably know this, but we're too diplomatic to correct me. The Jim Webb was the secretary of the Navy, who is a great man, who is a decorated war hero, is the father, not the grandfather of this fellow. The grandfather was also a decorated Marine, but it is his father who was Reagan's secretary of the Navy. Yep. John Brennan, head of the CIA,

in the Biden years had quite a tongue lashing for Trump and Higgseth. Chris, as is yesterday, Chris, cut number 20. It's clear that there's this toxic mix of traits that Donald Trump has, which is he's a pathological liar. He is incompetent on so many fronts. And he's also deeply corrupt, which I think is now being manifest, manifesting itself in terms of the Gulf War. That's why you have these wholly incoherent, wholly inconsistent flailing about, because, first of all, again, there was no real rationale for this war. Secondly, he's trying to figure out what his next move is, and he doesn't understand exactly how he's going to get himself out of this mess.

And thirdly, the Iranians now seem to have a lot more influence and cards to play, especially in terms of the Strait of Homoos and allowing shipping to get out or not. And so therefore, I think Donald Trump is trying to present a false narrative to the American public by saying, yes, the Iranians now seem more reasonable by trying to negotiate. But, you know, he's protected himself for so many years in this cocoon of disinformation. but the reality now is just penetrating and taking away that cocoon. Coon of, cocoon of disinformation is laying the ground for a summary departure.

If we depart, what happens to Netanyahu and his crew? Well, first of all, let's start, start that having John Brennan talking about a cocoon of disinformation, this man's a lion's sack of crap, too. He's the guy who made up, you know, Russiagate. He manufactured intelligence. He's the worst CIA director we've ever had. He's a man belongs in jail for telling lies. So I really don't need to be lectured by John Brennan,

who is a pathological liar himself. I guess it takes one to no one. So there maybe he brings some evidence of it. But John Brennan, I'll spit on him. But we don't need John Brennan to make the point that Donald Trump and Pete Hexeth are incompetent. What happens when we withdraw? What happens to Israel?

Israel is going to have to pay the piper, baby. I mean, I saw, you know, there's people posting on X, you know, five-man artillery crew killed in Lebanon. They were killed in South Lebanon. May God rest, what were they doing in South Lebanon? Invading. Israel is Israel. South Lebanon ain't their country.

And so they're invading South Lebanon, and Hezbollah is kicking their ass. I mean, literally, 76 tanks destroyed in the last 48 hours. You know, that's more than a battalion. Could you imagine? And guys, you put an American tank battalion. and it gets annihilated, there would be hell to pay here. This is what happened to Israel. They can't beat Hezbo.

They're getting the crap kicked out of them. And Iran is pounding on the death. Israel is going to have to get rid of Netanyahu and get a government capable of making peace. And the key aspect of that peace, we want to the principle of Iranian demands, a Palestinian state. This is what happens when you lose wars. There are consequences of losing wars. And here, Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state, and the United States will have to get the hell out of the Middle East. Well, if there are boots on the ground, if this ill-advised suicidal land invasion takes place,

will the IDF invade as well or will we all American? Can't invade. I mean, the IDF sucks. They're not very good at what they do. They get killed when they face competent fighters. They got that crap beat out of them in Gaza. Hamas didn't roll over. Yeah, Hamas got pummeled because.

you know, takes a lot of courage to fly an airplane over undefended airspace and drop bombs on women and children and other people. You know, so, no, Israel sucks. When it comes to actual fighting, closing with and destroying the enemy through firepower maneuver, the Israelis aren't very good at it at all. Just look at what's happening. They got the crap handed to him by Hezbollah back in the 1990s. They had to withdraw in 2000. They got the crap beat out of them in 2006.

They got the crap beat out of them last year, getting crap beat out of them now. They're not any good. And now you want them to do what? Move, close with Iran. Bring it on. The Iranians would love a chance to slaughter the Israel. This is why the Israelis are having problems because they're mobilizing their fat, stupid, incompetent reservists who don't want to do anything. They want to be living in their air-conditioned home doing IT technology. They don't want to be out there getting dirty and fighting and killing. That's not what modern Israelis do. These aren't very good warriors. They like to wear uniforms that are very tight, so they pretend they can posture and look good. I've been there. I know I've seen. I've But they're not very good at fighting. They don't know how to fight because to fight and be effective to fight. I just came from Chechnya. Those Chechens can fight. Why? Because they're willing to die.

They're willing to die. You look in their eyes and you realize if they're coming at you, you're going to have to kill them because otherwise they just keep coming until they kill you. The Israelis don't have that look in their eyes. There are a bunch of pathetic little nobodies who, you know, they've been beating up. They're very good at shooting pregnant women in the belly. That's what Israeli snipers do. They're not very good at actually beating people.

And you want to get with Hezbollah, the Rodwan special forces, who will eat you for breakfast, and then you want to say you want to go on and fight the Iranians on Iranian territory, Israel would never get across the border. They wouldn't make it. They'd all retreat. They have reservists right now. They're refusing to be mobilized because they know that if they go to southern Lebanon, they ain't coming home. And you're going to send them to Iran. There will be no Israeli forces.

There might be some special operations forces to go in and do a raid here and a raid there. But in terms of the mainstream combat units, they suck. not any good and they're never going to make it outside of Israel. One more clip before we finish. Did you know that God is on the side of the Americans? I want you to tell me how your troops, your colleagues, would have reacted if the Secretary of Defense said this. Chris cut number nine. Almighty God who trains our hands for war and our fingers for battle. You who stirred the nations from the north against Babylon of old, making her land a desolation where none

dwell. Behold now the wicked who rise against your justice and the peace of the righteous. Snap the rod of the oppressor, frustrate the wicked plans, and break the teeth of the ungodly. By the blast of your anger, let the evil perish. Let their bulls go down to slaughter, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. Pour out your wrath upon those who plot vain things and blow them away like chaff before the wind. First of all he's quoting the Old Testament. I mean, we're supposed to be, you know, a Christian nation. Christianity comes from Jesus Christ.

You know, Jesus, the guy that stayed Peter's hand when he was cutting off the ear, the guy who was coming to arrest Jesus. No, no violence, put it back on, you know, turn the other cheek. That's the Jesus of Christianity. Not this crap that this guy's pouring out. Pete Hedgeset's the worst Christian possible. Everything he said in there is as unchristian as it gets, is unchristian. Not only that.

We live in a nation where there is a separate. of church and state. So keep your goddamn church out of my state. I'm sorry. I'm using bad language. I apologize for that. But, you know, no, we aren't a nation of state religion. And yet he's trying to imply that somehow we are the crusaders. Hey, Pete, let me tell you how the crusades worked out. They all died in the end, Pete. They all died. You're going to die. Everybody's going to die. And you're going to go straight to hell because you're sitting there pretending to your posture in some godlike figure. You're just a pathetic cartoon character. Marvel Comics could make somebody as pathetic as you.

I mean, this is just ridiculous. Scott Ritter, thank you, my man. Scott on fire, as a bunch of the chatters have been writing, your audience is enormous and deeply appreciative, and not the least of whom is your humble host right here. Thank you, Scott. All the best to you. Happy Easter to you and your family.

Then, well, we celebrate the Orthodox Easter. So this Sunday is what? Palm Sunday for you and Easter's the following Sunday. It's for my wife, yeah. For me, I just do whatever she tells me to do. God love you. All the best of you and your family. Okay, thanks. Thank you, Scotty. Wow. What a tour to force, as only Scott Ritter can do. Coming up at 2 o'clock, a hard act of follow. Coming up at 2 o'clock is Matt Ho.

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