Scott Ritter Substack – The Real Scott Ritter April 19, 2026
For nearly 40 days, Israel and the United States carried out an extensive aerial campaign against Iran designed to topple the government and suppress Iran’s ability to defend itself. This campaign failed to achieve any of its stated objectives. Instead, it devolved into a numbers game where inflated outcomes were sold to an unquestioning public by military professionals and politicians alike. The Iranian government not only withstood the efforts at decapitation-induced regime change, but actually strengthened its hold on power when the people of Iran, instead of turning on the Islamic Republic, rallied to its cause. Moreover, rather than suppressing Iran’s ability to launch ballistic missiles and drones against US military bases, critical infrastructure in the Gulf Arab States, and Israel, Iran not only sustained its ability to strike, but deployed new generations of weapons that readily defeated all missile defense systems while, using intelligence information that permitted accurate targeting, destroyed critical military infrastructure worth tens of billions of dollars.
Regional experts had long warned about the consequences of entering an existential conflict with Iran, noting that Iran would not simply allow itself to be erased as a viable nation state without ensuring that the other nations of the region were subjected to similar existential threats to their survival, and that global energy security would be disrupted in such a manner as to trigger a world economic crisis. These assessments were backed up by a belied that Iran would not only be able to shut down shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but also effectively target and destroy the major energy production potential of the Gulf Arab States.
It wasn’t that the politicians and military planners in the US and Israel doubted Iran’s ability to impact global energy markets or strike targets in Israel and the Gulf region.
They knew Iran had the potential.
They just believed that they would be able to achieve regime change in Tehran in relatively short order, thereby mooting any threat Iran might pose to energy supplies and infrastructure.
They were wrong, which is why the US was looking for an offramp from the war soon after it started.
The end result was this current ceasefire, which was ostensibly entered into to buy time for US and Iranian negotiators to hammer out a lasting peace plan.
There is a fundamental problem, however.
While Iran has approached the current negotiations from a practical, reality-based posture predicated on resolving the actual major points of difference between the US and Iran, the US is being held hostage by the politicized whim of an American President who needs to shape domestic public opinion in a way which transforms the reality of a humiliating defeat into the perception of a bold victory.
President Trump ran for office on a platform premised on the notion that he would keep America out of the kind of costly, open-ended military misadventures that had defined the US since the start of the 21st Century.
The war with Iran proved this promise to be a lie.
This lie, combined with numerous other political missteps that have transpired during the first year and a half of his second term in office, have put President Trump and his political legacy at risk, with critical midterm elections looming on the horizon that threaten to shift the balance of power in the US Congress away from the Republican Party, and to the Democratic Party. If the Republicans lose the House of Representatives, the impeachment of Donald Trump is all but a certainty. This alone would spell the end of Trump’s legislative agenda. But if the Democrats take the Senate as well, and with a wide enough margin, the Trump will not only find himself impeached, but possibly convicted.
And this would not only mean the end of the Trump Presidency, but also the end of the Trump brand, something Trump has been burnishing his entire adult life and which he has transformed into a political cult of personality that has redefined American politics.
Iran has entered the current round of negotiations focused on the practicalities and realities of geopolitics and national security.
Trump is about shaping perceptions to his political benefit.
These are not compatible goals and objectives, especially when Iran has emerged victorious from a war it did not want, and Trump is trying to invent a narrative that has him prevailing in a conflict his team not only should never have engaged in, but which they lost, and now Trump has to spin this dismal reality in a manner which benefits him politically.
Take the current impasse over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has asserted control over all shipping transiting this strategic waterway, and by being selective about which ships can transit, has created a global energy crisis which has detrimentally impacted US allies in Europe and Asia.
It was the reality that the US had no military solution to the problem of Iran’s compelled closure of the Strait that led the US to seek a diplomatic solution to the problems it alone had created.
There are other outstanding issues as well, such as Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (which the US apparently tried to seize in a failed special operations raid), as well as the issue of Iran’s nuclear program in general, which the US insists can continue only if Iran forgoes enrichment altogether, something Iran has said it will never do.
The US also wishes to curtail Iran’s ballistic missile programs, despite the fact it is these very missiles which provided Iran with the ability to prevail militarily over the US, Israel and the Gulf Arab States.
The US also insists that Iran cease its relationship with regional allies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon (which is engaged in an open-ended conflict with Israel due to Israel’s ongoing occupation of southern Lebanon) and the Ansarullah movement in Yemen, which has been opposing a Saudi-led aggression since 2014.
There’s literally a snowball’s chance in hell Iran would concede any of these issues, especially after winning a war where all of the non-nuclear matters helped contribute to the Iranian victory.
And therein lies the rub.
Trump has largely bought into an Israeli-influenced narrative which defines victory as being predicated on Iran yielding on all of the issues listed above.
Something Iran will never do.
Trump has shown zero political acumen when it comes to trying to shape US public opinion in his favor.
Instead of taking credit for getting Iran to agree to open the Strait of Hormuz, Trump insists on posturing as a tough guy by insisting on continuing a naval blockade which exists in name only, prompting Iran to reverse course and close down the Strait.
And close down negotiations.
Leaving Trump further boxed into a corner of his own making.
With the only option available being the resumption of the very military operations that had proven unable to defeat Iran and, if initiated, will trigger consequences which will have a devastating impact on global energy markets—the very thing Trump was trying to avoid when seeking out the ceasefire to begin with.
But there may very well be other consequences.
Iran is at the point in this conflict where trying to play a game of escalation management is counterproductive.
If the US opts to resume its attacks on Iran, with or without Israel, Iran will have no choice but to go for the jugular from the start.
To strike not only the energy production capabilities of the regional actors, like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain, that continue to provide assistance to the US when it comes to the conflict with Iran, but also their water desalinization plants and power production plants.
Denying these nations access to the very water they need to survive.
And power they need to provide air conditioning to the skyscrapers that have defined their status as modern oasis’ of civilization.
The hot summer months approach.
And if Iran eliminates water and air conditioning, then these modern Gulf Arab States become uninhabitable.
Cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi become uninhabitable. So, too, Kuwait City, Riyadh, and Manama.
Everything the rulers of these Gulf nations have aspired to accomplish over the course of the past several decades will lie in ruins, ghost cities in place of thriving metropolis’.
And Iran would likely do the same to Israel, destroying the critical infrastructure the tiny Zionist enclave needs to survive as a modern nation states.
Making the land of milk and honey uninhabitable for millions of Israelis who will have no choice but to go back to their homes of origin.
These are all known knowns—there is no mystery about what the consequences of resuming military operations against Iran will bring.
Albert Einstein is widely quoted as once noting that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.
The US and Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran using the full strength of their respective air forces.
And they failed.
Today, Iran stands ready to receive a combined US-Israeli strike which will match, but not exceed, the destructive power of those initial attacks.
And Iran will respond with missile and drone attacks which will exceed by an order of magnitude the targeted destruction of its previous retaliatory strikes.
Iran will change the cycle of escalation by going straight for the jugular.
And Trump won’t know what hit him.
The consequences of incompetence are real.
Something Trump and the American people are about to find out in real time should the US go forward with the threats to resume bombing Iran in the next few days.
Is insulting Christ the jewish norm? Palestinians slam Israeli soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon
Story by Glory Moralidad •
© IBTimes
A photograph has forced the Israeli military onto the defensive and reignited scrutiny over conduct in southern Lebanon. It showed an Israeli soldier raising a hammer against a statue of Jesus Christ, an act that has travelled far beyond the village where it occurred.
An Image That Cut Through Official Messaging
The Israeli Defence Forces confirmed the image is authentic after it spread widely online, first posted by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi. The photograph captures a soldier in uniform striking a statue of Christ, reportedly in the outskirts of Debl, a village near Lebanon’s southern border.In a statement published on its official channels, the IDF acknowledged the soldier was ‘operating in southern Lebanon’ and said an investigation had been opened. It described the act as harming a ‘Christian symbol’ and insisted the behaviour was ‘wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops.’In a statement published on its official channels, the IDF acknowledged the soldier was ‘operating in southern Lebanon’ and said an investigation had been opened. It described the act as harming a ‘Christian symbol’ and insisted the behaviour was ‘wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops.’
The military stressed it views the incident ‘with great severity’ and promised ‘appropriate measures’ depending on the findings.
The IDF have been bulldozing early christian sites inclding a tiny second century chapel
Trump wasn’t ignorant of this. He refused to be told it would be.
The very foundation of the Satanic/masonic concept of democracy, is DECEPTION, LIES, THREAT and pure BULLSHIT.
Even really stupid people are finally starting to catch up to this fact.
A VERY limited constitutional republic is the only way forward, where MILITIAS rule law and order, where local assemblies with ZERO affiliations preform judgements in their local courts.
The insane parasite know as the BAS association must be abolished and prosecuted for every criminal offences known to man.
BAR association*
senior London Labour figures have been charged after a criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging.
Joel Bodmer, 40, Shila Bodmer, 41, Gabriel Leroy, 24, and former Croydon councillor Mr Bodmer, an organiser with the trade union Unison who was a prospective candidate in the seat, is also charged with perverting the course of justice after allegations phone records were changed. Labour confirmed that they all been suspended from the party.
Labour was forced to pause the selection process in the south London seat in 2023 following complaints about party members’ contact details being altered.
Tony Blair was also involved in getting him elected
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It ought to be a fundamental premise by now that international Jewry controls the US, and that this war with Iran was started mainly to expand Israel and its powers in the Middle East. This means that the plight of Trump over alleged Iranian controls must take a back seat to the Israeli expansion into Lebanon, which clearly was the very-planned and main objective in this round of Jewish-created hostilities in that arena.
The reason most people cannot understand what is really going on in this exceedingly corrupt world, and what is unfolding even for their own futures, is because they have been conditioned to have little or no interest in what really went on in the past, and because they have been fed such a cherry-picked pack of lies regarding the past that their view of the present is equally false, which gives them no power based on reality to make rational and beneficial choices for themselves or others in determining the future.
The resistance to Israeli expansion in the Middle East and Chabad globalist hegemony is a very controlled affair. Likely even our weak little voices are being used to justify even more oppression against our cause and the right to voice our opinions, just as Hezbollah and Iranian resistance is being used to justify more and more Israeli and US aggression, killing, and plundering. Financially, these evil powers thrive on the continued concentration of wealth through foreign wars of plunder and the debt rigging of nations, and domestically through insider knowledge for trading in order to manipulate and control markets and currencies. Socially and politically, they thrive on mass deceptions, and by spreading ignorance, uncertainty, division, fear and insecurity. Morally, they have spread the death of God & conscience cult, so as to propagate hate, organized crime, blackmail, intimidation, terrorism, wars, mass murder and the brazen extermination of anyone they deem as unwanted, or as rivals in their way.
The vacuous doctrines backing “moral relativism”, which took over our educational systems, universities, think tanks, major institutions, and politics (and therefor our minds) in the 20th century, DESTROYED the interest and search for the TRUTH by the people, and any real authority in the people in the exercise of it. It was all funded and propagated by the same suspects. With no objective and shared sense of Right & Wrong, there is no unified and determined motivation to determine the truth and to utilize it. Morality (meaning shared principles of Right & Wrong, and not just pragmatism to serve one’s own interests) is a major fueling device to determine the truth. Without the truth we have no real basis to make or apply any values or laws. Just as Morality and the truth go together, so is moral relativism the handmaiden of reality relativism, and when the facts are owned and controlled by amoral, special-interested, and dishonest powers, the people are powerless, and everything turns ugly.
We are constantly being lied to and manipulated by the power moguls of the world, all of whom we now know objectively are very ‘EVIL’ people. George Orwell said in his dystopian novel 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”. People who do not look behind them, hardly care about what is ahead of them in the long run. Kept stuck in the lies about the past and the never-ending BS titillations regarding the present, fed to us on large media platters and platforms, we are kept in a constant state of ignorance-based powerlessness and insecurity. We are trained to be compliant to the authorities and to mind our own business, keeping our noses close to the ground, and thinking that the future of our nations, our politics, our religions, our lives, and the lives of our children, are all best determined by people “who know best” and over whom we have absolutely no control. We are controlled by a ruling class of sociopaths and sycophants entrapped in a web of blood-sucking monsters.
This trump brand is kinda fishy to me. It looks like there are several trumps out there. One looks old, dementia, and altogether not “there”; the other is orange. Another is out golfing all the time; and likely a huge team of twitter/ social media writers present, glued to their phones; any videos of the guy seem pre taped. And then there is one that seems to yell at his people all the time.
No, wrong, no.
It is not incompetence.
It is Trump — his job was to lead the US Right into a ditch, give them hope for years, then betray them.
This is no accident. The plan is to dirty up all who are anti-migrant, pro-patriotism, and in any way pro-European.
The US is destroyed. The Zionists are now looking to other places like Southern Argentina to feather their next nest.
Re: WW2 and WW2
Sad to see the members of military who survived both wars are in a delusion they ” Did the right thing”
No suckers ,…
…..you made it worse leading to the slaughters of millions of innocents on all sides in (2) World Wars . All it accomplished, or the actual goal was, creation of ISRAEL based on stolen land = THE END.
Now this same Satanic entity you were duped into dying for is still there 80 years later creating even more death and destruction .
Shameful
@Cornelius.
When I saw that photograph, I remembered about the deluded “christian” Zionists, who are more abundant than rice grains in the USA .
Would they get wise after seeing the image?
So should it be, but somehow I doubt it.
@Cornelius (continuation)
I have the suspicion that, instead of wisening up, they will instead cling desperately to the “explanation” given by the Israeli government.
They also don’t react to the fact that christians get regularly spat on in Israel. I wonder how they “rationalize” things in this case.
Fred B — so well said and true!
21 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvvYawZxrxM Kyle Kulinski
19 April https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-dishing-out-mar-a-lago-feast-to-crypto-grifts-biggest-spenders/#user-comments “Sen. Elizabeth Warren bashed the event as an “orgy of corruption.”*
((( 1989 Trump the Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeECRcXVOvc “Featuring a young Mac Donald Drumpf. A board game released in 1989 by Milton Bradley. Hype did not meet expectations, only 800,000 units sold out of an estimated 2 million.” / note his nose in this trailer
“The name Drumpf is of German origin and dates back to the 16th century. It is believed to be derived from a nickname for a large man or someone who was bent or misshapen/ from the Middle High German word “rumph,” meaning trunk or body”
16 August 2024 https://www.bitchute.com/video/LxtxCwG5uXiU/ 9.47: drumpf in j. genealogy database…./ by Demon Hunter)))
* gj comment 19 April 4.02 p.m. https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=326123
22 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxpwDPrDn0U ⚠️ Trump Kicks Nuclear General Out Of Pentagon After Blocked From Codes/ Jack Cochiarella
Brainless dumbo drumpf / insane illegitimate WH resident ( ” he was not shot / did not win/ is in the files” Fired the top General who refused the orange pyschlo the nuclear codes.That’s what you get USA when you don’t kick this THSB Trojan Horse Shit Bag out…..
MC Military Coup/ arrest drumpf > verdict; play golf 24/7 in a straitjacket in cuckoos net facilty or better Ceaușescu him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP9rzWlc1Tc when? what about today….
China will not send anymore weapons to Iran – that eppy pedo files drumpf attacked -but ( rightfully so imv) will nuke the US in no time…
18 March 2026 https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/china/ China nuclear ICBM intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the U.S. homeland, as well as a growing fleet of nuclear ballistic missile submarines.
The at warp speed dying dirty old demented madman wants to take hundreds of millions if not more with him…
” ‘Missiles threat’ is a product a product of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies” based in Washington DC/ drumpf pathetic satanic political poupée of the Eyes Wide Shut RotSchild bankers syndicat & their minions in the dollar pyramid they are his ventriloquists – thought after Caracas that Iran would be another piece of cake….he= (they) better look before they leap…
@ costa latorre / good observation imv but drumpf a longtime adderall junkie/ that gives him a boost maybe he should take stronger amph/ real pervitine
https://old.bitchute.com/video/Bla4N1xzAtRX/ “In 1940, Nazi Germany distributed over 35 million tablets of methamphetamine to its soldiers. They called it Pervitin. The soldiers called it “Panzer Schokolade” — Tank Chocolate. Mein Amf Hitler himself took daily meth injections. His physician gave him cocktails of methamphetamine, cocaine”
…and drumpf needs his downers but like most potus personas since 1913/ with the most homorable exception of JFK / drumpf is imv (a second or third rate) poupée of the rotschild j.bankers syndicat https://freemasonrywatch.org/washington.html behind the curtain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Xte5wo6w8&list=PLxHkdEXvO_4yYK6PIAfd1xP0FfHwtVxYG&index=4 that founded 1948 israhell via WW I & II Built in 1992- the Israel Supreme Court sits in Jerusalem. in front of the Knesset / Israeli legislature/ read the entire y-tube txt … )))
Anyway every body anywhere 😎
h.a.n.d. have a nice day
CIA O
GREATER ISRAEL,
IS AMERICA,
AND THE WESTERN ,
WORLD, WAKE UP,
USURY CORRUPTION,
BLACKMAILED GOVERNMENTS,
SOVIET EUROPE,SET UP
BY THOSE WHO SET UP
SOVIET RUSSIA ?
YOU ARE SLAVES ,
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SOVIET RUSSIA,
SOVIET EUROPE,
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22 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnfH_pvgC0s drumpf “has not had his annual physical- or he is hiding it- at Walter Reed Hospital/ health crashes reports Ben Meidas Touch Meiselas”
https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonExaminer/posts/1348416280488260/ If this 3rd Impeachment does’nt work for whatever reason: Immediato MC Military Coup/ put eppy pedo patient drumpf in orange straitjacker 24/7 & let him thus dressed up play golf on the grass of a cuckoos nest facility…
Eyeliner financed by Thiel Vance is an A hole too/ dump him in the nearest garbage container/ I suggest put Harris/Walz 24 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LN65qFUDDo&t=175s in the WH/ they actually won….
Seasoned election data researcher Greg Palast 7 February 2025 https://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantes-inc-the-shocking-truth-about-the-2024-election/ Robert C. Koehler of the Chicago Tribune syndicate captures the terrifying truth of the 2024 election:
“As the drumpf presidency digs its claws into the country — winner, take all! — I look on in terrified amazement as he begins arrogantly instituting what can only be called his plan to devolve America back to the good old days: back to the era of Jim Crow…”
‘This isn’t speculation. In Vigilantes Inc. narrated by Rosario Dawson and introduced by Martin Sheen, I uncover the brutal mechanics of voter suppression that helped drumpf seize power — not by winning votes/ but by erasing them.’
Of course drumpf’s ice gestapo trained in israhell is already instructed to do their job at the voting stations for the midterms/ you dom’t need a palantir stone to see that … ( in combinazion with any of Musks electromic matricks,…Stay Vigilant & Act / Slay drumpf c.s.
Anyway every body anywhere 😎
h.a.n.d. have a nice day
CIA O
nothing is lost for the jewUS bullies (TPTB) :
both have still nukes + they think : if the world
does nothing (+the western jewmedias) against
the suffering of the palestinians maybe too the
world will do nothing when IRAN gets nuked .