by Scott Ritter is straight talking: The Ukraine wants to take Crimea back through negotiation, or by war, and that's the reason why they want to join NATO, because they think it will help them to do it. But Scott Ritter says that Ukraine is a suicide pill for NATO, because Russia has massive military superiority. NATO has a policy of letting anyone in, if they ask, says Ritter, but it also has written into its treaty that it must look at each situation separately to weigh up the pros and cons of a country joining. Scott Ritter says that NATO shouldn't let the Ukraine in as it could lead to nuclear war when it looks stupid with Russia destroying its military capabilities very easily, and so NATO would then have to resort to threatening nuclear war, which would be a very dangerous
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Scott Ritter is straight talking: The Ukraine wants to take Crimea back through negotiation, or by war, and that's the reason why they want to join NATO, because they think it will help them to do it. But Scott Ritter says that Ukraine is a suicide pill for NATO, because Russia has massive military superiority.
NATO has a policy of letting anyone in, if they ask, says Ritter, but it also has written into its treaty that it must look at each situation separately to weigh up the pros and cons of a country joining. Scott Ritter says that NATO shouldn't let the Ukraine in as it could lead to nuclear war when it looks stupid with Russia destroying its military capabilities very easily, and so NATO would then have to resort to threatening nuclear war, which would be a very dangerous situation.
After so many military blunders, NATO and the neo-con's credibility is in tatters. Yet their unhinged rhetoric continues and is supported by a doting corporate media. Vladimir Putin recently commented that the "citizens of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia have seen how peaceful NATO is”. So whilst these decimated countries try to rebuild, is it time for us to question the narrative fed to us by so-called western humanitarians?
Ross Ashcroft is joined by analyst and former Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter, and foreign policy analyst and media critic Michael Averko to discuss the Ukraine crisis.
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