Talk:Scott Ritter

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The quotes referenced Claremont? sound like they came from War: Why Now? What You May Not Know. UCC, Claremont, Ca., 1/19/03 - Ritter's talk about Saddam's probable lack of WMDs.

Does WQ prohibit using Youtube videos of author as a source?[edit]

  • Note: I've used youtube as a source before here and don't believe there were any objections. I have looked but did not find any clear indication that using youtube as a source is prohibited. If that's the case, please advise where to look.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote_talk:Citing_sources

  • These twp quotations were removed shortly after they were posted accompanied by these comments:
    19:53, 27 May 2022‎ HouseOfChange talk contribs‎ 27,098 bytes −2,401‎ YouTube is not RS; Wikiquote is for SOURCED and notable quotes undo Tag: Undo

Removed from SR's page earlier today. They are on his youtube page, where anyone can see & hear him speaking all of these words[edit]

  • We have a situation now because of the partisan divide in this country that information war has become an integral part of who we are. Instead of being the exception to the rule, it is now the rule and we're allowing politics and deception to define what qualifies as fact and we're ignoring reality... In the case of Ukraine, you know we were getting spun... (mainstream media was) ... spinning dead Russians as this great victory for Ukraine. Now we're finding out that even the liars can't sustain the lie anymore. Meaning the 4 star generals... on mainstream media... they're paid shills... nothing they say is doctrinally correct. (starts at 1:20)
  • What happened... The Russians went in with a concept of operations that it appears was flawed intelligence... Russian Security... apparently went in and bought off a bunch of generals or tried to, & buy off some politicians. They got signatures from mayors guaranteeing that there would be no resistance and they had assurances from generals that Ukrainian troops would remain in the barracks. So the initial columns that went into Ukraine were told to operate not using traditional Russian doctrine... and it worked great... except that Ukrainians were waiting in ambush. The end results were several very well executed ambushes which annihilated platoon and company sized formations of the Russian Army. Despite all this, after the first 3 weeks, Russia had achieved a seven to one kill ratio. I'm not glorifying death, just telling you that normally in war when two sides are fighting... the combat ratio is usually 1.2 to 1... The Russian now are killing 7x more Ukrainians, were killing 7x more Ukrainians in the opening phases of the war. Any who thought that the Russians were losing, just simply don't understand military math... Phase two right now, the Russians are basically a 10 to 15 to one casualty ratio, meaning they're slaughtering the Ukrainians as we speak. It's not even a close fight. (From 3:35 to 5:57)

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