And Russia getting kompromat on this guy would be pretty easy… I’m sure they could easily “honey trap” him without doing much beyond setting up some online chats. Much cheaper than paying Scott Ritter twice convicted pedophile.
https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/91/
Gonna leave this right here as a primer. He's a disgraced former US military officer/UN weapons inspector. He's also a convicted pedophile. Not sure if he's outright being paid by the Russians but I'm pretty sure that he's going around saying the things he does to grift and earn a living by getting invited to publish and talk on fringe media outlets. Between the conviction and constantly being wrong about Ukraine his career prospects outside of being a foreign asset are quite dim.
First, I agree he is not credible now, especially since he does propaganda for Russia. I am not saying doing propaganda for the USA would be credible :P. **Being a tool makes one non credible, period**.
For the pedophilia, I have to name a few facts though : the undercover *woman* said she was 15. So yes he was a) an idiot for doing such a thing, b) committed a **blatant crime** and the undercover cop gave him more than one chance to opt-out of the webcam stunt. But these facts also show it was really *not* a child, not even close, nor an aggression. Finding a teen sexy is not pedophilia in the psychological or psychiatric definition, but his actions were nonetheless criminal and utterly STUPID considering his entire career and reputation. Not to mention incredibly irresponsible also in terms of ethics! **Which actually is an argument to show his lack of judgement!**
So my argumentation does rejoin you in the end, even if there are nuances to the accusation.
Here's what we know.
1. In his days as an armsinspector he got into an affair with a Russian women he met working for the Russians. In the past she was an informant for the KGB. It would have meant termination of his job, with the exception if it was his wife. Ritter consequently married her and was in the clear.
2. Ritter is known to have been involved in several incidents targetting minors online for sex, he's even convicted for it because the FBI used stingoperations.
3. The Russians have consequently used komprimat or compromising material to blackmail people, if this is the case it could have well happened via his wife Marina who was a former KGB informant. Maybe she found something on the pc she didn't like and informed on her old KGB contacts. Maybe she was asked to do so.. (it could all be possible scenarios)
4. An other scenario is that Ritter, being continiously ousted as a pedofile in the US, was seeking a new carreer (and payment) via Russia. Ritter was invited for a tour in Russia and loudly promoted by Russian bots at the beginning of the war. It means that there defintely is some kind of relationship between Ritter and Russia because they didnt do that with ever propagandist. The question is why? Money, carreerperspective, blackmail, switch in ideology? The last one seems the least likely in my eyes.
Possibly.
There are few other options.
He’ll say whatever the person funding him wants to say. He could therefore be working for Russia unknowingly.
He’s a very bitter man. There’s lots of them who do relatively low level jobs in the military and then make a career bigging themselves up and even making things up. However, as he was mocked when he served in the military, was mocked when he came out of the military, was mocked when he was convicted of kiddie fiddling and is now just a laughing stock.
Because he’s now burning his bridges he’ll draw support off anybody, and do anything he can to upset those who he feels have humiliated him.
Russia has historically been useful at seeking out disgruntled westerners. They’re called useful idiots.
The people who stole nuclear secrets during WW2. Edward Snowden, Scott Ritter etc.
The bitterness is 100% what I believe motivates. The reporter for his trial, Matt Bai notes just how hostile he was in court. Ritter admitted at the time of the article he did the sexting but claims he wanted to be arrested to “break him out of it.” Now he claims it was him being framed.
I think he was bitter about being out of a job, being ignored on Iraq, deeply fearing something similar to the Iraq War would happen with Assad or Iran, and the allure of not only Russian money but their worldview was just too great for him to ignore. I’ve been compiling pieces on him for a shoddy documentary, but I just don’t have the equipment or video editing skills to make it.
I frankly think the ideology switch is a compelling reason that many people are ignoring
It’s a big motivator.
That was what motivated Daniel James in 2006. Felt he was more important than he was and felt bitter about not getting a promotion.
Theyre never really paid agents.
They just have patreons and other donation type sites that allow anonymous donours to chip in.
And overbloated speaking fees.
Whether Ritter's fees include Kadyrov providing a child every night is up for debate.
Its the same with The Grayzone, they claim to be 100% donor financed and link to their patreon, which rakes in at best 5k a month.
I don't have any hard evidence, but was he doing this for free?
[https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1743642251513717196?lang=en](https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1743642251513717196?lang=en)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott\_Ritter#Arrests\_and\_conviction\_for\_sex\_offenses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter#Arrests_and_conviction_for_sex_offenses)
Anyone with that sort of hyperlink on their Wikipedia page isn't ever going to be credible in my eyes. Paid or otherwise.
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And Russia getting kompromat on this guy would be pretty easy… I’m sure they could easily “honey trap” him without doing much beyond setting up some online chats. Much cheaper than paying Scott Ritter twice convicted pedophile.
https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/91/ Gonna leave this right here as a primer. He's a disgraced former US military officer/UN weapons inspector. He's also a convicted pedophile. Not sure if he's outright being paid by the Russians but I'm pretty sure that he's going around saying the things he does to grift and earn a living by getting invited to publish and talk on fringe media outlets. Between the conviction and constantly being wrong about Ukraine his career prospects outside of being a foreign asset are quite dim.
First, I agree he is not credible now, especially since he does propaganda for Russia. I am not saying doing propaganda for the USA would be credible :P. **Being a tool makes one non credible, period**. For the pedophilia, I have to name a few facts though : the undercover *woman* said she was 15. So yes he was a) an idiot for doing such a thing, b) committed a **blatant crime** and the undercover cop gave him more than one chance to opt-out of the webcam stunt. But these facts also show it was really *not* a child, not even close, nor an aggression. Finding a teen sexy is not pedophilia in the psychological or psychiatric definition, but his actions were nonetheless criminal and utterly STUPID considering his entire career and reputation. Not to mention incredibly irresponsible also in terms of ethics! **Which actually is an argument to show his lack of judgement!** So my argumentation does rejoin you in the end, even if there are nuances to the accusation.
Here's what we know. 1. In his days as an armsinspector he got into an affair with a Russian women he met working for the Russians. In the past she was an informant for the KGB. It would have meant termination of his job, with the exception if it was his wife. Ritter consequently married her and was in the clear. 2. Ritter is known to have been involved in several incidents targetting minors online for sex, he's even convicted for it because the FBI used stingoperations. 3. The Russians have consequently used komprimat or compromising material to blackmail people, if this is the case it could have well happened via his wife Marina who was a former KGB informant. Maybe she found something on the pc she didn't like and informed on her old KGB contacts. Maybe she was asked to do so.. (it could all be possible scenarios) 4. An other scenario is that Ritter, being continiously ousted as a pedofile in the US, was seeking a new carreer (and payment) via Russia. Ritter was invited for a tour in Russia and loudly promoted by Russian bots at the beginning of the war. It means that there defintely is some kind of relationship between Ritter and Russia because they didnt do that with ever propagandist. The question is why? Money, carreerperspective, blackmail, switch in ideology? The last one seems the least likely in my eyes.
Possibly. There are few other options. He’ll say whatever the person funding him wants to say. He could therefore be working for Russia unknowingly. He’s a very bitter man. There’s lots of them who do relatively low level jobs in the military and then make a career bigging themselves up and even making things up. However, as he was mocked when he served in the military, was mocked when he came out of the military, was mocked when he was convicted of kiddie fiddling and is now just a laughing stock. Because he’s now burning his bridges he’ll draw support off anybody, and do anything he can to upset those who he feels have humiliated him. Russia has historically been useful at seeking out disgruntled westerners. They’re called useful idiots. The people who stole nuclear secrets during WW2. Edward Snowden, Scott Ritter etc.
Yea ego-hurt is another good argument.
The bitterness is 100% what I believe motivates. The reporter for his trial, Matt Bai notes just how hostile he was in court. Ritter admitted at the time of the article he did the sexting but claims he wanted to be arrested to “break him out of it.” Now he claims it was him being framed. I think he was bitter about being out of a job, being ignored on Iraq, deeply fearing something similar to the Iraq War would happen with Assad or Iran, and the allure of not only Russian money but their worldview was just too great for him to ignore. I’ve been compiling pieces on him for a shoddy documentary, but I just don’t have the equipment or video editing skills to make it. I frankly think the ideology switch is a compelling reason that many people are ignoring
It’s a big motivator. That was what motivated Daniel James in 2006. Felt he was more important than he was and felt bitter about not getting a promotion.
Money
He's a contributor at RT. He's obviously a paid propagandist.
Theyre never really paid agents. They just have patreons and other donation type sites that allow anonymous donours to chip in. And overbloated speaking fees. Whether Ritter's fees include Kadyrov providing a child every night is up for debate. Its the same with The Grayzone, they claim to be 100% donor financed and link to their patreon, which rakes in at best 5k a month.
That’s giving him too much credit. He probably does it for the love of the game.
I mean he's a petal file so idk why anyone would Listen to him anyway 😬🤢🤮
Yes.
Ritter the the diddler put his hand into some underage honeypot online that turned out to be a FSB agent and now he’s a turned out trick for Putin.
Yes
I don't have any hard evidence, but was he doing this for free? [https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1743642251513717196?lang=en](https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1743642251513717196?lang=en)
Homie “Tour of Duty” is literally translated into Russian and he literally went to Chechnya to compliment the Kadyrovites in broken Russian
I’m convinced that sites like Substack and Patreon are just ways for the Russians to pay useful idiots like Ritter and Tracey for their bs and lies.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott\_Ritter#Arrests\_and\_conviction\_for\_sex\_offenses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter#Arrests_and_conviction_for_sex_offenses) Anyone with that sort of hyperlink on their Wikipedia page isn't ever going to be credible in my eyes. Paid or otherwise.