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Scott Ritter : How Close to Nuclear War?
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Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
Today is Monday, November 25th, 2024.
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Scott Ritter, welcome here, my dear friend.
What is the significance, militarily and geopolitically, of the Oreshnik missile that Russia fired at Ukraine late last week?
Well, let's put it this way.
If we take a look at, you know, the, from a conventional standpoint, the Tomahawk missile, the Storm Shadow missile, the Scout missile, the Taurus missile, all these missiles that we have.
These are, let's just call them pinpricks.
An irritant.
The Oresnik is Mike Tyson's strongest punch.
It's a knockout every time it lands.
It's qualitatively far beyond anything the West has.
It's the most powerful conventional weapon on the planet.
It has more destructive capacity.
We haven't even been able to calculate the destructive capacity of it fully.
Theodore Postol of MIT is in the process of doing that.
But the technologies that are being used, the physics that are involved, are things that are beyond the imagination in the West.
We just haven't thought about it and how to do this in this manner.
The Russians have hit us with a unique weapon.
That we can't shoot down, we can't interdict, and when it hits us, it kills us.
And for all those out there who say, well, it's just an experimental missile, there's no need to worry about it.
I'm here to tell you right now that it may be an experimental design, but the components of this missile already exist.
Many of them are in serial production.
Most of them have been produced to at least pilot-level production, and the Russians have the ability to immediately assemble dozens of these missiles, and if they put it into serial production, they'll be able to produce close to 100 of these missiles per year.
But as we speak, Russia probably has somewhere in the order of 12 to 25 Arashniks available.
That's 12 to 25 locations in Europe that will cease to exist if Russia fires this missile.
Was the existence of this missile a total surprise until they fired it the other day?
No.
U.S. intelligence is actually very, very good.
We've had this conversation before.
The problem isn't the collectors or the junior analysts.
The problem is mid-level intelligence managers, senior intelligence leadership that have been completely politicized to appease the political decisions of their bosses, their political bosses.
We are in a conflict with Russia where we cannot acknowledge the strength of Russia, because to acknowledge the truth strength of Russia would automatically expose the policies we're seeking to implement regarding Russia and Ukraine to be doomed to fail.
So our politicians are saying, we must succeed, so give me the intelligence that shows that we can succeed.
Even if it's false intelligence.
Of course, if it's false intelligence.
Because that's what...
When I say false, they cook the books.
It's not as though they're lying.
For instance, Mr. President, the Russians are preparing to launch an experimental missile system that we've never seen before, and we believe this is a one-of.
So it's fired, and the president goes, damn, that was pretty powerful.
But it was just a one, right?
There's no more.
It's not like they have a whole bunch of them, so they're bluffing.
See, that's falsified intelligence.
But I'll give you another example.
Do you remember the headlines that came out shortly after this?
That the Pentagon and the White House and NATO were paralyzed in fear because they didn't know until the last second, until the missile hit, whether it was a nuclear weapon or not.
That's just a straight-out lie.
We knew right from the start it wasn't a nuclear weapon.
What the public's not being told is that 36 hours before this missile was launched, The Russians rolled it out on the launch site at Kapustin Yar, range number four, I believe.
One of the most heavily monitored spots because that's where the Russians do their missile testing.
So our entire intelligence collection capabilities for this are directed at Kapustin Yar.
They were already there.
We put it out there and we oriented it towards Ukraine, 36 hours in advance.
So the Russians were saying, we're doing this.
That gave us enough time to get any other assets available positioned to follow.
There's certain nuclear protocols that are involved.
Protocols are involved when there's a nuclear weapon involved.
And we know this.
I'm just telling you that somebody used to do this for a living.
There are things that you're looking for that either are happening or aren't happening.
And as the Russians prepared this missile for launch, none of those protocols kicked in.
So every intelligence analyst is looking at saying this is a conventional warhead because we're not getting these units.
We're not getting this happening.
We're not getting this.
This security isn't there.
This isn't happening, etc.
We knew it was a conventional.
Now when it comes time to launch, you know, the Russians called in 30 minutes advance.
We're going to fire.
They did that because there's a legal requirement to do.
But we already knew they were going to fire.
We've been tracking it almost real time.
Communications, the whole thing.
The missiles launched.
And again, without getting into too many details, let's just say that we have the ability right above Kapustin Yar and on the entire line of flight to...
We're tracking this thing, filming this thing.
We know everything.
So we know what this missile can do.
We know what this missile can't do.
We know everything about this missile.
But that truth is inconvenient because the truth about this missile isn't what the White House wants to hear, isn't what NATO wants to hear.
And so this information is being suppressed.
But the reality is we know everything about this missile because the Russians made sure that we could It's not in Russia's interest to have us confused.
It's in Russia's interest at this point in time to make sure we know damn well what's happening here.
They just deployed a system that we will never be able to shoot down.
And it's a system that will hit its target and will destroy its target, and there's nothing we can do to stop that, and there's not a site in Europe that's safe from this missile.
This missile can take out targets that previously only could have been taken out by nuclear weapons.
Before they fired it, did we know how fast it was, and did we know how destructive it was?
My understanding is that this missile makes use of available technologies and some unique technologies.
But generally speaking, for instance, the first stage of this missile appears to be related to an ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile that's already in development by the Russians and has been flight tested on several occasions in 2023 and in 2024.
Ukrainians are giving a name to this.
They call it Decatur and that means they know what the missile is.
And so again, as I said, when it's test fired, we know the performance characteristics of this first stage.
We've been tracking it.
We know how fast it could go.
So we know exactly what was going to happen here.
As to the warhead, I don't know if that warhead has ever been tested in a live fire like this before.
We do know that the warhead dispensing mechanism, which is, this is unique, because normally you'll have a missile and you'll have what's called MIRVs, multiple independent reentry vehicles.
And so the missile will fire and then the bus will come off and then it'll turn and then it'll release warheads as it's going.
what happened with this is that instead of having a bus with warheads attached it has six miniature missiles on the top that will fire on their own in in in in in hyper velocity down and then they'll release the war the the munitions which are six of these unique uh non-explosive
That heat in itself is a weapon because it allows it, when it impacts, to create a crater, penetrate deep, burn, combust, the whole thing.
It's just a unique weapon.
And we knew that exists because the Russians have declared it in their technology.
And the report is that this missile makes use of that aspect of it.
So there's a lot that we knew about this missile because we monitor.
Russian missile testing.
I don't know about the exact characteristics of the warhead, the hazel.
If you look at a hazelnut tree, and you take a look at the way the fruit hangs down, and then you compare that with how these submunitions came down, now you know where they get the name hazel, because it's an exact replication of visually what the hazel tree looks like.
But we knew a lot about this missile going in.
We know a lot about the Russians.
I think politically, though, we never thought they'd fire it.
This is the first time.
This is what's amazing.
It's the first time a strategic system like this has ever been fired in combat.
I mean, that's a psychological barrier.
Nobody ever wanted to cross that barrier.
This is the first time that a strategic system has been fired in combat.
This is a huge event because now Russia has done it, and they're ready to do it again.
I don't think the West is caught up to what exactly happened, because this is literally a game-changer.
And if we don't respect it, we're going to be hit harder and harder and harder.
Is there any question in your mind, Scott, but that this was fired in response to the authorizations by President Biden and Prime Minister Starmer for the use of attackums and storm shadows landing inside of Russia?
We know that this missile was developed as a result of the decision by the United States to deploy intermediate nuclear forces or intermediate range missiles nuclear capable to Germany.
The Dark Eagle system, we've already created a brigade.
We've deployed some forward systems.
The missile's not ready yet.
We also deployed a containerized system for training in Denmark that has the ability to fire intermediate range missiles.
And Russia said, if you do this, we will respond.
In July of this year, this tells you how fast Putin said, go forward.
And the Oresnik then was put into development.
It's designed to take out the Dark Eagle system and the containerized system.
It's designed to be able to preemptively strike these systems before they can launch against the United States.
So that's what the weapon was designed to do.
But, you know, those weapons aren't deployed yet.
But what happened is that we...
And the Russians warned us.
If you go back, remember that they had military people and political people saying, we will use a weapon that has never been used before, that has unimaginable destructive power beyond anybody's imagination.
And everybody's looking at it going, oh, they talked about throwing weapons.
Are they talking about nuclear, some sort of special nuclear thing?
Nope, they're talking about the hazel.
But there's no doubt that this weapon was used because of what we did, what we authorized the Ukrainians to do.
Le Monde, the Paris publication, reported this afternoon, Paris time, that President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer are discussing.
At the same time, Admiral Rob Bauer, B-A-U-E-R, chair of the NATO Military Committee, said today NATO is discussing preemptive precision strikes on Russian territory.
Are these people crazy?
The short answer is yes.
My understanding is that Starmer and Macron are talking about deploying troops in a post-Trump pull-out scenario, meaning that if Trump becomes president and orders America to cut aid to Ukraine, that Britain and France would step up and deploy troops.
So I think it's a bluff to Trump saying that, you know, don't push.
But they're not talking about deploying these troops now, first of all.
France can't deploy the troops.
They're not ready, and the British don't have any troops to deploy.
So it's farcical.
It's purely a political move.
The more dangerous one is the talk of NATO preemption.
Why is this the dangerous one?
Because the Russian nuclear doctrine that was just published by Vladimir Putin, one of the conditions for using nuclear weapons is if NATO countries fire Conventional precision strike weapons and hit Russian strategic targets, command and control, logistics, communications, etc., that that would trigger a nuclear response.
And so when you have NATO saying we're going to do just that preemptively, which means we're not going to wait for the Russians to trigger it, we're going to hit them preemptively.
That means that Russia now has to evaluate every action as a potential initiator for such a preemptive strike, which means the next time Ukraine fires an attack missile or storm shadow missile, the Russians have to ask themselves, is this the beginning of this NATO preemptive strike?
Therefore, if it is, we don't need to wait for all of it to come.
We're going to go ahead and launch everything in response to take them out, including nuclear weapons.
This is the suicidal aspect of it.
It's crazy what they're doing.
What do you think Russia would...
Would they attack Paris?
Would they attack London?
Well, it depends.
If it's nuclear weapons, then it's not going to be a demonstration attack.
It's going to be a decisive attack that takes out strategic targets, would include capital cities, major military bases, major industrial locations.
It would be absolutely devastating.
It would be the end of the world.
I do believe that the Russians are prepared, and if this thing escalates, the anti-ballistic missile system that the United States installed in Poland will be destroyed.
It's one of the first targets outside of Ukraine to be struck.
Russia has already indicated that that's on their target list, and this new Russian missile is purpose-built to destroy that.
That won't last a second.
I do believe that they'll hit those kind of targets.
I think the airfield in Romania that France would deploy out of will be struck.
Romanian ports will be struck.
Polish depots holding American military equipment will be struck.
This is the reality.
When I say struck, I mean gone.
Finished.
Nothing left.
Would Admiral Bauer He can.
He's the director of the military committee of NATO, so he could have it.
But the interesting thing is the military committee can't really convene without a U.S. military presence there.
You know, both the secretary general, both Stoltenberg and now Rute and now Bauer, they all are guilty of...
Remember, half these statements that are being made are being made for the benefit of the United States, because NATO, Bauer, Ruth, they are scared that the United States is going to, under Donald Trump, pull back from NATO.
And so he is making these statements without coordinating with the United States, because these statements are meant to put political pressure on the United States to talk about...
Basically, they're trying to paint the darkest, most dire picture possible to complicate a decision politically for Donald Trump to withdraw.
But there's no doubt in my mind that he made this statement without clearing the United States because this statement is being made to influence Donald Trump.
Is there an American four-star named Christopher Caroli still involved, or has he been replaced by Admiral Bauer?
Oh, no, no.
If Admiral Bauer tried to replace Christopher Caroli, he'd get a bullet square in the head.
Christopher Caroli can't be replaced.
First of all, he's an American, and no Danish admiral is going to even come close.
He won't approach him without permission.
Who's the commander-in-chief in Europe of NATO forces?
Christopher Cavoli.
I'm sorry.
Bauer is the head of NATO's military committee.
They're a policymaking group.
But understand that NATO policymakers have no power.
They make policy, but then those decisions have to go to the sovereign states that comprise NATO, and then the parliaments have to approve budgets and all that.
So Bauer can say, we're going to develop precision strike, but who?
Germany?
They're going to do the Taurus?
They have to get the money to the Taurus.
They have to develop it.
They're going to develop an independent capability?
Who's going to do that?
Germany?
France?
England?
He's just saying words that have no meaning.
In your view, Scott, is there a counter insurgency in the deep state against Trump to cause the Ukraine war to explode in a catastrophic way on Trump's watch, not on Biden's watch?
I actually have a different point of view.
I think Donald Trump played the American people.
He ran on a platform of no war.
He actually got his son and RFK Jr. to write an op-ed piece that was published in The Hill that said they want to get out of Ukraine and they want to prevent a nuclear conflict.
But now his choice for the National Security Advisor is speaking after selection, which means the words that you're saying Have been approved by the Trump team.
There's no gap, no space between what Biden's doing and what we're going to do.
He said exactly that yesterday on national television.
I have spoken with Jake Sullivan.
I have met with Jake Sullivan.
We're on the same team.
We view this international threats to the U.S., to the extent that there are any, precisely the same.
The Ukraine war in 24 hours.
Is that even thinkable?
No, now what we found out is that, you know, Sebastian Gorka now, I mean, the ultimate lunatic.
Sebastian Gorka is like Lindsey Graham with a brain.
Lindsey Graham has a brain.
Sebastian Gorka doesn't.
Gorka is now saying things like, you know, if Putin doesn't back down and yield to Trump.
Then they're going to open the floodgates and just flood Ukraine with weapons.
So this isn't about people trying to sabotage covertly.
Trump has picked people and empowered them to say things that clearly show that that's the intent.
That's his direction.
Are you telling me that Trump's intent all along was to use Ukraine to dominate Putin, which would make it the same intent that Joe Biden had?
I don't want to believe that, but that's what the facts show.
You don't pick a man as your national security advisor, then authorize him to go on TV and say there's no difference between what Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken are doing and what we're going to do.
Sebastian Gorka says we're going to double down on stupid and flood the weapons.
Now you have to wonder what Marco Rubio is going to say because he believes the same thing.
All this hardline nonsense.
He has surrounded himself with people that are pushing for a war with Russia.
The only person that right now is in a position who isn't pushing for war is Tulsi Gabbard, and she's been silent.
Here's a recent clip from Sebastian Gorka.
I'll give one tip away that the president has mentioned.
He will say to that murderous former KGB colonel, that thug who runs the Russian Federation, you will negotiate now, or the aid that we have given to Ukraine thus far will look like peanuts.
That's how he will force those gentlemen to come to an arrangement that stops the bloodshed.
This is more bellicose than anything Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, or Joe Biden have ever said in the past three and a half years.
Do you remember when Biden, someone asked him, is Trump a murderer or something like that?
Trump's, you know, is Putin a...
Stone-cold killer.
Looked him in the eyes and I told him he was a killer.
And then everybody, you know, he had to, that haunted his, you know, his ability to meet with Putin.
You know, he had to work around that because, I mean, how do you meet with a leader that you've called that?
And so now, here's a guy that claims to speak for Donald Trump calling the Russian president a bug.
There's no way Vladimir Putin's taking a phone call from Donald Trump with that.
Literally, Trump needs, Donald Trump, if you're listening, get rid of these people and bring in a Russian expert.
You need an honest-to-God Russian expert.
I'll tell you what, I'll volunteer for that job.
I don't want to be paid by you.
I don't want to be on your administration.
But you better damn well listen to me for 24 hours and understand what's really happening in Russia today, what's really going on in the Kremlin, because everything you're doing is counterproductive.
Putin will not talk to you.
He will not entertain you.
With this mindset, Putin is not going to approach you from a position of weakness, but you know that already, Donald, because you met with Putin in Helsinki, where he strode out to the stage like the cock of the walk, and you strode out like a beat puppy, because he is not a guy to be intimidated.
Why the hell are you letting these people talk like this right now?
This is the exact opposite approach you need to be taking if you want to have peaceful coexistence with Russia.
Russia has won the war in Ukraine.
There's nothing Donald Trump can do to reverse that.
Literally nothing.
Sebastian Gorka knows nothing about American defense industry, nothing about defense production rates.
He doesn't know what the stockpiles are.
He doesn't understand that we don't have anything left to give.
I'd like the Admiral in the Pacific Fleet to come out and talk to Sebastian Gorka and pound it through his nose in Morse code about how the fact that you can't give Ukraine anything more because you're drawing down on the weapons we need to fight the Chinese if there's ever a war.
If you give it to the Ukrainians...
I mean, I'm not advocating for a war with China, but I'm saying that if your job is to defend ourselves from a potential conflict in China, and you give away all the weapons, we can't defend.
Gorka doesn't know what he's talking about.
Is Donald Trump ignorant of everything you just said, or was he deceptive with the American people and intended this all along?
Both.
Well, Donald Trump is ignorant about Russia.
He doesn't know anything about Russia.
And I'm sorry, Donald, that's the truth.
You surrounded yourself with people who know nothing about Russia.
They are Putin whisperers who, you know, wrote PhD theses about how Vladimir Putin is a brutal dictator, etc.
Why don't you meet with somebody who knows the truth about Russia and can tell you the reality of it?
Because you need to have that foundation of truth to make good policy.
But his ignorance also is, he, remember, this is a man who said, I can pick up the phone and make this war end in 24 hours.
But that was always premised on his ability to threaten Vladimir Putin.
And then he walked away from it.
He said all the magic words about, I don't want a nuclear war, nuclear war, and everything.
Well, if you don't want a nuclear war, then why are you letting Sebastian Gorka speak like that?
Why are you letting your national security advisors speak like that?
Why aren't you stepping up right now and slowing down the insane rush towards nuclear war that the Biden administration is doing?
The American people voted on November 5th to put a president in office who said he will get out of Ukraine and he won't promote a nuclear war with Russia.
And now we have a sitting president who's doing just that in disregard to the American people.
Why isn't the person the American people selected stepping up and saying, stop?
That's not what the American people want.
And then tell the world that's not what we're going to do.
But instead, he sends his national security advisor out who says it's exactly what we're going to do.
He lied to the American people.
He lied to us.
Here is President Putin on Friday afternoon, very methodically and calmly explaining the Oreshnik missile system.
Cut number one.
The Oreshnik missile system isn't simply an efficient hypersonic weapon system.
Thanks to its power, particularly in the case of its massive use, in combination with other precision long-range weapons that Russia has, the results of its use against enemy targets would be comparable in effect, and its power to strategic weapons.
Although, in fact, the Oreshnik system is not a strategic weapon.
In any case, it is not an intercontinental ballistic missile.
No one in the world has such weapons yet, as we know, as you know.
Sooner or later other leading countries will also get them.
We are aware that they are already under development.
But this will not happen tomorrow, or in a year, or even two years.
While we have this system now, I will add that there are no means of counteracting such a missile, no means of intercepting it, in the world today they don't exist.
And I will emphasize once again, we will continue testing the latest system.
Considering the special strength of this weapon, its power, it will be put into service in the strategic missile forces.
In addition to the Oreshnik system, Several similar systems are currently being developed in Russia for further testing.
Based on the results of the testing, this weapon will also go into serial production.
That is, we are developing a whole line of medium and shorter range systems.
The new missile could be fitted with nuclear and conventional warheads.
It can reach targets across the entirety of Europe.
Wow.
I've been watching Vladimir Putin for years.
Right.
He is the most stoic professional person, especially in that environment.
Judge, did you see his face?
He couldn't contain the smile.
Yeah.
He was sitting there smiling.
He was speaking because, I mean, he knows.
He knows that.
I mean, he's like the guy that knew because he kept warning the West, this is going to happen.
This is going to happen.
They go, you're bluffing, you're bluffing, you're bluffing, you're bluffing.
He's like, no, no, no, no, this is going to happen.
Now he's out there like, I told you it was going to happen.
And you can see the smile.
I've never seen him that close to losing his composure that way because, you know, he's a very serious man.
But the absolute joy that he felt being able to prove to the world that Russia is the most powerful nation on the planet.
And there's nothing the world can do about it.
This missile can't be beat, can't be touched, and it exists.
And the West is just struggling to figure out what to do about it because they don't know what to do.
They're afraid because they know they can't stop it.
Believe me, the West knows what happened to the USMASH facility.
They know.
Here's a statement that Trump made during the campaign, which is decidedly The impression he wanted to give, but not the impression that Mike Waltz and Sebastian Gorka are giving.
We have never been closer to World War III than we are today under Joe Biden.
A global conflict between nuclear armed powers would mean death and destruction on a scale unmatched in human history.
It would be nuclear Armageddon.
Was he just reading something, or did he understand what he was talking about?
No, no.
Somebody wrote that statement.
He didn't write that statement.
Somebody wrote that statement.
He's reading it.
He doesn't understand the policy implications of that statement.
He doesn't understand from a policy position of what would have to be done.
Look, if he wants to do that, when he says the world is in the most dangerous situation to any time in history, that means we're in a more dangerous situation than the Cuban Missile Crisis, which previously was the most dangerous time we've ever seen.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK could speak to Nikita Khrushchev and was speaking to Nikita Khrushchev.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Russian ambassador would visit the White House and have conversations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the American ambassador would visit Khrushchev and have conversations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, there were multiple venues for diplomatic interaction that allowed us to have communication, that allowed us to avoid a decisive conflict because we were talking to the Soviets.
We were able to come up with the compromises that prevented a nuclear war.
Today, we aren't talking to the Russians.
Antony Blinken is not picking up the phone and calling Lavrov.
Biden is not talking to Putin.
Nobody's talking to anybody.
Anatoly Antonov, the ambassador to the Russian ambassador to the United States, went home last month and hasn't been replaced because nobody talked to him for seven years.
So here we are in a time when we have to be talking to the Russians.
We have no other choice but to be talking to the Russians.
We're not.
That just shows you that Trump doesn't know what he's talking about because if he's going to make that statement, he then has to understand the implications of that statement, and therefore he has to understand what has to be done to prevent the concept of nuclear war from happening.
We're not talking to the Russians.
This is a very dangerous situation.
You know, he needs to start off, Trump, by saying, I will immediately, upon being sworn in, Cease the American policy that seeks the strategic defeat of Russia.
We are not seeking the strategic defeat of Russia.
That is not our goal.
That is not our objective.
Well, you'd have to fire Mike Waltz and Sebastian Gorka.
Well, or make them quit.
I mean, that's the other option.
When Mike Waltz comes in and says, Mr. President, he says, no, no, Mike, go out and sit in the lobby.
I'm talking to Scott Ritter right now.
We should be so fortunate, Scott.
But, you know, the fact is, Trump, that is, and I'll say it again in case anybody on there from the Trump campaign, if you want to succeed with Russia right now, you don't violate the Logan Act, but if you come out and you make the following statement, I'm speaking to the Russian people and I'm speaking to the Russian leadership.
On day one, I will sign an executive order that says that the policy of the United States regarding Russia Is no longer premised on the notion of achieving a strategic defeat of Russia and Ukraine.
The United States is not seeking the strategic defeat of Russia.
The United States is seeking to find the mechanism for peaceful coexistence with Russia.
And that's what will be guiding our relations for the next four years.
He makes that statement.
It is a game changer.
The Russians will sit up and listen and they'll be in a better position to make compromises that Trump may want them to make.
But if you think they're going to Or after Walt said that they're hand in glove with Jake Sullivan's policies?
That is, Russia will never talk to you.
It's just the way it is.
and if you don't talk mr president i want to bring it back full circle if you don't talk to the russians And the only way we got out of the Cuban Missile Crisis was by talking to the Russians based upon mutual respect.
You better learn to respect the damn Russians, Mr. President, because they don't respect you right now.
At all.
Will this Oreshnik be used to protect Iran if Israel and the United States attack it?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
First of all, I think Iran has its own strategic deterrent, and we know what it is, and there's nothing we can do to stop that strategic deterrent from being fired.
They have hundreds of Fatah 1 and Fatah 2 missiles, thousands of other missiles.
The Israeli missile defense shield doesn't work, and Israel will cease to exist, and they don't need Russian.
The interesting thing here is if you take a look at the Iranian missiles as they came in, it appeared that they had their own version of the Erezinik.
They didn't have the missiles, the post-boost vehicles that are self-propelled, but when you take a look at their missiles coming in, you see the warheads break up and then you see them break into additional clusters.
These are kinetic kill weapons.
So the Iranians have high technology, better technology than anything we have.
I can tell you their warheads are ten times better than the warheads we have.
Their missiles are very good.
They don't need the arresting.
Scott Ritter, thank you very much, my dear friend.
You have presented a view of Trump, which I haven't seen anywhere, not even from your colleagues on the show, but you presented it as you do everything, with logic, with facts.
And with concern for the security of the United States.
I love you.
I hope you're wrong.
I hope Trump was not engaged in a material deception.
But from the way you present this, it now appears that he has.
The last thing I'll say is, Donald Trump, call me.
We can save this.
We can salvage this.
But if you keep following Gorka and Michael Waltz, it's over.
It's over.
Thank you, Scott.
All the best, my dear friend.
We'll talk to you again soon.
If I don't talk to you before Thursday, because you never know what's going to happen, we may need you.
The happiest of Thanksgivings to you and your beautiful family.
Thanks.
I just bought a 12-pound turkey, so hopefully I can master the cooking of it on Thursday.
I'm sure you will.
All the best.
Thanks.
Wow.
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