Since Trump going into office he seems to have completely lost it, glazing Trump at every opportunity as though he’s this big peacemaker in Ukraine. Ofc he never was a socialist but he used to have very reasonable takes especially on Ukraine. I feel this is a consequence of a lack of dialectical materialism but I can’t exactly put my finger on the exact mechanisms at play.
Scott Ritter’s house was raided by the Biden admin, so he is understandably pissed at them. Scott Ritter also knows people in the Trump administration personally, so he clearly hoped that he would have more influence over Trump and co’s actions. He has never ‘glazed’ Trump. He had hopes Trump would follow through on his peace plans.
Now that he sees that isn’t the case, Scott is also becoming quite vocal at criticizing Trump. He has repeatedly come out against the Houthi airstrikes.
He was reasonable on not just Ukraine but also the Middle East, that is until his house was raided by the US intelligence agencies shortly before the US elections last year, and ever since then he’s suddenly turned into a government narrative parrot. I’d put money on him being compromised, they probably either found or planted something on his hard drives and he’s very incentivized to not get uppity.
No way they needed to plant anything on his drive. Dude has been convicted of child enticement and his defense was, I kid you not, “I knew I was talking to an officer so therefore I committed no crime because they were an adult and we were roleplaying”. He didn’t even deny it and still doesn’t.
I’ve always felt that he took up the anti-imperialism mantle to try and clear his name so that when you look him up online you come across his many youtube appearances instead of the court case. Because he started being a public figure after he was convicted if I have my timeline correct.
He bought into Trump’s promises for peace pre-election and now he can’t believe he was wrong. To be honest, a lot of otherwise reasonable good commentators have gone down this path.
Who?
Hasn’t he always seemed like exactly this type of guy?
