U.S. Is Abandoning ALL OUR Asian & Middle Eastern Allies! – Scott Ritter (Jimmy Dore)

The U.S. is currently stripping THAAD missile defense systems from South Korea—a move that betrays decades of security commitments to Asian allies—and sending them to Israel, where they're all but useless against Iranian hypersonic weapons. Former weapons inspector and geopolitical analyst Scott Ritter explains to Jimmy that the entire missile defense concept is a "giant grift" that never worked, and that Iran has proven this by systematically dismantling U.S. military infrastructure while deliberately avoiding mass American casualties—a strategic choice born of intelligence and humanity, not weakness.

Ritter contrasts American arrogance and ignorance with Iranian precision and restraint, noting that even after the U.S. murdered their Supreme Leader and 186 schoolgirls, Iran targets only military assets, not civilians. The segment concludes that the U.S. has betrayed every ally—South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the Gulf Arabs—all for Israel, and that the Iranians are fighting with more honor than their attackers.



This might be part of the point of the conflict - to lose big and turn allies against the US, to thrown a spanner in the works of being the world's policeman.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, March 17, 2026.]