The United States is ‘violating everything we stand for in backing Israel. This is just open genocide that's taking place against the Palestinian people,’ said Scott Ritter. ‘It is so flagrant and so condemnable that the entire world has turned against us.’
His message comes at a time of conflicting interests over the war, which on closer examination do much to explain the difference of opinion emerging between military planners and the Pentagon, and the politicians who have staked their political future on the defeat of Russia.