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TexasTowelie

(122,515 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:49 PM Monday

Scott Ritter says Russia will crush Europe... - Break the Fake - TVP WORLD



Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has resurfaced in Moscow's propaganda machine. In a recent interview with Russia's state news agency TASS, he claimed that if Europe dares to intervene directly in the war, Russa will "crush" it. But who is Scott Ritter really? Far from being a credible military expert, Ritter is a disgraced ex-analyst with a criminal record, now playing a role of so-called "Western voice" for the Kremlin. Russian state media presents him as an authority to legitimize Putin's narrative - while ignoring his past scandals and the fact that his predictions often collapse under reality. In new episode of Break The Fake, Jonasz Rewiński breaks down Ritter's statements, expose his background and explains why Moscow loves to parade figures like him as "proof" that the West is divided.
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Bernardo de La Paz

(57,668 posts)
1. While it is interesting to know that Ritter is a Russian tool again and the Poles do not like Russia one bit, ...
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:59 PM
Monday

Ritter is a convicted pedophile. TVP is a right wing source of "mixed" credibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

In 2011, Ritter was convicted of several criminal offenses after engaging in sexually explicit online activity with a police officer who was posing as a 15 year-old girl.[10][11][12]


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/tvp-info-bias/

TexasTowelie

(122,515 posts)
2. I've been posting clips from TVP World for nearly three years.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:25 PM
Monday

What prompted your concern about their credibility now?

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,668 posts)
3. I've remarked on it before. It's okay here bc it publicizes Moscow's use of Ritter (I did not watch the video)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:38 PM
Monday

I suppose my loathing of the convicted pedophile right-wing tool Ritter raised my concern. Initially I thought he was being used a spokesperson for the broadcast, but then I realized he is being criticized.

TexasTowelie

(122,515 posts)
5. Like any government, there are things that I oppose about the Polish government
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 09:16 PM
Monday

such as their policy on abortion rights. Some of TVP World's coverage is likely influenced by the conservative government there.

I'm also wary at times about the media bias checkers myself, apparently they don't investigate any claims of bias unless they are notified to review. I also don't know if any erroneous reports roll off their list over time. It would be interesting to dig in further, but I don't plan to do it since I already have enough to stay busy.

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