by Leo Hohmann, Leo Hohmann:
As U.S.-sponsored war games get underway in the skies over Germany on a scale not seen since the founding of NATO in 1949, one well-positioned analyst says U.S. government has lied to us for years about the effectiveness of the Patriot system and other weapons
The United States is taking the next couple of weeks to hold massive war games over the skies of Europe that are meant to send a message to Russia.
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But does U.S. military power live up to the hype? Let’s break it down and get into a side of the story you are unlikely to get from the corporate mainstream media.
This exercise has been dubbed “Air Defender 23.” It kicks off today, June 14, billed as the largest air-deployment exercise in NATO history. Germany will serve as the host and logistical hub. Three flight zones will be temporarily closed to civilian air traffic over Germany, and authorities are warning there will be delays to civilian flights.
From June 12 to June 23, up to 250 aircraft will be stationed across six military bases, with 25 countries taking part. The U.S. alone is sending 100 aircraft across the Atlantic.
This “training” exercise is so intense, that some analysts have even warned about the danger that it could actually be cover for a surprise NATO attack on Russia and the launching of World War III. We all know that if the U.S. and its allies take us down that path, such a war would likely escalate to nuclear exchanges. But even a conventional war with Russia could result in significant damage to major U.S. cities and military installations, all of which would become easy targets for non-nuclear hypersonic missiles — these are super-fast missiles that the U.S. Patriot system appears helpless to defend against.
To hear former U.S. Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter tell it, much of Western military power is built on perception and not on real-world war scenarios. He says Russia, on the other hand, is focused more on making sure its military hardware works and works consistently, rather than on trying to bedazzle the world with a glitzy public relations campaign.
I can’t vouch for how accurate Ritter’s assessment is. I don’t know him. But I do think it’s important to give him a full hearing and make up your own mind. He does have actual military experience in Iraq and has inspected the weapons he talks about up close and personal. Does he have some secret motive to lie to us? I don’t know. And time will tell whether his perspective is the right one or not, but again, I think we would be foolish to write him off without even giving him a full hearing.
The Patriot anti-air defense system is one weapon that Ritter focuses on in an interview that was livestreamed today, June 14, on YouTube. If the truth about U.S. capabilities lies halfway between what Ritter tells us and what corrupt U.S. military officials like Gen. Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin tell us, which I suspect may be the case, then U.S./NATO military power is not nearly as invincible as Americans and Europeans have been led to believe.
Ritter says many of the weapons systems in the Western NATO arsenal are “overhyped” and “don’t work,” at least not as advertised in the slick propaganda videos put out by NATO member states or even as seen in the skies during their vaunted military exercises. Why? He gives an intriguing answer to that question.
