Is Scott Ritter left or right?
Ritter is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer and UNSCOM weapons inspector who first gained fame arguing before the 2003 invasion that Iraq had no significant WMD stockpiles, and he has been a fixture of anti-interventionist media ever since. Since 2022 he has been among the most prominent US commentators defending Russia's position in the Ukraine war, contributing regularly to Russian state outlets RT and Sputnik and visiting Russia; in 2025-2026 his commentary warns that NATO escalation risks direct war with Russia. US authorities seized his passport in June 2024, and in August 2024 the FBI searched his New York home in an investigation tied to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which he says he did not violate; no charges have been reported. His politics are defined by opposition to US interventionism rather than by a conventional left-right platform, though his current audience runs largely through antiwar-right platforms like Judging Freedom.
How credible is Scott Ritter's audience?
Scott Ritter scores 15.1 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #176 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.