RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 14.08.2024
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
VIRTUALLY UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2nd JUNE 2014
A lot has been said about atrocities in the western media claimed to have been perpetrated by the Russians, for example at Bucha and Mariupol among others. These assertions are conveyed on the say so of the Ukrainian authorities. How willing though are western news broadcasters to convey atrocities attributed to the Ukrainians? The following will I think provide the answer.
If anyone wonders if they are receiving accurate coverage of the conflict in Ukraine I would suggest watching the video below of an event which occurred on the 2nd of June 2014 and ask themselves if they recall hearing about it on any mainstream media news channel at the time.
The video is harrowing to watch. The bodies (five women and three men) are real. Yet across western media there was only one single news report that occurred a day later. This was from CNN and occurred only because a CNN team happened to be nearby at the time of the atrocity and so the network could hardly ignore it as all others so obviously did.
The video below shows the unvarnished truth that was not considered newsworthy in western mainstream news.
THE SINGLE WESTERN MSM REPORT ON THE LUGANSK ATROCITY, 3rd JUNE 2014
The video at the CNN link below is the crime scene sanitised by CNN, though played straight with honest reporting on the scene not playing things to Kiev’s tune.
(There was a time early in the war in the Donbass when CNN were not afraid to contradict the Ukrainian regime in Kiev.) Watch, because it's the first and last time you will see this.
5 women and 3 men died, all civilians.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
Airstrike in Lugansk - 10 Year Anniversary.
Decisive Battle Unfolding | RUAF Storm Mykolaivka.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Ukr Pokrovsk Crisis, Rus: No Talks Kiev; Alaudinov: Kursk NPP Ukr Target, Failed; Iran Rejects US.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: Japan Elensky curse. Biden, Putin Kursk dilemma. Germany, Vlad Z did Nord Stream. EU rejects Thierry.
UKRAINE LINES COLLAPSED AGAIN! 3 settlements taken | Ukraine War Summary / SITREP / Situation Report.
LEVAN GUDADZE: Nuclear Terrorism - Ukraine - Dirty Bomb. EU Supports Invasion of Russia - Borrell. West vs BRICS...
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA: US SEEKS THE REPLACEMENT FOR ZELENSKY. OPERATION IN KURSK REGION, THE LOSSES (AS OF YESTERDAY).
Ukraine's 'Suicidal' Offensive in Kursk Region Will Not Help End Conflict - US Congressman.
Ukraine's offensive in Russia's Kursk region will do nothing to achieve peace in the ongoing conflict, US Congressman Paul Gosar said in a statement to Sputnik on Tuesday.
“Ukraine’s suicidal cross border incursion will do nothing to end the horrible war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers," Gosar said. "I once again call for peace."
On Monday, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said that the United States continued to have discussions with Ukraine about its military operation in the Kursk region but had no further updates.
The US Defense Department told Sputnik it had no updates to provide on whether US-supplied weapons have been used by Ukraine in the Kursk region.
Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan told CNN earlier this week that he expects Russia to take decisive action to push the Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk region.
Last week, Ukrainian forces crossed the border into Russia and launched an offensive in the Kursk region, capturing several villages. Twelve civilians have been killed in the attack, and 121 others injured, including ten children, acting Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnov said on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine's operation is another large-scale provocation, accusing Ukraine of firing indiscriminately at civilians. Several high-level Russian officials have warned that Ukraine should expect severe consequences for carrying out its operation in the Kursk region.
Ukraine's 'Suicidal' Offensive in Kursk Region Will Not Help End Conflict - US Congressman.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC: Kursk Offensive DEVASTATES Ukraine: NATO Admits Collapse ft. Brian Berletic.
GEORGE GALLOWAY: Folly on stilts.
SEBASTIAN SAS: Ukraine Is Smashed In Pokrovsk But Is "Winning" In Kursk.
Russia Launches Major Counteroffensive in Kursk.
Putin's Kursk Revenge Hits Full Force: Russian Forces Destroy US-Made Stryker In Kursk | Ukraine War.
Not Russia, New Enemy Haunts Ukrainian Soldiers At Front | 'Kiev Hiding Something.'
Dr. GILBERT DOCTOROW: Is Russia About to EXPLODE with Fury?
PEPE ESCOBAR: Scott Ritter, Israel Losing, Russia Losing its Patience.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Did the US Invade Russia?
ODAB-500 bomb Destroys enemy • Tank • NATO artillery.
BORZZIKMAN: A TOTAL FAILURE! UK Has Withdrawn Its CHALLENGER-2 Tanks From UKRAINE┃KURSK Became A GRAVE For AFU.
Kursk attack: A military red line has been crossed, so what now?
All over the world, the old military rules are being broken, this has the potential to become very dangerous.
By Dmitry Drize, political observer at Kommersant FM.
The UN has once again failed to formulate a position on the invasion of Russian territory by Ukrainian forces. The US and the EU have so far confined themselves to vague statements. Official Kiev at the highest level has also been relatively quiet. The Ukrainian public mainly relies on Russian sources for information, and foreign military experts have also refrained from making detailed predictions.
Apparently, the outside world is still not fully aware of what is going on, hence the muted reactions. The principle of “something needs to be said, but it is not clear what exactly that should be” can be detected. For example, the “paper of record,” The Washington Post, quoting analysts, put forward the hypotheses that one of the reasons for Kiev’s invasion of Kursk Region was to disrupt Russian gas supplies to Western Europe.
The basis for such claims was the situation around the gas metering station near Sudzha, about which much has been written recently. It’s not clear who controls it right now. Sure, if the valve is shut off, the gas really will stop flowing, that’s obvious. However, in order to disrupt supplies, it wasn’t necessary to cross the Russian border. This can easily be done from Ukrainian territory, because that’s where the pipeline passes through. In any case, at the time of writing the fuel is flowing as normal.
This is the cynical peculiarity of our times. Business comes first, and even hostilities do not get in the way.
Read more: Kursk attack: This is why Zelensky felt emboldened
Meanwhile, beyond that there is relative silence. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is talking about how Russia deserves to be punished, in his view. The West says very little. A comment by the head of the German Bundestag’s defense committee that Kiev could use Leopard tanks on this historic Russian soil doesn’t sound too serious.
It is safe to assume that most of the West’s political leadership didn’t expect such a turn of events. Kiev didn’t consult them or ask their permission. This brings us to the most important point: the nature of the confrontation is changing, and another red line has been erased. There used to be an unspoken rule – the Americans and Western Europeans didn’t want an escalation, let alone a direct conflict with Moscow, so Ukraine was allowed to fight back but not attack; Western weapons are not used on Russian territory and, of course, the border was not to be crossed. In this scenario, the conflict was manageable, and played out within a set framework. You don’t have to be an expert to see that this is now impossible.
In general, this is a trend. All over the world, red lines are being crossed, the old rules of the game are being broken and things are getting out of control.
So for the Russian-Ukraine conflict the choice is really quite simple: there will either be a further escalation of hostilities or negotiations. Or first the former and then the latter. But, of course, it’d be better if we jumped directly to the latter.
Kursk attack: A military red line has been crossed, so what now?
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
THE DURAN: War in Inevitable - Alastair Crooke, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen.
PROFESSOR MARANDI: “Iran Will Definitely Retaliate – It’s Inevitable and Necessary; the Wrath of Iran is Very Real.”
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: Can Diplomacy Bring Middle East Peace?
AMBASSADOR CHAS FREEMAN: On recent killings by Israel, axis of resistance, response of Saudi Arabia & Qatar.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: AIPAC Vs. The Squad: How Pro-Israel Megadonors Took Out Bush and Bowman.
KATIE HALPER: 'Why I Quit The State Department Over Gaza' With Josh Paul + Jen Perelman.
CAPTAIN MATTHEW HOH: The Israeli Torture Regime.
Russia Blames U.S. For Ongoing Civilian Casualties In Gaza.
GEORGE GALLOWAY: Have It Out With Galloway (Episode 18) Iran: World holds breath.
PEPE ESCOBAR: Scott Ritter, Israel Losing, Russia Losing its Patience.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
COLONEL KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: The FBI Is the Deep State.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS: Outside Players Are Fueling the Civil War& Tragedy in Sudan! I Wonder Who?
CALEB MAUPIN: Neoliberalism, Russia & The Innovationist Perspective - Caleb talks with Homeless Romantic.
USA
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: EU menacing letter to Musk ahead of Trump X Spaces.
RUSSELL BRAND: Trump and Musk Just NUKED Kamala Harris Campaign After This Broke The Internet.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
ALEX KRAINER: Russia and China’s Secret Plan to OUTSMART NATO.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: Anti-China Scapegoating: A New Red Scare for a New Cold War.
EUROPE / UK
KIM IVERSEN: Told You So! UK Riot's Spark Arrests For Social Media Posts.
REDACTED: Elon Musk scores a KNOCK OUT blow to the EU's Censorship Plans.
AFRICA
Russia Slams the U.S. and EU for Neo-Colonial Tendencies in Africa.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: KURSK SERÁ LA TUMBA DE UCRANIA: EL RÉGIMEN DE KIEV SE SUICIDA (y arrastra consigo a todo Occidente).
EXPATS IN RUSSIA
TRAVELLING WITH RUSSELL: Russian TYPICAL Shopping Mall After 900 Days of Sanctions.
MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
[ Kursk Offensive ] SOUTHERN FLANK COLLAPSED!!! Ukraine starts to struggle to progress...
WAR UPDATE: Nothing Stopping! Massive Russian Gains To Hrodivka, Ukraine Closes In On Sudzha.
RUAF Capture 10SQKM Pokrovsk Front | AFU Launch Deep Recon Assaults & Gained 40SQKM Kursk Offensive.
VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION THAT WE IN THE WEST ARE NOW UNABLE TO LIVE
There is a feeling going round that something has been lost. What can it be?
I have no doubt you look around the world we have come to now and shake your head. If you have lived any length of time you will have certainly seen better days than these. Much better. If you are as long in the tooth as I am you will feel you have entered some kind of twisted version of Hell in fact… that is compared with the wicked, but not so wicked as now world we once knew. Yet the solution to all these problems has been a catchphrase for at least as many decades as we have been alive. Yet it seems we can’t agree to settle our differences and abide by it.
It is of course, ‘LIVE AND LET LIVE’.
The thing is that one or two nations believe they have the right to take nations and nationalities that are not like their own and do whatever they like to them as if they were holy messengers sent down from above to police the world. They conceive themselves to be so superior that they have the right and even the duty to do this. And do it by force if they have to. They don’t see a few hundred thousand corpses as something to worry overmuch about. The end justifies the means, right?
The elites of these lands, the USA and the UK conceive themselves to be a superior group who sit on the board of directors of all they survey. Their wishes must come true. Their commands must be obeyed. Their interests must be satisfied. And all things must be arranged to suit them. And woe betide anyone who thinks they have a right to their culture or national sovereignty and who refuses to bow down to the wishes, commands and interests that these god-like figures require to be attended to at all times.
War and pestilence are not archaic terms as we know all too well from recent history. The USA and UK have delivered both. Both physical and mental. Their frame of mind where those who are not like them are fair game for them has been extremely obvious lately. They conceive themselves and their systems to be the composite crown of creation, the model which all others must aspire and adhere to. Or else…
In this modern materialist western world values count for little, that is any values you may have brought with you from the old, dead and gone world. Now you must agree to the new values, the woke values, the kind seen recently at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games. You will be coerced to accept those values or you risk being canceled. Either you stay silent, out of sight of the censors or you will find yourself in trouble for being too free with your opinions. Shut up or be shut up. Your choice.
We are being taught to emphasize our differences more and more. We have told to expect the best at all times and to get annoyed when things are not done as we demand. We feel far more entitled than ever before. Large numbers of our fellow beings, the affluent percentage, have been told to ‘expect more’ and to demand more. “Shop till you drop.” “Consume!” Want the best and get it. Beat the ‘others’ to it by whatever method that’s to hand. Those are not fellow humans, they are your competitors.
The advertisers and marketers told us to demand it all and have it all. But they didn’t tell us just how much we would have to pay for that. And pay and pay and pay… with all the psychological baggage and distortion that a shallow life of endless consumption and competing can bring. Who needs friends you can no longer trust? Except those you might be able to use to your advantage somehow, right?
Your neighbors became absent over the years or else they became annREALLY ANNOYING. Somehow we became obsessive about being safely alone, not touched by others except for them to ask us what we want from them. People became either competitors or potential slaves for us to order around. In the service culture that was sold us we were kings and these minions who delivered service to us were our slaves. And if they didn’t come up to scratch we would ditch them for new ones.
Other cultures were fine during brief holidays from making loads of money for all the glittering trinkets of a very modern life, trips to distant lands where we could feel superior and become interested in quaint customs for a while, slumming it and taking selfies to show the equally vain and shallow relatives back home.
This is the material that is the human specimen seen so widely now in the western world. A grotesque shadow of a human being. Hardly able to be loved or to give love, a calculating machine, a robot that digests mainstream headlines and believes them in total ignorance.
LIVE AND LET LIVE?
Yes, if only we had the essential materials in the human beings now existing in the western world to do it and not these distorted and distorting shadows that hardly even remind us of human beings. Lost in lies broadcast nightly, heads wasted with a tawdriness that lurks everywhere now. Frightened by the reality all this irresponsibility brings, daunted by the news of riot and mayhem, murder, rage, racism, war and hatred. But still seeking filthy lucre to garner it all to the self and keep it safe from those others ‘out there’.
This is the world the USA and UK and most of the EU want to foist on the rest of the world, to make all others just like them, caught in the self-loving trap of those who believe themselves superior but who have lost everything that was real about them and in so doing lost any trace of their humanity. Live like us or die. That is their motto. Live and let live? This is anathema to those who demand all others be like them. Their self-image is so deluded, their conception of themselves as the most exceptional, superior form of beings ever to grace this planet could not be further from the truth. And their awful and disgusting reality is now leading to them being now being rejected during the birth of a truly multipolar world.
In that world now being born the phrase that has become so unfashionable will once have meaning once more.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
