RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 28.01.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 28.01.2023
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.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** WHICH SIDE BENEFITS MOST FROM A LONG WAR? ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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 particularly newsworthy in the western mainstream. Below it you can watch the CNN report which contradicts the lies the Ukrainian regime were concocting at the time to escape being identified as the perpetrator.
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Our apologies for the change to normal update times.
We are presently on the North American continent after travelling from Europe.
Timings for updates will now be on an altered schedule (and may even be missing entirely on occasion) for a period of 5 days.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (198k subscribers):
Russia Presses Forward Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Orekhov; Rand Warns US Overinvested in Ukraine.
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‘The Duran’ (329k subscribers):
Q & A: NATO wonder weapons.
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Latest update by Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (209k subscribers):
The Russian Battalion Tactical Group w/Alex of Donbass Devushka.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (156k subscribers):
Maria Zakharova, NATO who are you? Explain. CNN, tank victory for Putin. RAND, avoid long war. U/1
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'Gonzalo Lira' (60.5k subscribers)
2023.01.28 The West Has Lost Already.
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‘acTVism Munich' (107k subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs: The War in Ukraine and the Missing Context & Perspective.
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Prof. Richard Wolff: The Economics of the Ukraine War.
Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Ukraine-Krieges | Prof. Wolff.
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Sahra Wagenknecht äußert sich zu Medienkonformität, NATO & Ukraine-Krieg, with Glenn Greenwald.
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‘The University of Chicago’ (228k subscribers):
Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer.
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‘The Jimmy Dore Show’ (1.13 million subscribers):
HUGE Antiwar Victory Won By RIGHT WING!
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'Hindustan Times' (5.12 million subscribers):
Putin’s Army pierces Ukraine frontline in Donetsk | Zelensky says ‘situation extremely acute’.
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Germany ‘begs’ Putin’s ally for tank shells to arm Ukraine; Brazil turns down offer | Report:
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Kim Jong’s sister shames Biden for ‘crossing red line’ with Putin over tanks aid to Zelensky.
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German FM called ‘insane’ by leaders from NATO nation for ‘war with Russia’ remark | Details:
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Russian jets shoot missiles, tanks roll over Ukraine trenches | Watch Putin's men on a rampage.
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NATO nation defies Putin’s warning? Poland ‘secretly’ sends fighter jets to Ukraine | Report:
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U.S. to wage war on China in 2025? Top General orders officers to prepare for Xi’s defeat.
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'Douglas Macgregor' (60.3k subscribers):
Escalation of Russia-Ukraine war with U.S. involvement.
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‘Djuki San’ (38.2k subscribers):
Vladimir Putin - Press Conference on 23 December 2021.
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‘TrueinFo’ (79k subscribers):
Russian FM Lavrov: Western Dominance Is Over, India And China Are Powerhouses That Cannot Be Ignored.
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'Schiller Institute' (64.8k subscribers):
Building an Alternative to Global NATO — World Citizens Unite!
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‘FINANCE MAIL’ (30.6k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Putin Is The Real Judo Master. Ukraine Is Running Out Of Men On The Front Line.
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‘Redacted’ (1.66 million subscribers):
Clayton Morris: We better pay attention to what their doing to us.
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.68k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks China, Ukraine, & Russia Conflict.
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‘iChongqing’ (11.4k subscribers):
🔴 Live Stream | Taiwan What's Next | Let's Talk China |Brian Berletic Cyrus Janssen Alex Reporterfy.
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'Habla News!' (162 subscribers):
Zelenskyy- "Ukraine is open to American business like Black Water, JPMC" Who profits from WAR?
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'Hindustan Times' (5.11 million subscribers):
Putin’s Army rains rocket fire on Ukraine soldiers in Kharkiv | Watch dramatic Russian footage.
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‘The Team House’ (63.6k subscribers):
Inside the World of GITMO Inmates | Mark Denbeaux | Ep. 188.
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‘BreakThrough News’ (142k subscribers):
What the US Fears Most in the Horn of Africa: A New Era of Peace.
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'Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft' (6.2k subscribers):
The Paris Peace Accords: Lessons for Today?
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'Firstpost' (295k subscribers):
Russia Makes Pitch for Common BRICS Currency to Counter U.S. Dollar.
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‘BORZZIKMAN’ (123k subscribers):
It's a Caribbean Crisis 2.0┃'ZIRCON' Hypersonic Missiles were Put on Alert off the Coast of the U.S.
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The Success of the Russian Military Prompted the Africans to Issue an Ultimatum to FRANCE.
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'Master B editor' (416 subscribers):
Viral video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting their own battalion mates- body cameras.
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💥💥 Storm-S self-propelled anti-tank missile systems in action.
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‘Alexandre Guerreiro’ (6.32k subscribers):
Dirigente da NATO valida as acusações de Putin.
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'Irina Agheeva' (51.6k subscribers):
Я РУССКИЙ. ПУТИН (SHAMAN).
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Молитва (Alex Kolesnikov).
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Не говорите, кто мой враг...(Сергей Любавин).
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 28th January 2023:
Pentagon think tank warns against ‘long war’ in Ukraine.
Costs of continued conflict outweigh further benefits to the US, a RAND Corporation study says.
While both Moscow and Kiev think they will benefit from continued fighting, such a turn of events does not serve Washington’s best interests, the Pentagon’s think tank RAND Corporation argues in a new report published on Friday.
Authored by Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe, “Avoiding a Long War” accepts the prevailing premises about the conflict, but notes that US interests “often align with but are not synonymous with Ukrainian interests.”
According to the authors, the conflict has already inflicted significant economic, military and reputational damage on Russia, so its “further incremental weakening is arguably no longer as significant a benefit for US interests.”
The price to the West has not been insignificant either, from the disruption to energy, food and fertilizer markets to the cost of “keeping the Ukrainian state economically solvent,” which will only “multiply over time.”
NATO’s military aid to Ukraine “could also become unsustainable after a certain period,” while Russia may “reverse Ukrainian battlefield gains,” they said. The conflict is “absorbing senior policymakers’ time and US military resources,” distracting Washington from other global priorities, such as China, while pushing Moscow closer to Beijing.
In short, the consequences of a long war – ranging from persistent elevated escalation risks to economic damage – far outweigh the possible benefits.
The study describes President Vladimir Zelensky’s vision of victory, in which Ukraine would recover all the territories it lays claim to and force Russia to submit to war crimes trials and reparations, as “optimistic” and “improbable.”
Moscow, “perceives this war to be near existential” and has signaled “a high level of resolve,” the authors caution, raising the probability it might use nuclear weapons if it feels threatened.
Prospects for some kind of negotiated peace are “poor in the near term,” the report acknowledges, as Kiev believes Western support will continue indefinitely, while Moscow has been given no reason to believe the sanctions will ever be lifted.
The US could “condition future military aid on a Ukrainian commitment to negotiations,” while giving Kiev security commitments, but “not as binding as US mutual defense treaties” or NATO membership, the report suggested. Washington should also give Moscow assurances regarding Ukraine’s neutrality and set “conditions for sanctions relief.”
Founded in 1948 by the US military-industrial complex, RAND has provided the Pentagon with policy advice for decades. In 2019, the think tank provided a blueprint for “overextending and unbalancing” Russia that included economic sanctions, sending weapons to Ukraine, promoting uprisings in Central Asia and even deploying more nuclear weapons to Europe. By contrast, the advice on how to avoid escalation with Moscow while arming Kiev, from July last year, seems to have had little to no effect.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (82.8k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 28.01.2023
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.02k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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NWE WAR REPORTS (29.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (52.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (17.6k subscribers):
BAKHMUT UPDATE - Russia Advances On Blahodatne.
VUHLEDAR: Update and Analysis.
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FULL FRONT UPDATE - Vuhledar, Donetsk, Bakhmut, Zaporizhzhia.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
Ukraine [28 Jan 2023] 'Today'.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (56.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: January 27, 2023.
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.39k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION WAR UPDATES (52.1k subscribers):
Full Front Udpate 28/01/23 Part 2 | Zaporizhzhia | Vuhledar | Bakhmut | Short Analysis.
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Full Front Update 28/01/23 | Overview Over Western Donations To Ukraine in 2023.
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Detailed situation reports can be found on a daily basis concerning events in Ukraine over the past 24 hours at the ‘A SKEPTIC’ Substack account:
Link to 'A SKEPTIC' Substack channel.
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SUPPORTING SCOTT RITTER
I've been listening to Scott Ritter describe how things are for him and I suspect have been for him for quite some time now.
He has been doing a LOT of unpaid work with a great many interview requests coming in that he has been ready and willing to agree to. But the work where receives some pay for have suffered due to this, being left until the wee small hours of the night to complete work on.
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
I was moved by Scott's words to take an annual subscription to his Substack account that he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances with which to upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine, via a better microphone etc. and perhaps the creation of a recording studio in his basement to create a more professional and impressive look. To invest in these things he would like to be sure that this has a viable financial future.
Would you also like to help by subscribing at one of the various levels to Scott's Substack account? I hope so. If so the link is here:
Below you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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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
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WORLD WAR III: THE END GAME WAR
Posted as a series of tweets within a Twitter thread. (2018)
What are the U.S. elites & their allies seeking to gain through their diplomacy-free policy toward China, Russia and their allies?
What is the ultimate goal?
Where is their constant bellicosity leading?
What is the end game we are facing?
For just over two decades now a war has been waged in full view but totally unannounced.
It was never once declared but it is real enough. Many have been surprised at its ferocity & the fact that no diplomacy took place or was ever called for by the side waging it.
This unannounced, undeclared war has been fought not only by the US & European politicians. It has been fought also by the entirety of western mass media. These three powerful elites have fought side by side for twenty years against their primary targets, China and all its allies, including, of course, Russia.
Western elites are in a relentless pursuit of multiple regime change targets to avoid their global patrician dominance being eclipsed by China and its allies. The goal of the war far exceeds damaging or even destroying China and Russia however. It has a far more ambitious goal than even this.
The goal is none other than complete global U.S. control in tandem with all allies within its orbit.
The USA won't stand alone at the apex of a new, controlled world. Its primary ally Britain will be there also, bowing low & taking commands as usual. All the USA’s other allies will take somewhat lesser positions.
The rest of us?
We will be supervised VERY closely until we submit.
In waging the end game war there are to be no loose ends. There are to be no unaccounted for communications. All must be visible, known, supervised & certified safe within an environment of total oversight. In short, of full spectrum dominance by the USA and its allies.
If there is any gap in global dominance it will be flagged for attention and dealt with, bringing it in line with all other protocols designed to ensure total security for the USA. The level of response will be applied rigorously using all necessary means.
9/11 bored deep into the traumatised skulls of all those who would now enslave the rest of the world for the sake of America. This added an additional layer on top of what was a previously existing demand that the world acknowledge global U.S. hegemony.
The war against those not in full compliance with U.S. wishes has been ongoing since the events of 9/11 took place.
However, it was only in 2007 that the present level of urgency was felt & first seen regarding Russia via the initiation of persistent & ever-growing attacks by mass media on Vladimir Putin after his Munich speech of that year.
Ultimately the plan requires that everyone be monitored 24/7 using GPS positioning of the telecommunications of the entire human race from space.
The USA has had a messianic desire to teach the world how good it is & urge its systems to be followed by all others almost since the day it was founded. A sense of superiority has prevailed for a number of reasons within group-thought myopia of self-interested mythologies. As time passed this rose to the levels seen in modern times where the concept of being exceptional rose to a peak.
The western world is already monitored to a high degree.
It began with CCTV, continued with personal detail collection. It surged forward via the internet and the mobile phone. Now with seamless systems collecting each call, text, email with the location visited, purchase made & so much more. Big data grows bigger daily.
Before 9/11 it appeared that the majority in the USA had more or less accepted the world as it was. The feeling of superiority continued, though the desire to transform the world in its image abated somewhat, assuaged by the "successful" conclusion of the Cold War.
9/11 changed EVERYTHING.
It is true Neocons existed before 9/11 along with their concept of overall US superiority & their goal & determination to ensure ultimate US control in perpetuity. However, it took 9/11 to make the crucial difference between a plan & action.
In the days after 9/11, it was agreed at the highest possible level that there could be no more ignoring potential threats.
Each statement indicating a less than positive view of the USA & US foreign policy was to be noted for present & ongoing future attention.
In those meetings after 9/11, it was decided that every single negative factor seen anywhere worldwide, any individual in authority & any government deigning to express negativity toward the U.S.A. was to be a target for undermining & eventual elimination.
There were to be no exceptions.
No targets too small, or too large. Meticulously detailed files were to be scrupulously kept. Programs of demonisation & destabilisation were to be carefully planned & executed. The 9/11 security project was to have the highest priority.
The 9/11 protocols are set in stone till the day full spectrum dominance dawns. No president can alter them. They are sacrosanct, untouchable, immutable, inviolate. The determination to make the USA the permanent global hegemon in an equally permanent unipolar world cannot be countermanded.
The phrase 'Full Spectrum Dominance' provides the key to the ultimate goal being pursued.
9/11 showed US elites they MUST have this level of control to ever feel secure again. It was imperative that not one single entity voicing negativity toward the U.S. remained.
Full Spectrum Dominance demands that ALL sources of power anywhere across the world be subject to US preeminence.
Every area of potential risk for the U.S. is required to be under its full control via deep & broad levels of surveillance & the ability to nullify all adverse entities quickly.
One of the first areas to come under the Full Spectrum Dominance umbrella was western mass media.
Its power to influence a majority of Americans & Europeans was & is enormous. It is a vital asset to smooth the path of the many regime change targets planned for. ‘Operation Mockingbird’, the CIA op to control U.S. and international media and to make it reflect U.S. state narratives is more active now than ever.
Manufacturing consent for U.S. aggression toward the rest of the world has become an industry.
The closest parallels are with public relations & propaganda. To achieve global domination with all it entails the masses have to be well-groomed to demonstrate compliance.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya & Syria were only the first few of a much longer list of nations. Iran, Lebanon, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Somalia, Yemen and others still await their full preliminary weakening and ultimate regime change fate.
All operations are ongoing simultaneously at different levels and stages. These operations are progressing consecutively in tandem as circumstances allow. The ultimate target is China however as it, far more than any other nation, presents the greatest challenge to U.S. and western elite hegemony.
The dominance planned for will be TOTAL if it is accomplished.
For the U.S. and its elites, this is a necessity that brooks no compromise. There will be no diplomacy, nothing which hinders the process. No barrier is to be countenanced, not even a worldwide pandemic. Sanctions and other means of financial terrorism are to be ongoing, even increased.
There is to be no thought given to the detriment to others by the enforcement of this policy. For these elites consider the priority of safeguarding America to be too high for any such considerations. In fact, any pain suffered by China, Russia or any of their allies is to be actively increased by any means possible.
The power junkies integral to the western way of life are losing their fix. Western patrician dominance, being centuries old and deeply ingrained within western culture, the elites of the western world can’t conceive of living without it.
The cold turkey involved would utterly destroy them along with any hope they have of achieving the full spectrum dominance they believe imperative in their goal of keeping America safe.
Therefore they are determined to destroy whoever they need to to avoid this scenario.
Thus we are living through WORLD WAR III: THE END GAME WAR.
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