RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 07.04.2023
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.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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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.
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Lead feature:
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VREVELATIONS
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DANNY HAIPHONG
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iEARL GREY
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RUSSIAN NEWS
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THE CONVO COUCH
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REDACTED
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LINE FLUX
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CGTN
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RICHARD MEDHURST
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KITCO NEWS
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DEMOCRACY AT WORK
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TELESUR ENGLISH
Russia warns of security concerns over NATO expansion.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'MiG 29 can't counter Putin's...': Zelensky's men press U.S. for F-16s despite NATO 'donations'.
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TELETRUTH
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RUSSIAN NEWS
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THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
America’s Economic Empire Is Done.
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LIU SIVAYA
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 7th April 2023:
China issues warning to US and NATO over Ukraine.
The West has ‘unmistakable responsibilities’ regarding the conflict, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.
NATO, not China, is responsible for the crisis in Ukraine and has no moral standing from which to criticize Beijing, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said during a press conference on Thursday.
“The US and the military bloc of NATO shoulder unshirkable responsibilities on the Ukraine crisis,” Mao continued, arguing that NATO “is in no position to criticize or pressure China” to take its side.
“On the Ukraine crisis, China upholds an objective and just position. We have been advocating a political settlement of the crisis and working for talks for peace,” she explained, claiming that this was a strategy “supported by the vast majority of countries in the world.”
“History will tell who is truly standing on the right side upholding justice.”
On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned China to curtail its “growing alignment” with Moscow, accusing Beijing of “prop[ping] up Russia’s economy” and “refus[ing] to condemn Russia’s aggression.”
Supplying weapons to NATO’s arch-nemesis, Stoltenberg added, “would be a historic mistake, with profound implications.”
Beijing has repeatedly denied having any plans to provide lethal aid to Russia, which has likewise denied reports that it has requested military equipment from the Chinese.
The two nations have grown closer over the past year, vowing to “further deepen mutual military trust” after last month’s meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping at the Kremlin.
However, Putin more recently clarified that there was no “military alliance with China” on the horizon, merely “cooperation in the sphere of military-technical interaction.” The West, he argued, was merely projecting its fantasy of a new axis similar to the fascist enemy of World War II onto its chief geopolitical rivals.
The US has nevertheless sanctioned several Chinese companies for allegedly supplying parts used in Iranian drones, which Washington claims are being used by Russia in Ukraine.
The US Treasury announced new sanctions on five Chinese companies and one individual said to be “responsible for the sale and shipment of thousands of aerospace components” to Iran, including parts that could be used to make drones. Iran, too, has denied providing weapons to Russia for use in the Ukrainian conflict.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
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FREE RUSSIA CHANNEL UPDATE
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WEEB UNION UPDATE
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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
THE DIVIDING LINE ACROSS THE WORLD BIDEN SOUGHT IS ALMOST IN PLACE
To survive its inevitable decline, to shore up the West’s present level of influence and sustain its ability to dominate others, Biden, the figurehead at the top of the western elite superstructure decided it was in the interests of the West to split our world in two.
This was a purely self-interested decision based upon narrow nationalism, totally selfish economic interests and the continuation of western power-political advantage. It was not for any spurious reasons given regarding freedom, democracy, adherence to a 'rules-based system' or any similar false premises.
We see Biden’s desire to create a barrier between the West and Eurasia and a permanent limit to Eurasia’s economic rise and increase in influence coming to fruition through the use of every weapon available to the western powers. We see too the huge damage this is doing to the geopolitical fabric of our planet.
By conditioning western populations by ever-increasing degrees and its use of every form of propaganda a western iron curtain has been erected against Eurasia and all that it stands for. Included in Biden’s crazed scheme was prevention of its ability to ameliorate western warmongering and even its ability to communicate its concerns and views. (Russia Today (RT) was banned in most western nations as a result of the western framing of events in south-eastern Ukraine.)
It was clear after Biden was declared the victor in the 2020 U.S. presidential election from various sources that the geopolitical goal of the new administration was to unite all American allies in one cohesive grouping and ensure that all stood resolutely for NATO and against both Russia and China. Currently Russia is the main focus and target of the collective spearhead of all western political and media elites. China remains the prime target however and will be concentrated on fully and with extreme vigour when and if Russia can be subjugated, weakened, neutralised, its leader ousted and its system of governance replaced.
We can currently see a permanently divided world now emerging before our very eyes. Previous virulent memes carefully constructed to demonise Putin through endless repetition will now be raised to new levels, though previous levels were at an extreme height already.
Western elites have been running scared for decades now. They have watched as their power has fallen from previous heights and it is certain that the reports they have received from their analysts and many think-tanks have made baleful reading for them regarding the rise of powers that would inevitably eclipse their power if nothing was done.
The present situation and all the dangers, potential for loss of life, destruction of livelihoods and the extreme dangers to everyone not among the elite class is clear. It is all too reminiscent of what was once called 'The Great Game' where western powers sought to maintain their influence and dominance over nations such as Russia in historical eras not too far distant from our own.
The elites of the western world in combination, political, press & media, corporate and military, saw that their reliance on earlier areas of superiority were not going to be available to them as they had been so lucratively in the past. In combination they now seek to at least hold the remaining power still left them, to limit to as high degree as they are able the economic rise and subsequent increase in influence of others and to embroil their targets in as much instability and controversy as possible.
To accomplish all of the above an obvious and easily understood dividing line across the world was required. The simpler to explain this dividing line the better. As with all such tactical options to shore up power and increase it, the believable reason for it had to be communicated in a stark contrast between good and evil. On one side was 'The Free World', a phrase I predicted as Biden was elected would come back into frequent use. The western side is of course depicted as devoted to a 'Rules Based Order' with the other side having whatever might be the opposite of this. 'Liberal Western Values' are contrasted with the inferior and dangerous for freedom, authoritarian values. West Good. East Bad. Biden Right. Putin Wrong.' Simple and easy to understand and ultimately to be broadened to frame the USA and all its allies, UK et al on one side and Russia & China and all those who align with them on the other.
Leading to? Leading of course to a war. Not a hot war. But a new Cold War, what I have named an 'Ice Cold War' as it will have none of the very real diplomacy that was a feature of the original Cold War.
A world permanently divided unless one side or the other rises to be the most prominent by far at which point a new geopolitical environment will come into being. If the USA and its allies ultimately win out I foresee us living in a de facto prison planet, scrutinised, put under close surveillance and supervised in each and every relationship we make, with a Big Brother USA and its helpers the UK and EU always on the lookout for "dangerous influences" and "potential threats".
If Eurasia rises and overcomes the barriers the western world is putting in its way we can, in my opinion, look forward to a world where tolerance for diverse forms of governance exists alongside an agreement-based matrix of international relations that promotes peace rather than war at every level, a truly multipolar world where humanity sees the prospect and potential for true global harmony for the first time ever.
The world again will become one. But which version of the two above will future generations live to see?
