RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.07.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.07.2023
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.
*** WILL RUSSIA MOUNT AN OFFENSIVE ACROSS ENTIRE FRONT? ***
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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:
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
LINK: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE UKRAINE WAR. A LECTURE BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Ukr Offensive Into Reverse, Rus Advance Bakhmut, Avdeyevka, Vuhledar, Kupyansk; NATO Aid Ukr Reduce.
THE DURAN
Reality smacks NATO in Vilnius. Zelensky trapped. Biden, take Crimea or else.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
NATO Vilnius Summit Day 2. Biden, Russia cease its attacks on Russia. U/1
THE NEW ATLAS
The New Atlas LIVE: Scott of Kalibrated on Ukraine's Offensive, NATO Summit +Q&A.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Western Leaders Turn On Zelensky At NATO Summit.
THE CONVO COUCH
BREAKING Russia Will NOT EXTEND Grain Deal, UKRAINE Loses At NATO Summit.
REDACTED
Zelensky BEGGING NATO! You won't believe his acting skills...
ALEXEI MARTYNOV
NATO summit Model.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
G7 Pledges Long-Term Backing for Ukraine, US and Russian Spy Chiefs Discussed Ukraine, and More.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - GARLAND NIXON
HUW AND CRY | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 255.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Ukraine Denied NATO Membership.
EMIL COSMAN
Watch Foreign Mercenaries fleeing in terror chased by a Russian T-72 Tank in Ukraine.
Who is an imperialist? Russia or US/NATO? Watch 74 years of NATO expansion in one minute video.
"We're not Amazon!" UK slams Ukraine's ungrateful demands for more weapons.
Russia reveals when Ukraine War Ends. Lavrov discloses it.
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine ENDS It ALL.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Russia and China Just Broke the Dollar with New Gold Backed Currency.
JIM RICKARDS
The Russian Miracle: Thriving Economy Despite International Sanctions.
A Timeline of the Ukraine War: How Did We Get Here?
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
NATO is a sinking ship.
THE HILL
END NATO?! 2024 Hopeful Calls For END To Alliance After Summit.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russian Army Is Crushing Ukrainian Counteroffensive Because Of This Weapon | Watch To Know:
Russia To Flaunt Burnt Western Tanks At 'Revenge Exhibition'; Move After NATO's Anti-Putin Stunt.
Russia Pushes Southeast Asia To Ditch Dollar; "Let's Trade In National Currencies..." | Details:
Ukraine Loses Over 700 Soldiers In A Day As Russian Army Repels 30 Attacks In Donetsk | Watch:
Putin Gets Support From U.S. Against Ukraine Cluster Bombs; 'World War III...' | Trump Slams Biden.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
NATO Expands, Again. Will the Ukraine War Spread? w/ Vijay Prashad.
NATO Summit ‘23: A Bulwark for Global Insecurity & Endless War.
CGTN
First cold-chain special train from Russia arrives in Chengdu.
REPORTS ON CHINA
Why does China not have homeless people?! THE TRUTH.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Chinese Foreign Ministry News Conference.
TELESUR
Russia warns it will take action against Ukraine's use of cluster bombs.
Iranian and Kenyan presidents vow to strengthen ties.
BORZZIKMAN
Russian Army Has Launched a Counteroffensive In The 'KRASNIY LIMAN' Direction and Entered 'TORSKOYE'.
LINE FLUX
South Africa invites leaders from all African countries to BRICS summit.
DANNY HAIPHONG - ANDY BOREHAM
China is Ready for HOT WAR with the U.S. as Yellen Visit FAILS.
DR. STEVE TURLEY
You Won’t BELIEVE What China Is Doing in Africa.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
African leaders that don't entertain Western countries and their media.
LIU SIVIYA
ZELENSKY'S LONG FACES: He doesn't seem to have accomplished much at the NATO summit | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subs.)
LOS RESULTADOS DE LA CUMBRE DE LA OTAN.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
U.S. Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 13th July 2023:
Zelensky responds to NATO demand for ‘gratitude’.
The Ukrainian leader changed his tune after Western leaders told him to “cool down,” Bloomberg reported.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky insisted on Wednesday that he has always been thankful to the West for weapons, ammunition and all the other assistance, after both US and UK officials brought up the issue at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
“I don't clearly understand the questions. We have always been grateful and always are grateful,” Zelensky said at a press conference. “I simply don't know how else we should be grateful. We can wake up in the morning and thank the minister. Have him write to me how to be grateful, and I will be grateful.”
The Ukrainian leader was answering a question about a statement made by UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who noted earlier that it would help Kiev to show some gratitude instead of always badgering the West.
“We are not Amazon,” Wallace told reporters, referring to what he said were complaints from American colleagues that the Ukrainians were sometimes treating the US as the online retailer.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also said some of the criticism from Kiev was “entirely unfounded and unjustified,” noting that Washington has provided “an enormous amount of capacity” to the Ukrainian military.
“I think the American people do deserve a degree of gratitude from the United States government [sic] for their willingness to step up, and from the rest of the world as well,” Sullivan said, shortly before the meeting between Zelensky and US President Joe Biden on Wednesday afternoon.
The unusual displays of public criticism came after Zelensky attacked NATO on Monday for not giving Kiev a timeline for membership, and accused the US-led bloc of not showing Ukraine the proper respect. The US leadership was reportedly “furious” about Zelensky’s social media posts.
Zelensky and his staff decided to send the “provocative” tweet in an attempt to shift the debate within NATO to their favor, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing “more than a dozen diplomats and officials,” all speaking on condition of anonymity. The move proved “counterproductive,” according to the outlet, and several NATO leaders told Zelensky over dinner on Tuesday that he had to “cool down” and look at what NATO was actually offering. Biden did not attend the dinner.
The British delegation intervened in order to calm the situation, again according to Bloomberg. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, British PM Rishi Sunak insisted that Zelensky had actually expressed his gratitude “countless times” to him personally, the Parliament and cabinet ministers, for both the military aid and Western “leadership.”
The UK is the second-largest donor to Kiev with $6 billion worth of materials, while the US has committed over $46 billion, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, which runs the Ukraine Support Tracker.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer Operations | The Russians Broke Through The Ukrainian Defense. Military Summary 2023.07.13
The Russians Fired Another General. Ukrainians Are Losing Ground. Military Summary For 2023.07.13
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
FRONTLINE UPDATE: Russia, Ukraine TRADE BLOWS near Robotyne.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukrainian summer offensive update [ 13 July 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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.
MORE WAR TO COME, WITH CHINA - THE USA WILL NOT STOP AT UKRAINE
How much tolerance for increased instability, news of death and destruction, use of weapons such as cluster bombs and all the horrors of war can western populations take?
Will people living in the so-called ‘Free World’ of the West continue to accept what their leaders are saying in regard to the wars they have been waging for almost two decades now. Or will they increasingly sense that when these leaders began talking about a ‘Forever War’ they were for once, not lying? What might result if western populations to anything approaching a significant degree begin calling for peace rather than continued war? What if they change their voting patterns on this basis? Might that reverse the current determination among western leaders to continue to undermine targeted governments through war, whether financial, economic or military?
Currently the collective western world is continually escalating its war against Russia in Ukraine that it launched in earnest in the winter of 2013-14 through aggressively supporting the successful ultra-violent insurrection in Kiev. Having bitten off more than it could chew the collective west has been forced to continually ramp up the destructive power of the weaponry supplied to the Ukrainian regime though nothing supplied so far has been the game changer being sought. In fact the counteroffensive by the Ukrainian military now underway appears to be a massive failure. It is apparent however that western leaders are determined to continue the war being waged despite the enormous losses in terms of blood and treasure, blood on the Ukrainian side and treasure overall across both Ukraine and the entire western world.
Russia is not even the primary target for the USA and its allies however. That of course is China.
How many view the fact that their entire lives are destined to be consumed with news of more and more war with equanimity, with a shrug of the shoulders thinking they can simply ignore all that and simply enjoy their lives as normal? How long can such attitudes continue when the effects of an even greater war against China inevitably start to come home and has an increasing effect on their lives. Is it conceivable that their lives can go on as normal while inflation runs rampant and recession becomes the norm? Will westerners still find their lifestyle ambitions, leisure and consumer pleasures and wealth accumulation untouched? Might there not come a time when the most selfish generations ever known begin to realise that war with China after the war with Russia is going to destroy all their dreams?
Russia is proving an exceedingly tough nut to crack for the USA and its allies. Ukraine is being wrecked and depopulated in the process and it appears that war of choice by the western powers is destined to continue for a considerable time to come. When Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev during March 2022 to halt the significant progress toward a peace settlement that had been thrashed out in Istanbul he knew that his goal was to seek a continuance of the war. He succeeded in that task by threatening Zelensky with the withdrawal of all security guarantees made to Ukraine by the West’s leaders if he continued to seek peace. At that point it became very clear that all that was to come was on the insistence of the West. Russia had never wanted war and had done everything possible to avoid a war. The West on the other hand appears to have sought it all along and manoeuvred Russia into a position where it had nowhere left to go to ensure its national security.
The Russian state was supposed to collapse in a welter of economic catastrophe due to western sanctions, Russians were to rise up and sweep Vladimir Putin and all those around him out of power. Russia was then to have its president and government ministers replaced with those who would be advised by envoys from the West as in Yeltsin’s day. The project to break Russia up into disparate regions would be initiated, all supervised by a host of foreign “advisers”. But none of this has come about. Putin and HIS advisers had ensured that Russia was as ready as she could be for the onslaught he and they knew was coming. After the western scam called the ‘Minsk Accords’ was seen to be at an end Putin made one last attempt to avert war. Documents were sent to both the U.S. administration and NATO that sought to encourage dialogue on the subject of creating a security architecture for all parties that could ensure lasting peace. These were rejected more or less out of hand, especially by NATO. And so it was that Russia was left with no further options but the one it took on February 24th 2022.
Even as the war in Ukraine rages the USA and its allies, through the NATO summit in Vilnius, now on its last day, belligerent noises will be heard regarding China. A new pivot to Asia will be foreseen with NATO at the forefront of an increasingly aggressive front against China. The same pressures they brought to bear on Russia will be applied to China. And the island of Taiwan will be seen as the fulcrum through which China can be levered into chaos. It appears inevitable now that the same methodologies used against Russia will now be applied to China. The pressure will be ramped up inexorably across a wide range of issues while trying to wrongfoot China at every step. No rival to the USA was ever to be allowed and the biggest rival of all is of course China, a China that over 30 nations have now indicated they wish to align with via the BRICS group. War with China, perhaps concurrently with Russia is in prospect.
Is it not time for western populations to decide if this is the world they wish to live in and whether a multipolar world where agreement trumps aggression is the rule of the day and where peace is sought in every case, never war?
