RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 31.08.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 31.08.2023
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:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Rus Advances Kupiansk, Bakhmut; Ukr Gives Up Rabotino, Fails Verbove, Mobilisation; Xi Skips G20.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Tucker, US-Russia war. Borrell, 40K troops ready. Pskov, Kremlin silent. Kishida, safe & delicious.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - ALASTAIR CROOKE
U.S. Seeking Perpetual War in Ukraine? w/ Alastair Crooke former British ambassador.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
Ukraine War Weakening America Around the World.
SENATOR RICHARD BLACK
"Never Closer To Nuclear War."
TUCKER CARLSON
The World is Realigning Against the United States: Tucker Carlson Speech In Budapest.
THE HILL
Tucker Carlson: Liberals Will KILL TRUMP Before Letting Him Become President Again.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER
NATO CROSSES RUSSIA'S RED LINE | SCOTT RITTER ON CHINA'S WARNING TO BIDEN | PUTIN VISITS XI + MORE!
JACKSON HINKLE
Tucker Carlson: HOT WAR With Russia Is Coming.
CHRIS THRALL
Are Demonic PSYCHOPATHS Running The World?
LEVAN GUDADZE
Battlefield Ukraine - Update, Strike on Moscow, US nukes in UK, Niger crisis, EU banks lose, RF GDP.
GLENN GREENWALD
CRUSHING DISSENT: GoFundMe Freezes Funds to Anti-War Outlet ‘The Grayzone’.
Glenn Dismantles Sean Penn's New Pro-War, Pro-Zelensky "Documentary".
BERNIE ATTACKS CORNEL, Fully Transforming Into Establishment Hack, w/ Sabrina Salvati.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Senator: US Getting Its 'Money's Worth' in Ukraine, US OKs New Military Aid for Taiwan, and More.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Ukrainian Defence Minister To Be Axed? Zelensky Set To 'Pass The Buck' For 'Failed' Offensive.
Russia's Bakhmut Battle Proves Deadly For Ukraine; Six Pilots Killed In Mi-8 Chopper Crash | Details:
'Russia's Choice Follows Wagner...': West Stung By Moscow's Veto On Mali Sanctions At UN | Watch:
Mali UNSC Resolution Fails LIVE: Russia Vetoes; China Abstains.
U.S. Warns N. Korea Against Selling Weapons To Russia Amid War | Putin-Kim Bonhomie Spooks Biden.
'Pull Russia Apart From China': Vivek Ramaswamy Details His Foreign Policy Push.
MILITARY TV
Countering Chaos: Russia's Striking Answer to Ukraine's Deadly Drone Arsenal.
NEIL OLIVER
'Who knows what comes next for the West?'
TFIGlobal
Going against Moscow was not a great idea after all.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
As Ukraine Death Toll Spirals, NATO Demands More Must Be Willing to Die.
Africa Ejects France: An Unstoppable Anti-Colonial Wave.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Coup in Gabon, French Ambassador Refuses to Leave Niger, France Losing Africa.
AFRICAN DREAMER
Crucial times for Niger (Narrated).
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
US Diplomat Victoria Nuland Accuses 3rd World Countries Of Helping Russia Bypass Sanctions.
French President Macron Says Burkina Faso, Mali & Niger Wouldn't Exist Without French Involvement.
THE NEW AFRICAN CHANNEL
Coups in Gabon & Niger in Africa spell an end to 'Francafrique'?
Gabon celebrate "liberation"; Military appointments new leader.
THE CONVO COUCH
Mitch Malfunctions AGAIN, Gabon Coup Leaders Arrest Pres, Fraud Squad, Kyle & Krystal STILL w/ Biden.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
MENU: You couldn’t make it up, but they did.
BREAKING POINTS
REVEALED: FBI Compiling VAST American DNA Database.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
New Chang'an China-Europe Freight Train Leaves for Russia.
VANESSA BEELEY
Western intelligence agencies recycle 2011 "revolution" in southern Syria - with Chris Williamson.
Syria in turmoil as US, UK, Israel and France turn up the heat.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
THE ATTACK ON POLISH YOUNG MEN BY UKRAINIANS, HOW BAD WAS IT? THE VICTIMS HAVE SPOKEN. SAFETY IN PL?
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
ASEAN Trio Sign Memo for De-dollarization. 6 Factors Undermining Dollar Hegemony.
China Rejects U.S. Bonds Purchase. Global Rush for Gold Forces U.S. to Reconsider Gold Standard.
High-Stakes! BRICS Full-Scale Currency Counterattack, Sounds the 'De-Dollarization' Horn.
LIU SIVAYA
PUTIN LO VUELVE A HACER: el presidente ruso se suma una nueva victoria | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MICHAEL BRENNER
The Origins Of The Neocons And Their Lunatic World View.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 31st August 2023:
Zelensky ‘bombed’ first Biden meeting – media.
The Ukrainian leader has allegedly harbored “resentment” for the “humiliation” he suffered at a 2021 meeting, The Guardian reports.
US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, apparently got off on the wrong foot when they first met in the White House back in 2021, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, citing an upcoming book by journalist Franklin Foer. Washington was left bewildered by Kiev’s demands for swift NATO accession, while Zelensky felt “humiliated,” the paper said.
The two presidents seemingly failed to form a good relationship when the Ukrainian leader first visited America in September 2021, some five months before the conflict between Moscow and Kiev broke out. At the time, Ukraine’s assessment of its NATO prospects was viewed as “absurd” in Washington, The Guardian reported, citing ‘The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future’, which is scheduled to be published next week.
“Even Zelensky’s most ardent sympathizers in the [Biden] administration agreed that he had bombed,” Foer wrote. The Ukrainian leader, in turn, reportedly harbored “lingering resentments from the episode” and seemingly blamed Biden personally “for the humiliation he suffered, for the political awkwardness he endured.”
The US president “didn’t think much of his Ukrainian counterpart,” referring to Zelensky as a “slapstick comedian,” according to Foer. He noted that Biden had also been “deeply involved in Ukrainian politics longer than Zelensky” due to his role in US-Ukrainian relations under former president Barack Obama.
Biden expected “gratitude” from Ukraine for his support, but Zelensky “crammed his conversations with a long list of demands,” Foer wrote, adding that NATO had become a particularly contentious topic for the two presidents.
Zelensky supposedly initially demanded his nation be accepted into the bloc, but Biden rejected the idea, citing a lack of support among NATO members. The response reportedly prompted Zelensky to lash out and declare the US-led organization obsolete.
“After begging to join NATO, he began to lecture that the organization is, in fact, a historic relic with waning significance. He told Biden that France and Germany were going to exit NATO,” Foer wrote. “It was an absurd analysis and a blatant contradiction. And it pissed Biden off.”
Kiev’s ambition to swiftly join NATO has been weighing on Ukraine’s relations with its Western backers for quite some time. The latest flare-up broke out at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July, when Zelensky lashed out at the bloc over its “indecisiveness,” calling the lack of a roadmap towards accession “unprecedented and absurd.”
His comments reportedly infuriated Washington, with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace also saying he would like to see some “gratitude” from Kiev for what Western nations had already done for it.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
Summer Operation | The Russians Destroyed Another Bridge In Kupiansk. Military Summary For 2023.8.31
The Last Day Before The Fall Begins. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.08.31
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: BATTLE of Verbove? Full Analysis.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA 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
HS MAPPING UPDATE
Last Hope Of Ukranian Forces As Their Last Phase Of Counteroffensive Begins.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Have Ukrainian Forces Broken Russia's Main Defensive Line?
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, until this week, you could have found the video where Scott talks of his commitment to get the facts out on events in Ukraine. However, this week YouTube deplatformed two of the channels Scott appears on using the completely false charge of him using ‘hate speech’.
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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.
WOULD THE WEST RATHER HAVE NO WORLD AT ALL THAN ONE IT CANNOT CONTROL?
Whatever you think of the ongoing efforts of the western powers to transform the world into its own image, whether you approve or disapprove, there is one aspect of this effort which is undeniable; the certainty of continued strife, military engagement, war, further mass deaths and destruction.
What lies behind this clear and urgent goal of the western powers to overcome all obstacles regarding national sovereignty, international law and accepted norms of behaviour regarding how the world has been organised since the end of World War Two? What can account for the seeming driving ambitions behind what, on the face of it, is a task that will certainly mean at least one if not two generations blighted by the scourge of constant war?
Perhaps you believe as the western powers purport to that the need to spread freedom, democracy and human rights for all justifies the scenario painted above. That it will all be worth it for the generations to come apart from the possible exception of the next two. Perhaps you can visualise a world where the western powers have established themselves once and for all as the global cops in perpetuity and believe this is the best possible outcome. That our world will then be a virtual prison planet maintained in a state of constant surveillance against disaffected individuals and groups doesn’t concern you.
There does appear to be a large percentage of western populations who take the view that supporting their leaders in all they do, from Vietnam to Iraq to Syria to now Ukraine is absolutely the right thing to do. They can be seen to be extremely active across social media platforms providing their support for the political elite of the USA, UK and Europe. They can be seen forcefully supporting the Ukrainian forces against Russia on a daily basis, seeking every possible way to degenerate those who take the opposite view and stance. To what degree are those offering this support realise the implications of the West winning against Russia is unknown.
Russia as we all know is not the sole or even primary target of the West. China remains to be dealt with if the West should succeed against Russia. (Though it is worth considering what it means to succeed against Russia. What kind of state would the country with the largest land mass and most diverse ethnic make up be? Where is the guarantee that such a broken state could be controlled?) When the USA and its coalition of the willing brought Afghanistan to its knees they quickly moved on to do the same to Iraq, then Libya and before long, Syria. If Russia was defeated would they move quickly on to China?
Anyone who thinks any of the above will bring speedy solutions and perfect outcomes is surely deluding themselves. Yet the gung-ho attitude displayed by many in cheering on the USA and its allies into ever greater interventions vis a vis Ukraine display no qualms as if all will be dealt with without any major problem… just keep fuelling the fire and we’ll all wildly applaud as death and destruction is meted out to ever greater degree. Do they see all this in terms of greater freedom, democracy and human rights? You have to wonder. Is anything at all cerebral involved? We must surely doubt it.
There must be something elemental and visceral involved in all this that totally overpowers the cerebral. Fixed notions of superiority and tribal emotions where the deepest roots of violence, hatred and desire to destroy come into play. Such deep set, subconscious energies, driven by massive adrenaline boosts in fight mode inevitably eliminate all logical functions, intellectual considerations and even basic common sense. We see this even at the level of what these days passes for diplomacy. In recent decades it has more resembled schoolyard disputes where rivals shout insults and accusations toward each other. In fact the usual niceties of the diplomatic art appear to have been completely abandoned in the West.
The goal appears very definitely to be to destroy the enemy, to destroy ALL enemies in fact, and replace them. Since the hours following 9/11 there can surely be no doubt in any mind that the goal fixed upon was to urgently destroy all those who might create the conditions for a second 9/11. It is an obvious conclusion to make that the forever war being waged upon all those who the USA considers its enemies is a direct result of the decisions made immediately after 9/11. What other motivating force could be so strong that the very future of the world could be put at risk to attain the goal set? The conclusion that it remains the events of 9/11 that fuels all we see occurring now in Ukraine and that all was in fact eminently avoidable.
It is our conclusion that there was never any question of the Ukraine war being avoided. The Ukraine war was seen as a necessity by the western powers, a required device through which Russia was to be weakened, brought to its knees and then broken up. Financial and economic sanctions would provide the death blow to the Russian authorities, the Ukraine war would drain it of resources, many thousands of Russians would die, the Russian people would rise up due to all these factors combined and the West would step in to take over. Then China would be dealt with in similar fashion though a much tougher nut to crack.
Failing in its goal set after 9/11 is not considered an acceptable option across the political elite cabal of the West. They are fixed on this. Those in the USA to 100% and all others in the UK and Europe at almost the same level. Losing control of the world, held for so long in the West, is unimaginable and anathema to them and reinforcement of that dominance became an especially urgent task after 9/11. There was to be no Plan B. No turning back. On to victory… or death. Death of whom you might say? Most likely death of everyone, for the present reality seems clear, the western political elites appear to consider that it would be better to have no world at all than one they cannot control
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