RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.10.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.10.2023
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.
*** WHEN WILL CARNAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST & DONBASS END? ***
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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
China, Russia Deploy Forces MidEast, US Fears Superpower Conflict; Israel Delay As US Deploys Forces.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of the DURAN
McConnell, Axis of Evil. Blinken, Hamas-Putin threat. Milei-Massa run-off. Swiss Green collapse. U/1
THE DURAN
Neocons cannot be stopped, they will get war.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
Brian Berletic: NATO is CRUMBLING as Russia Defeats Ukraine's Offensive.
STEPHEN GARDNER - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Ex-CIA: Iran's DEADLY PLOT against Israel IS WORKING.
REDACTED
China and Putin move warships into position, Israel warns Iran.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
Larry Johnson: Ukraine vs. Gaza - Benchmarks.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Ray McGovern: Blinken goes Berserk.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
Phil Giraldi.
NOVARA MEDIA
Israel Palestine Double Standard Called Out On BBC Question Time.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Col Douglas Macgregor: This Is The End Of Nato.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The Russians Double Down, Ukraine Is Finished.
USEFUL IDIOTS - AARON MATÉ - KATIE HALPER
Gaza Update with Norman Finkelstein.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Israel is Losing the PR War | Dave Chappelle Defends Palestine | Antony Blinken on Face The Nation.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
What Happens If Israel ATTACKS Iran?
STANSBERRY RESEARCH
Next Few Weeks Will Be Brutal, Warns Geopolitical Expert Peter Zeihan.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Battlefield Ukraine - Update, Middle East - Threat of Regional War, PLA fleet in the Persian Gulf...
SCOTT RITTER STANDING IN FOR GEORGE GALLOWAY
Scott Ritter - "SHOCKED! I can't believe the mistake Israel just made..."
DUE DISSIDENCE
State Dept's HOLLOW Words of Sympathy for the Occupied Territories.
FIRSTPOST
China Sends Warships, Israel Warns Of Wider Conflict | Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Briefing.
EMIL COSMAN
Genocide? Hospitals in Gaza run out of Fuel, 10 hospitals shut down, stop operating.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Blinken Rejects Idea of Gaza Ceasefire, US Sends More Military Assets to Middle East, and More.
SERGEI MARTYANOV
SitRep October 22.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
LIVE | Israel-Hamas War Day 16: 'Bloodiest Night' In Gaza; Strikes Ravage Vicinity Near Hospitals.
Israeli Troops Enter Gaza, Suffer Casualties; Hamas Anti-Tank Missile Kills IDF Soldier | Watch:
Allies Tell Israel To Follow 'International Law, Protect' Palestinians Amid Non-stop Gaza Attacks.
Israeli Bombings Near Two Hospitals In Gaza; Air Strikes Kill 400 Palestinians In 24 Hours.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
MENU: A hundred miles to Armageddon | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 284.
RICHARD MEDHURST
The True Cost of Israel's War on Gaza.
Lowkey Discusses Links Between US State Department and Anti-Netanyahu Protests.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Abby Martin & Joe Rogan Talk Israel.
GARLAND NIXON
ISRAEL AND THE NEOCONS.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
What do Americans think of the war?
CGTN
Gaza's hospitals run out of fuel as conflict rages on.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Volunteers Urge International Efforts to Ensure Passage of Humanitarian Aid into Gaza.
Israeli Army Stationed near Gaza Border Preparing for Upcoming Ground Offensive.
China Reaffirms Two-state Solution Fundamental Way out of Palestine-Israel Conflict: Special Envoy.
China's Envoy Calls for Peaceful Efforts to De-escalate Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
PAN AFRICAN TELEVISION
Good Morning Africa 23-10-2023.
SAHRA WAGENKNECHT
Bundespressekonferenz u.a. mit Sahra Wagenknecht, 23.10.23.
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Navigating Towards Ruin.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 23rd October 2023:
Fyodor Lukyanov: Here’s why Israel’s continued existence is not guaranteed in the long term.
The country isn’t used to operating without full American support and attention. It better start learning quickly.
The fate of Palestine, home to the Holy Land of the world's major religions, has been at the center of the most acute social and political processes not for centuries, but for millennia. But if we do not go back to antiquity, but only focus on modern times, we will find that the Palestinian question, in all its complexity, has been the quintessence of 20th century international politics. We are probably witnessing the end of this today, in the sense of policy and what it has yielded.
This paradigm contains the most important events of the last century, arguably starting with The First World War, which marked the beginning of the collapse of European empires and the fundamental redrawing of borders. As a result of WWI, the idea of self-determination triumphed throughout the Middle East, including in Palestine, which various peoples regarded as their ancestral homeland. The Second World War, with the nightmares of the Holocaust, led the world's leading powers to consider the need to create a Jewish state, the configuration of which became the subject of intense conflict from the outset. This was part of the "Cold War", with its distribution of spheres of influence and, consequently, the patronage of the superpowers over various regional powers. The bipolar world did not bring tranquility to the Middle East, with armed clashes following one another, but it did provide a framework to prevent the uncontrolled proliferation of international patronage.
With the end of the Cold War, everyone believed for a while that calm and justice would prevail, leading to the peace process crowned by the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. The creation of two states in Palestine, declared by the UN in 1948, was heralded as an achievable goal, and its realisation was vigorously pursued. However, it soon became clear that the elegantly crafted plan ran up against the historical and socio-political realities of the region, and the initial push for Palestinian national autonomy did not develop into a full-fledged state. What followed was a stagnation based on general hypocrisy - nobody cancelled the process, but there was no progress. The last major innovation was the "free democratic elections" imposed on Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2006.
Back then, the Americans believed that all the problems of the Middle East would be solved with the arrival of democracy there. This is where the scourge of Hamas in its current form comes from - first the US forced the elections, which were won by the Islamic Resistance Movement, and then they themselves refused to recognize the results. Hamas's subsequent violent seizure of power in Gaza created the very enclave from which Israel was attacked earlier this month.
The leitmotif of the varied history of a hundred years is that it has all taken place, if not under the dictates of, then with the active participation of external forces. The composition of the latter has changed, but in every combination such players have set the tone. The change that has taken place now is that outside players are forced to react to events initiated by regional forces. This reaction is based on accumulated experience, but it does not work the way it used to. The degree of self-determination of the states in the region (let us call it the pursuit of national interests as they understand them) is much higher than in the past. Meanwhile, the major countries are running out of the instruments of coercion that worked in the twentieth century.
US President Joe Biden's arrival in Israel in the midst of the violence could be described as an act of political courage, were it not for the suspicion that Washington simply does not fully appreciate the urgency of the situation. In the aftermath of the horrific hospital tragedy in Gaza, it is understandable that a sharp escalation is taking place. But before that, the United States probably thought it could drag its feet.
The idea seems to be to support Israel by pre-empting its most dangerous actions and reassuring the Arab countries – especially in the Persian Gulf – that the old agenda will be restored once passions subside. It is also to prevent Iranian interference by making it clear that it will trigger American military involvement, but if Tehran shows restraint, a return to talks on unfreezing money and relations cannot be ruled out. Finally, Biden wishes to guarantee a package decision on financial assistance to all of his major military clients - Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan - that will not allow one of them to be blocked individually.
Right now, the whole delicate plan is hanging by a thread. And the problem is not specific political and diplomatic mistakes, but a fundamental inability to manage processes in the way the US and big countries in general are used to, believing they have the levers for everything. This is a systemic change, the consequences of which could be anything.
The transition from external regulation of the region to internal balance is painful, and success is not predetermined. Thus, Israel’s problem is that the overwhelming power advantage it has relied on for three-quarters of a century is no longer a reliable guarantee of its existence. The overall balance in the region will not shift in the Jewish state’s favor, and its patron's attention may be diverted by other internal and external crises. Meanwhile, West Jerusalem has no experience of making long-term arrangements with its neighbors without relying on the US.
So, the question now is whether there is time for the Israelis to learn to live in a new way.
Fyodor Lukyanov is the editor-in-chief of ‘Russia in Global Affairs’, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
Fyodor Lukyanov: Here’s why Israel’s continued existence is not guaranteed in the long term.
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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.
THOSE IN THE WEST NOW LIVE IN THE MOST DANGEROUS EPOCH EVER
It is as if all the hounds of hell have been let loose. Madness has overrun the western world. The inmates are running the asylum. Anything may happen at any moment. As of now hundreds are dying per hour, in Gaza, in the Donbass and in who knows how many conflicts worldwide. While westerners cocoon within comfort blankets of brutal ignorance or deepest conditioning.
And it is not only in the overarching sphere of geopolitics as instigated by the West that we can find a growing insanity. Right across the so-called “developed world” there is psychosis, addiction, trauma, anxiety… every kind of malediction and distress you can name. As a species we are moving from the barely normal to the highly neurotic and psychotic.
The centre of things and the balance that might once have known has gone, all is off-kilter, all spinning in a new universe of anxiety where anything that used to hold people together is now further and further from their grasp. This is where the so very modern, materialistic western world has brought its populations. Elsewhere, where tradition remains unabandoned, the earth still remains solid underfoot, minds continue to stay rooted in family and community, far removed from the affluent world of plenty where westerners indulge their selfish senses toward complete insanity.
As half-mad westerners live their atomised nightmare of introspective, self interested indulgence, blind to all else, the danger on the horizon creeps ever closer to them.Lost in their self-indulgent ignorance and mindlessly sated, increasingly addled lives, their benumbed faces at last begin to realise that danger is now seeking even them out. Those that thought their possessions, careers and bank accounts would always protect them. Now these navel-gazers and dilettantes finally start to observe those black clouds on their horizon.
War and the threat of war are everywhere. The stench of death is seeping further and further from battlefields once thought safely far off ‘over there’. Now the eerie light of some sunsets no longer bring romantic concepts to mind but rather thoughts veer toward the polar opposite of mass extinction. These are the days we have travelled to in our blind ignorance and uncaring attitude of ‘it’s surely someone else’s problem’. Too busy with being, working, spending, enjoying, believing ‘someone else’ will make it all alright.
We live in the black nexus age, where negative factors feed upon each other creating chain reactions without solutions, intransigent problems that breed and fester, worsened by fixed-minded aggression and self-righteous justification of the self to the exclusion of all others. The westerners stand isolated in their perverted thought processes, individuated and self-obsessed while the world goes to hell all around them.
Their politicians lie just as their mass media lies. Waterfalls of lies, seas and oceans of lies. They rain down on western populations by the hour, demonising that one, slandering the other, making monsters to hate, demons to curse, splitting the world and western minds in one. Poisonous rhetoric and cynical conditioning is everywhere, cutting westerners off from even an iota of understanding, separating them from anything approaching reality. Driving them down a path where their manipulation becomes child’s play, hynotised, mesmerised and heart sick, driven easily into their elites’ chosen abattoir of the mind.
Welcome to War World. The invitation is extended by those who believe they have a right to destroy the world for their own concept of righteousness and order. With their verbal sticks they beat lies deep into each and every western mind. Where the black box is hung and its viewers hang on to its every word, there the half-insane are baptised into the prison of false beliefs. Infected to order, preached to, converted and delivered ignorant just as ordered. West World. Lost World. Dead World
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