RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.02.2023
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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THE UNREPORTED 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 newsworthy in western mainstream news.
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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’. (202k subscribers):
Russia Pushes to Paraskovievka, Tightening Bakhmut; Ukraine Exhausting Reserves, US Chases Balloons.
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‘The Duran’ (335k subscribers):
Running out of ammo.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (159k subscribers):
Octagon objects. Poland's Duda says Putin may win. Berlusconi not fond of Elensky. U/1
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'George Galloway' (246k subscribers):
The Ukraine war has accelerated by decades the international power shift going on in the world.
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'ANDREWNEF' (4.75k subscribers):
John Mearsheimer on Germany, China, and Russia.
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‘John Mearsheimer’ (4.65k subscribers):
RACING toward NUCLEAR DEMISE.
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'The Convo Couch' (47.2k subscribers):
US Recruits ISIS/Al Qaeda To Attack Russia, France, Italy, Anti-NATO Protests, Exposing Warhawks.
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'Breaking Points' (870k subscribers):
Israeli PM Bombshell: US KILLED Ukraine Peace Deal | Breaking Points.
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'Rachel Blevins' (10.2k subscribers):
The Nord Stream Pipeline Didn’t Attack Itself.
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'ANDREWNEF' (4.75k subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs | TAIWAN is the Next UKRAINE?
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'Jeffrey Sachs' (9.28k subscribers):
United States is finished.
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Putin's iconic 2007 Munich speech FULL VIDEO:
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (212k subscribers):
Nord stream TRUTH uncovered.
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Putin's BIGGEST airstrike yet.
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Zelensky admits the truth.
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'Richard Medhurst' (161k subscribers):
SCOTT RITTER: The Truth About the Russian Wagner Group.
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'Levan Gudadze' (4.34k subscribers):
Update on Ukraine, Russia accuses US of terrorism, Mobilization in Russia, UFOs over North America.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (32k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Ukrainians Are Suffering Casualties Of 500 To 1000 Dead Per Day. Massive Offensive.
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'numuves' (82.8k subscribers):
US Merc: “Ukraine is committing atrocities" | Andrew Milburn of Mozart PMC.
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'Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp' (2.05k subscribers):
Pentagon Wants to Restart Special Ops Programs in Ukraine, US Eases Some Syria Sanctions, and More.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.89k subscribers):
Col. Douglas Macgregor: War With China Would Be Stupid.
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'Through the eyes of' (73.2k subscribers):
SELECTED CLOWN TO VISIT POLAND. ARE POLISH PEOPLE CHANGING THEIR MINDS ABOUT SUPPORTING UKRAINE?
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‘Investogator’ (1.43k subscribers):
How will the war in Ukraine impact the global security order?
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‘UNBIASED TRUTH’ (1.42k subscribers):
🚨 Douglas Macgregor | This leads to WHOLE DESTRUCTION of NATO…
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (129k subscribers):
Nearly one year later, new buildings are being constructed in Mariupol on top of ruins.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.17 million subscribers):
India 'receives' Russian arms worth $13 BN; Modi-Putin defence brotherhood stuns West | Details:
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Putin's ally lambasts West; Chechan warlord rebukes partition plot | 'Can't Break Russia'.
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Putin's 'Nazi' claims genuine? Russia fumes as Zelensky shares soldier’s pic with skull insignia.
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NATO nation warns EU against escalating Putin’s war by sending more arms to Ukraine.
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'Putin Can Win The War': NATO nation's big admission; Poland pushes for more arms to Ukraine.
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BreakThrough News' (145k subscribers):
Death Toll Rises as US Sanctions Block Aid to Earthquake-Devastated Syria.
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‘Mark Moss’ (454k subscribers):
The US Dollar Reserve, Russia and WW3 | Dave Collum.
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Russia Today (RT) - News.
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'Russia Today (RT) - Crosstalk.
RT CrossTalk: Nord Stream solved? 13 Feb, 2023.
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‘Cyrus Janssen’ (289k subscribers):
Joe Biden's China and Russia Nightmare Is Coming True for the US Dollar.
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‘Think School’ (2.94k subscribers):
How Saudi Arabia Joining BRICS can shift the world power? : USA vs Saudi Arabia Explained.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.16 million subscribers):
Modi-Putin Bonhomie: Russia sends third squadron of S-400 missile system to India | Report.
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'Russia our time-tested partner': Jaishankar silences West on Russian oil imports.
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Saudi jolts Biden, Europe again; Hikes oil prices amid sanctions on Russia I Details:
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‘SINO SPHERE’ (2.78k subscribers):
Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Iran Joining BRICS Will Crush NATO & The West, US in Trouble?
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‘LINE FLUX’ (1.28k subscribers):
BRICS - ALGERIA's Signing almost complete | How potent is this?
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‘BORZZIKMAN’ (124k subscribers):
KSA completely Turned its Back on the U.S.┃Riyadh Shifts even Closer towards Moscow.
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‘Emil Cosman’ (50.2k subscribers):
Global De-dollarization process continues. Egypt applies to join BRICS. Russia will help.
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‘Geopolitical Trends, w/Dr. David Oualaalou’ (10.4k subscribers):
It's Starting: Egypt Joins BRICS' New Development Bank!
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It’s Starting: Africa Rebuffed US official, Janet Yellen!
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‘Investing Future’ (82.3k subscribers):
How Saudi Arabia's ECONOMIC STRATEGY Is CRUSHING The US Economy? | No Petrodollar OPEC-BRICS Unite!
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‘usefulidiots’ (69.8k subscribers):
Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté.
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Russia Today (RT) - News.
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‘Tara Reade’ (2.14k subscribers):
Johnny Miller: How A War Correspondent Deals with Day to Day Security While Reporting | Tara Reade.
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'Richard Medhurst' (161k subscribers):
SCOTT RITTER: It Will Be Difficult for Ukrainian Soldiers to Operate Abrams Tanks.
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'Asian Quicktake' (14.5k subscribers):
Collapse START: FED Rate Hike HITS Vietnam's Economy HARD, Manufacturing to Slow Sharply in 2023.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 13th February 2023:
African country ‘clears’ concerns over Russian base deal – AP.
Sudan has reportedly concluded a review of an agreement on a planned naval station on the Red Sea.
The Sudanese military has resolved its concerns over an agreement with Moscow to set up a Russian naval base on the Red Sea coast, the Associated Press reported on Saturday, citing two Sudanese officials.
“They cleared all our concerns. The deal has become OK from the military side,” an official was quoted as saying. According to the sources, Russia has also agreed to demands, including the provision of “more weapons and equipment.”
The next step is the ratification of the agreement by Sudan’s yet-to-be-formed parliament.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who visited several African states in the past week, also told reporters on Thursday that the deal was “in the process of ratification.”
According to the agreement signed in 2020, the base would house up to 300 Russian military and civilian personnel, and would simultaneously host up to four warships. In 2021, Khartoum reportedly wanted to amend the deal while seeking economic aid from Moscow.
Sudan has been without a functioning parliament since 2019, when Omar al-Bashir, a leader of 30 years, was overthrown in a coup. Several political parties signed an accord in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday aimed at dialogue as part of the transition to civilian rule.
A group of US and European envoys traveled to Sudan on the same day Lavrov met with Sudanese officials. Bloomberg cited three people familiar with the matter as saying that Lavrov’s trip “came as a surprise in Western capitals.”
Last year, the US also stepped up diplomatic engagement with Sudan, dispatching John Godfrey to serve as Washington’s first ambassador to Khartoum since the 1990s. Godfrey told local media in September that a Russian base would “lead to further isolation of Sudan at a time when most Sudanese want to become closer to the international community.”
Oleg Ozerov, a senior Russian diplomat, has accused the West of using “blatant pressure” when dealing with Africa. “I can’t say that African countries are very happy about that,” Ozerov said on Thursday.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.13
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.47k subscribers):
Russian Ukrainian War, Conflict Map and Analysis for February 11-12, 2023 Russia Chokes Bakhmut.
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30.2k subscribers):
Ukraine still clings on at Bakhmut | Russian Losses in Vuhledar.
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The Real United States of America by True Americans (Part 1) | DPA Panels.
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[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 352-354 (10-12/2): Nostalgia return to Snake Is and World's most hated bridge.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (19.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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No update posted so far today
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Ukraine [13 Feb 2023] 'Today'.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.1k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Origins Part 1.
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Empire of Alpha Centauri launches operation against Earth.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
Highlight of the Russian Military Operation in Ukraine February 12 2023.
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LATEST REPORT FROM GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (195k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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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’ (4.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (58.3k subscribers):
Full Front Update 13/02/23 | Russian Offensive Operations Re-intensify.
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LATEST REPORT FROM 'DJUKI SAN’ (38.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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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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IT’S ALL GOING HORRIBLY WRONG FOR WESTERN POLITICAL ELITES IN THE GEOPOLITICAL CASINO
Is it kismet… fate or geopolitical karma?
Whatever it is, the western powers are, stated at best, not having much luck in the global casino that constitutes the way nations or groups of nations rise and fall.
Ukraine has turned into a very bad bet. Instead of folding the USA and UK in particular and some of the EU nations just kept doubling down hoping to eventually have a winning hand.
This has not delivered the hoped for 'big win' but has only delayed the moment when all is lost.
If it was only their shirts that are now going to be lost, though in terms of national pride this would be costly, this is going down to their national underpants and bobby socks.
If the catastrophic bet that was Ukraine, with all those billions poured into a massive black hole was not enough there are all the high-tech weapons that are now dispersing to various noxious cells via the dark web. These are toxic future disasters for the so-called ‘war on terror’ that the USA sets so much store by.
Then there is the strong and growing tendency in the global south to turn up sensitive noses to the western gamblers who have destabilised so much for so little gain. Even Saudi Arabia is apparently turning away in disgust seeking to join Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa within BRICS, along with Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Argentina.
These trends bode very ill for all desires still held close to western elite breasts to extend their influence to the absolute maximum, gaining total hegemony over the entire planet via one means or another. They STILL conceive themselves as our universal guardians and ‘overmasters’ without peer, utterly and exclusively necessary to ensure everything moves in the ‘right direction’.
Except under their tutelage and still significant level of control its is very clearly going in anything BUT the right direction.
The USA is riven with discord, even more now than ever. Each section of its commingled groups of vested interests appear to be at war with the other. This is not exactly helped with inflation breaking new records (June’s stat over 9%). Could things possibly be going more wrong?
Well yes. And I suspect we will not have long to wait.
In Europe political parties and leaders are being shaken as never before. Already certain nations have found their leadership in flux and in a few cases there have been significant departures from the political scene.
Who's to blame?
It is difficult to find anyone to blame except the central figures in the current debacle over Ukraine. Those at the heart of the campaign to bring the Russian economy and its leader down have created a boomerang economic missile (or rather whole series of them) that is devastating themselves, their economies and their citizens.
And where is all this leading?
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that it is leading to the permanent demise of the unipolar world controlled by the current coalition of powers centred upon and controlled by the USA. Their fortunes in the global casino are depleting fast, as is that of course of their ‘glorious leader’.
It wasn’t meant to be like this.
The economic attacks upon Russia were meant to create the downswing in its powers required to then do something similar in regard to China. With both these rivals who had to one degree or another been on an upward trajectory diminished the western powers could then begin an upward push along with those who could potentially be made proxies elsewhere in the world and thus halt the inevitable western decline in universal power that analysts had been warning them of for decades.
But it has all gone so horribly wrong. Not only has the position of western power sources been weakened , it has been devastatingly undermined to the point where their obvious decline and the rise of others has been hugely exacerbated. Those rivals are now set for a starward economic course where every new level of cooperation and coordination delivers yet another blow to the ever more desperate West.
They say the house always wins in the end and indeed the USA and its allies once believed they had ownership of the global casino. But no more. In recent decades the ‘For Sale’ sign on its walls came more and more into focus and now, after Ukraine, it has been replaced.
It now reads, ‘Under New Management’.
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