RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.09.2023
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
NATO lose Hope Ukr Offensive Victory, Talks ‘Long War’; UK MSM Ukr Morale ‘Souring’, Heavy Losses.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Lavrov, US waging war. WSJ, counter offensive rain delay. Sahel alliance. Kadyrov alive. U/1
THE DURAN
Zelensky boxed in, prepares to visit the USA.
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Russia Knows Exactly What It Is Fighting For.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
NATO CROSSES RUSSIA'S RED LINE! IS UKRAINE WINNING? W/ BRIAN BERLETIC OF @TheNewAtlas.
SCOTT RITTER - RAY MCGOVERN
CIA Analyst Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter talk about Russia and Ukraine.
REPORTERFY MEDIA
🔴 Live : Scott Ritter UKRAINE IS DONE! Ukraine's Counteroffensive Fails Millions Co uld Die.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Washington forgot that Ukraine introduced a legal self-ban on negotiations with Russia! Zakharova.
GARLAND NIXON
NEOCONS, RED LINES, AND NORTH KOREA.
SCOTT RITTER
The Crash That Will Change A Generation.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The Dangerous Path America is On.
REALTRUTHTALK
⚡️Scott Ritter: Talks W/ Grigory Azarenok, a Belarusian television presenter and journalist.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Scott Ritter Joins | Unhinged U.S. Foreign Policy.
LEVAN GUDADZE
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FIRSTPOST
Poland, Slovakia & Hungary Ban Grain Imports from Ukraine.
MILITARIAN
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MILITARY TUBE TODAY
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BORZZIKMAN
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DEEPIN MOMENTS
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LINE FLUX
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CGTN
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CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
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SINO SPHERE
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TELESUR ENGLISH
"Chile considers unacceptable the declaration of Cuba as a country that protects terrorism."
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Syria advocates at G77 and China Summit for a more just world order.
LIU SIVAYA
THE CHALLENGER BURN: Russia destroys the invincible (or not so invincible) British tanks | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
The U.S. Covert and Overt Operations.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 17th September 2023:
Moscow vows ‘preventive measures’ to stop NATO’s Arctic build-up.
The bloc’s plans in the far North will upset the regional balance, a top Russian ambassador has said.
NATO military expansion in the Arctic undermines regional security and warrants countermeasures from Russia, according to a senior Foreign Ministry official.
In an interview with RIA Novosti released on Sunday, Nikolay Korchunov, Russian ambassador-at-large, deplored rising tensions in the Arctic caused by what he called the unconstructive policies of the US and its allies.
He also said that NATO’s push to embrace Finland – which has already become a full-fledged member of the alliance – and Sweden shows that the bloc supports “forceful scenarios to increase its own security in the North at the expense of the security of other countries.”
Against this backdrop, Korchunov warned that Moscow would respond to the challenge with “a set of necessary measures, including preventive ones,” taking into account the goals stated in Russia’s foreign policy concept and Arctic strategy.
At the same time, the diplomat signalled that Russia would continue to promote mutual trust in the polar region to support stability, cooperation and dialogue.
Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin named the development of the Arctic, along with the Far East, as the country’s strategic priority. He has previously noted that the region is of great importance to Russia in terms of defense and natural resources.
Last year, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia posed a strategic challenge to the alliance in the Arctic, calling for an expanded military footprint in the region. Against this backdrop, Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO in May 2022 amid the Ukraine conflict. While Helsinki officially became part of the US-led military bloc in April, Stockholm’s application remains in limbo. Türkiye and Hungary have been reluctant to ratify the bid due to a number of outstanding issues in bilateral relations.
Meanwhile, Russian officials have repeatedly stated Moscow’s policy in the far North poses no threat, and warned that NATO’s “incursion” into the region would only lead to escalating tensions. Russia has also said that it has always aspired to peaceful cooperation in the region; however, it is ready to protect its interests and territorial integrity if needed.
Moscow vows ‘preventive measures’ to stop NATO’s Arctic build-up.
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Did The Impossible Happen?
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.
WILL THE SLOVAKIAN ELECTIONS BOOST THE PRO-RUSSIAN SURGE NOW UNDERWAY?
On the 30th of this month Slovakia votes in a new government. Leading the polls currently is a government in waiting led by Robert Fico, a seasoned political campaigner and one of the leading European politicians calling for a halt to the prolonging of the war in Ukraine. If elected there would most certainly be a major shift in the Slovakian approach to both Ukraine and to Russia. Robert Fico is well known in Slovakia for a trip to Moscow after which he stated that it was not clear to him that the US-EU narrative on the origins of the war was correct.
Robert Fico as premier minister along with his party, SMER (‘Direction’) would at the very least be Russia-neutral in stance while advocating that everything possible should be done to promote a peaceful end to the conflict. Mr Fico’s stated policy is that Slovakia should no longer supply funds or weaponry to the Ukrainian regime with which to continue a war that it clearly has no chance of winning. His stance will without doubt virtually mirror that of Hungary’s viktor Orban, that hostilities should cease, a ceasefire called and negotiations between the two sides be started.
Slovakia’s addition to the present Hungarian stance on Ukraine cannot help but create a shockwave across the European Union. This in addition to the pro-Russian surge that is already well underway in Latin America (in Lula’s Brazil and with Argentina joining the BRICS) and the Global South where six new members including Saudi Arabia have joined Russia in the BRICS. At least thirty four additional nations are in line to also join at some point. Russia’s call for nations to trade using local currencies (i.e no longer the U.S. dollar) is being widely heeded. Russian delegations, including that of Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, are welcomed all across the world other than the increasingly isolated EU and USA.
All in all, with an expanding Russian economy, safeguarded from however many sanctions packages the EU and USA cobble together, Russia could with some merit be described as whole as ‘The Teflon Territory’, nothing the western powers wish to hurt Russia with sticks for any length of time. On the contrary, what is rapidly sticking is inflation, possible stagflation and likely recession across the collective west. While Russia is accepted in the figure of Vladimir Putin across most of the world, despite the West-promoted idiotic, counterproductive sham regarding him at the International Criminal Court, Russia (unlike its detractors) has little to concern it.
The war in Ukraine has clearly been won by Russia. All the wishful thinking misinformation western politicians and media notwithstanding, there is no win for the Ukrainian regime remotely in prospect. If the truth be told there never was unless the western powers via NATO decided to start a third world war by direct involvement. This is far, far too important to Russia in respect to its border and internal security for all time to give up on its goals or to be inclined in the slightest not to see them all through to 100% completion. All the cards are in Russian favour now, no matter how many other cards in the name of more money or weapons emerge from the western sleeve. Russia has this. And now this will be recognised to even greater extent with each passing day.
The transformation of Slovakia’s stance of both Ukraine and Russia will be just the latest of many clear indicators that views on what has happened in Ukraine and what is happening now will create a sea change in attitudes. Russia is going nowhere, she is here to stay. The foolish European and American political and media elites who underestimated her will have to eat crow pie and before long retreat from the idiotically irresponsible and wrong-headed approach they have taken until now. They will have to eat their vicious words against Russia that they have spouted for so long now (since 2007 and Putin’s Munich speech at least). That is if they are not overthrown by their recently vastly impoverished populations first.
In Slovakia, if the polls are correct we should see some of the first political dominoes fall. The European liberal elites will be aghast if so. Their fantasyland of delusions regarding Ukraine and Russia will evaporate and hopefully they will begin to attain a greater grasp of reality, take the road to pragmatic reason rather than vituperative ranting and slowly, but surely begin to join the pro-Russian surge now underway.
