RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.09.2024
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.
*** WEST TO START WWIII BY STRIKING DEEP INSIDE RUSSIA? ***
“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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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Long-range strikes against Russia would mean direct involvement in the Ukraine conflict.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a plenary session of the 10th St. Petersburg International United Cultures Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia. © Sputnik / Kristina Kormilitsyna
Removing restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons would directly involve the US and its allies in the conflict with Russia and would be met with an appropriate response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.
The West has sent Ukraine long-range missiles such as Storm Shadows and ATACMS, which Kiev has so far used against Crimea and Donbass. In the past several days, however, the US and UK have suggested they might allow these weapons to be used to strike targets deeper into internationally recognized Russian territory.
“We are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime from striking Russian territory,” Putin said on Thursday. “It is doing so already, with unmanned aerial vehicles and other means.”
‼️🇷🇺🏴☠️ President's Response on the Potential Use of NATO Long-Range Weapons Against Russia"This would mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European nations are at war with Russia. And if that is the case, considering the fundamental shift in the nature of this… pic.twitter.com/UO03dRUl44
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Ukraine lacks the capability to use Western long-range systems, Putin added, noting that targeting for such strikes requires intelligence from NATO satellites, while firing solutions can “only be entered by NATO military personnel.”
This will mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries are fighting against Russia.
“If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the US and European countries, in the conflict in Ukraine,” the Russian president said. “Their direct participation, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict.”
With that in mind, Putin added, Russia will “make the appropriate decisions based on the threats facing us.”
Read more: UK approves Ukrainian missile strikes deep inside Russia – Guardian
Some limitations on the use of Western-supplied weapons were originally put in place to allow the US and its allies to claim they were not directly involved in the conflict with Russia, while arming Ukraine to the tune of $200 billion. Kiev has been clamoring for the restrictions to be lifted since May.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy have hinted that the restrictions might be lifted this week, citing the alleged delivery of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia as the pretext. Iran has denied sending any missiles to Russia, calling the accusations “psychological warfare” by countries heavily involved in arming Ukraine.
Putin has previously warned NATO members to be aware of “what they are playing with” when discussing plans to allow Kiev to strike deep inside Russian territory using weapons provided by the West. Speaking with major news agencies on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in June, the Russian president said Russia would respond by shooting down the weapons in question and then retaliating against those responsible.
One of the possible responses Putin mentioned at the time was arming Western enemies with long-range precision weapons.
Putin issues new warning to NATO.
The West is ensuring Kiev’s demise on purpose.
By allowing Ukraine to hit Russia with their missiles, NATO members are enacting a cruel sacrifice to wind down the war.
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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FILE PHOTO: The SCALP/Storm Shadow cruise missile is displayed at the MBDA exhibition hall during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024.
The predictable and predicted is happening again. Despite the coyly teasing dance of seven veils performed by, mostly, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to those who ignored the noise and focused on the signal, it’s always been clear that Washington and London would decide to – officially and openly – allow and help Ukraine to use their missiles for attacks even deeper into Russia than before. And of course, it’s been obvious to Moscow as well, as Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, made clear as early as September 11.
That the West is escalating is no surprise. It has a well-established pattern of continually ratcheting-up the stakes in its proxy war – including (but not restricted to) the supply of intelligence, mercenaries, ‘advisors’, various tanks, armored vehicles, missile systems, and recently F-16 fighter planes. Now it’s time to fully unleash Storm Shadow and then, if perhaps a little later, long-range ATACMS missiles. What we can safely disregard is the pretext of Iran allegedly shipping short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. It’s either simply untrue or irrelevant.
Tehran denies the American claim. Those ready to scoff at that should recall that the West has a rock-solid record of making things up, from Iraqi WMDs to Israel’s legally strictly non-existing ‘right’ to defend itself against those it occupies and genocides. And even if Iran has handed over missiles – as, by the way, it would have an actual right to do as a sovereign state – that is not why this specific Western escalation is occurring now.
The real reason why the restrictions on the use of Western missiles are coming off at this point in the war is that Kiev is even more desperate than usual. With Russia first containing Kiev’s Kursk Kamikaze incursion and now launching devastating counter-attacks, the Ukrainian operation has turned into the bloody waste it was destined to be, while Moscow’s forces are accelerating their advances elsewhere, as even the stalwartly pro-Kiev New York Times is admitting.
Read more: Kursk kamikaze attack: The price of Ukraine’s foolish gamble is becoming clearer by the day
Not that adding deeper missile strikes will save the Zelensky regime from defeat and probably collapse. For one thing, Ukraine does not have a large supply of these weapons, and given Western politics and lack of production capacities, it never will. Kiev may get lucky and do some limited damage, but – as with earlier silver bullets – the missiles cannot change the course of the war. Russian countermeasures will greatly blunt their impact in any case. But the Zelensky regime has a habit of clinging to one straw after the other. And, in addition, Zelensky’s team is pursuing its usual double strategy of seeking spectacular attacks that can feed propaganda at home and abroad, as well as perhaps finally escalate the war into an open regional, that is European, or even global conflict. For that apocalyptic escalation is Kiev’s last – if insane and suicidal – chance of staving off defeat.
The risk of things getting out of hand beyond Ukraine is obvious. For those too slow to grasp them, Putin has just spelled out the essence of the issue. Since Ukraine can only target and launch these missiles with indispensable Western, that is, NATO assistance, their use will mean that NATO is at war with Russia. Some things need explaining in the West nowadays: If you shoot at a country or take part in shooting at it, you enter into direct armed conflict with it. Period.
But NATO acting in a way that establishes a state of war between it and Russia does not predetermine how exactly Moscow will react. As before, with the West provoking Russia in ways that should have remained unimaginable, it will be up to Russia to be the adult in the international room, exercise enormous restraint, and smother the general conflagration that the West seems so desperate to start. The good news here is that the Russian leadership is very likely to do just that. It is true that Western missiles fired deep into Russia with the help of Western logistics and hands-on assistance in Ukraine – remember those German Luftwaffe generals spilling the beans on that? – would be a legitimate reason for Moscow to strike not only at Ukraine but at the West, for instance at NATO bases in Poland and Romania.
But Russia is virtually certain not to do so, because it is winning the war against both Kiev and its Western sponsors inside Ukraine. Moscow has no reason to do the Zelensky regime a huge favor by taking the bait and escalating to an open war beyond this theater. How can we be so certain? Because it makes sense and the Russian leadership has a habit of being sensible, and in addition because they have just told us so. Peskov had two things to say about Russia’s handling of future Ukrainian long-range strikes with Western missiles: that there will be an “appropriate” response and that “there is no need to expect some kind of response everywhere,” since the war in Ukraine – or, as Peskov put it, using the official Russian designation, the “Special Military Operation” – already is that response.
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Note that no one in Moscow has ruled out that it could go beyond Ukraine. But a direct assault on British or US assets, even if perfectly legitimate, would still make little sense. Russia always has the option of paying its Western opponents back in their own coin by equipping their opponents with better arms. That would be a quid pro quo as perfectly symmetrical as it can get in the real world. And Putin has of course already referred to precisely that possibility.
Peskov’s statement also raises another issue that Kiev should be very worried about, if the Zelensky regime were rational, which it is not. Let’s recall one simple fact: Ukraine’s Western supporters are friends from hell. Behind their rhetoric of “values” and “as long as it takes,” their policy toward Ukraine has been to exploit it as a proxy war pawn for their own misconceived geopolitical purposes. Now these same lethal ‘friends’ are graciously permitting Kiev to use their missiles to strike deeper into Russia. Yet if one thing about the Russian response is predictable, then that is that its first target will be Ukraine. Whatever Moscow may or may not decide to do about its Western de facto enemies, it will hit its Ukrainian direct opponent first.
Are we to believe that no one in Washington and London has considered this inevitable Russian counter-escalation by way of retaliation against Ukraine? Of course they have. And yet they are inviting it. How can we explain this? Consider this: As it happens, at exactly the same time that the missile restrictions are loosened with great fanfare, Kiev is also receiving Western signals that it is time to lower its expectations. For instance, in a recent Wall Street Journal article calling for “pragmatism” and “realism.”
The West is now pushing Ukraine to be ready for compromises and concessions it has long ruled out. At long last, but so late indeed. One way to read this coincidence, which is definitely no coincidence, would be to explain it as a simple trade-off: Washington and London allow and help Ukraine to fire off a few more missiles even farther than before, purportedly to “improve the negotiating position,” and in return Kiev has to become more flexible about ending the war.
Yet that would be a simplistic interpretation because firstly, Western geopolitics is more Machiavellian than that and secondly, it is obvious that Kiev will not improve but only further worsen its negotiating position and as a matter of fact, its position as such. Here is a more realistic hypothesis: Ukraine’s friends from hell will quietly welcome Ukraine being battered even worse by a retaliating Russia because that, in turn, will make Kiev more flexible when it comes to negotiations. And both the US and its UK sidekick, as well as the West in general would find it easier to wind down the war if they could point to Kiev throwing in the towel first: “Look,” they’ll tell us, “we’ve always said we’d help Ukraine to the end, but now they themselves want an end.” Ukraine sold out once more but with, for the naive, “agency” galore.
Consider also that in the process of ending this war, as former Indian foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal has pointed out, the West is almost certain to face a deeply humiliating climb-down. This won’t be a mere crushing defeat for it, but a fundamental moral self-destruction too. Because Russia will impose a solution based on the peace agreement almost reached in Istanbul in the spring of 2022, plus additional territorial losses for Ukraine. But then the West’s sabotaging of that agreement – just admitted once more, this time by Victoria Nuland – and everything that it and Kiev have done since then will be revealed as one huge, wasteful fiasco. A fiasco within, as it were, the fiasco of the policy of turning Ukraine into a proxy of NATO expansion and then war against Russia.
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This would be akin to what happened toward the end of another enormous US proxy cluster-mess, the Vietnam War. The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 did not actually end that conflict. That happened later when Washington’s proxy South Vietnam was overrun and abolished in 1975. But the Paris agreement served as an exit for the defeated US.
The bloody irony was, of course, that a very similar deal had been available already in 1969. As historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin has correctly underlined, everyone who died between then and 1973 – that is, 20,000 Americans, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and quite a few Cambodians – died not only for the general insanity of US overreach but for strictly nothing at all, an empirically measurable zero between what could have been settled in 1969 and was only signed in 1973. One day, the distance between the Istanbul peace option of spring 2022 and whatever agreement finally ends the Ukraine War will look very similar.
The permission for Ukraine to use Western missiles for long-range attacks on Russia is, in a terrible way, all too typical. It is yet another poison pill presented to Kiev as a form of ‘support’ and even ‘friendship’. Its real purpose is likely to be as sinister and selfish as can be, namely, to prepare the West’s way out of a lost proxy war it should never have provoked and should have let Ukraine end more than two years ago. One day, Ukrainians will be free to ask what all this was for and about. On that day, Zelensky and his team better not be within their reach anymore.
The West is ensuring Kiev’s demise on purpose.
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UK approves Ukrainian missile strikes deep inside Russia.
The Western media is manufacturing public consent for the move.
Washington and London may have already decided to let Kiev use long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia and are now seeding the narrative through the media, Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov has said.
Britain has already given the green light for the use of Storm Shadow missiles, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous government sources. London, however, is not expected to announce the move publicly, the sources claimed.
“The decision to strike Russian territory is clearly being prepared,” Pushkov wrote on Telegram on Wednesday. “There are too many conversations and hints about it for it to be reversed. Even if it has not been made yet, it looks like it will be a matter of days. The leak via The Guardian is not accidental. Public opinion is being prepared.”
Limitations on the use of Western-supplied weapons were originally put in place to allow the US and its allies to claim they were not directly involved in the conflict with Russia, while arming Ukraine to the tune of $200 billion. Kiev has been clamoring for the restrictions to be lifted since May, however.
According to The Guardian, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “gave the strongest hint yet” about permitting Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles against Russia during his visit to Kiev on Wednesday. The decision is “understood to have already been made in private,” the British outlet claimed.
Blinken “signaled” the potential shift from Washington on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg, by bringing up Iran’s alleged delivery of missiles to Moscow.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who tagged along with Blinken to Kiev, has said the Iranian missile delivery was a “significant and dangerous escalation” that influenced the thinking in London and Washington.
The US “continues to test the limits of our tolerance for hostile steps,” and is “paving the way to World War III,” the Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, told reporters on Wednesday.
“It is impossible to negotiate with terrorists. They must be destroyed,” Antonov added. “As in the years of the Great Patriotic War, fascism must be eradicated. And the goals and objectives of the special military operation must be fully achieved. No one should doubt that it will be so.”
Putin has previously warned NATO members to be aware of “what they are playing with” when discussing plans to allow Kiev to strike deep inside Russian territory using weapons provided by the West.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the use of Storm Shadow missiles inside Russian territory “playing with fire.”
UK approves Ukrainian missile strikes deep inside Russia.
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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.
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THE CHARADE THAT COULD DESTROY THE WORLD
The West may attack deep inside Russia in the next few days. The phrase "giving Ukraine permission" will be used. However, the reality is that it will be western nations who launch these missiles.
What we hear concerning the possibility of missile strikes deep within Russian territory is being talked of as a matter of “giving permission” to the Ukrainians to do this.
This language concerning "giving permission" ought to be dropped. The Ukrainians will have nothing to do with the launch of any missile deep inside Russia.
Does NATO, or military technicians anywhere within the USA, Europe or the UK have a token Ukrainian standing by to walk into the room where the go sign is readied who is led to a console and then, according to previous instruction, presses on a mouse button that clicks a symbol on a screen? Is this what is meant by "giving the Ukrainians permission"?
The Ukrainians do not have the know-how, the systems or the satellites to effect this action.
The reality behind these words “giving permission” MUST be a charade, something similar to that described above. It has to be. And that is truly a ridiculous situation which will fool no one in the know, and certainly not the Russians as Vladimir Putin's words today show.
“There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about authorizing or banning the Kiev regime from striking across the entire territory. It is already striking with the help of drones and other means. But when it comes to using high-precision, long-range, western-made weapons it’s a completely different story.
The fact is that I have already mentioned this and any experts will confirm that both in our country and in the West, the Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern long-range precision systems of western manufacture. It cannot do this. It can only do so using intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. This is data only from EU satellites, or from the United States, in general, from NATO satellites. This is the first thing. The second, and very important, maybe the key, is that only NATO servicemen can enter flight assignments into these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this. And so this is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not.
It is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict or not. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries in the war in Ukraine.
This is their direct participation. And this already, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. This would mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries are at war with Russia. And if that is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”
Will the obvious hubris, deep and abiding ignorance of consequences and overweening arrogance of the present crop of “leaders” in Washington, London, Berline, France and elsewhere within the collective west heed the words of Vladimir Putin? Or, as seems more likely, will they continue to walk in blindness and denial into a war that could potential end the lives of millions?
The video where Vladimir Putin gives a final warning to the western powers today to draw back from the brink of catastrophe for all of us:
