RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.01.2024
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.
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“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.
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Ukraine strikes kindergarten in Russian city – mayor.
At least six people were wounded by NATO-supplied cluster munitions in Gorlovka.
Ukrainian artillery struck the city of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic shortly after midnight on Saturday, according to Mayor Ivan Prikhodko. A kindergarten and a hotel were among the buildings damaged by the attack, which also disrupted the power supply.
Two civilians were wounded at the ‘Rodina’ hotel, which appears to have caught the brunt of the attack. Videos posted by Prikhodko on Telegram showed bloody footprints and the floor collapsed from the impact of a projectile.
Four more people, including a first responder, suffered injuries elsewhere in the city, Prikhodko added.
Damage was also reported to the ‘Teremok’ kindergarten, several residences on Pushkin Street and a dental clinic. The neighborhood of ‘Kvartal 245’ in the city center was temporarily left without power.
The last major artillery attack on Gorlovka was almost three weeks ago, when one civilian was killed and four more were injured. The Galaktika shopping center was completely destroyed on the occasion.
READ MORE: Ukrainian shelling hits mall, kills woman in Donbass (VIDEO)
According to the local authorities, there were two artillery strikes from the Ukrainian-held Dzerzhinsk, about 15 minutes apart, each using half a dozen 155mm shells with cluster warheads. The so-called “double tap” strike is usually intended to cause maximum carnage among medics and rescue workers responding to the initial attack.
Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk city, in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). It has been subjected to regular Ukrainian shelling since 2014, when Donetsk and the neighboring Lugansk rejected the US-backed coup in Kiev and declared independence. Both territories were incorporated into Russia in October 2022, along with the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions.
Russia has repeatedly accused the Ukrainian forces of targeting residential areas with no military significance. Western-provided weapons such as HIMARS rocket artillery launchers and cluster munitions have been used in attacks on Donbass cities and villages, claiming numerous civilian lives.
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Houthi militants in Yemen have promised safe passage through the Red Sea to ships from all countries except Israel and nations “in any way connected with it,” a representative of the group has told the Izvestiya newspaper. He noted that Russia and China are among the nations whose vessels will not be targeted.
The Houthis have carried out a string of drone and missile attacks on ships in the Red Sea region in recent months, following the outbreak of the war in Gaza. They have vowed to continue targeting any Israel-linked vessels until the blockade of the Palestinian enclave is lifted and the hostilities are stopped.
In an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestiya published on Friday, Muhammad al-Buheiti – a member of the Houthi politburo – stated that “Israeli ships or those in any way connected with Israel will not have the slightest opportunity to sail through the Red Sea. The attacks on them will continue.”
“As for all other countries, including Russia and China, their ships will not be threatened,” al-Buheiti added. He insisted that the Houthis are prepared to provide “security guarantees for their safe passage through the Red Sea because free navigation plays a significant role in our country.”
Al-Buheiti stressed that the militants’ aim is not to capture or sink any particular ship, but rather “to raise the economic costs for the Jewish state to stop the carnage in Gaza.”
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Other Houthi representatives have stated separately that American and British ships are now considered legitimate targets. Earlier this week, the militants struck a US-owned container ship with a ballistic missile and a Greek-owned carrier bound for Israel. Another US-owned vessel was hit on Wednesday by a drone carrying a bomb.
The attacks came in response to a US-led series of airstrikes on Yemen on Wednesday last week, which targeted more than a dozen Houthi launch sites as part of ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ – an international maritime coalition set up with the stated goal of protecting commercial shipping.
On Thursday, Houthi Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced the group had carried yet out another missile strike, this time on the US-owned and Greek-operated Chem Ranger tanker in the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea. He described the move as “retaliation to the American and British attacks,” warning that “any new aggression will not go unpunished.”
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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.
THE WEST'S WAR IN UKRAINE - HOW'S IT GOING?
Western politicians & pundits are cranking up the rhetoric as the Ukrainian conflict nears its conclusion, a huge Russian win. How will this be spun in the West, and what will they do in the meantime?
HOW ARE WESTERN POLITICAL ELITES & PUNDITS COPING?
You can understand the motivation of western politicians and the tame pundits who appear on western news programmes and talk shows discussing the conflict in Ukraine. They daren’t face facts. They don't want to confront what it would mean for them to halt the conflict and seek a negotiated settlement. They are determined to simply kick the can further down the road and just maybe, somehow or other, they can get out of this without having to eat crow. People often have short memories, especially if they have been conditioned through incessant misinformation for years on end. This is their great hope.
They assume that there will be a big uproar when Ukraine finally goes down. This is unavoidable. But they know well that those folks within mainstream media ALSO got Ukraine totally wrong so they will tend to minimise the publicity and will mirror the fabricated narrative that has been concocted and pre-cooked.
It appears that what they have fixed upon is a lie they think the largely already grossly misinformed and conditioned public will believe, that Russia wanted all of Ukraine and they failed in that ambition. In fact there is no evidence whatsoever that this was the Russian goal, far, far from it. Russia would want this like a hole in the head as the saying goes. Indeed, Putin struggled manfully from the start of all this in 2014 to ensure that Ukraine stayed intact and sovereign. His major concern was to safeguard the safety and autonomy of the Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine who were, from 2014 under major military attack by the Ukrainian military and associated ultranationalist militias.
At no time did Russia wish to grasp the poisoned chalice that is Ukraine. Russia was only pushed into mounting what was meant to be a limited campaign to get the Ukrainian regime to fulfil its promise to give the Russian-speakers enough autonomy to guarantee their safety and the ability to continue the pro-Russian ethos, culture and affiliation that was an integral part of their way of life on the border with Russia in eastern Ukraine.
So, together the politicians speak from the same hymn sheet stating that all will go to plan if we just keep going by throwing ever more money and, if available, weapons and munitions at Ukraine. If, finally, it all goes belly up we’ll say that Russia failed to take all of Ukraine so it’s really a success, not a failure even if it might look that way. If not enough people are falling for this fairy tale they can say that well, it was all Ukraine’s fault. They got it all wrong, not us. They didn’t do what we said. If they had done so everything would have been hunky-dory and they (and we) would have won. They will keep all heads under the parapet wherever possible and point at Ukraine when it all comes crashing down. The big hope is that people are already conditioned, or ignorant enough, so that they can sneak away untarnished. That's how the political and media mind works. You have surely seen this all before as they are both entirely predictable.
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UKRAINE: WAR AS THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
This conflict has been treated as a theatre production all along by the Ukrainian regime, or at least the two or three spokesperson who speak for it. The audience is if course the entire population of the western world and the transmission agencies western press and media. It really didn't matter what fabrications were fed to the transmitting agents it was believed implicitly by all and sundry. That all and sundry included all western politicians whose intelligence officers knew well to only convey positives up the line. In total this all fed into the required 'war mode' way of thinking. We are always right and doing well and the others are always wrong and being constantly defeated. As in other recent western military disasters this has led to the blind leading the blind... and it is still going on. Those blind mice are of course headed for the cliff edge where they will fall over one after another.
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MORE BLOOD MONEY FOR UKRAINE?
More money for Ukraine equates only to more dead Ukrainians. Speak peace for real, not as a rhetorical tactic. Ukraine is currently losing a new high total of just under 1,000 per day dead and wounded.
If western leaders want to consult their consciences rather than their likelihood of getting re-elected they must pressure every colleague to vote to end this.
The further this goes on the more dead and mutilated Ukrainians there will be and the more territory lost to Russian forever. But politically U.S. politicians are likely to just keep the whole thing rolling on and hope they can keep their heads below the parapet when the whole thing goes completely belly up. Like with Afghanistan.
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WHO IS IN THE RIGHT, RUSSIA OR UKRAINE?
Anyone who saw what was happening from 2014 onwards or knows anything about the near decade of the Ukrainian army and its vicious militia cohorts shelling civilians all across the Donbass region and has observed that, seeing the dead bodies of children, men and women of all ages in the process, certainly wants the Russians to win.
(This entire period where the Ukrainians army and its minions shelled and killed thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians across the entire Donbass was hidden from exposure in the western world by both western politicians and media. This should tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about what's going on.)
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INTEL MASSAGED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
In previous years, prior to 9/11, the intelligence services of the USA, UK and EU could be relied upon to hold political and military concerns at arms length because their job was to get as near a completely clear view as possible on the reality of the geopolitical situation. The political class needed to hear as close to the reality as possible in order to hone their political actions to that reality. To obtain this reality the intelligence agencies could not afford to take a one-sided, prejudiced view, i.e. seeing western aims and actions as all good and the opposing sides aims and actions as all bad. They had to try to take as objective a view as possible so that an overall, as accurate as possible picture could be obtained that would assist in the decision-making process.
After 9/11 all intelligence agencies were, by one means or another, either by overt demands or subtle inferences made to graduate toward providing what was wanted rather than providing what was objectively known. Those who provided what those in Washington, Whitehall or Brussels wanted to hear received plaudits, gold stars and promotion. Those who didn't were seen as suspicious, perhaps leaning toward the enemy and bad for morale. That sort of thing gets around and the resultant blind ignorance is what we saw all around the West now in both the political and mass media fields. And most of it stems from the shock of and aftershocks from 9/11.
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WAS RUSSIA EVER GOING TO LOSE THIS?
Russia was never going to contemplate losing this conflict as such a result would have existential implications for Russia stretching on for the foreseeable future. If Russia was to lose it would have NATO on its doorstep. This was not only seen in terms of an active military threat by NATO but also in terms of the constant destabilising factor of its presence and the absolutely predictable overt and covert manipulation of that presence against Russia in a constant effort to undermine the state from below. Any and all resultant effects of a loss in this conflict by Russia was quite likely in the medium to long term to see renewed chaos brought to Russia by a multitude of sources pressing home the plan to weaken Russia and break it up into parts. Russia was NEVER going to let ANY of this happen.
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WILL THE NEOCONS MARCH ON TO THE NEXT TARGET AFTER UKRAINE COLLAPSES?
The calculus of much neoconservative thinking appears to be based on a concept that is rapidly ceasing to be true, that the USA has such military might that it can shell and slaughter any number of nations and make them change into some kind of shape the neocons consider kosher.
Nations, tooled up with better weapons than ever, with smart missiles and bombs and increasingly smart intel and AI-driven drones, see all the weaknesses the USA is now laying bare. The USA as it is now can’t cope with all the problems and their complexity that are rising now to confront their obsession with global interference.
Like one of those titanic dinosaurs that came to the end of its evolutionary niche and was brought down by a horde of much smaller creatures, the neocon elites of the USA, stuck in their long-ago mindset of the mighty USA able to do whatever it wants to whoever it wants whenever it wants, are in for a shock to their system. Predators are circling and vultures will soon follow.