RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 24.04.2023
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
Ukr Bakhmut Attacks Fail, Kiev Complains Dud Weapons Supplied; China Ambassador Backs Russia Crimea.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Lavrov isolated. Borrell, EU navy to Taiwan. Sudan cliff-notes. Musk, $100M to Elensky. U/1
GONZALO LIRA
2023.04.24 Tucker Carlson Has Been Fired.
TRUEINFO
Russian FM Lavrov's Harsh Speech at the UN shocked the United States and NATO countries.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
TUCKER CARLSON OUT AT FOX NEWS as Don Lemon FIRED from CNN!
JACKSON HINKLE
Sergei Lavrov GRILLS Western Press.
TRUEINFO
Russian FM Lavrov Sharply Trashes US rejection of visas for Russian journalist at UN meeting.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
Facebook censors journalist Seymour Hersh's report on Nord Stream pipeline attack
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS w/ Dr. DAVID OUALAALOU
Policing Taiwan Straits! Really????
LEVAN GUDADZE
Failed drone strike on Sevastopol, Fall of Bakhmut, De-dollarization, $500 billion loss...
GLENN DIESEN
The EU versus Europe - with President Václav Klaus, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen.
SCOTT RITTER
Extra Ep. 63: Ask the Inspector.
VREVELATIONS
Ukrainian Forces Cling To Western Edge Of Bakhmut: As Russia Advances.
DANNY HAIPHONG
BRICS DESTROYS US DOLLAR | BRIAN BERLETIC ON CHINA'S SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM | CHINA-US WAR IN 2027?
GEORGE GALLOWAY
INSIDE THE COMPANY - MOATS Episode 232.
GARLAND NIXON
PUSH BACK AGAINST THE SUPERSTATE!
REDACTED
Putin and China just scored a DEVASTATING blow to Europe and the U.S. with this move | Redacted News.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Russia will not forget and will not forgive the United States for this! Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine.
AFSHIN RATTANSI'S GOING UNDERGROUND
Seymour Hersh on his BOMBSHELL Report of Zelensky Embezzling $400 Million from US Aid to Ukraine.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Afghan Watchdog Expects 'Pilferage' of Ukraine Aid, US Denies Russian Journalists UN Visas, and More...
TFIGLOBAL
Russia's Mir payment system may find a new home in Mexico.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Lukashenko planting trees near the Khatyn memorial complex. | Belarus. RU.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Kherson becomes new Bakhmut; Russia pounds Ukrainian posts set up on eastern Dnipro.
Russia's onslaught of western weapons forces Ukraine to plead for arms | 'Need 10 times more...'
Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: April 22-23, 2023.
RICHARD MEDHURST
If Clownery Was the Olympics Sport, CNN Would Win a Gold Medal.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
INTERVIEW: The US neo-cons wanted a new Pearl Harbor and with 9/11 they got it. Suspicious?
DUE DISSIDENCE
Sabby Sabs Joins! Biden Laptop BOMBSHELL, Tucker DEFENDS Black Leftists, Elon Blue Check Apocalypse.
KIM IVERSEN
Documents Reveal FBI Targets Catholics As Radical Extremists.
RICK WALKER
DOJ Targets URUHU Activists With Indictment.
U.S. TOUR OF DUTY
Scenes from the Evolution Ep. 33.
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine Soldiers' Families PROTEST Zelensky Conscription, Lavrov To NYC.
90% Of Bakhmut Falls To Wagner, Ukraine Retreats.
That's embarrassing!
My HONEST Opinion About RFK Jr's Candidacy.
STEPHEN GARDNER
EXPOSED! Biden’s CORRUPTION Unmasked.
LENA PETROVA
🚨 BRICS Bank Is Used As a Tool For The Bloc's Economic Agenda.
THE BRIDGE PODCAST
China's Newest Technology Changes Everything.
SINO SPHERE
Japan JUST SHUNNED The West And Makes This SHOCKING Move With Russia | RUINS EU And US Plans.
TECH REVOLUTION
Russia And China JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW Mega Pipeline Route Set To DISRUPT The Entire Energy Industry.
BARRETT
China Leads in Electric Vehicles | Highlights from the Shanghai Auto Show 2023.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Chinese Foreign Ministry Holds Daily News Conference
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US: "Our boot is on China's throat."
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: NATO AND THE U.S. FORCED RUSSIA’S HAND.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 24th April 2023:
West knows Ukraine weapons leaking to black market – Seymour Hersh.
Poland, Romania and other countries are being flooded with arms intended for Kiev, the veteran journalist says.
Western-supplied arms are being sold by Ukrainian commanders to smugglers in Poland, Romania and other states, veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed.
The Pulitzer Prize winner, speaking to Afshin Rattansi on his program ‘Going Underground,’ said the West is aware of this black market trade, as some reports about missing arms shipments have even appeared in the US media.
Hersh claimed that, according to his data, almost immediately after the conflict broke out between Kiev and Moscow last February, “Poland, Romania, other countries on the border were being flooded with weapons we [the US and allies] were shipping for the war to Ukraine.”
“Often, it wasn’t generals, it was colonels and others, who were given shipments of some weapons, [who] would personally resell them… to the dark market,” he explained.
The journalist noted that there was concern in the West last year that some of the arms sent to Ukraine, such as Stinger shoulder-launched missiles, could be used to “shoot down an airplane at considerable height.”
As for Western-supplied weapons ending up on the black market, “CBS wrote a story about it that they were forced to retract,” Hersh said.
When asked about why the piece was retracted, the journalist said the media is supporting the stance of the US government that “we’re on the side of Ukraine. We all hate Russia.”
Hersh was likely referring to the documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which CBS aired last August. The promo for the film, which included a claim by the founder of pro-Ukraine NGO Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman, that only 30% of military aid actually reached the frontline, was removed, while the documentary itself and the story accompanying it were redacted.
Russian officials have on many occasions warned about Western-supplied arms being smuggled outside Ukraine, thus deteriorating the security situation elsewhere around the globe.
“NATO military supplies intended for the Kiev regime end up in the hands of terrorists, extremists and criminal groups in the Middle East, Central Africa, Southeast Asia,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in October. At the time, she estimated the black market turnover at $1billion per month.
An investigation by RT last summer also revealed how various weapons supplied to Kiev by the West were being sold on the dark net. The journalists were able to swiftly negotiate to the purchase of a US-made kamikaze drone with smugglers. However, it impossible to confirm whether the sellers actually had the weapons in stock, as the reporters did not complete the purchase.
READ MORE: Criminals in Finland obtain weapons from Ukraine – police
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
The 1St Stage Of The Ukrainian Counteroffensive Has Begun. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.24
The Ukrainians Are Digging In Kherson. Changes In Bakhmut. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.24
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Bakhmut or the Somme? | Russia Takes more of Bakhmut | Ukraine offensive START or STALL?
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
PRIGOZHIN: MUD NOT DRY YET - Ukraine land South of Kherson; Heavy probing in Kupyansk-Svatove Front.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Bakhmut Front Update [24 April 2023]
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Deception and Counter Strike.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS ENG
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No More Prisoners.
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
FROM DETENTE TO PERMANENT DIVISION
Who gains from a world divided into warring camps? Who would want such a thing with all its attendant dangers? Surely no one truly sane.
What happened to our world?
Only a few decades ago it seemed that significant differences had been reconciled and that we had learned to work together for the common good. Where did that vision, that hope, that fervent desire for the good of all go?
Why, after such a watershed moment are we where we are now?
It cannot be any one factor as geopolitical changes of these magnitudes are inherently complex. But it cannot be denied that we are in a far more fear-ridden, accusatory and aggression-laden place than we were in recent memory. Why?
The Factors Denying Tolerance and any Hope for Future Peace:
That Fateful Day - 9/11
It is too simplistic to say 9/11 made all the difference but the events of that day certainly created waves of change that we still feel today and which show no sign of breaking to leave a new space for something more healing and unifying.
The Theatre of Economic Warfare
Every nation is doing what it can to increase its economic growth. Many nations have little to play with, are poor and will doubtless remain poor. But others are making steady progress and whereas before they were extremely reliant upon western goods and services this is changing. The main change however has been the economic rise and rise of China with its command form of governance whereby many areas of potential red tape and planning restrictions simply do not exist. It can move quickly and, using huge cash resources it can plan for and initiate huge projects in prime industries and infrastructure to guarantee future success. This has come to a point where in the near future China will overtake the western world and the USA as the world’s primary economic driving force.
The Administrative Pushback Against Peace
An extremely large proportion of monetary and material resources are claimed by the intelligence, security and military echelons. Vast numbers of extremely well paid individuals depend upon continuing high levels of threat to maintain their jobs, status and career structures going forward. A coming together of nations to face the monumental challenges of humankind in years to come in an atmosphere of cooperation, compromise and peaceful coexistence endangers every aspect of their livelihoods. In addition it endangers the future income of those who own corporations within each nation’s military industrial complex. It cannot be a coincidence that the generation of fear has become an industry in and of itself... though those within that industry will claim they have no thought of self-interest.
Political Expediency, Elite Protection and Self-Interest
Politicians in the USA require funding. This funding comes mostly from U.S. corporations, many of them high flyers on Wall Street within the Banking, Pharmaceutical and Defence industries. There is an incestuous relationship within Washington between these corporations, their lobbyists and both the permanent and transient elites within the U.S. governance establishment. The people of North America are largely left out of the equation due to having undefinable wishes in anything like certain terms. Both major parties pay lip service to what they think the U.S. population wants by majority but they know with a great deal of certainty what corporations and their lobbyists want. And, due to their financial symbiosis with those corporations it is in their self-interest to provide it while putting on a certain show for the general public based on their guess about the majority view.
Mass Media and its Self-Inflicted Limitations
The bought media, i.e. that which is owned by corporations and billionaires has a vested interest in keeping its owners happy. The censorship applied is self-censorship and will hardly ever be vocalised, it needn’t be... it is in the air, it is taken for granted. Certain myths, attitudes, beliefs and narratives are subsumed within its central ethos and the milieu within which the staffs of its organisations reside. True journalism is almost never seen due to the restrictions of the subconscious and barely conscious group thought agreement that exists within these entities. Almost no attention of any geopolitical nature is directed inward, only outward. Therefore, the controversies must be found overseas where geopolitics is concerned and so the inclination builds inexorably to find objections to other nations generating fears to fever pitch while the home team stays pure as driven snow in relation to its geopolitical intent.
The Self-Serving Inclinations of Intelligence Agencies
Due to the secrecy at the very heart and nature of their industry entities such as the CIA and MI6 have enormous power. To manipulate information that only increases their value, status and continuing expansion is child’s play for them. They can hardly be gainsaid as only they have the access required and all others have extremely limited oversight into any aspect of their structure, methods and data-gathering function or the analysis which filters it. What is known and known without any doubt is that the creation of lies (misinformation, propaganda, psychological operation narratives) are a primary part of any intelligence agency’s day to day work. All empires seek to maintain themselves. The empire of each intelligence agency is no different.
The Might of the Military Industrial Complex
Eisenhower was brave enough to speak his mind about the M.I.C. as he left office. No doubt while in office he found it impossible to do so and it is interesting to speculate on why not. The M.I.C. is hugely powerful. It employs hundreds of thousands and generates vast wealth for what must be a sizeable number of others. It’s highest ranking individuals are often given equally high positions within consecutive U.S. administrations. Its donations to politicians are the most reliable along with the banks and pharmaceutical companies of the USA. The M.I.C. is an integral part of the deepest structure of the U.S. state and what it wants would be extremely hard to resist if any politician wished to maintain his or her position, career path and hopes of still higher office. The M.I.C. needs war and the threat of war like any company selling a product. Both desire an ever-greater number of customers imbued with the unassailable conviction that the products on offer are a must-have accessory to life without which they would be subject to a mournful longing tinged with an abiding fear. The M.I.C. knows exactly how to ensure their products are always in demand. Along with all others above it generates the ever abiding fear of enemies and there must always be enemies. If not real, then imagined.
All of the factors above combine and conjoin to create the self-serving fear matrix that keeps all of its diverse individuals and entities cruising along in their upwardly mobile status, all working toward the same end of goal of self-interest above all else. It is exceedingly effective in this. From the Oval Office to the office of the lowliest clerical officer in Raytheon the self-serving, thoroughly cynical fear industry continues to thrive 24/7, all the while smoothed over with a facade of rectitude and patriotic myth duly channelled subliminally by its political and mass media mouthpieces.