RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.12.2022
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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Note: For most current items please scroll toward bottom of page.
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Lead feature:
From today:
Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’ discuss geopolitical events of the day. (321k subscribers):
Q & A: Global economic crisis & the geopolitical reaction.
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Russia warns Greece against sending S-300 to Ukraine.
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From Christmas Eve, 2022:
Russia Confirms Forces Deep In Bakhmut, Captures Andreevka, Ukraine Losing Attrition War, Putin MIC.
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From 2 weeks ago:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS (@TheDuran) ON HOW LONG THE CRISIS WILL LAST AND WHAT GOOD WILL COME OUT OF IT?
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From 3 weeks ago:
The Roundtable #36: About The Western Leadership Class, with Alexander Mercouris.
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From 1 month ago:
Collapsing European security order. Glenn Diesen interviews Richard Sakwa & Alexander Mercouris.
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From 2 months ago:
Putin Signs Law Admitting 4 Regions; Russia Retreats in Kherson; OPEC+ Cutting Oil Production.
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From 4 months ago:
Russia Storms Ukraine Defences in Donbass, Zelensky Admits Outgunned, Speaks of 'Hellish' Condition.
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From 6 months ago:
Ukraine Admits Losing 'Artillery War' and Therefore the War Itself.
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From 8 months ago:
Alexander Mercouris Show: ATTACKS CONTINUE IN UKRAINE'S EAST, RUSSIA DESTOYS SLOVAKIA'S S-300.
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From 9 months ago:
Ukraine War, West's Loss, China's Gain.
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From 10 months ago:
Difference between Strong Nations and Powerful Ones | Scott Ritter & Alexander Mercouris.
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From 1 year ago:
Alexander Mercouris: Increasing Repression in History of OSA.
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From 2 years ago:
Alexander Mercouris speaking at Imperialism on trial 25th Feb. 2020.
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From 3 years ago:
The Duran's Alexander Mercouris - History/News/Tartary.
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From 8 years ago:
Alexander Mercouris ‘Ukraine3’
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From 9 years ago:
Alexander Mercouris ‘Khodorkovsky’.
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Most current items start from this point onward:
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‘Dialogue works’ (7.31k subscribers):
A prescription for disaster | Douglas Macgregor & Jeffrey Sachs.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours. (151k subscribers):
Putin ready to negotiate, West wants to tear apart Russia. German MOD, two military scenarios. U/1
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.04k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks Ukraine Can't Win This War‼️
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‘Multipolarista’ (38.2k subscribers):
Russia dropping US dollar for Chinese yuan - and fast.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (204k subscribers):
Ukraine's PROFITIBLE Business Of WAR.
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Latest update by Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (198k subscribers):
Russian-Chinese Ties vs. US Aggression w/ Carl Zha & Mark Sleboda.
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‘Keep It Secret News’ (815 subscribers):
Ukraine Russian War Chronicle, Rybar Map for December 24-25, 2022 Bakhmut Will Fall.
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‘Djuki San’ (37.2k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (December 26, 2022).
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‘Douglas Macgregor Col’ (13.9k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor - Putin to Destroy The Enormous Cache Of U.S Military Equipment.
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‘Opiniono’ (1.13k subscribers)
Ukraine-Russia War Headlines - 65
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‘Douglas Macgregor’ (74.7k subscribers):
A very large Russian army in the field.
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‘Rectitude with Jeffrey Sachs’ (3.95k subscribers):
The Realistic Pathway to a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine.
‘Jeffrey Sachs’ (3.27k subscribers):
A hundred thousand Ukrainian soldiers have died.
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‘Douglas Macgregor’ (74.7k subscribers):
Ukraine can't withstand what is coming.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.04 million subscribers)
Ukraine's European ally blasts Zelensky over 'discrimination' against Russian language | Details:
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Survival Lilly (1.08 million subscribers):
GAME OVER for EUROPE - People resort to desperate measures!
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.04k subscribers):
Garland Nixon - Ukraine The Weaponization of Self-Destructive Rage.
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‘MintPress News’ (31k subscribers):
US Funded Weapons For Ukraine Hit Black Market.
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‘iAFRICAN’ (52 subscribers):
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia wins at Bakhmut.
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian soldiers house breaking and looting civilian homes 💀☠️🤦♀️
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Russian University of Special Forces in Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov.
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‘Tech Revolution’ (61.3k subscribers):
Turkey JUST ANNOUNCED Their NEW MASSIVE Oil Discovery That SHOCKS The Entire Oil And Gas Industry.
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‘Chris Hedges Fanclub’ (56.8k subscriberrs):
John Pilger | USA Doesn't Give a DAMN About Ukraine.
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‘Deepin Moments’ (47.8k subscribers):
The BRICS organisation has become the biggest opponent of the United States.
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Blame NATO for destroying Europe. Major protests broke out in many European countries.
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The French public rejects the continuation of EU-NATO sanctions against Russia.
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‘Investopads’ (199k subscribers):
THIS IS SERIOUS! "The Coming Crisis Will Shock People..." - Jeffrey Sachs.
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‘Through the eyes of’ (70.3k subscribers):
MONDAY WALK THROUGH MOSCOW AND, WHAT POLISH MEDIA IS SAYING ABOUT PUTIN AND MOBILIZATION IN RUSSIA.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 25th December 2022:
US spies pushed Twitter to censor ‘anti-Ukraine narratives’ – media.
New batch of of files exposes collusion with ‘other government agencies’.
The Pentagon, CIA and other US intelligence and law-enforcement agencies became increasingly “more aggressive” with takedown requests, the latest trove of Twitter files has revealed. The documents suggest the agencies were effectively pushing the platform to censor foreign-policy stories that ran against the Washington-approved narrative.
“The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA,” journalist Matt Taibbi wrote in the Christmas Eve edition of the Twitter Files, released with the blessing of the social media platform's owner, Elon Musk.
Thousands of censorship requests flowed to Twitter from what were termed OGA" in the documents, or “Other Government Organizations," through the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.
Twitter executives often struggled to validate government claims, but were under constant pressure to find evidence to blame any foreign actor, Russia in particular.
“Found no links to Russia,” an unnamed analyst said in one of the emails, later suggesting he could “brainstorm” to “find a stronger connection.” Former Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth admitted in another instance that he'd found “no real matches using the info.”
Internal communications show that Twitter had been getting so many requests that its executives had to improvise a system for prioritizing them. The feds had dedicated personnel tasked with tailoring takedown requests to Twitter’s policies for faster processing, which the execs acknowledged as “odd,” but even then the company often struggled to justify censorship.
“Many people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF/FBI,” Taibbi wrote. At least some of these directives originated at the CIA, according to former agent and whistleblower John Kiriakou, who said he “recognized the formatting.”
The feds sometimes sent massive batches of over 1,000 accounts lined up for “digital execution,” with only a brief explanation of the alleged problems. On multiple occasions they accused “Russian agents” of directing accounts that highlighted “predominantly anti-Ukraine narratives” or documented “purported rights abuses committed by Ukrainians.”
Another intelligence assessment sent to Twitter claimed that accounts spreading information about “neo-Nazis” in Ukraine were part of a Kremlin-controlled propaganda campaign and must be banned.
In what Taibbi called a “damning admission,” an unnamed former CIA-turned-Twitter executive once noted that the “government partners” were getting increasingly “aggressive” with their takedown requests.
“Due to a lack of technical evidence on our end, I've generally left it be, waiting for more evidence,” he said about the InfoBRICS account. He further argued that since “BRICS is an inherently Russia-dominated economic organization” it was “always likely...directed by the Kremlin.”
“Our window on that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on attribution and reporting on it…I'm going to go ahead with suspension and marking the domain UNSAFE.”
Spearheaded by Taibbi in cooperation with fellow reporters Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and others, the Twitter Files have shed light on several controversial decisions made by the company, including material surrounding the suspension of ex-President Donald Trump, the practice of shadow banning, as well as a site-wide ban on a New York Post report about the foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
The files also explained how the US intelligence community worked hand-in-glove with the platform to flag speech for suspension that the US government deemed “misinformation,” and showed how the FBI and Twitter locked horns over the agency’s claims of increased activity by ‘propaganda’ bots, of which Twitter said it found no evidence.
MAPPING CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (76.2k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 26.12.2022.
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (815 subscribers):
Ukraine Russian War Chronicle, Rybar Map for December 24-25, 2022 Bakhmut Will Fall.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.9k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (14.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
[25-26 Dec 2022] 'Today' - AFU going for Kreminna.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ via‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
RYBAR Chronicle of the special military operation: events of December 24-25, 2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
Ukraine:Day 306 [26 December] ''Today''.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION WAR UPDATES:
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.