RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.06.2023
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.
*** WHAT DO THE PEOPLE OF DONBASS SAY ABOUT THE WAR? ***
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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
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ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
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THE DURAN
Out of control Biden White House w/Robert Barnes (Live).
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DANIEL DAVIS
Ukraine’s Offensive: What’s Happened, What's Next? Col Daniel Davis.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Ukraine Russia War - What's Putin & Gen Petraeus saying?
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, No Israeli tanks for Ukraine, Fate of Budanov and Zaluzhny, Nuclear war.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on Ukraine, Ellsberg, War with China & More.
Putin Reveals Secret Peace Agreement Between Russia and Ukraine.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Douglas Macgregor: U.S. NATO Council to give the Russians a role in Europe | Limited US Resources.
Douglas Macgregor: "1,100,000 Russian Troops Marching Towards Ukraine." in Exclusive Interview.
SCOTT RITTER
Скотт Риттер Куда делся Терминатор.
Scott Ritter on BMPT Terminator.
The NEXT BIG ATTACK IS IN DONBASS.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
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EMIL COSMAN
If Gen. Zaluzhny and Gen. Budanov are alive, INTERVIEW them! Stop insulting our intelligence.
Pentagon program hunts those who "embarrass" its generals. More surveillance to keep us "safe."
Ukraine-style "free speech." French TV channel didn't use the War "script's" key words in its report.
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine Biden BRIBERY SCHEME Covered Up By FBI.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
NATO'S 'You Are Not Welcome' Snub To Zelensky; US-led Bloc Won't Invite Ukraine In July Summit.
Putin's Blitz Forces U.S. to Make Excuses? Biden Govt Report Says Ukrainians' 'Training Not Perfect'.
Putin 'Punishes' Zelensky's Fighters For Donetsk Provocation; Eliminates Over 1,000 Ukrainian troops.
Russia Warns Against NATO-Kyiv Bonhomie; "Ukraine Security Not West's Goal..." | Details:
KATIE HALPER
The TRUTH About The Proxy War In Ukraine.
BORZZIKMAN
Putin Shocked the World by Showing for the First Time a 'Peace Treaty' Signed by the Ukrainian Side.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russian president reaffirms willingness to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
Battle for Pyatikhatki through the eyes of the fighters of the battalion.
Putin shows Ukrainian history at SPIEF.
TRIBUN TIMUR OFFICIAL
🔴 Artillery battle in Zaporozhye: Kiev lost 235 servicemen.
🔴 1 guidance and detection radar of Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile system has been destroyed.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
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SYRIANA ANALYSIS
The United States policy in Ukraine is harming Europe.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
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GEORGE GALLOWAY
Do the American people see these dotty Biden videos?
MENU: Blinken you’ll have missed it.
DUE DISSIDENCE
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SMART SILVER STACKER
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ASIAN QUICKTAKE
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LIU SIVAYA
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PUTIN'S STATEMENTS THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING: NATO prevented a peace agreement btwn Russia and Ukraine. (English subs available.)
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 19th June 2023:
Life in the Donbass: How locals feel today, over nine years since their region broke away from Ukrainian control.
Residents of the Donetsk People's Republic give their perspectives on the hostilities raging since 2014, and how they feel about Russia and Ukraine.
Those who believe that "the Ukraine conflict" started on February 24, 2022 are deeply mistaken – a point that residents of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) are eager to point out to anyone who visits their region.
The lives of locals were divided into “before” and “after” back in 2014, when the vast majority refused to accept the outcome of the Western-backed "Maidan" coup. Beyond Donetsk, the same mood prevails in Volnovakha, Mariupol, and other cities that were formerly under the control of Kiev.
RT correspondent Angelina Latypova talked with local residents to find out what life has been like in the DPR over the years, what they felt at the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022, how they survived the most severe battles, and why many decided not to leave their homes despite the danger.
Staying to help
Tanya was 20 years old when her city was first attacked. Forced to abandon her university studies in Slavyansk (the city was one of the focal points of the 2014 "Russian Spring" uprising but is still controlled by Kiev), she went to the battlefield to help the local militia.
After serving in the army, she became a medical worker and stitched up wounded soldiers. Eventually, Tanya became a volunteer. She now helps victims of the hostilities, finds new owners for homeless pets, and delivers humanitarian aid. She also shoots video reports.
After the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022, Tanya helped evacuate people from the sites of severe battles, including Volnovakha and Mariupol.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) threw all the civilians out. In Volnovakha, there was only one building on the block with a basement that was big enough. They came and kicked all the civilians out, and went into hiding there. And then, when they retreated to Mariupol, they used a tank and levelled the entrance to the building. During negotiations, they said that all the people had been evacuated,” Tanya said.
Tanya explains that she was almost killed – on her birthday – when a missile flew into a yard in the city centre. There were also explosions near her home, in a part of the city with no military facilities.
Locals say that civilian infrastructure is most often attacked by the AFU, and that targets have included the Transfiguration Cathedral and the local market. They say the church gets shelled during services on holy days, and the market is regularly attacked on weekends. The AFU reportedly strikes on days when these places are full of people.
“Even the children here know where the missiles are flying from and why. I have a six-year-old niece. She sits in a taxi and says, ‘My God, what a nightmare. They are attacking us, aren’t they?’. I say, ‘Yes... And who is attacking us?’ She says, ‘Ukraine.’ She knows how to hide and where the attack is coming from. She knows that if the bombardment has started, she needs to grab her cat and her favourite colouring books, and go sit on a chair in the corridor. This is not normal.”
Staying to survive
Lyudmila is a retiree who gives me a tour of the Kuibyshev district – one of the most heavily shelled areas of Donetsk.
Lyudmila has five grandchildren. After the start of hostilities in Donbass, two of her granddaughters moved to Yalta in Crimea, where they now live. Three others remained in Donetsk. Lyudmila says that over the past nine years, whenever the city comes under attack, her whole family has to hide in a narrow corridor, pressing close to each other. In the area where she lives, there are constant strikes. After our meeting, Lyudmila nearly got hit by a shell that exploded 500 meters away from her. In complete darkness, she ran home as fast as she could.
Lyudmila hasn’t left because her husband is sick with cancer. Her sons also stayed. They said, “As long as the war continues, we’ll be here. We can't quit our jobs, so we are forced to live under explosions.”
“Those who stayed won’t go anywhere now. They are glad that things have finally started changing. And now, there is hope. In the past eight years, we nearly lost all hope. We felt depressed and hopeless."
Lyudmila is originally from Maryinka, and her relatives still live there. The city is currently the scene of fierce battles, and it is no longer possible to evacuate them. In March and April last year, they were forced to hide in the basement from shelling, and were starving. Lyudmila says an 80-year-old relative stopped walking and went blind.
She also has relatives in Odessa, Ivano-Frankovsk, and Kurakhov (Donetsk Republic). However, communication is dangerous since Ukrainian officials allegedly arrest people who get calls from Russia. Lyudmila's son-in-law was detained, for this reason, but fled across the border.
During our walk around the city, Lyudmila frequently pointed to locations which have been hit by Ukrainian strikes. Near the opera house, a missile killed a girl with her grandmother. At the bank, another hit elderly people who were standing in line. At the local market, civilians out food shopping were killed. Missiles have struck schools and kindergartens.
“Every place around here has been hit. We used to think these were accidental, scattered attacks: I mean on schools, kindergartens, apartment buildings. Now we know that it’s targeted. If today there are two shellings of the same school porch, tomorrow it will happen again.”
Ukrainian attacks surged just before the Russian offensive in February 2022.
“We thought there’s an offensive coming from the Ukrainian side because in February, the shelling was so severe. We were already used to it and did not think much. But that’s when our two republics [DPR and LPR] were hit by around 150-200 [strikes] per day. Or per week. But in February, when the evacuation was announced, we got up to 1,000 strikes.”
Lyudmila says that for eight years, the Ukrainian side announced ceasefires that were given “characteristic” names – like the “Easter truce” or “school truce” in honour of the start of school on September 1. But the same party that proposed them immediately violated these agreements.
Recounting the events of 2014, Lyudmila remembers how the residents of Donetsk went to Lenin Square carrying Russian flags, and called for their region to become part of Russia.
“In 2014, there were large rallies here. Everyone shouted that they sided with Russia, only with Russia. We did not agree with the coup that happened in Kiev. It was immediately clear that our paths had separated. Then we held a referendum. Everyone hoped that it would be like in Crimea. In Crimea, it all complied with international law. But in our case, there were no [legal] grounds. And it was too early to get involved in a big war. And now, here is the big war. Unfortunately, we got the big war.”
Staying to remember
Svetlana and her daughter Vera drove us from the checkpoint to Donetsk. Seeing that we are journalists from Russia, they gladly agreed to talk to us and invited us over to their house.
The family lives in Volnovakha, a city that was under siege for two weeks. When the evacuation was announced, the Voitenko family decided to stay. Having elderly parents and many pets, it wasn’t easy for them to leave.
On the morning of February 24, Svetlana heard a powerful explosion that made her jump up in bed. “Verochka, the war has started,” she said, running to wake her daughter up.
In addition to several cats and dogs, the family also has lizards, parrots, and roosters. None of the animals were injured during the attacks. However, after the shelling, their dog started having convulsions, which continued for several more months after the Ukrainian forces left.
For two weeks, the family hid in a small corridor together with the animals. When things quietened down, they looked out to see who was shooting. From the window of the house, they could see Ukrainian tanks driving along the streets and firing at residential areas. The family cooked food on a wood stove, each time fearing that their house would be discovered and attacked.
“Two or three times a day, the AFU would engage in a ‘tank biathlon’ - they fired at houses, residential buildings, people. We were afraid to kindle a fire in the stove, because the smoke [coming out of the chimney] would make us an easy target. When my husband got the fire burning, I would shout, ‘Put it out, they're going to attack us now!’”
Locals attempt to explain the logic of the Ukrainians. Apparently, those who stayed in Volnovakha after the start of hostilities were considered “separatists,” which is what Kiev's forces called anyone who didn’t move to their side of the front lines.
The family says the city has been subjected to “Ukrainization” for many years, and the Ukrainian authorities tried to instil hatred towards Russia. Vera remembers how in 2014, at the very start of the events that lead to the coup in Kiev and the war in Donbass, schoolchildren shouted slogans like “Muscovites to the gallows!” and “Whoever doesn't jump is a Muscovite!”. In class, teachers talked about Russia’s supposed shelling of Ukrainian cities.
“In the middle of our lesson, Grad rocket launchers started firing from the fields. The teacher said, ‘Look, Russia is attacking.’. Even then, I was wondering – what is Russia doing in a Ukrainian city? How can it shoot here? How? But many believed.”
Because of this, some of the family’s friends who stayed on territory controlled by Kiev did not believe that the AFU had attacked civilians in Volnovakha.
“The worst is when the people who were here all the time but then left, say that it was Russia. Though some people changed their minds when they came here.”
Staying to live
In Mariupol, just like in Severodonetsk, Volnovakha, and other cities, the AFU set up firing points in apartment buildings while the residents of those homes hid from shelling in the basements.
“I evacuated one couple – the windows of their apartment were all broken and a firing point was set up there. The AFU went down into the basement and said, ‘Give us the keys. If you don't give us the keys, we'll blow up the door.’ And they blew up the door,” says Tanya, the volunteer from Donetsk.
Denis, a Mariupol resident who survived the siege of the city, says his family got lucky: they locked the entrance to their apartment building, which helped them survive. However, the Ukrainian army still tried to force their way in with gunfire.
“Azov started attacking us on March 1. I lost my sister. We buried almost 90 people in the yard. When I went to get water and descended down to the sea, Azov snipers fired at us. They specifically attacked us so we wouldn’t get the water. We were stuck here for three weeks without water and bread. We were so happy when it started raining. I carried rainwater to the old women in the basement,” recalls one of the local construction workers I talked to on the street.
The Azov Battalion is one of Ukraine’s infamous neo-Nazi units. Back in 2014, when Mariupol residents protested against the policies of Kiev’s new authorities, Azov fighters shot anyone who got in their way. Denis still remembers those events with a shudder.
“In 2014 it felt terrifying. But then apathy set in. Because we understood that with a policy like that, Ukraine had no future.”
Denis says that in the following years, the city was actively “Ukrainized." He doesn't divide his life into “before” and “after” February 24, 2022, because the war has been going on since 2014. Donetsk, where civilians have been dying for nine years, is located only 100 km from Mariupol.
“Zelensky was elected as the ‘president of peace’,” says Denis. “But instead of stopping the war, he threw the residents of Mariupol and other cities right into the war zone in order to show the world how the Russian army supposedly ‘operates’ here.”
“On the other side of the city, they call the AFU ‘zakhisniki’ – ‘defenders’. But that's not how you defend cities. The DPR and Russia did not aim to destroy cities – that is evident both in Melitopol and Berdyansk. No one destroyed buildings and killed people there. The AFU said right away, ‘We are not defending you, we are defending the territory.’ Knowing that they can’t retain control over Mariupol, they tried to completely destroy it. That’s why they hid in residential buildings and set up mortars on roofs,” Denis says.
Denis remembers the arrival of the DPR troops on March 18 as “the most heartfelt meeting”.
“They rejoiced and we rejoiced. We all hugged. We felt scared, and they felt scared. They probably did not expect anything like this.”
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* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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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.
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 GREAT GAME CONTINUES… TO WHAT END?
History buffs and students of geopolitics will know the term ‘The Great Game’ well. For those who are not familiar with it, it was the name given to the geopolitical tussle between nations of the west and the east in the 19th century, namely between Britain and Russia.
Here is the Wikipedia definition:
‘The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian Empires over influence in Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and later Tibet. The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia. Russia conquered Turkestan, and Britain expanded and set the borders of British colonial India. By the early 20th century, a line of independent states, tribes, and monarchies from the shore of the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Himalayas were made into protectorates and territories of the two empires.
Though the Great Game was marked by distrust, diplomatic intrigue, and regional wars, it never erupted into a full-scale war directly between Russian and British colonial forces. However, the two nations battled in the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856, which affected the Great Game.’
As we can see today, there are definite elements of ‘The Great Game’ that continue to this very day and, in modern times, the British have been joined in the fray by the USA and most of Europe. Though Russia has in recent times retreated from most of the territories that were once so closely associated with it as the Soviet Union and on the other side ‘The British Empire’ is no more, still as a collective force, the nations of the West seek expansion.
The expansion of the collective force of what during the second Iraq war was called, ‘The Coalition of the Willing’ can be identified across many diverse fronts of operation, though NATO and the European Union are the two primary spearheads to effect this expansion. The goal of the expansion is to replace all forms of governance failing to conform to their standards. This goal guarantees permanent disruption to the geopolitical stability of the world until either they attain this goal or are conclusively and therefore permanently quarantined and therefore unable ever to achieve it.
Until the conclusion of the collective west’s goal the world will remain in a state of continual war by one means or another. In recent years we have seen the several means by which the western coalition of leaders have attempted to forward their goal. Outright military attack with an invasion force, draconian sanctions, propaganda wars, financial restraints, weaponized diplomacy, mass media conditioning among others. When problems arise and the type of war being fought is seen to be failing the response in the vast majority of cases is to double down, insisting that more of the same, whether force, pressure or demonization, will eventually turn the ride in their favour.
The tactics above have had mixed results for the western powers as can be seen by the events which have taken place in the nations targeted by the West for change in recent years. The hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan for instance, leaving it after twenty years to the Taliban, the intermittent (but now largely unreported chaos and instability) in both Iraq and Libya, the catastrophic proxy intervention in Syria and the abomination of war torn Yemen, all signify that the western project is very far from going well.
However badly things go it appears that no Plan B exists for the western elites fuelling the vast majority of this geopolitical instability, mass death, instability, chaos and perpetually destabilising upheaval. Is it possible there might come a time when they call a halt? It does not appear so, they appear always ready to continue their project no matter what, always doubling down, without any semblance of a reverse gear to their juggernaut. It only ever picks up speed. But what if it is headed directly toward a cliff face?
What circumstances might prevail if the juggernaut finally hits that cliff face and no more doubling down is possible without everything and everyone going up in flames? What will the western political elites do then? Will they at last throw up their hands and admit that their project was always an insane impossibility, that the world as it was and is has successfully resisted their attempt to transform it into what they assured themselves it should be? At that point a huge problem arises regarding this response.
The nub of this and so much else is that the western leaders in general have shown with monotonous regularity that they cannot be trusted. This goes for successive leaders of the USA in particular. Why? Because they deem themselves above all others and that they should be able to do what they wish at all times, irrespective of anything they have agreed in the past. This is all part of what they call their 'manifest destiny'. The latest manifestation of this is their cobbling together of a self-serving concept by the name of the 'International Rules Based Order', an order that they will always determine the outline of.
The western political elites see themselves as the crown of creation. They conceive themselves to be doing their God's will. The Americans of course are the prime culprits of this kind of thinking, they being 'exceptional'. The British, they are quite clearly on board the same bus as 'superior' to all others. These two superiority complex challenged nations deem it their right to destroy whoever they like whenever they like in the furtherance of a world that suits them and their notions of grandeur where they remain top dogs in perpetuity. So it has been and continues to be in their latest project of destabilisation, insecurity, instability, death and destruction, Ukraine.
The time WILL come however when even the most rabid neoconservative will be forced to admit that the great project they have been dedicated to, have doubled down upon and forcefully promoted and sought to inveigle as official policy down successive administrations… has failed. Their mission, whether God-given or built upon purely human ambitions and desires, will no longer hold sway as all and sundry stand in the midst either of devastated rubble or a massive barrier erected by nations that have formed a powerful counter force to them. Will they plead for understanding and trust at that point? And what will be the response?
The Great Game, at the point being talked of, will have come to an end. The game will at that final blowing of the metaphorical whistle, have a winner and a loser. The loser, humbled, dazed and defeated will, in this case, retire from the fray. There will be no rematch. The end game having taken place all hopes of the West’s grand game plan being revived have dissolved. The successive political elites of the collective west have created the cage into which they will now be forever quarantined.
War is finally over.