RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.04.2024
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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*** RELENTLESS PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS GAINING SPEED ***
“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.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
The Bloom | Ukraine Is Heading For Defeat | Azov Refused To Go To Chasiv Yar. MS For 2024.4.17
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Ukr Disaster: Ocheretino; Krasnogorovka Falling, Politico: War Lost, Xi Scolds Scholz, Make Peace.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: Mike Johnson, wartime Speaker. Elensky; No money, game over. Scholz wants Xi to stop Ukraine war.
THE DURAN - JIMMY DORE: The Failure of the Media - Jimmy Dore, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen.
Putin's Men Capture Ukrainian Stronghold Near Avdiivka; Russia Releases Dramatic Footage.
On Cam: Ukrainian Soldiers Bash Zelensky After Surrendering Before Russian Army In Donetsk.
US won’t fight for Ukraine – White House.
Washington has no intention of directly engaging Russian forces on Kiev’s behalf, a senior official has said.
The US will not shoot down Russian drones and missiles fired at Ukraine, in contrast to how American forces protected Israel from an Iranian attack last weekend, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told journalists on Monday.
The US, the UK and France helped Israel repel a massive barrage launched by Iran in retaliation for what Tehran said was an Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus earlier this month. Kirby was asked during a daily briefing whether the same tactics could be used in the Ukraine conflict.
“I knew this question was coming,” he responded. “Look: different conflicts, different airspace, different threat picture. And [President Joe Biden] has been clear from the beginning [of the Ukraine hostilities] that the US is not going to be involved in that conflict in a combat role.”
Read more: Treat Ukraine like Israel – Zelensky
Western powers have pledged to provide assistance to Kiev “for as long as it takes” to defeat Russia. However, they have repeatedly rejected the idea of directly engaging Russian forces. Even the French government, which has not ruled out deploying troops to Ukraine, made it clear that any hypothetical mission would be to relieve Ukrainian soldiers of non-combat duties, so that Kiev could send more of its own troops to the front line.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron was asked the same question as Kirby during an interview with LBC on Monday.
“Actually, putting NATO forces directly in conflict with Russian forces – I think that would be a dangerous escalation,” he said. Instead of “Western planes over [its] skies trying to shoot things down,” Ukraine instead requires air defense systems, Cameron suggested.
Moscow perceives the Ukraine conflict as a US-led proxy war on Russia, in which Ukrainians are being used as ‘cannon fodder’. It has warned that it will consider any military assets directly engaged in hostilities as legitimate targets, regardless of who operates them.
READ MORE: West gets ‘fantastic value’ out of Ukraine – Boris Johnson
Statements from some Western officials appear to back up the Russian view of the situation. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed last week that the US and its allies are getting “fantastic value” from the money spent on Ukraine, because “those guys without a single pair of American boots on the ground are fighting for the West.”
US won’t fight for Ukraine – White House.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: Is the West Tired of Ukraine?
REDACTED: WW3 Emergency as World waits, Ukraine furious at U.S.
Johnson's HUGE Ukraine Gamble, NYT CAUGHT Steering Israel Coverage, Bill Maher STUNS Audience SILENT.
DANIEL DAVIS: A Misfit in Moscow; Secrets from a British Diplomat.
LT. COL. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: What I Told the UN Last Week.
Russia Uses Secret Stealth Missiles in Devastating Strike on Ukraine.
Ukrainian Army Chief’s GLOOMY Words.
Ukrainian link to Moscow terror attack ‘confirmed’ – Russia’s security chief
Everyone involved in the March 22 massacre will be held accountable, Nikolay Patrushev has said
Russian investigators have confirmed that there is a link between the perpetrators of last month’s terrorist attack in Moscow and Ukrainian nationalists, the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev has said.
He reiterated Moscow’s suspicions about Ukraine’s role in the Crocus City Hall atrocity, in which over 140 people were killed.
“During the investigation, the link between the perpetrator of this terrorist attack and Ukrainian nationalists has been confirmed,” Patrushev said during a meeting of the body.
Four suspected gunmen were arrested in a Russian region bordering Ukraine hours after the mass murder they are accused of committing. Russian officials previously described them as radical Islamists and claimed that a money trail connected them to Ukrainian nationalists. The group was instructed by their handler to flee across the border, investigators have claimed.
Read more: Russia demands West help find Moscow terror attack masterminds
Patrushev reiterated his country’s pledge to hold every person responsible for the crime accountable.
”The perpetrators, accomplices and organizers of the monstrous bloody terrorist attack, affiliated individuals, wherever they hide and however they try to cover their tracks, will face deserved punishment,” he said.
Kiev, which initially claimed that Moscow itself had staged the massacre, has denied any involvement. Its Western backers maintain that all evidence they have is pointing to ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based offshoot of the once-powerful international terrorist organization Islamic State, as the culprit. The group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Moscow has accused Kiev of being behind a number of targeted assassinations and bombing attacks on its soil, some of which Ukrainian special services have acknowledged as their operations. According to Russian officials, Ukraine is resorting to terrorism because it cannot prevail on the battlefield even with the unprecedented amount of Western assistance it has been receiving.
Ukrainian link to Moscow terror attack ‘confirmed’ – Russia’s security chief.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK-TAIWAN
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER: Israel is LOSING this War and Iran will Destroy the IDF on All Fronts.
SCOTT RITTER: The Missiles of April.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Will Israel Go Nuclear?
MATTHEW HOH: Israel vs Iran.
ANYA PARAMPIL: No Moral Equivalency -- Israel and Iran.
REDACTED: WW3 Emergency as World waits, Ukraine furious at U.S.
GLENN GREENWALD: What Role is the US Playing in the Escalating Mid-East War between Iran and Israel?
Iran speaks toughly amid Israel shows Iranian ballistic missile retrieved from Dead Sea.
RACHEL BLEVINS: Report: U.S. Asked Iran to Allow a 'Symbolic Strike' from Israel w/ Sharmine Narwani.
KATIE HALPER - MATTHEW HOH: Iran Scholar & Former Marine BREAK DOWN War In The Middle East.
Why American Evangelical Christians Support Israel? | Syriana Analysis w/ Janice Kortkamp.
Surveillance State: Inside Israel's Monitoring of Palestinians.
USA
Johnson's HUGE Ukraine Gamble, NYT CAUGHT Steering Israel Coverage, Bill Maher STUNS Audience SILENT.
HOUSE DRAMA: MTG vs. JOHNSON, TRUMP-HATING JUDGE in HUSH MONEY case?
STEPHEN GARDNER: White House DESPERATE To Conceal Biden's New SCREW UP.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
Beijing again names Iran’s retaliation on Israel as spillover of escalating Gaza conflict.
China slams UK report for blatantly interfering in Hong Kong affairs and calling white black.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: RUSIA CUMPLIÓ SU PALABRA: BRUTAL ATAQUE RUSO ELIMINA DECENAS DE SOLDADOS FRANCESES.
MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
The Bloom | Ukraine Is Heading For Defeat | Azov Refused To Go To Chasiv Yar. MS For 2024.4.17
RUAF Storm Ocheretyne | Ukraine Headed To Defeat.
Collapse Of Krasnohorivka | Ukrainians Are Retreating.
INVINCIBLE Russian Tank Overcomes Heavily Fortified Stronghold | Ukrainian Lines Crumble.
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.
NETANYAHU & ZELENSKY: BETRAYERS OF THEIR NATIONS
For whatever reasons lie behind their actions these two men have brought their nations to the brink of catastrophe and, in the case of Zelensky, to possible extinction. Nothing can justify their folly. No arrangement of excuses can massage away the disastrous decisions these two have made. The question of motive lies unresolved and the strong suspicion must be that they made some of their decisions based on their own personal political survival. In the case of Zelensky his physical survival may also have been a significant factor.
Netanyahu was in imminent danger of being convicted of corruption and given a jail sentence just before the recent violent event that engulfed Israel. Hamas, a creature of successive Israeli regimes to keep the Palestinians divided, initiated their attack just at the moment Netanyahu needed such a distraction and opportunity to puff out his chest as a war leader. This latter image-building gambit usually works well, taking minds off all other problems in a jingoistic surge of national unity. However, anyone who has paid any attention to the mood in Israel regarding Netanyahu will have seen this ploy is far from effective in his case.
Zelensky, essentially the tool of the USA, insists on ever more Ukrainians dying in a totally pointless conflict from the Ukrainian point of view. Zelensky, constantly doubling down on his rhetoric at the behest of a USA appears to seek not the restoration of Ukraine as it once was, but only his survival as the tool through which the USA determines to weaken Russia. It is clear the war is lost. No one seriously expects the tables to be turned at this point. The Ukrainians simply cannot win, this is patently obvious. Yet Zelensky throws ever more Ukrainians into the maw of the Russian meatgrinder… to no good purpose.
Netanyahu, like Zelensky, clearly believes he has nothing to gain by calling a halt to the process by which his nation is reduced to an economic beggar and global pariah and everything to lose. What does he care that tragedy befalls more families day after day on both sides as their brothers, husbands and fathers die in a battle seemingly without end? His political survival hangs on remaining in place. To relent is to sign his political death warrant. So it is also with Zelensky and not only his political demise, quite possibly his physical survival. The Ukrainian neo-Nazis are notably unforgiving and Zelensky’s life and that of his immediate family would certainly be at severe risk if he sought peace through negotiations.
These are men trapped in nightmares of their own making, both beholden to the USA and totally reliant on U.S. military aid to continue their respective wars. With no way out except personal humiliation they choose instead to remain in place presiding over ever more death, destruction and approaching unavoidable defeat. Do they delude themselves into the belief that they are engaged in a noble cause? Is this their methodology, a self-created amnesia through which they close their minds to their true motivations of personal survival and instead imbue themselves with a delusional noble purpose? Looking at the battle-hardened, ego-fuelled mentality evident in both men this appears a reasonable enough assumption.
As they urge others to kill and be killed is there any evidence of self-doubt apparent in these men? To all intents and purposes and in view of their stiff, seeming total resolve, it appears there is none. Just as all the murderous dictators of the past these two evidence no sign of doubt whatsoever, only a determination to continue until some overwhelming defeat subdues them to capitulation, resignation and the ignominy of national disgrace. Until they are removed from power the death toll in their nations will continue to rise. While they wield the levers of power they will continue to drive their nations down. These are men with no future, two arrogant war criminals, prisoners of their vicious ambitions, lapdogs of cynical American elites and unconscionable betrayers of their nations.
