RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.12.2022
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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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (188k subscribers):
Russia advance on Kupiansk, Ukraine Power Shortages, Zelensky to US, Medvedev Meets Xi Jinping.
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‘The Duran’ (320k subscribers):
Global economic crisis & the geopolitical reaction w/Jeffrey Sachs.
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The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (35.3k subscribers):
Alexander Mercouris: Ukraine in TOTAL SHAMBLES From Russian Strikes.
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Latest update from Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (197k subscribers):
Battlefield Bakhmut: Why Russia & Ukraine are Fighting Over this City.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours (151k subscribers):
Elensky travels to US, meet with Biden & Congress, visited Bakhmut. NATO beats Russia in 3 days. U/1
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‘Dialogue works’ (6.88k subscribers):
Russia is slow to anger and tired of lies - a war crime in Ukraine | Scott Ritter.
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‘Douglas Macgregor Col’ (9.43k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor - The Bottom Line.
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'iAFRICAN' (31 subscribers):
️⚡️🇷🇺 Putin: the contours of a multipolar world order are taking shape.
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⚡️🇧🇾🇩🇪 Merkel's words about the "Minsk agreements" are petty and vile.
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🇷🇺 No foreign media or human rights organizations talk about Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk - Putin.
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‘Redacted’ (1.53 million subscribers):
"Oh SH*T, Putin WARNS of direct clash with U.S., NATO readies forces | Redacted w Clayton Morris".
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‘Rectitude with Jeffrey Sachs’ (3.85k subscribers):
Ukraine and The Provoked Path to a Nuclear Armageddon.
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‘Democracy Now!’ (1.25 million subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs: A Negotiated End to Fighting in Ukraine Is the Only Real Way to End the Bloodshed.
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‘Dialogue works’ (6.86k subscribers):
Sanctions are deadly destructive | Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter & John Mearsheimer.
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The Petrodollar's future | China & Russia vs. The U.S.
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No way but Diplomacy and Negotiations | Scott Ritter & Douglas Macgregor.
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‘Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue’ (4.68k subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs: US FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE MID TERM ELECTIONS.
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‘Berkley Center’ (18.1k subscribers):
A Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs.
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‘Institute for Peace & Diplomacy’ (2.49k subscribers):
Luncheon Keynote: In Conversation with Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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‘CGTN’ (2.96 million subscribers):
Expert: It is dangerous for U.S. to raise tensions with China.
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‘The Bridge Podcast’ (357 subscribers):
Professor Jeffrey Sachs European Imperialism, and China's Peaceful Path.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (35.3k subscribers):
John Mearsheimer's Taiwan Lies DEBUNKED.
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‘Democracy Now!’ (1.25 million subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Policy & "West's False Narrative" Stoking Tensions with Russia, China.
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‘Russell Brand’ (6.09 million subscribers):
“THIS Is How The US Have LIED About Ukraine War”.
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‘The Tulsi Gabbard Show’ (83.6k subscribers):
Russia, Ukraine and Preventing Nuclear Holocaust with Jeffrey Sachs.
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‘The Climate Pod’ (5.83k subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs on Ending the Russia-Ukraine War.
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'iAFRICAN' (31 subscribers):
⚡️🇧🇾🇩🇪 Merkel's words about the "Minsk agreements" are petty and vile.
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'CRUX' (1.65M subscribers):
Why Abandoning Captured Ukrainian Territory May Be Putin’s Masterstroke l John Mearsheimer Explains.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (17.9k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: US Domination On Russia Failed, Western Media Nonsensical Talk On Using Nuclear Weapon.
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'iAFRICAN' (31 subscribers):
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the operation in Ukraine (21 December 2022).
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ (20.1k subscribers):
Scenes from the Evolution Ep. 16
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‘Through the eyes of’’ (69.4k subscribers):
THE ROMANOV, THE RAINBOW, THE MONASTERY AND, THE RANT. (MOSCOW. RUSSIA).
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 21st December 2022:
Macron doubles down on ‘security guarantees’ for Russia.
The French president sees no viable alternative to eventual negotiations with Moscow.
French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated his belief that the conflict in Ukraine will inevitably be resolved at the negotiations table, and that the West and NATO in particular will have to come up with security guarantees not only for Kiev, but Moscow as well, to secure a lasting peace.
“The day of peace will involve discussions. First and foremost for guarantees to Ukraine, for its territorial integrity, its long-term security. But also for Russia, as a party that it will be to an armistice and peace treaty,” Macron said in an interview with the TF1 and LCI channels broadcast on Tuesday.
The French leader first voiced the idea of “security guarantees” for Russia earlier this month, arguing that one of the “essential points” NATO had to address is Russia’s concern that the military bloc “comes right up to its doors, and the deployment of weapons that could threaten Russia.”
His comments triggered a barrage of criticism not only from Kiev but also fellow EU leaders from Poland, Slovakia and the Baltic states. French diplomats tried to downplay the comment, insisting that it was taken “out of context,” while Macron himself urged European allies not to “create controversy where there is none.”
In the latest interview, Macron urged critics to explain what kind of alternative to eventual talks with Moscow they are proposing.
“What the people who refuse to prepare this and work on it are proposing is full war. It will involve the whole continent,” he said.
Last December, Russia presented a list of security demands to the US and NATO, asking the West to impose a ban on Ukraine entering the military bloc, while insisting that NATO should retreat to its borders of 1997, before it began to expand.
In January, the US and NATO refused, saying they would only be interested in strategic arms control talks. Since the conflict in Ukraine escalated in February, the bloc has also moved to welcome Sweden and Finland into the military alliance, though the expansion has yet to be finalized.
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 21.12.2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.8k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 300 (20/12) Summary: Russia advanced at Kupyansk Front; Info warfare change?
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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):
Ukraine [21 Dec 2022] 'Today' - Meetings in Belarus.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.7k subscribers):
Russia Ukraine War Dec 21st.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ via‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
RYBAR Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on December 20, 2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
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.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
