RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 03.02.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 03.02.2023
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.
*** WILL ZELENSKY BE REPLACED FROM WITHIN? ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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 particularly newsworthy in the western mainstream. Below it you can watch the CNN report which contradicts the lies the Ukrainian regime were concocting at the time to escape being identified as the perpetrator.
Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (200k subscribers):
Russia New Kremennaya Offensive Bakhmut One Road; Pentagon To Congress Ukraine Unable to Take Crimea.
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‘The Duran’ (332k subscribers):
As Ukraine crumbles, EU holds circus act summit in Kiev.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (157k subscribers):
$2.1B to Ukraine, long-range HIMARS. Elensky, no retreat. Balloon cancels China trip. U/2
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Putin's Stalingrad warning. CIA Burns floats land for peace. EU-Kiev summit enforces dress code. U/1
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'The Grayzone' (259k subscribers):
The little red Chinese balloon - Grayzone live w/Max Blumenthal & Aaron Maté.
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'Bloomberg Quicktake' (1.13 million subscribers):
Putin Vows Ukraine Defeat as He Hails WWII Stalingrad Triumph.
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'The New Atlas' (212k subscribers):
New Atlas LIVE: As US Proxy War Rages Against Russia, US Seeks War with China by 2025.
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'Firstpost' (458k subscribers):
Ukrainian Leader Wants India Sanctioned | A Look at Ukraine-Pak Ties | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
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Russia Today (RT) News:
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‘Info Defense' (138 subscribers):
In 2013 Ukrainian deputy exposed US actions of preparing civil war in Ukraine.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (126k subscribers):
'We will go and fight' Russians mark Stalingrad victory with eye on Ukraine fighting.
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Russian missile strike hits E.Ukrainian military hub of Kramatorsk; 4 killed and 18 injured.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (88.7k subscribers):
Putin, Biden & what's really at stake in Ukraine.
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Is the U.S. forcing Putin's hand in the Ukraine War? Scott Ritter.
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More Weapons for Ukraine... Just a ploy for Political Cover, Scott Ritter.
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'John Mearsheimer' (2.85k subscribers):
John Mearsheimer : THE US CREATES CONFLICT FOR THE WORLD.
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'George Galloway' (243k subscribers):
#JoeBiden has refused a #Ukraine request for F-16 fighters. Mind you that’s what he said about tanks.
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'Habla News!' (165 subscribers):
George Friedman on America's Empires Strategy to take over EUROPE.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.13 million subscribers):
Biden offered Putin ‘20% of Ukraine’ to end Russia’s war? White House in denial over report.
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U.S. on alert as Chinese ‘spy balloon’ spotted over Nuclear launch site; Biden briefed | Details:
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‘The Real News Network' (656k subscribers):
The dark truths WikiLeaks revealed w/Stefania Maurizi | The Chris Hedges Report.
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'Econ. inFo' (79.4k subscribers):
Here's why Europe may soon enter an economic recession.
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'Firstpost' (449k subscribers):
World Looking for Alternatives to Most Powerful Currencies | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
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Gonzalo Lira’ (64.6k subscribers):
2023.02.03 What Becomes of NATO After The Loss In Ukraine?
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'Sean Foo' (70.2k subscribers):
Record Gold Buying Reveals The Global South's Escape Plan!
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'Международное радио "Беларусь"' (4.08k subscribers):
How does Ukraine profit from war with Russia and spend billions of dollars?
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'MudRogue' (1.13k subscribers):
Respect and Honor.
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Garland Nixon’ (44k subscribers):
UKRAINE - ARE WE LOOKING AT THE END GAME?
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VRevelations' (608 subscribers):
Putin Gives Fiery Speech On 80th Anniversary Of Battle Of Stalingrad: A New Great Patriotic War.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.81k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Answers Questions on Ukraine.
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Scott Ritter: Talks $ecret $upport Of Not-See-Izm & Blind $upport Of Ukraine In U.$.
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'MudRogue' (1.13k subscribers):
Ukraine Russia War & Life: A Different kind of War Video.
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'TeleSUR English' (194k subscribers):
Russia: President Putin warns of western threats.
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Russia says it will stay on the battlefield until victory is achieved.
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‘Ryota Nakanishi’ (185 subscribers):
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (February 2, 2023).
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‘Tara Reade’ (2.13k subscribers):
Johnny Miller: Ukrianian Myorovets K!ll List Impact & the Suffering it Creates | Tara Reade (clip).
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'Gerald Celente' (194k subscribers):
MARKETS UP, MIDDLE EAST MELTING DOWN, UKRAINE WAR EXPLODING.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.13 million subscribers):
'We have something to answer with': Putin's chilling nuclear threat to West over Ukraine tanks?
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Russian rockets stall Ukraine troops over Dnieper River in Kherson | Watch dramatic footage:
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'Opiniono' (1.25k subscribers):
CrossTalk: Revisiting Germany.
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'Firstpost' (446k subscribers):
Protests and Strikes Continue in Europe | France Pension Protests Grow | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
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'Info Defense' (138 subscribers):
It's not in interest of German people to send weapons to Ukraine? How come?
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'George Galloway' (243k subscribers):
INTERVIEW: Where is that nuclear bomb? Don’t ask the #Pentagon, they’ve probably mislaid it.
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'David Gornoski Fan Favorites' (3.66 subscribers):
Exposing Lies About Ukraine and Zelensky.
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'David Gornoski Fan Favorites' (3.66 subscribers):
Sir Owen on the Big Picture Surrounding Ukraine War.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (88.3k subscribers):
Why is the U.S. and Israel performing War Games together?
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'Rachel Blevins' (5.53k subscribers):
U.S. Military Completes Arc Around China with New Access to Philippines Bases Facing Taiwan.
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U.S. Planning $2 BILLION Arms Package with Longer-Range Weapons for Ukraine amid Zelensky's F-16 Bid.
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'Opiniono' (1.25k subscribers):
Russia Today (RT News)
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Tech Revolution' (66.9k subscribers):
South America JUST REVEALED Their NEW Currency Set To SHUT DOWN The Dollar Dominance.
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'Redacted' (1.67 million subscribers):
Is Ukraine seriously going to try to take Crimea? It was never theirs to begin with!
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WEF just issued their biggest CRISIS warning yet | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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Electricity & Gas Prices Skyrocket.
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‘Straight Calls by Douglas Macgregor’ (37.3k subscribers):
700000 Russian soldiers are causing Ukraine to collapse.
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'Canadian Prepper' (922k subscribers):
Big Suprise is Coming...
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‘UnHerd’ (313k subscribers):
How the West brought economic disaster on itself.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (31.3k subscibers):
What Happens After Regime Change In Ukraine? | Scott Ritter.
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'Asian Quicktake' (13.8k subscribers):
After the sale of 446.7 billion, China and Japan may continue the massive sale of U.S. Treasuries.
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'Kim Iversen' from 2 years ago. (507k subscribers):
A Deeper Look At The Uyghur Crisis in China.
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‘Kim Iversen' from 5 months ago. (507k subscribers):
The Big Business And Politics of Uyghur Genocide and Slave Labor Claims | Danny Haiphong.
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'Through the eyes of' (73k subscribers):
A WAVE OF DEPARTURES FROM THE POLISH ARMY. (NEWS AND VIEWS/ WARSAW).
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‘Syriana Analysis' (42.8k subscribers):
The OPCW accused Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons in Douma.
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Bashar al-Assad on neo-liberalism.
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'Master B editor' (448 subscribers):
The power of the Caspian Sea 🇷🇺
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (126k subscribers):
Urrrraaaa! Military parade held in Volgograd to mark the anniversary of Nazi defeat in Stalingrad.
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'Alexandre Guerreiro' (6.41k subscribers):
Bakhmut vs Estalinegrado e a cimeira da União Europeia.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 3rd February 2023:
Geopolitical battles, Ukraine, and US exceptionalism: Highlights from Lavrov’s big interview.
The Russian foreign minister sat down for a discussion on a wide range of issues.
Moscow is locked in a geopolitical struggle against Washington and the crisis in Ukraine is at the forefront, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The diplomat added that Western nations are not keen for hostilities to end.
Lavrov made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview with Russian state media on Thursday, in which he also accused the US of stripping the EU of any semblance of independence.
Here are some of the key comments from Lavrov’s TV appearance.
Ukraine as epicenter of geopolitical battle.
Western nations want to cripple Russia with sanctions to bring about a “decade of regression,” Lavrov stated, referring to the words of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“We are in the center of a geopolitical battle. There is no doubt about it,” the foreign minister said.
Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are “heroes” whose “deeds are for the future of mankind, in which there will be no conditions for full US hegemony,” added Lavrov.
US belief in its exceptionalism The US “has subjugated” European politicians, taking the “last traces of independence” from the EU, the diplomat argued. The kind of “democracy” they advocate boils down to “a right for them to impose on others what democracy should look like,” Lavrov said.
The Russian foreign minister argued that Washington pressures other nations to do its bidding, offering no benefits for compliance and threatening punishment to any dissenters. He called the approach “the pinnacle of pragmatism, but also cynicism.”
The core of US foreign policy is American exceptionalism and Washington’s belief in its “infallibility and superiority,” according to Lavrov.
Western intentions in Ukraine.
The conflict in Ukraine continues to rage because Western nations, led by the US, refuse to stop “until they conclude that they have eliminated threats to their hegemony,” Lavrov insisted. According to the leading Russian diplomat, Kiev has been barred by the West from seeking peace with Moscow.
“Nobody objected when [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky prohibited negotiations with Russia by law. Nobody scolded him when he… claimed that he doesn’t understand who makes decisions in Russia and who he should talk to.”
Zelensky likely feels ashamed to be controlled and manipulated by the West and resorts to psychological projection, Lavrov suggested.
The next ‘anti-Russia’.
Lavrov was asked which nation could next be turned into an “anti-Russia” – a term that the Russian leadership has used to describe Ukraine in its current state. The Russian minister said Moldova could be cast in that role due to the personality of its president, Maia Sandu.
Sandu was “installed at the helm of the country through specific methods that were far from freedom and democracy,” Lavrov assessed. “She has Romanian citizenship, is ready to merge [Moldova] with Romania and to do pretty much anything.” In addition, Sandu is “rushing into NATO,” argued the diplomat.
Georgia fitted the description under former President Mikhail Saakashvili, Lavrov said, but he added that the current government in Tbilisi has put national interest first.
No help needed in Ukraine.
Russia did not have and does not have any intention to ask its allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for military assistance in Ukraine, Lavrov stated, referring to the regional defense group of which Russia is a member.
“We have everything we need to achieve the goals of the special military operation, to end this war, which the West started through the Kiev regime after the [2014] coup [in Ukraine],” he stressed.
China’s take on US-designed globalism.
Lavrov described current Russian-Chinese relations as the strongest ever, adding that they have “no restrictions, no limits, and no issues banned for discussion.”
Both Moscow and Beijing simply want to pursue national development “within the framework of existing norms of international trade.”
“China beats America on its own turf under its own rules,” the diplomat assessed. According to Lavrov, this is why the US is reneging on the economic principles that it spread across the world and benefited from in the past.
In Moscow’s eyes, the current form of globalization “no longer has positive traits,” Lavrov said, adding that “we realized it sooner because we were the first to take a punch.”
Russia had “less immersion” than China in the US-influenced global financial system and other mechanisms, which Washington now abuses, he explained.
It will take China some time to reduce its involvement with those mechanisms and create alternative tools to defend its interests, but it is moving in that direction, Lavrov predicted.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (84k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.03
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.36k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30k subscribers):
Russia Captures Mykolaivka | F-16s take 3 years of training, Germany sends 88 Leopard 1's to Ukraine.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (20.5k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 344 (2/2): Ukraine prepares for Zapo Offensive 2; Russia captured Mykolaivka.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (19.2k subscribers):
WAR UPDATE: Russian Kreminna Counterattack, Wagner Take Mykolaivka.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
Ukraine: military situation Feb 2, 2023.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine and the China spy balloon.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: February 2, 2023.
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.39k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION WAR UPDATES (53.7k subscribers):
Full Front Update 03/02/23 | Russian Advance Continues.
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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
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THE WESTERN DICTATORIAL POWERS BLINDLY SEEK GLOBAL CONFORMITY
Those who run the western world are determined to interfere to the maximum extent they can with no ethical or moral limit to their actions with the single-minded goal to transform all recalcitrant nations to their mirror image.
No appeals to their ‘better nature’, powers of diplomacy, common sense or reason will have any effect upon their determination. Those who are currently standing in their way will be targeted relentlessly to destruction if necessary to fulfill the above goal.
The western powers are acting as an empire-building force with dictatorial levels of hubris and relentless activity to achieve their goal of a uniform world in terms of governance. All nations will be forced to accept the mode of governance that they use or they will remain in the cross hairs of western sources of power both politically and militarily. Intelligence services, that have been working on the goal of global uniformity in conformance with western desires for decades, are now more active than ever in the world war that is currently underway.
The only way the western powers can be stymied in their attempts to secure their goal of global conformance to their needs is by the robust countering of these ambitions by all means possible. Both China and Russia are at the forefront of this effort and not only by political and military means. China and Russia, through building trading and financial networks divorced from the influence of the western powers are in effect waging a necessary war against them to preserve their own individual and sovereign nationhood in the face of threats to them.
The USA is of course at the forefront of the assault upon the rest of the world where it does not accede to its demands. Assisted by the United Kingdom and most of the European Union elites they form a formidable force with which to threaten, coerce, damage and destroy nations they have targeted for regime change and transformation to their requirements.
As Professor John J. Mearsheimer has pointed out, the surge to achieve global conformity to western needs went into high gear in the ‘unipolar moment’ as he calls it, when the Soviet Union collapsed. In that time the power of the USA and its allies/proxies was at its height and the goal of spreading ‘liberal hegemony’ appeared to be eminently achievable. However, we have been slipping as a world incrementally one step at a time toward a multipolar epoch where the powers of the western elites are steadily diminished.
What we are seeing now, with the western powers using Ukraine as a tool against Russia and Taiwan against China is a desperate attempt to re-engineer and re-establish the unipolar moment and thus put back on track the goal of establishing global uniformity of governance in the western model.
There can be and will be no turning back from the goal of undermining all non-conforming governance systems by the western powers. They cannot conceive of allowing those nations who do not conform to their wishes being left alone to determine their own future course. Western elites, whether political or within the mainstream media sphere are united in seeking to do whatever is necessary within the nations they have targeted to bring about conformity to western needs and desires. There is not a glimmer of hope that they will retreat from their determination to do whatever they can to shake, destabilise and destroy the target nations until they conform. As a secondary goal they will be weakened, even to the point of collapse as remains the secondary goal for Syria and which remains the goal in many other nations such as Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and indeed all others that have not yet conformed to western requirements.
In recent months we have seen the blowback from the attempts by the West to achieve a significant weakening of the Russian Federation. For nearly a year now attempts have been made in successive waves to hit and destroy Russian institutions from the financial to the cultural and from the economic to the personal. Almost all such attacks have failed and many of them are now having a cumulative effect on western economies and populations. The western powers have in effect metaphorically-speaking shot themselves multiple times in the foot and to such a degree that they risk being unable to stand.
Thus both Russia and China are strengthened in their attempt to remain in ever-greater extent invulnerable to western attacks seeking to undermine and transform them. Meanwhile, with western nations becoming weaker and both Asian and Eurasian nations adhering ever closer to each other along with many nations in the global south (many who have aspirations to join BRICS) the probability of a robust and self-sustaining multipolar world free of western threats, attacks and violent military attempts to undermine them becomes an ever more tangible aspiration.
If a fully multipolar world with fully independent, sovereign and inviolate nations eventuate from the mix of economic dynamics now in play then the final nails will be hammered into the coffin of western elite aspirations to dictate how these newly, fully sovereign and inviolate nations will govern themselves in perpetuity. At that point the era of the World Bully/Policeman of the collective West will finally be over.
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