RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.03.2023
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.
*** CONTRADICTORY WESTERN POLICY TEARS UKRAINE APART ***
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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:
Latest update on events within Ukraine by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’.
ICC Orders Putin Arrest, Russia Controls 70% Bakhmut, Encircling Avdeevka; Xi Moscow Trip.
THE DURAN
Next diplomatic victory on the horizon, Syria and Turkey.
Latest update by Alex Christoforo of ‘The Duran’.
Putin arrest warrant, ICC dooms Ukraine. Trump arrest? Macron Louis XVI. Diverse Bidenopoulos. U/1
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
Ukraine's Last Hope? China CHANGES Everything w/ Brian Berletic!
LEVAN GUDADZE
Total war of elites, Fall of Bakhmut, MiG-29, Poland raises the stakes, Russian banking system...
Maria Zakharova - Russia has no obligations towards the International Criminal Court.
SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine/Russia Special Military Operation Update.
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
EVERYTHING the UNITED STATES touches turns to ASH.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
U.S. Is Lying About China Being A “Threat!” – Says Fmr Australian Prime Minister.
SCOTT RITTER: Ep. 54: Ask the Inspector.
DANNY HAIPHONG
Russia and China Take HUGE Steps to De-Dollarization and the US is FURIOUS.
THE REAL NEWS NETWORK
'War Made Easy' - The Iraq War 20 years later.
LEE CAMP
Banking Collapse, Housing Insecurity, & More w/ James Fauntleroy.
STEPHEN GARDNER - SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine JUST Made A FATAL MISTAKE.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The Russian Advance in Ukraine.
SCOTT RITTER
Impromptu Speech on Nuclear Disarmament.
CHRIS HEDGES
How America destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines w/ Seymour Hersh.
JEFFREY SACHS
Current Climate of Catastrophe.
THE CONVO COUCH
Zelensky Gets Jets, Xi Jinping Coming to Moscow, Saudis & Iran Ready For Business, France, Peru.
THE GRAYZONE
The Grayzone never forgets - Friday live w/ Max Blumenthal & Aaron Mate.
LEE CAMP
Organizing To End War w/ Veterans For Peace Co-Founder.
SINO SPHERE
Russia's MASSIVE Growing INFLUENCE In Africa Is Changing The Entire Game | The West Is TERRIFIED.
CHAVEZ NEWS
Putin "Criminal charges": Saving thousands Donbass children..
Full video prank with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
TGIGlobal
#TheNewWorldOrder : A whopping 68% increase in EU-Russia trade | World News.
PEOPLE’S PODCAST
War & Breaking the Duopoly on Both Sides of the Atlantic w/ former UK MP Chris Williamson.
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (March 18, 2023).
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS PARTY
CITIZENS REPORT 17/3/2023 - Senior statesman goes nuclear against Australia being suckered into war!
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
China Ascending to Global Stage thru Diplomacy.
LINE FLUX
African Countries Reaffirm their Decision to Join BRICS +
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Blowback — Lessons from Syria and Iraq.
Teach-In: Peace in Ukraine, Say No to Endless Wars.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
France sides with Russia on Nord Stream attacks? ‘U.S. obviously blew up,’ says French leader.
Putin snubs Zelensky, visits Crimea hours after arrest warrant over ‘war crimes’ | Watch:
Kim Jong-un’s Hwasong missile can flatten U.S. in 33 mins? China experts make sensational claim.
NATO 'sabre-rattling' Russia; Poland to move HIMARS near Kaliningrad | Details:
Saudi's ‘Won’t Sell Oil’ warning to U.S. if Biden imposes Russia-like price cap | Details:
SCOTT RITTER
2-Minute Topic: China's Peace Plan for Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
RUSSELL BRAND - DR. CORNEL WEST
“Neoliberalism Is Dying” - #093 - Stay Free With Russell Brand PREVIEW.
THE GRAYZONE
Nordstream cover story is pure comedy.
THROUGH THE EYES OF...
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU (FROM @TheDuran ) ABOUT GREECE, ELENSKY'S MONEY AND JOE BIDENOPOLOS.
POLAND, THE ABUNDANT GIVER OF THE PLANES.
RUSSELL BRAND
WTF Is Happening?!
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia TROLLS US Over Drone Elimination.
GOING UNDERGROUND
12 Years Since NATO Bombed Libya, Gaddafi’s Ex-Spox. Gives Exclusive Update on Saif Al-Islam.
TECH REVOLUTION
Putin's NEW COUNTER STRIKE Move Is A HUGE Threat To The US! | Biden's NIGHTMARE Is Here!
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Does This Mean World War III?
Canada Calls For REGIME CHANGE In Russia!
DEFENSE AND GEOPOLITICS
What makes the Wagner so good?
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Teach-In: Peace in Ukraine, Say No to Endless Wars.
BORZZIKMAN
The U.S. is Shaking out of Anger┃Russian Pilots have Delighted China with their Actions.
THE GRAYZONE
Finnish PM honors ultra-right Ukrainian militant.
"So-called journalists" expose the Censorship Industrial Complex.
FIRSTPOST
Vantage Highlights: U.S. Bank Collapse Fallout: Another US Bank Rescued|Vantage with Palki Sharma.
CGTN
JEFFREY SACHS
What the U.S. has done is still 'about geopolitics & not about democracy'.
China will play pivotal role in the future: Pakistani president.
Vladimir Putin celebrates Crimea and Russia.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
How the West brought economic disaster on itself.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 18th March 2023:
US and its ‘horrible’ leaders are greatest threat to Western civilization – Trump.
The country has ‘never been closer’ to nuclear war, the former president said in a video, urging a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Former US president Donald Trump slammed “globalists” and the American neoconservative establishment in a video posted to his social media accounts on Thursday, declaring that the US and “some of the horrible, USA-hating people that represent us” are the “greatest threat to Western civilization today.”
“These globalists want to squander all of America’s strength, blood and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas while keeping us distracted from the havoc they’re creating right here at home,” the 2024 presidential candidate explained.
These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed.
Trump warned that the Biden administration had brought the world closer to the brink of nuclear catastrophe than ever before by pouring money and weapons into Ukraine. “Every day this proxy battle continues, we risk global war,” he insisted, arguing that a “total cessation of hostilities” should be the “central issue” for the nation.
The next order of business under a second Trump presidency would be a complete overhaul of the State Department, Pentagon, intelligence services, and other key agencies to “fire the Deep Staters and put America first” – followed by “fundamentally reevaluating NATO’s purpose and NATO’s mission.” Trump has long argued for European countries to shoulder more of the costs and responsibilities associated with the military bloc and recently described the Ukraine conflict as a “vital concern for Europe, but not for the United States.”
Trump reassured his supporters that he was ready to dismantle “the entire globalist neocon establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad while they turn us into a third world country, and a third world dictatorship, here at home.” While the 45th president did not name any of the globalists or neocons who have placed highly on his enemies list since taking office in 2016, he insisted that he alone knew “exactly what to do to get the job done.”
Trump is polling neck to neck for the Republican nomination with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has not yet officially declared his 2024 candidacy. DeSantis recently told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that supporting the Ukrainian military was not a “vital interest” of the US. Other presumed Republican candidates, including former UN envoy Nikki Haley and former national security adviser John Bolton, have embraced the Biden administration’s bottomless aid to Kiev.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Ukraine sends all its reserves to Bakhmut. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.18
Ukraine Air Forces. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.18.
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
Ukraine Russian War Update, Rybar Map, Events and Analysis for March 17, 2023.
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Analysis ] SECRET PLAN OF UKRAINE'S SPRING OFFENSIVE : to wipe out Wagner PMC in the Bakhmut Front.
Africa at the Cross Roads: Algeria, Morocco & Angola (Part 1) | DPA Panels.
DPA WAR UPDATE
SIVERSK-KREMINNA FRONTS IN DANGER; admit Ukr Cmdr of Ground Forces [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 387 (17/3).
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE
Ukraine: military situation Mar 16-17, 2023.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front update [18 March 2023] 'Today'.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Full Front Quick Update 18/03/23 | These Villages Will Determine The Upcoming Battles.
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
FUTILE GESTURES TO SAVE FACE ARE GETTING HUNDREDS OF UKRAINIANS KILLED EACH DAY
It was known from the start how this would end. That is, with a Russian victory. Russia could not lose, far too much was at stake regarding its national security was at risk. The only thing that could have stopped Russia winning would have been direct intervention in Ukraine by the western powers via NATO. That option was barred right at the start due to the inevitability of a wider war erupting, quite possibly leading to an all-out nuclear war with Russia.
With no NATO involvement and no direct European military involvement for much the same reason as that behind the NATO restraint Moscow was ALWAYS going to defeat any resistance put up by Ukraine and no matter how many weapons or of what type flowed into Ukraine from the West.
So why are we now in this absurd position where Russia is clearly if incrementally moving forward taking more land in a steady grinding down of the Ukrainian opposition with no calls for talks to end this? The policy of western leaders is clearly to encourage Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian while the cause is lost without any possible shadow of a doubt? There are no miracles in warfare, or damn few and those that do arise will stem from individual heroism in the face of all odds. Ukraine cannot possibly hope for divine intervention. So what now?
Now it seems that the daily grind goes on and this form of grinding is macabre indeed. Using vastly superior firepower Russian multiple rocket launchers and other artillery fire an estimated six and a half thousand rounds at EVERY target. That’s every trench, dugout, village, town and conurbation. Ukrainian forces have nothing to match that. Plus they are dog tired and demotivated. Their reserve forces meant to come and relieve them for some days or weeks behind the lines are in their turn being decimated in their bases by long range Russian missiles.
Russia fires on its targets from dawn to dusk, softening up resistance for the day when Russian troops walk forward to minimal resistance. This grinding down operation is repeated time after time according to well-crafted strategies to encircle the most important towns on their way to an inevitable victory.
The number of Ukrainian casualties has varied but the lowest number is at least one hundred dead per day and many times this number injured. Day after day after day. Meanwhile Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and the rest of those who urge this insane meat grinding on are sitting comfortably in their posh homes having a Martini, beer or whatever their favorite tipple is.
Boris Johnson and Joe Biden persuaded Zelensky not to give in to the temptation to continue the talks with Russia that neared a breakthrough in Istanbul. There the Ukrainian delegation appeared to be nearing a sensible position on some at least of Russia’s demands. However, Johnson’s visit to Kyiv put an end to that. Without doubt with the connivance of Biden he was able to bring talks to an end by promises of wonder weapons which would turn the tide of war in Ukraine’s favour.
Well, it hasn’t and it won’t. The HIMARS systems and all else in the high-tech weaponry department won’t do the trick. Ukraine already had a huge range of multiple rocket launchers at the get go. They are all gone. The weaponry coming in from the West doesn’t even replace what was lost and will stand little better chance and probably less to avoid destruction now than the previous supply. Russia is crushing the Ukrainian military and with its drones is spotting and taking out all Ukraine’s arms depots. In recent days we hear that Russia is receiving a thousand Iranian drones. Once they are in operation across a Ukraine with scant air force, what chance will those “super” weapons or their shell supply installations have?
There is no good news for Ukraine, only bad and getting worse. Desertions are becoming more frequent, the number of dead per day is rising and this past week saw a record number of Ukrainian troops taken off the battlefield. Russian troops are currently breaking through the toughest defences Ukraine has set up with the help of the West and NATO over the last eight years opposite Donetsk City and elsewhere. After liberating the heavily-defended towns of Bakhmut and Avdeevka there will be no stopping them from further victories.
The time for Zelensky and his puppet-masters in the West to come to the negotiation table was a year ago, yet still they refuse. All this means is that hundreds and most probably thousands more Ukrainians will die needlessly and yet more Ukrainian territory will be taken. To delay an hour more is madness. Yet delay they do. Till when? Till Russia moves all the way west to the banks of the Dnieper, slaughtering and/or capturing thousands of Ukrainian troops the entire way?
All to save face? To stave off the humiliation of defeat for a few more weeks or months? To do all you can with meaningless and futile gestures that bring nothing of substance regarding the final result? To posture and pontificate while delivering what you think are the required deceptions needed because you can’t stand the awful truth?
This is a level of self-seeking irresponsibility that reaches a degree of callousness beggaring belief. End these futile gestures, face the reality of defeat, insist upon immediate negotiations and do all possible to end this proxy war of yours immediately.
