RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.05.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.05.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in various locations in Southern India for the next six days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates and quite possibly their total absence on certain days.
*** WINNING IN UKRAINE IS IMPORTANT… BUT WHO IS WINNING GLOBALLY? ***
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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
Russia Claims Patriot Destroyed, Fighting Bakhmut Edge; Chinese, African Peace Missions, F16 Split.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
New Atlas LIVE: US vs the World: Russia & China + Thailand, Taiwan, G7, and More...
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Patriot damage, Tis But a Scratch. Odessa missile strikes. Pope, void Jesus icon. Sanna HBO MAX. U/1
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Ukraine War Latest.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
On #Ukraine missile strikes and who will counterattack first?
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (May 19, 2023).
CHRIS HEDGES
Weapons to Ukraine, Military buildup to China & Pentagon Spending.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
US Military Colonel Says Government Lied About Ukraine War.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
U.S. in Ukraine for Democracy & Freedom?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
Ukraine's Suicidal Offensive.
THE GRAYZONE
Patriot games - The Grayzone live.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Cuba attracts more Russian investors with right to long-term land use and import tariff exemption.
JACKSON HINKLE
Wagner Liberates Bakhmut Stronghold "Nest".
Russia Returns To TOP 10 World's Largest Economies.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'Russia To India In 10 Days': Putin announces rail link; Moscow, Tehran ink deal to cut distance.
'Never Seen Before': Ukraine shaken as Russia unleashes missiles cruise, hypersonic missiles.
Putin to arm Russian forces with S-80FP 'wall-piercing' rockets amid Ukraine war | Details:
Zelensky to lose 'Fortress Bakhmut'? Russia's capture of key Donbas city 'days away' | Report:
REDACTED
Putin just launched the BIGGEST attack of the war so far.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Russia and Iran will build the Rasht-Astara railway to open the North-South route! Putin, Raisi.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Russia's Shoigu reviews combat training for newly contracted soldiers.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Operation Gladio: The CIA’s Secret Nazi-Collaborating Terror Armies in Europe & Beyond.
JACKSON HINKLE
We were right.
BORZZIKMAN
PENTAGON started Choking on the Fact that the Russian Su-35 became World's Most Resultative Fighter.
RUSSELL BRAND
Hang On, The CIA Are Recruiting Russians For WHAT?! - #132 - Stay Free With Russell Brand PREVIEW.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
#239 - The Death of Democracy in The USA and Pakistan | The invention of Russiagate.
CTGN EUROPE
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Ugandan counterpart.
#WATCHLIVE: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Ugandan counterpart.
SEAN FOO
“Stop Making Money!” | EU Targets India Over Russian Oil.
CGTN
Xi holds welcome ceremony for Central Asian leaders.
Expert: China, Kazakhstan to promote people-to-people cooperation.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China, Kyrgyzstan Elevate Relations to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for New Era.
China Ready to Work with Uzbekistan to Deepen All-Round Cooperation: Xi.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
African Nations Step Up Peace Mediators To End Ukraine War.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Russiagate Was A Hoax! Says Justice Dept’s Durham Report.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
UK, Netherlands Forming Ukraine F-16 'Coalition,' Russia Says Open to Peace Proposals, and More.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
SYRIA'S VICTORY: Bashar al-Assad landed in Saudi Arabia.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Make the Economy Scream: US Sanctions as Deadly as COVID or Armed Conflict.
REDACTED
BREAKING: FBI CONFIRMS INVOLVEMENT IN JANUARY 6TH RIOTS, WRAY LIED UNDER OATH | Redacted Live.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS
30 More Countries Planning To Join BRICS.
LINE FLUX
BRICS NDB TO HELP ARGENTINA AS NEWEST PROSPECTS.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Syria rejoins Arab League after 12 years as al-Assad is set to attend summit in Saudi Arabia.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHY IS UKRAINE THE WEST’S FAULT?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 19th May 2023:
Capture of key Donbass city ‘days away’ – official.
The battle for Artyomovsk may soon end in Moscow’s favor, local authorities and media believe.
Russia appears set to take full control of the Donbass city of Artyomovsk, which Ukraine calls Bakhmut, according to officials, media reports and the boss of the private military company Wagner Group.
“Wagner is pushing forward for real, day and night,” acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
He acknowledged that the situation remained tense and that the Ukrainian military was sending reserves into battle, but described the full capture of the city by Russia as “potentially very close.”
Russia’s recent advances were also confirmed by German newspaper Bild on Wednesday. It reported that Ukrainian forces were in control of around 20 buildings in the west of Artyomovsk, or 1% of the city’s total area.
The article claimed that pro-Ukrainian media operatives were engaged in damage control ahead of the imminent loss of the city, which President Vladimir Zelensky declared a fortress several months ago. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military hopes to push back on the flanks, putting Wagner troops at a disadvantage after they fully seize the settlement.
The head of the company, Evgeny Prigozhin, expressed concern about the tactics in a statement on Thursday, in which he urged regular troops supporting his unit “to hold on as hard as you can for a few more days,” complaining about a setback at one location to the north of Artyomovsk.
Wagner troops have been on the forefront of the battle, which has been underway for some eight months, becoming one of the bloodiest episodes of the wider armed conflict in Ukraine. Earlier in the week, Kiev claimed to have turned the tide, but its reported momentum apparently did not last.
The Zelensky government has attached a symbolic significance to the standoff in Artyomovsk and rejected the advice of Western officials, who urged the president to pull back troops and prepare for a counteroffensive. The Ukrainian military reportedly lost some of its most experienced troops as it clung to the city, while its promised major pushback against Russia has so far failed to materialize.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
The Donbass Zugzwang | Ukraine's Defeat In Bakhmut Is Inevitable. Military Summary For 2023.05.18
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Russia Captures North West Bakhmut.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Bakhmut Front ] "LAST LINE OF DEFENSE" COLLAPSED; Khromove Road closed; entire Citadel has fallen.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Bakhmut Front Update [18 May 2023].
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Missile War.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, May 17th.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Bakhmut Endgame | Final Days Of The Battle | Bakhmut Front Update 19/05/23.
BAKHMUT ENDGAME | CITADEL HAS FALLEN | BREAKING | Bakhmut Front Update 18/05/23.
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
IS A BRAND NEW GEOPOLITICAL PARADIGM AVOIDABLE?
The USA and UK in particular clearly think that they are in danger of losing their ability to dominate, manipulate, threaten, undermine and replace the leadership of all other nations..
At the very least they hope it can be postponed by doing all they can to undermine, weaken and if possible destroy all those who threaten their long held status. Their goal currently is again clearly, to weaken the possibility of this eventuality and if at all possible destroy the foundations of the central elements which currently make their loss of dominance appear inevitable.
That these efforts by the USA and UK and in ever declining form by Europe, to weaken and if possible stop this new paradigm, could cause another world war in its most devastating form (with a form of world warfare already being waged by them) clearly doesn't faze them to any significant extent.
The stakes for them are obviously considered too high to let any considerations of widespread death and destruction mitigate the extent or range of their plans. In my view the political elites in tandem with their media elites consider this to be an existential issue requiring an all-out effort to maintain western global dominance without which they have convinced themselves the world will go all to hell.
They have come to believe through centuries of happy self-awarding conditioning that they stand at the pinnacle of right conduct, good governance and ethical behaviour, the natural inheritors down from one generation to the next of the guardianship of the planet. In accordance with these beliefs those who do not stand with them must certainly then be standing against them and standing therefore against all that is righteous and good.
I am unaware of any empire that believed they were not right in all they said and did. How many bureaucracies and established elites indulged in self-doubt down the millennia. I would hazard to guess that the answer is an easy one, namely none.
And how many of the serried ranks of controllers of such empires gave up their notions of superiority, grandeur and benefits of high, self-granted status and control of others without a fight. You may say the British Empire is one such... but I did say 'without a fight'. The British Empire ended in most places faced with a determined force fighting for this outcome.
The empire of the West has lasted a very long time and has been reinforced significantly during that time, the chief of these being the outcome and aftermath of the Second World War. Hitler and Nazi Germany were defeated. Leaving aside that the Russian victories over German forces and entry first to Berlin was the main factor in ending it, in the West the impression given was that of a victory by the West.
The empire of the West has however been looking increasingly tarnished of late. This especially so since 9/11 when the USA, UK and others began their campaign of regime change wars with their attendant lies, deceptions, manipulations and outright propaganda assisted by a complicit western press and media. The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added another nail to its coffin. It seems inevitable that eventual withdrawal from Iraq and Syria will add further nails to it.
Currently we see another series of nails being readied in the shape of a European withdrawal from U.S. and UK battle plans regarding both Ukraine and Russia. The humiliation I predicted a number of commentaries ago appears imminent. Upon this further set of nails being applied to the coffin of the western empire I would suggest that few more will be necessary to complete the job.
What then?
Over the last several decades we have seen the inexorable rise of the Chinese economy. That of Russia has followed a similar if not nearly as impressive increase in its economic success. Now that both nations fully recognise the mutually beneficial results of ever-closer cooperation there can surely be no further restrictions on their continued success and ever-growing influence. Their growing influence will I predict 'bring on' the foundations for the new 'empire free' geopolitical paradigm I expect, predict and am hoping for.
At the point where an unlamented western empire rests dormant in its well-sealed coffin I would predict we will see a world breathing a deep and long sigh of relief. This while the work of restoring the world to a place where agreement and not disputation become the order of the day, where trade not trouble is at the forefront of press and media around the globe and where a general tolerance of diverse forms of governance is found.
In short the beginnings of a world where the prospects for war diminish, where that which unites us is emphasised rather than that which divides us and an acknowledgement is recognised that most of humanity wishes only to reside in peace, nurturing their families, seeking betterment of their lives, not at the expense of other nations and where no one particular political dogma is demanded for all nations.
So, in answer to the question within the title of this commentary I would say no, in due course, in the absence of the USA and UK refraining from using their ultimate weapon of domination, a brand new geopolitical paradigm for our world is not avoidable and is indeed absolutely unavoidable.
