RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 02.10.2024
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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“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.
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US ‘credibility at stake’ over Ukraine – top Pentagon official
Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander has attempted to dispel the security concerns of Washington’s European allies
The global standing of the US has been called into question by the Ukraine conflict, the country’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander admitted on Tuesday. The senior official tried to allay concerns regarding the future of Washington’s security cooperation with its Western European allies when it comes to dealing with Russia.
Speaking during a panel discussion at the Warsaw Security Forum this week, Wallander argued that “American global credibility is at stake” in Ukraine. In light of this challenge, she continued, “the United States and Europe .. must work together for credible defense and deterrence against Russia.”
“The United States needs Europe – it’s not just Europe that needs the United States,” Wallander said. She cited the extent of defense aid provided to Kiev by its European allies as well as their role in transferring US military assistance to Ukraine.
The senior Pentagon official also tried to dispel fears that, if elected, Donald Trump would frown upon the European Union’s own defense initiatives, as distinct from the ones executed under the auspices of NATO.
During his first term in office, Trump had repeatedly accused European NATO member states of freeloading off Washington. He also threatened to withdraw the American security umbrella from nations that fail to meet a defense-spending target set for member states.
“What I want to emphasize is that Europe is not going to defend itself alone,” Wallander said on Tuesday, adding that “talking of Europe versus the United States… actually sends the wrong message, not only to Moscow but to Beijing.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated last month that the “United States is doing everything to hold on to its global military and political dominance, no matter the cost.”
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US ‘helpless’ as Middle East burns – Moscow.
Washington’s policy is a “complete failure,” according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
The surge in violence in the Middle East signifies the “complete failure” of US policy in the region under President Joe Biden, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, shortly after Iran launched a significant retaliatory missile barrage against Israel on Tuesday evening.
According to Israel, Tehran fired 181 ballistic missiles at targets in the Jewish state, although the Israeli military said that most were repelled by its air defenses. Sources in Iran, however, have claimed that Israeli military infrastructure suffered significant damage.
Iranian officials described the strike as its long-expected response to the July assassination in Tehran of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and last week’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Israel has pledged to retaliate against Iran for the attack, and is continuing a bombing campaign and a “limited incursion” in Lebanon.
Commenting on the escalating violence, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova pointed the finger at US policy. “This bloody drama is just ramping up. Incoherent statements by the White House demonstrate its total helplessness in resolving crises. Efforts by [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken have led to tens of thousands of casualties and into a dead end,” the spokeswoman said.
The current hostilities erupted last October, when Hamas launched a deadly raid into southern Israel from the Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Israel responded with a massive military campaign, seeking to “eliminate” the movement. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which supports Hamas, has been conducting regular rocket attacks across the border, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate from northern Israel.
The US has publicly called on Israel to defuse the tensions and seek a ceasefire in Gaza, although the Israeli government has maintained its military pressure. The number of Palestinian deaths has exceeded 41,000, according to local health authorities. Some observers have accused West Jerusalem of trying to make Gaza uninhabitable so that its population has no option but to flee.
“The Middle East has once again found itself on the brink of a big war, which, it appears, someone is eager to see break out,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned last week at a UN Security Council session on the unfolding crisis.
Lavrov went on to call out the US over its rejection of proposals to demand a ceasefire backed by the authority of the UNSC. The Russian diplomat stressed: “Without the comprehensive support you provide to Israel, the conflict could be ended quickly and effectively.”
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Iran’s Attack on Israel Shows Peril of Mistaking Restraint for Weakness.
Iran launched a significant retaliatory strike against Israel Tuesday in an operation codenamed Operation True Promise II.
If the country’s attack in April demonstrated Tehran’s ability to penetrate Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome, Tuesday’s strike made good on its promise to follow it up with something more substantial if provoked. Iran claimed it targeted three Israeli military bases in an attack that reportedly struck multiple F-35 fighter jets. The US-provided aircraft would’ve been used to target Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week and would constitute an important part of Israel’s military force if it follows through on a threatened invasion of Lebanon.
Multiple analysts joined Sputnik to comment on the event Tuesday, noting that Tehran has demonstrated substantial military power after practicing restraint for an extended period.
“Are people mistaking restraint with weakness?” asked The Critical Hour host Wilmer Leon, adding, “it seems as though there's a very disciplined tactic here of measured response.”
“It does seem so,” claimed journalist Robert Fantina, the author of Settler Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir. “It does seem that if people are going to mistake that measured response for weakness, they're going to regret it because they're going to be proven wrong.
“Iran does not want to be attacked by the United States, obviously,” the commentator noted. “And any attack against Israel – even retaliatory, even in self-defense – would bring the United States into the war, unless the response is very measured, very well planned, and not a kind of random carpet-bombing sort of thing. Not the sort of thing that Israel is doing to Lebanon and Gaza.”
“So, I think that the government of Iran is waiting and watching, and it's playing the long game. It's not necessarily looking for an immediate victory, but it does want to see progress in peace in the region, and that means the defeat of Israel. How it will do that remains to be seen.”
Author and independent journalist Esther Iverem agreed with the assessment, noting that many observers predicted “this attack would be much larger.”
“That previous attack was just almost like a showpiece to let Israel know that, ‘not only can we hit you, but we can hit you hard. Our missiles can get through your many layers of defense even with all of your protectors in NATO and in the US, basically shooting down most of those key projectiles for you; our main missiles hit their targets and hit them precisely and hard,’” said the radio host, summarizing Tehran’s perspective.
Iran said it deployed its hypersonic Fatteh-2 missile during Tuesday’s attack, which is able to maneuver at a speed of about 10,000 miles per hour (over 16,000 kilometers per hour). Analysts claim the United States would also struggle to frequently replenish Israel’s Iron Dome during a prolonged conflict.
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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.
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UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
IN UKRAINE, THE MIDDLE EAST & ELSEWHERE THE WEST IS INCAPABLE OF POSITIVE CHANGE
There is a certain inevitability in the descent of the West. It could almost be said to be in its DNA; its unavoidable karmic "reward" for all its crimes.
The two Ukrainian regimes that followed in the wake of the US-supported insurrection in Kiev in 2014 have brought their country to the brink of destruction. Prodded on by the USA and its allies the Ukrainian people, who once lived in peace despite using different languages and having different geopolitical affiliations have been torn apart. This could not have occurred without western insistence that an opportunity must be taken to weaken Russia. It has been this desire to maintain western dominance in the face of the rise of others and the subsequent decision to use war as a means to achieve this that has brought us here.
The mania of western elites to always be top dogs on our planet and their inability to accept that this ambition is fast slipping from them has directly led to a world now predisposed to be always at war.
It is manifest destiny they say in the corridors of power in Washington that they are the warders, guardians and world police. Only they have the power and influence to achieve the full spectrum dominance required to govern with global reach. It is their destiny, they will say, their duty, responsibility and solemn requirement to engage the rest of the world and transform it for its own good. But what good do we see emerging from this overweening and constant desire to interfere worldwide? Can anyone honestly say they see the light at the end of this pitch black tunnel of unending western ambition?
Afghanistan went wrong after twenty years of ‘feel good’ reports sent back to Washington by military commanders who dared not speak of the truth. Iraq, left to its own devices after one mistake after another by the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ now wants all western forces out. Libya now looks toward the east and the BRICS, not toward the West. Saudi Arabia, the West’s great ally in the Middle East is now in BRICS. Even Turkey, a supposedly stalwart NATO member is approaching BRICSwith a view to joining along with a host of others.
The world is turning against the shrinking western coalition of braggarts and bullies who have held sway for so long now. Now we see the backlash that has been building year on year as western dominance brought nothing but fears, threat, criminality and state terrorism and, ultimately, the inevitability of a forever war actively perpetually sought by western neocon maniacs. No sane man or woman could ever support this. All it needed for the backlash to occur was the rise of those the USA and its allies now seek to destroy.
Russia led the way against the warmongering juggernaut of the West. In 2007 in Munich Vladimir Putin described in detail how the era of the West getting its own way and commanding others with threats that they better follow, were over. He laid down a marker that will always be remembered as the starting point for the revolt against the West that, if we all work for it, will lead inevitably to a multipolar world.
China, is the backstop nation that, with its economic power, allows the others to finally revolt against the West and dare to reject it and its array of bribes, threats and criminal violence. Without China Russia could not stand against the West and others along with Russia would continue to be exploited and bullied into submission.
Russia’s special military operation against the Ukrainian regime is now poised to show the entire world that the West not only can be resisted, it can be beaten. The final nails are being hammered into the coffin of western hegemony in Ukraine. The last vestiges of its brutal abuse of power will now be seen to dissipate, through its defeat in Ukraine and its coming defeat in the Middle East.
Humiliation is something the West is used to foisting on others through the vast historical abuses it has perpetrated. Now humiliation is coming home to those who meted it out for centuries. With the triumph of Russia and the defeat of Israel, with the political demise of every pro-war leader in Europe, with the collapse of NATO and the continuing rise of nations opposing western hegemony, the West will be utterly humiliated, weakened and ultimately quarantined, no longer able to abuse the remaining power left to it.
The West’s defeat in Ukraine will be complete. Russia, strengthened on all fronts, from its economy to its increasing number of partners, to its social cohesion and military strength will arrive in a place of unsurmountable glory… just as the entire West meets deindustrialization and social collapse. A just end to a sordid period in world history where a native population suffered genocide, where millions were enslaved and used as unpaid labor, where entire nations were enslaved as colonial acquisitions and where all was attempted to be imprisoned within a western military vice.
There will be no going back. Russia’s victory in Ukraine will be such a heavy blow that it will ensure this is so. The defeat of Israel and the triumph of the Palestinians along with Iran will land the final blows.
It could all have been very different. However, the impulse to enslave, exploit, threaten, abuse and use the most violent methods possible is endemic to the West. It’s leaders have no ability to relieve themselves of the vicious and malignant habits of their forebears. It is now deep in their DNA. They are incapable of change. Which is why we, and the Ukrainians, are where we are now.
