RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.05.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.05.2023
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.
*** AS WEST FAILS IN UKRAINE WILL CHINA BECOME #1 TARGET?***
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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
Belgorod Suicide Mission, West Admits Bakhmut Fall, Russia Unfazed F16s, German BND Russia Long War.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Belgorod incursion, Artyomovsk distraction. Ukraine Andromeda yacht. Scholz endorses Biden. U/1
THE DURAN
Belgorod reckless stunt damages collective west narrative.
G7 leaders in Japan declare, China number one enemy.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Bakhmut in Russian Hands, Now What?
DUE DISSIDENCE
Ukraine Narrative SHIFTS as Russia Claims Bakhmut.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
WTF Zelensky is doing at the Arab League Summit?
THE GRAYZONE
Russia hits pricey US Patriot systems in Ukraine.
Bilderberg 2023: pro-war trans-Atlantic elites meet in secrecy.
Pussy Riot smears Aaron Maté.
UNHERD
Former French Ambassador: Ukraine has revealed a new world order.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
NATO Nation declares Ukraine war result; 'Poor Ukrainians Will Lose... Can't Defeat Russia'.
Putin's 'flying tanks' decimate Ukrainian platoons that escaped from Bakhmut | Watch:
'Russia Not Weak': Germany admits to Putin's military power; Reminds Ukraine of Moscow's 'might'.
Ukraine gaffe embarrasses Biden; White House explains $3 BN miscalculation; 'Account Error Good'.
Putin-Xi readying anti-U.S. trade bloc? Moscow-Beijing trade hits record high | Details:
EU tells Russia's friend Serbia to follow 'Ukraine Path' in new ultimatum; 'Join Us Or...'
Saudi Arabia hosts America's 'enemy'; Putin minister sanctioned by West in Riyadh for talks.
Russia warns NATO over F-16 transfer to Ukraine; Germany refuses to send jets | Details:
West, Ukraine planning to kill Putin's Chechen Aide? Ramzan Kadyrov fears assassination | Watch:
'Pres Loon': Biden trolled brutally for G7 gaffes; Mispronounces South Korean leader's name | Watch:
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine INVADES Russia's Belgorod Region.
AMIT SENGUPTA
G7 allies agree to give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine | India's role in G7 | PM Modi met Zelensky.
CGTN EUROPE
Russia unleashes ‘long-range precision airborne weapons'.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Biden and the Bakhmut fantasy.
SEYMOUR HERSH
🪖 Biden Calls for Military Action: Is War Looming? ⚔️
RUSSELL BRAND
The G7 Is BACK! & PROOF NATO Ready For War With Russia?!
JOHN MARK DOUGAN
Exclusive! Mike Jones discusses Rebuilding of the Donbass!
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Russian PM Mishustin arrives in Shanghai for talks with Xi Jinping.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Chinese Foreign Ministry News Conference | Russian Prime Minister Visits China.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Challenges Sincerity in US-Claimed Exchanges.
CGTN
How does America's economic #coercion 'bully' the world? - Facts Tell.
CGTN - LEE CAMP
Instead of launching a new cold war against China, why not choose cooperation?
REPORTS ON CHINA
LIVE STREAM: G7, China chip ban, Uncle Roger, Cathay Pacific and more, LIVE!
FIRSTPOST
China Bans Micron Chips As Tensions With US Escalates.
MINTPRESS NEWS
The U.S. continues its efforts to provoke China.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
'I don't want a US-China Cold War - Brazil's Lula da Silva.
Beijing rejects finger-pointing on nuclear arms control, challenges G7 to make no-first-use promise.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows.
THROUGH THE EYES OF…
WILL POLAND BECOME A PART OF G7 PLUS? ANALYSTS: "BERLIN HAS NO PLAN B IN DEALING WITH POLAND".
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO
O que muda com os F-16 na Ucrânia?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
JOHN PILGER: JOHN PILGER’S TIPS FOR SEEING THROUGH PROPAGANDA
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 23rd May 2023:
Russia slams US for ‘approval’ of Ukrainian strikes on Crimea.
The White House “has never been interested in peace,” Russia’s envoy to the US has said.
A Ukrainian strike on Russia’s Crimean peninsula will be regarded as seriously as an attack on any other part of the nation, Anatoly Antonov, Moscow’s ambassador to the US, warned on Sunday.
His comments came after US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan voiced no objections to Ukraine hitting targets in Crimea, which overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev.
Speaking to CNN, Sullivan explained that “we have not placed limitations on Ukraine being able to strike on its territory… What we’ve said is that we won't enable Ukraine with US-systems to attack Russia. And we believe Crimea is Ukraine.”
In a statement on Telegram, Antonov said that “the unconditional approval of strikes on Crimea using American and other Western weapons” as well as Western countries’ deliberations about supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets “clearly demonstrate that the United States has never been interested in peace” and Russia was correct to have started its military campaign in Ukraine.
He went on to warn Washington against “thoughtless judgments on Crimea, especially in terms of ‘blessing’ the Kiev regime for air attacks” on the peninsula.
“Strikes on this territory are considered by us as an attack on any other region of the Russian Federation. It is important that the United States is fully aware of the Russian response.”
Antonov also blasted talks about supplying Ukraine with F-16s, pointing out that Kiev lacks both the infrastructure and the personnel to operate them on its own. “What would happen if American fighters take off from NATO airfields, operated by foreign ‘volunteers’?” he asked.
READ MORE: Moscow warns of fallout from F-16 deliveries to Kiev
Sullivan’s remarks likewise triggered outrage from Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Georgy Muradov, who opined that by allowing Ukraine to use US-made planes to target the peninsula, the White House had “agreed to unleashing a nuclear war.”
The official recalled that Crimea hosts Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. “An attack on one of the pillars of Russia’s strategic security legally obliges our country to use all available means to prevent it from being undermined,” he said, adding that this could mean destroying hubs which are used to ship Western weapons to Ukraine, including those located on NATO territory.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
The Donbass Zugzwang | Restored Big Red Line.. Border Line. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.05.23
Borderlands | The Counter-Terrorist Operation. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.05.23
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russian Ukrainian Forces Invade Russia | Belgorod Front Update 23/05/23.
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
WEST-CENTRIC MYOPIA IS MEETING THE BRICK WALL OF A NEW REALITY
It has been a long run… but it is almost over.
For decade after decade the western world has prided itself on being numero uno. In fact this impression was so ingrained within its cultures that it became a given, the constant background of almost unlimited power and influence to be wielded at will.
This brought about a virtual monopoly on such power and influence. It was blithely applied to all and sundry as if it was as natural as rain and to boot considered as manna from the western heaven.
Western elites built up a myth of goodness, probity and helpfulness that covered a multitude of sins that all humanity is prey to. No group of human beings are immune to ambition, to a desire to expand their area of control and to battle, in one way or another, with those they conceive of as competition or adversaries. But to depict themselves as belonging to the highest states that humanity can aspire to and then engage in mass slaughter in recent years, was not a good look.
Then there were the lies. The numerous lies.
Of course these and much else besides that belied the self-sanctification of western elites was well known… for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. MK Ultra, Operation Paperclip and Mockingbird… the assassination attempts, the coup conspiracies, the wars… the many wars. Eyes had surely been opened. Ears assailed by these facts from a plethora of commentators. But no. The myths prevailed in the general public consciousness of the majority in the West. Their guys were good guys… weren’t they?
And so things went on from one exceptional duty to enforce an inalienable right to another with a trail of blood always left to remind anyone who needed reminding that they should mind their behaviour or they might be next.
It seemed as if this state of affairs might continue forever with the West led indefatigably by the U.S. and UK knights of the holy sword defeating all the world’s demons with a little help from their friends. But hey, something very strange has happened to put all such seeming certainties into question.
In part it has been the taking of an extremely large and blunt hammer to problems such as those perceived by western elites in the Middle East. As the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer each problem looks like a nail. Blunt force has been recognised as such across many nations… though most have held their peace… until now.
With Russia asserting her right of self-protection and that of its people in Ukraine we see a situation where the thus far hidden disagreements with past western interventions are being shown in broad daylight visible to all.
Even the apparently very close ally of the West, Saudi Arabia is showing a striking, and in fact shocking, reluctance to bow westward as it has for many decades now. India too, a nation relied upon by the western powers to be neutral if not an ally to be wooed, is now showing it has no intention of abandoning Russia as a nation to work and trade with. Within Europe Hungary strongly resists being pulled into a condemnatory alliance against Russia. And in Africa various states are looking to Russia to help solve their economic and nutritional problems and build their infrastructure along with China.
The sea change in international politics has been astonishing to watch and continues in the vein apparently with no perceptible end to this process and progress toward a multipolar world where power is shared and the impetus is behind agreement and trade with arm-twisting, threats and accusations very much a thing of the West-dominated past.
Jaws must surely be dropping and anger and confusion rising to previously unheard of peaks as it becomes a matter of crystal clear observation that the power and influence held almost as of right by the West has largely already slipped from its grasp.
It has been a long run… but it is almost over.
For decade after decade the western world has prided itself on being numero uno. In fact this impression was so ingrained within its cultures that it became a given, the constant background of almost unlimited power and influence to be wielded at will.
This brought about a virtual monopoly on such power and influence. It was blithely applied to all and sundry as if it was as natural as rain and to boot considered as manna from the western heaven.
Western elites built up a myth of goodness, probity and helpfulness that covered a multitude of sins that all humanity is prey to. No group of human beings are immune to ambition, to a desire to expand their area of control and to battle, in one way or another, with those they conceive of as competition or adversaries. But to depict themselves as belonging to the highest states that humanity can aspire to and then engage in mass slaughter in recent years, was not a good look.
Then there were the lies. The numerous lies.
Of course these and much else besides that belied the self-sanctification of western elites was well known… for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. MK Ultra, Operation Paperclip and Mockingbird… the assassination attempts, the coup conspiracies, the wars… the many wars. Eyes had surely been opened. Ears assailed by these facts from a plethora of commentators. But no. The myths prevailed in the general public consciousness of the majority in the West. Their guys were good guys… weren’t they?
And so things went on from one exceptional duty to enforce an inalienable right to another with a trail of blood always left to remind anyone who needed reminding that they should mind their behaviour or they might be next.
It seemed as if this state of affairs might continue forever with the West led indefatigably by the U.S. and UK knights of the holy sword defeating all the world’s demons with a little help from their friends. But hey, something very strange has happened to put all such seeming certainties into question.
In part it has been the taking of an extremely large and blunt hammer to problems such as those perceived by western elites in the Middle East. As the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer each problem looks like a nail. Blunt force has been recognised as such across many nations… though most have held their peace… until now.
With Russia asserting her right of self-protection and that of its people in Ukraine we see a situation where the thus far hidden disagreements with past western interventions are being shown in broad daylight visible to all.
Even the apparently very close ally of the West, Saudi Arabia is showing a striking, and in fact shocking, reluctance to bow westward as it has for many decades now. India too, a nation relied upon by the western powers to be neutral if not an ally to be wooed, is now showing it has no intention of abandoning Russia as a nation to work and trade with. Within Europe Hungary strongly resists being pulled into a condemnatory alliance against Russia. And in Africa various states are looking to Russia to help solve their economic and nutritional problems and build their infrastructure along with China.
The sea change in international politics has been astonishing to watch and continues in the vein apparently with no perceptible end to this process and progress toward a multipolar world where power is shared and the impetus is behind agreement and trade with arm-twisting, threats and accusations very much a thing of the West-dominated past.
Jaws must surely be dropping and anger and confusion rising to previously unheard of peaks as it becomes a matter of crystal clear observation that the power and influence held almost as of right by the West has largely already slipped from its grasp.
