RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.04.2023
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.
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*** WILL THERE EVEN BE ANOTHER UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE? ***
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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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Keep Tucker silent until 2024. South Africa ICC flip-flop. UK depleted uranium in Ukraine. U/1
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Seymour Hersh: Western-supplied arms to Ukraine leaked to black markets and the West knows it.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 26th April 2023:
BREAKDOWN: What is known about the status of Ukraine’s much-hyped ‘counteroffensive’ against Russia?
The West has pumped Kiev with modern armaments and trained tens of thousands of its troops.
How ready is the Ukrainian army for a counter-offensive?
So far, Ukraine’s planned military assault, originally announced for November 2022, has been postponed indefinitely. Foreign sources differ in their assessment of Kiev’s readiness for a counterattack against Russia and agree that it is difficult for the Ukrainians to gather enough forces.
What is stopping the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from advancing now?
One of the main problems preventing the AFU from carrying out the announced offensive is considered to be a lack of experienced personnel.
A large portion of the combat-ready, equipped and motivated cadre units of the AFU (as well as the NGU and Territorial Defense) have already been destroyed in Mariupol, Artemovsk, Soledar, Popasnaya, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk and during the battles in the Kherson and Kharkov regions in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, a new grouping of equal professionalism and equipment levels has not yet been formed. However, NATO and US officials differ in their estimates of the number of AFU formations.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said after the Rammstein Contact Group meeting earlier this year that Western countries had managed to prepare nine armored brigades. This figure is questionable, however, as at least 837 tanks would be needed for that size of a deployment. After Rammstein, Austin reported deliveries of 230 battle tanks, suggesting a deliberate misrepresentation of the size of the Ukrainian group.
How many reserves has the AFU built up?
Michel Goya, a French army colonel and renowned expert on modern warfare and combat innovation estimates that no more than three or four Ukrainian brigades could realistically be trained and armed by NATO and the US in the time frame allowed.
At the same time, the recently popular estimate that Ukraine had assembled 200,000 reservists looks doubtful, since in this case the AFU forces would have to exceed the combined US and NATO forces at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by 30,000-40,000 (at that time it was 160,000). The most likely figure is 80,000-100,000, which have been trained both inside and outside Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s military operation. There is an important caveat, however. Apart from the combat experience and capabilities of the grouping, it is not clear which forces are the combat-ready vanguard and which are support units (the so-called "tooth-to-tail" ratio). If the AFU is planning an offensive like the US in Iraq, only 20,000 of the 100,000 troops assembled are actually combat-ready, the rest are support and sustainment forces.
What difficulties does the AFU face?
The conceptual problem of the offensive is the lack of surprise. AFU units are awaited from all directions – from Artemovsk to Kherson, so it is extremely difficult to surprise Russian forces in such a situation. Moreover, the movements of the Ukrainian army are well monitored, and it is almost impossible to accumulate a group of 20,000-150,000 troops unnoticed in such conditions. If they abandon massing their soldiers, and spread the forces across the front, all the advantages of large numbers are lost.
An additional difficulty is time. Delaying an offensive means not only guaranteeing the loss of Artemovsk/Bakhmut, which is being cleared at the rate of two or three blocks every 24 hours, but also disrupting the plans of foreign partners and nullifying all the financial and military aid provided so far. Moreover, every day that the AFU's offensive is delayed is an extra day for the Russian army to prepare and reinforce.
Another difficulty is the offensive reserves. Troops for an attack are divided into two types: vanguards and reserves, which are deployed at the point of the front where a breakthrough is planned. If the ground forces of the AFU are prepared for this, then the strength of any grouping in any direction can be safely divided by two. If the first wave of the AFU offensive falters, there may be no chance of a second. Repair battalions and a significant amount of reserve equipment must be ready for the offensive – this is impossible, given the total dependence on imports from the West.
Slow delivery of foreign equipment is also an issue. Although Bradley BMPs and Leopard 2 tanks are already in Ukraine, the amount of equipment is only enough to equip one or two mechanized brigades (6,000-7,000 men). The rest will receive light armored vehicles whose survivability in a high-intensity conflict is minimal.
Further, deliveries of Western air defense systems, essential to any major offensive, are either severely delayed, only arriving in the form of Stinger and Starstreak man-portable air defense systems, or in the form of short-range SAMs such as the Avenger and Stormer HMVs.
The main technical difficulty is the lack of significant numbers of attack aircraft and air superiority. Yes, the Ukrainian air defense system is still in place and functioning, but the stationary air defense systems are getting worse at dealing with missile attacks and cannot be re-assigned for the offensive. The number of operational fighters and attack aircraft in the Ukrainian Air Force is unknown, but a significant proportion of these could be shot down by the Russian Air Force at the start of the operation.
What if the AFU does not stage a counteroffensive now?
The AFU attack is likely to be postponed to a later date, by which time both equipment and men will have gathered in sufficient numbers. In addition, the weather is forcing adjustments – it makes no sense to advance in rainy and muddy conditions. The results of reckless attempts to attack are clearly visible in Artemovsk, where most of the roads are littered with wrecked AFU equipment.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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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
DO WESTERNERS NEED SAVING FROM THEMSELVES?
Most of us will be aware of the psychiatric condition known as the ‘superiority complex’ and also that known as ‘megalomania’. In addition to these two there are conditions such as extreme religious fervour and the many destructive attributes of the various categories of psychopath including that of the socialised psychopath.
These conditions have the obvious candidates for categorisation within the context of their commonly known psychiatric behaviours. But is it possible that some of these conditions are reflected in what is generally thought of as normal, or somewhat normal, behaviour in the western world? I will argue that some of the normalisation process in relation to these conditions has become deeply embedded in western societies by many manner of means and that this is due to a great many subtle and ever-present conditioning factors that have entered the mass western subconscious.
If we look at the historical evidence for western attitudes regarding other peoples it seems to me that this is a rather obvious process that has flowed from the top down to find a place within almost every western mind. The obvious candidates are slavery, colonialism, piracy, plunder, the justifications made for religious conversion and the general elite attitude that the ‘White Man’s Burden’ demands that we teach others how to live like us, believe like us and to adopt our attitudes, ideals and societal and governmental processes.
The first category, that of slavery, had its roots in the need of the settlers on the North American continent for workers. This after the virtual elimination of the native population, or at least the removal of its rights and most of its land. Here we can see some of the facets displayed that reveal attitudes of superior need demanding certain things be done and the justifications inevitably attached to the delivery of those requirements.
The second category demonstrates such proclivities by primarily the white man, that of colonialism. In this case it is even more pronounced. The justifications used were sometimes a profession of good intent being efforts to civilise, improve and ‘bring others up’ to our level of ‘success’ and ‘civilisation’. But however good the intentions of some may have been, as in the case of ‘The British Raj’ in India for example, the initial noble quest can be seen to degenerate over time into the oppressive methods used to control dissent regarding the superiority claimed by the British supervisors and military muscle that bedded itself at the top of Indian society.
The colonial era was arguably begun through piracy in the open seas by gentlemen such as Sir Francis Drake of England who generated vast wealth for the English crown through attacking the cargo ships of Spain at the time when Spain was plundering the civilisations of South America. Later ensued the various wars to become the primary beneficiary of myriad peoples and nations on both the North and South American continents. Britain and France vied with one another for the spoils.
In Africa a great many colonial powers sought to gain footholds. Nations such as Portugal and Belgium along with France and Britain, the Boors of the Netherlands and a host of others who saw the potentiality for gains of many kinds in what were seen as ‘barbaric’ and ‘uncivilised’ peoples within that continent. In their wake came those who personified the third category of ‘superior’ westerners arriving to ‘improve’ what they found in Africa and other nations seen as requiring this fundamental ‘upgrade’. Customs of dress, modes of thinking, beliefs of all kinds, many elements of societal relationships and culture were to be swept away for ‘the greater good’ of dressing, thinking, believing and forming relationships and developing cultures which reflected the ‘better’ western kind.
The political and entrepreneurial business elites seeking wealth, influence, personal and national benefit generated massive funds through all these enterprises and activities with which to fuel their national development. The more the individuals involved succeeded in benefiting themselves the more they benefited their elites at home who in turn were able to develop their societies. In this way initial concepts of western superiority became ever more enhanced and embedded. Along with this process came the affluence which generated a patrician view which felt idealistic to those who had so benefited from the genocide (of the Native Americans), the slavery of millions of Africans, the myriad gains of colonialism and the believed to be civilising effects of religious conversion.
So we arrive at the present day through the many generations since the activities described above. And we arrive with all the most positive aspects of them emphasised in just about every aspect possible and from every quarter, generating, I would argue, a deep subliminal level of conditioning to believe in our own superiority over others that has become almost completely subconscious. We simply ‘feel’ it in almost every fibre of our being. This has erupted at times as overt racism as seen in the generations who suffered from this in North America in particular. But, I suspect if you dare look closely at your own mentality you cannot help but find certain elements and notions of superiority in your own outlook. This I know exists within myself and is an almost inescapable and very likely impossible facet of my being to eliminate. This due to the vast and I would argue all-pervasive and deeply embedded conditioning that derived its power and ubiquity from a desire to cast the very best light on what had been done, counting almost everything related to the past as achievements rather than crimes.
But let us come fully up to the present day and the era of war we have entered. I will argue that notions of exceptionalism in the USA and superiority in the UK, invested to most but not to a totality of extent in their elite superstructure. The notion that we are the crown of creation almost, guided by God, righteous and noble, sensitive, idealistic and desiring to transform lesser beings and societies into some image of ourselves, remains very strong in us. Our relative wealth makes us feel the interventions we make outside of our own national borders are a kind of duty we owe humanity, doing good, expressing the patrician view of lords and ladies toward the unwashed and misguidedly ignorant masses.
In the pursuit of such ‘benefits’ to other peoples, societies and nations there are none so fervent in their desire to do so than those who have taken the name of ‘neoconservatives’. I would argue that these neoconservatives, or neocons as they are often called, are, since 9/11 in the predominant elite positions across the western world. These are the modern day interventionists who stand in place of the sometimes well-intentioned (by their own lights) settlers, slavers, colonialists, outgoing entrepreneurs and missionaries of the past. They have many attitudes in common with those who justified their activities that had such devastating effects on nations other than their own which they conceived the right to intervene in.
Over the past two decades we have seen one violent intervention after another initiated by those who professed that they were ‘doing good’ by such interventions and that they had a vision to bring ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ to those who laboured under distinctly inferior conditions to their own. These new missionaries knowing best what was good for others had and still have tremendous zeal and are indeed modern-day zealots for their cause. Mike Pompeo who was for several years President Trump’s Secretary of State is one such example, a born-again evangelical Christian who believes we are in what is called ‘The End Days’ and who awaits the great ‘rapture’ on the re-arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth.
Coming right up to present time we now have confronting us the wars and threat of wars that reveal what I call the ‘End Game War’, the fight to the death, winning or losing all, of those who conceive their way of life is so vastly superior to all others that they would risk the destruction of the entire planet rather than back down and accept the right of other peoples and nations to have their own sovereign evolution. This, as I see it, is what is going on and has been going on in recent times, particularly since the events of 9/11.
Western elites of all kinds have long considered themselves superior. I hope I have demonstrated this sufficiently above. These attitudes have to a great degree also filtered down to the citizens of their nations, particularly so in the cases of the USA and UK, but also in France and other nations that share (even if subconsciously) surviving elements of abiding western myth, ‘The White Man’s Burden’. Western elites, subconsciously or otherwise, quite clearly conceive that they are the true guardians of civilised behaviour, holding as they do what they see as the ‘best’ systems of governance, the ‘best’ forms of societal rules in regard to regulating their societies and so forth. Due to these notions of exceptionalism and superiority and the concomitant desire to do ‘good’ by transforming all people, societies and nations into our mirror-image we in the West share much in common with those who acted in this manner previously for ‘all the best possible reasons’ as seen by them.
In particular, Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and essentially all nations not accepting de facto rule by the West, are candidates for proactive intervention, undermining and weakening, the creation of sufficient internal chaos, penury or civil war to effect the goals, both short and long-term of the new high priests demanding change among those they define as inferior, the neoconservatives who have commanded the heights of political power in the West since 9/11. Post 9/11 it was certainly decided by this breed of warriors that no system of governance not corresponding to their needs of safety in perpetuity could be tolerated. Now it was not only personal or state good that was to be used to justify international intervention whether packaged as idealistic pursuits or not, now the until those moments assured superiority of power, of the western world was under threat. Therefore ALL individuals, societies and nations not agreeing to be allied to and dominated by the western powers were to be eliminated.
This is where we are now in my opinion. In a world where one group of nations which has always conceived of itself as ‘top dog’, guardians and warders of our world, global policemen and women, warriors for idealistic concepts regarding human freedoms and rights, see their influence waning. The long-held power to dominate is slipping from the grasp of those who have long conceived themselves to be the rightful judge, jury and executioner when it comes to the lesser mortals of other realms. This is, in my opinion, the overarching motivation for just about all we see occurring now within the war fought on many fronts by the western powers… not only to shore up their waning power base, but to increase and expand it to the level I regard as paralleling what would eventually become a de facto prison planet overseen (for the ‘best possible motives’) by them. This they clearly believe is their rightful place in the world and conceive it to almost be their inalienable right, a benevolent dictatorship in the name of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’.
If they succeed I have no doubt we will arrive at the virtual prison planet I mention above, a planet where satellites monitor so much more than even now, where powers exist to strike down at any nascent threat or those perceived as such by the new powers-that-be. Any and all resistance to the domination of the western elites would be quickly snuffed out by one means or another. Surveillance would exist below just as it would from above, citizens will report those who appear to harbour ‘incorrect’ thoughts and who make doubtful relationships with others. The cancel culture of today will be as nothing compared to the tools used to undermine those not conforming to the required ‘norm’ of those future days.
If the USA, UK, EU and Australia, along with Japan and a few others, succeed in their ambitions against virtually all other nations to effect overall success in bringing to a close the ‘End Game War’ in their favour with all “enemy” nations vanquished I would invite you to contemplate how they would manage the resulting ‘peace’. And to ask yourself if it would be a true peace at all or true freedom, or true democracy either. All as a result of a desire to transform others by the West whatever the justifications, the protestations of idealism, posited goodness and well-meaning desires… all of course which have been seen in every case where catastrophe of one kind or another ensued in the past.
These are the reasons why I believe that westerners require to be saved from themselves… and most probably economically and therefore militarily quarantined in order to do so. What is the alternative? A ruined world ravaged by constant war, the end of all hopes of a sustainable peace for any foreseeable future where the zealots of Washington and London’s Whitehall having dispensed with dialogue and diplomacy foment war against their perceived “enemies” everywhere with no limit in mind regarding the level of escalation they are willing to contemplate.
So I ask the question for all our sakes…
DO WESTERNERS NEED SAVING FROM THEMSELVES?