RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.01.2024
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.
*** RUSSIAN ARMY BEARING DOWN ON KIEV’S DWINDLING TROOPS ***
“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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
US citizen Gonzalo Lira abandoned to die in Ukraine.
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EU state promises to stand up for Hungary.
Bratislava will not allow Ukraine's backers to punish Budapest for protecting its national interests, Robert Fico has pledged.
Slovakia will not allow supporters of Ukraine in the EU to punish Hungary for defending its national interests, Prime Minister Robert Fico said during a visit to Budapest on Tuesday, where he met his counterpart, Viktor Orban.
The pledge of support came ahead of an extraordinary EU summit on February 1, at which leaders will be discussing proposed adjustments to the bloc's joint multi-year budget.
Last month, Hungary vetoed a European Commission plan to fund Ukraine to the tune of €50 billion ($54 billion) over four years. A group of 120 EU lawmakers signed a petition last week, urging that Hungary be stripped of its voting rights.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, Fico said he would not allow “such an attack on Hungary” as long as he heads the Slovak government. He said Slovakia shared Hungary’s concerns over the Ukraine conflict and supported Budapest’s position that any funding of Kiev coming from the EU should be done on an annual basis, and subject to regular reviews.
The conditions are “rational and sensible,” Fico said. Kiev backers “cannot expect a country from which funds have been withdrawn to give money to another country,” the senior official stressed. “It is not fair, it is not just.”
Hungary has defied Brussels and many EU member states, arguing that Western arming of Ukraine cannot end its hostility with Russia. Economic restrictions imposed on Moscow in retaliation have caused more damage to the EU than to Russia Orban has argued.
Fico, who became head of the Slovakian government last October following his party’s election win, made a U-turn on the issue compared to the policies of his predecessors. Orban noted during the press conference that he and his guest were in agreement on most EU affairs and that the interests of Hungary and Slovakia were in alignment “at least 99%.”
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The Slovak leader said he didn’t believe that the Ukraine conflict could be resolved militarily. Its continuation will only result in hundreds of thousands of additional unnecessary deaths, Fico predicted. As an ethnic Slav, “it hurts me that Slavs are killing each other,” he stressed.
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French ‘war economy’ wins from Ukraine tensions – defense minister.
The conflict with Russia generates jobs and export advantages for arms manufacturers, Sebastien Lecornu has said.
The surge in demand for weapons amid the Ukraine conflict benefits the economy of France, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu told Le Parisien on Wednesday.
The senior official revealed plans to produce 78 Caesar howitzers for Ukraine in 2024, a goal that he said was made possible via the reorganization of the production process by the arms maker Nexter.
“It took Nexter 30 months to produce a Caesar gun, it now only takes 15! The employees were strongly mobilized,” Lecornu said.
He explained that the defense industry is creating new jobs in the French economy, with tens of thousands generated since 2017.
“The war economy is an opportunity … for our industrialists. They have every interest in these tensions, because the ability to quickly deliver equipment will become one of the criteria for export success,” the minister said, referring to the Ukraine conflict.
French people should “stop flagellating ourselves” for supposedly not doing enough for Ukraine, Lecornu urged. People doing that lack patriotism, he suggested, adding that Kiev never complained about military assistance provided by France.
While the US and its allies rushed to deplete their weapons stockpiles in order to help Ukraine fight Russia, the West’s ability to sustain the supplies in the long run was challenged by its weak industrial base.
EU nations have pledged to deliver one million NATO-standard artillery shells within one year, but are not expected to do so by the March deadline. A hike in global demand for gunpowder has aggravated the situation.
This week, President Emmanuel Macron pledged to send 40 SCALP air-launched cruise missiles and “hundreds of bombs” to Kiev. Lecornu told Le Parisien the delivery will happen in the first half of the year.
Moscow has claimed that Western supplies can only prolong the conflict, but will not change its outcome. Last year the country significantly ramped up its own military production. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported in mid-December that the manufacturing of key items, such as drones and artillery shells, was increased by as much as 170-fold, compared to the levels before the hostilities started.
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Lecornu described the expected tripling of monthly French shell donations to Ukraine by the end of January, year-over-year.
Earlier this week, the Russian military reported identifying a location in Ukraine where foreign fighters were stationed, and hitting it with a precision strike. Most of the personnel were French mercenaries, the statement claimed; over 60 of the combatants are estimated to have been killed.
French ‘war economy’ wins from Ukraine tensions – defense minister.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
Sec Blinken at the WEF.
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USA
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EUROPE
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Alternative for Germany WILL be banned. The Gov. claims "AfD attacks the essence of the republic."
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
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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.
BRICS & A MULTIPOLAR WORLD - WHAT ARE THE WESTERN POWERS SCARED OF?
Might there be a better path for the USA & its allies to find their optimum place in the world rather than endlessly fighting all others in order to change them? Why not join them instead?
China has made enormous strides over the last thirty years in building her economy. Russia, on Vladimir Putin’s watch, has done the same over the last quarter of a century. Alongside these within the BRICS group India has also made great gains in this respect also. Now the entire African continent is poised for something similar. In general the nations of the global south, Middle East and in Latin America are tending to gravitate toward the BRICS group, i.e. to link up with Brazil, Russia, China and India. Joining the group this year are Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
What is the purpose of the BRICS group?
The BRICS group was formed to enhance ease of trading between its members in an atmosphere of non-interference, equality, and mutual benefit.
Over thirty countries including Algeria, Bolivia, Indonesia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Gabon, and Kazakhstan have expressed interest in joining the forum. The BRICS group has a bank embedded within its structure, the New Development Bank.
The latest primary goal of the BRICS group of nations is to increase the use of local currencies when trading. Currently the vast majority of trades are conducted in dollars due to stability, reliability and efficiency factors. The move away from the dollar is seen as necessary however as its use leaves countries open to economic blackmail and sanctions unilaterally applied by the USA, unaccountable to any universal law. The nations seeking to improve their trading networks and to get out from under the threat always held over them by the USA are therefore seeking in increasing numbers to join the BRICS group.
The political elites of the USA, naturally enough, see the above as a threat to their global dominance and are using a variety of methods including sanctions and even the use of the U.S. military to oppose, and if at all possible, to weaken the group.
Inherently bound up with the BRICS group is the concept of multipolarity where power is shared by all nations rather than as it has been up till now, dominated by one nation and its allies, that nation being the United States of America.
At the fall of the Soviet Union and with China still a relatively poor nation compared to the western powers, the USA found itself at the apex of power worldwide in what has become known as the ‘Unipolar Moment’. At this time it was believed that the USA, exercising its newfound and virtually unlimited power, would transform the world in its own image.
The advent of 9/11 and the reaction of the USA’s political elite to it brought into being an extremely powerful dynamic to minimise the power of all potential enemies and, where they deemed it necessary, to eliminate them completely. Thus began a campaign that continues to this day focusing on target nations, among whom are Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, Nicaragua, North Korea and Cuba, some of which are BRICS nations of prospective BRICS nations.
Instead of fighting, along with its allies, to maintain its dominance over all others and in doing so first fragmenting the world, and then presumably knitting it all back together again under its sole command, is there perhaps not an other, better way, to proceed? Essentially, all that needs to happen to achieve that alternative of a well-balanced, multipolar world is that the USA, UK and their allies stand down in their attempt to halt that process. This by somehow or other developing greater insight into the lack of harm in the long term to them, the destructiveness of their current policy, and into the beneficial effects of what will happen if they do this. Currently they are living in the past of former glories with a paranoid filter before their eyes thinking that others will behave as they have done to this point and begin to treat them as enemies.
The very worst thing that is likely to happen in the short term is that their economic prospects will suffer to a degree. You might think that is bad enough and a good enough reason to keep pushing an aggressive, warlike stance against the rising powers of Russia, China and the rest. However, how much of the thinking going on among western elites is projection, that the Russians and Chinese those aligned with them will do to them what they would like to do to those they regard as enemies?
Is there really any reason to believe that the Russians or the Chinese want to act as global cops as the western powers have done for so long now? It is quite clear that their present behaviour indicates a very different approach based upon a high degree of tolerance for diverse systems of governance and an absolute minimum of anything approaching an ideological stance. Their concentration is on coming to agreements that create the stability required for increased trade.
If the USA, UK and EU dropped the idea that they are the indispensable nations and that collectively their duty is to force all other nations to mirror them, the world would
It is certain that from this point onward we would see the newly-formed multipolar world embracing the new, non-aggressive US, UK and EU gladly within its trading network as members fully signed on to maintaining a tolerant ethos worldwide. From this point onward the valuable expertise and ingenuity of the North American people could reach new heights within a new and far more balanced, stable and peaceful world, as opposed to instigating wars that constantly fragment it.