RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.06.2023
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.
*** THE MORE THE WEST REFUSES PEACE, THE MORE IT LOSES ***
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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
Rus Claims Massive Ukr Losses Failed Offensive; Putin Shows Africa Leaders Draft Treaty US/UK Vetoed.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Putin, signed peace deal. Siege of Kiev debunked. Counteroffensive crumbles. Dead spy master? U/1
THE DURAN
Biden White House, project Ukraine policy shift.
THE NEW ATLAS
NATO Arms Fall Short in Ukraine Offensive, US Meddling in Taiwan, & China-Russia in the Pacific.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, African leaders in Russia, US debt-32 trill, Seoul loses Russian market.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Ukraine Counteroffensive NOT Going As Planned...
HISTORIC Visit: Iran's Raisi in Latin America.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
'Kyiv threw it to rubbish heap of history' Putin showing draft deal with Ukraine to African leaders.
RUSSIAN NEWS
There are no prospects for extending the grain deal. Lavrov.
Putin, SPIEF 2023. Today the West is using neo-Nazis in Ukraine against Russia!
Putin, Russia. St. Petersburg International Economic Forum SPIEF 2023. Counter offensive of Ukraine.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN
Plenary session of the 26th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
(English Subtitles Available.)
KATIE HALPER
America’s REAL Objectives In Ukraine.
JACKSON HINKLE
Africa LOVES Putin.
1,000+ Ukrainian Soldiers LOST In Single Day, Putin LEAKS Draft Treaty.
Putin LAUNCHES New Investigation.
Ukrainian Puppets TRAP African Leaders.
HistoryLegends
Waves of Ukrainian Marines STORM Russian Outposts.
SCOTT RITTER
Aces Ukraine has left to play: 3.
REDACTED
Oh SH*T! Germany is going down a DARK road against anti-war voices.
EMIL COSMAN
White House "Physicians" should be fired, license revoked.Medvedev mocks Biden "God, save the Queen".
Germany's self-respect dropped to a new Low. Joins US in breaking NATO accession policy for Ukraine.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
NATO's Storm Shadow, HIMARS Reduced To Ruins; Russia Escalates Fight Near Bakhmut.
Putin's Declaration Of Victory In Ukraine? 'Kyiv Has No weapons, Can't Fight...' | Watch:
High Drama As NATO Nation Blocks Security Of South African Pres. Ramaphosa Before Putin Meet.
Putin's Men Bomb Ukraine's 'Battle Strategy Room' with Cruise Missiles amid War | Watch:
DEEP WEAPONS
Russian Kornet anti-tank guided missiles work Easily Destroying Western Tanks.
MILITARY TV
Ukraine Shocked! Russian Lancet Drones Destroy Leopard 2 Tanks for the First Time.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
BREAKING - Syria intends to join BRICS.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Can China Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict? | Xi Meets Abbas.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Trump PRAISES Tucker in FIERY Speech against the Deep State.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT
Did the debt ceiling deal really save the US from bankruptcy?
GLENN GREENWALD
The Greatness of Daniel Ellsberg, From Heroic Vietnam War Whistleblower to Free Press Activist.
TRIBUN TIMUR OFFICIAL
🔴 Australian-made Bushmaster MRAP knocked out by Russia in front line.
🔴 5 attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled by Russia aviation and artillery units.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia Repels Ukraine's Drone Attack On Oil Pipeline.
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
A Fiery Mess as Leopard rams a burning Bradly.
BORZZIKMAN
NATO is Disappointed and ANGRY because of the Failure of the Ukrainian Army's Counteroffensive.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
POLAND PASSES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING EU’s PLAN, AND ANNOUNCES REFERENDUM.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 18th June 2023:
Highlights from Putin’s policy speech at SPIEF.
The West will ultimately want to discuss the security guarantees it had once rejected, the Russian president has said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made an appearance at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, delivering a lengthy speech and taking part in a Q&A session. Aside from economic topics, the president made multiple statements on international policy affairs, which primarily revolved around the ongoing conflict with Ukraine and a broader standoff against the collective West.
Ukrainian counteroffensive yielding heavy losses – and no gains
Russia’s president provided an update on the ongoing long-heralded Ukrainian counteroffensive, which began tentatively in early June. To date, Kiev’s forces have lost some 186 tanks and 418 armored vehicles of other types, according to Putin.
“Their losses are very heavy – about more than one in ten compared to the Russian army. That is a fact. In terms of hardware, the loss of this equipment is growing every day,” he said, adding that Kiev has thus far failed to achieve its goals, wasting its strategic reserves in the push against Russia’s forces.
Western military aid will not help Ukraine
The intensified military action has caused a rapid depletion of Ukraine’s own war materiel stockpile, Putin said, predicting that the country’s armed forces are set to become entirely dependent on foreign aid in the nearest future.“Well, you won’t be able to wage war for long like that. Our defense industry, however, is growing day by day,” he said.Any weaponry Kiev receives from the collective West will end up destroyed, Putin warned. “Tanks are burning. Among them are the Leopards. They burn. So will the F-16s. There is no doubt,” the president stated, referring to the potential deliveries of advanced US-made aircraft long-sought by Kiev.
NATO involvement in the conflict is deepening
The potential delivery of F-16 fighter jets would get the US-led NATO bloc even more deeply involved into the conflict, Putin said. Moreover, the aircraft may end up stationed abroad, while only operating in Ukraine’s airspace during combat sorties.
In such an event, “we will need to look at how and where we can hit those assets used in combat operations against us,” Putin said. “This is a serious danger of further dragging NATO into this armed conflict.”
West will want to talk to Russia on security guarantees
Moscow has never refused to engage in dialogue with the collective West, coming up with a comprehensive security deal proposal shortly before the ongoing hostilities started, Putin said. The West, however, rejected the dialogue – but it will ultimately be forced to abandon its confrontational stance.
“Regarding whether it is needed to conduct a dialogue with them or not, I repeat once again, we did not reject this dialogue,” Putin said. “It was them who decided to sever this dialogue with us. Well, they don’t want to talk… whatever. They will.”
Russian stance on nuclear weapons use explained
Russia’s president also cautioned against normalizing talk of nuclear weapons use, warning that “the very fact of discussing this topic already lowers the threshold for their use.” At the same time, Putin rejected the idea of engaging in any nuclear disarmament talks with the West.
“We possess more weaponry of such sort than the NATO countries. They know that and are always trying to persuade us to start negotiations on reduction. ‘Nuts’ to them, you know, as our people say,” he said.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Macro Analysis Of Ukraine's Summer Offensive Featuring: Professor Michael Rossi.
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NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
[ DPA Open Mic 34 ] UKRAINE OFFENSIVE CONTINUES; African intervention into the Ukraine War.
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine front update [18 June 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
Ukraine War, Front Line Report for Zaporozhye Counteroffensive June 18, The High Cost in Lives.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Ukraine’s Biggest Loss. Russia Destroyed Massive Ukrainian Force In One Area.
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
Ukrainian Advances End In Complete DISASTER.
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.
THE WESTERN ELITE CREATION OF A DANGEROUSLY DIVIDED WORLD
In the days before Joe Biden took office it was clear what mainstream news media was telling him to do.
Act to back NATO to the hilt and let us have no more of the Trump rhetoric that served only to weaken the resolve of the West to support it. Re-unite all America's allies in a close-knit group that Trump caused to question U.S. solidarity with them. With this re-united coalition of nations, which will once again be called 'The Free World', resolutely face all "enemies" unwilling to back a western world needing and deserving of the support of all after 9/11.
It was clear in those pre-inauguration days that this would be the agenda for the upcoming Biden administration. Of course there would be the usual post-election soft-soap statements designed to give the impression of future unity within the USA itself, that this new administration would work in the interest of ALL Americans, not just those that had voted for Biden. This is invariably said immediately after such an election and invariably forgotten within days.
The foreign policy goal was clear. Unite the nations of the West under the supervision of the USA and its closest allies. The United Kingdom is of course the closest ally to the United States, followed some way behind by Germany and then, taking up the rear but generally extremely compliant are the other nations of the European Union. These would be the tight knit group (plus a few far allies such as Australia and New Zealand and, it was hoped, India, Turkey and Pakistan) who would present a united front against America's "enemies". It was clear then that the world was to be split again as it had been during the Cold War.
This new split however, would be seen to be without many of the checks and balances that characterised the cold War at its best. There would be extremely little diplomacy and where it appeared to be present it would in fact be little more than window dressing used as a tool to weaken, undermine and wrong-foot, the "enemy". Dialogue would be out of the question (though the Trump years appeared to provide some hope that it was indeed taking place. Though if you noticed at the time nothing very much came of it.) Detente? Completely out of the question. The war was to be permanent. Why so?
The reason why the war was to be permanent rests on the decisions made immediately after the events of nine eleven. A policy of no compromise was decided upon. Every last source of future danger was to be eliminated. Diplomacy would only lengthen the time before this could be effected so diplomacy was not to feature. The goal to eliminate and replace all potential sources of future danger was seen as absolutely urgent, there could be no delay. The USA would act with its allies to carry out the task using their overwhelming combined power and influence.
Thus we saw all the wars of choice that came after 9/11. Whether 9/11 was an inside job is irrelevant regarding the forces it unleashed. The attack upon and invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq came in quick succession. Then, seeing that full scale attacks and invasions had not produced perfect results, somewhat other means using proxy forces became the usual modus operandi. For Libya, NATO aerial attack was used. In Syria the use of proxy forces and convenient assistance from nearby interested parties were the tactics employed. Meanwhile every "enemy" was to be targeted by every means possible bar the military, primarily through demonization via already long-standing PsyOps (Psychological Operations) teams and those journalists and news organisations that were still accessible as in the previous CIA venture, 'Operation Mockingbird'.
In the frenetic days after 9/11 it was seen as the patriotic duty of everyone across the western world to support the USA in its time of greatest tragedy and seen as extremely bad form to make ANY criticism of the U.S. or its authorities whatsoever. Therefore there was little need to persuade journalists across the West to write the necessary articles and produce the necessary TV news that fit this new time. America needed all the help it could get against a world that had shown itself to be disgracefully antagonistic toward it. Not that there was not plentiful cause for a great many nations not to see the USA as an innocent friend but more as a threatening and dangerous force that had to be propitiated to.
So it was that a consensus became quickly seen to exist around never saying a word of criticism about U.S. foreign policy or that of its allies. The 'Coalition of the Willing' were a supremely good and above suspicion, almost evangelical force that would slay all the fearsome dragons threatening their own citizens and, of course, presenting a threat to the USA (and through the USA to themselves). The USA and its allies were to get a blank check. Those it opposed and sought to eliminate and replace would get a big fat black cross next to their names. It was simplistic, black and white, good and evil... and so easy to "understand" and get behind. And so easy to communicate with the ideal form of simplistic power to convince. Think Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Plain and simple. Just rinse and repeat. Over and over and over.
The regime change wars of choice however, began to hit problems. The simplistic notions of freedom and democracy and the building of "ideal" societies where they had never existed before began to palpably fail and be seen to fail. The 'Coalition of the Willing' began to refuse calls as the catastrophic failures of the project they had so willingly signed up to began to be excruciatingly obvious. One by one and then all in a rush they left Afghanistan. Iraq... after one chaotic situation after another with myriad forces jostling violently with one another, including ISIS, simply disappeared from the news. Much the same happened regarding Libya. In Syria, according to the simplistic views of the West the forces of darkness (Russia and the Syrian Arab Army) won out and it too largely disappeared from newsprint and screen.
Then came the next candidate before the ultimate and final project to bring down and replace the communist party of China. That candidate was of course Russia and the primary focus of the targeting Vladimir Putin. He had been a prime target since 2007 when he had stated unequivocally that Russia was not willing to be dominated by another nation or group of nations. This was purest anathema to those who insisted (at pain of elimination and replacement) that all nations must accept and fully comply with the now absolutely necessary post-9/11 domination of the western elites. Putin said no, sorry, we in Russia will NOT comply. We'll work with you on all the major international problems of the day, but Russia will not be ruled on major issues from outside her borders.
So it was that Russia came to be a problem to be "solved" and it was proceeded to be solved using the same techniques and tactics described above short of a military engagement; demonisation, diplomacy as a weapon, the media as a weapon, refusal of true dialogue... in short the weaponisation of all and everything that could assist in bringing the Russian leadership and the political structure (and if necessary) the financial and economic structure) of Russia to their knees. NATO, the EU and Ukraine would be the tools devised to effect this. No alleviation of the pressure on Russia would occur during this process. Trickery would take the place of diplomacy, the Minsk peace process would be a sham, no way out would be given Russia regarding the incremental loss of its security. The constant goal was to make it crack, fragment and disintegrate by all means possible.
This is where we are. The leaders of the west have no plan b. The doubling down must continue until the goal that cannot be questioned and has not been since 9/11 MUST be realised. Or the world destroyed in the process. It's all or nothing. No brakes exist or are desired. No diplomacy is advocated, no peace talks, nothing that might save lives and restore some balance and stability, only an ever-increasing beating of war drums and insertion of weaponry. The clock is ticking. The anxieties about China and the need to brings its leaders down before they become even more powerful and influential are growing. Russia must be "done" before that project gets into top gear. Russia however, due to its own needs of survival resists with all it's got.
While we all stand watching, fear rising within us, each day understanding with ever greater clarity the danger we are all in, that this not going to have the same ending as the Cold War, that this is going all the way toward the worst possible climax imaginable and that we stand now on a completely divided world where everything we thought normal is under extreme threat of non-existence. And we feel helpless to do anything to slow the global schism and geopolitical juggernaut of western leadership destroying us all.
