RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 02.07.2023
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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“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
Tension over Zaporozhzhye NPP Grows, Ukraine Demands NATO Entry; Russia Huge Tank Production.
THE DURAN
Marine Le Pen attracting critical mass of support in France.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Macron fragile. Poland nukes. Russia, NOT out of missiles. Putin doodle. Seagal replace Shoigu. U/1
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR - UKRAINE WAR OVERVIEW
The Silence of the Numbers: How Many Ukrainians Have Died in the War?
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 78: Ask the Inspector.
GLENN GREENWALD - PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
INTERVIEW: John Mearsheimer On US Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
SCOTT RITTER
Putin's Victory in the Coup: A Premonition of Success in the War.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
FRENCH REVOLUTION | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 252.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, Nuclear provocation at ZNPP, Unrest in France, Unemployed in Russia...
SEAN FOO
Russia’s War Economy Isn’t Breaking - Here’s The Inconvenient Truth.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The Russian Renaissance: Recognising the Reasons to be Grateful to Putin.
RUSSIAN NEWS
On the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine | Russia, Nebenzya, UN Security Council.
SCOTT RITTER
Over 350,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died.
REALTRUTHTALK
Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson & Andrei Martyanov on "The Prigozhin Thing".
SERGEY LAVROV
Can the confrontation between Russia and NATO become nuclear?
Interview of Sergey Lavrov to the media group "Radio and TV Portugal".
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
They have zero chance of breaking through Russian defences.
JACKSON HINKLE
Col Macgregor: Putin BENEFITTED From Wagner "COUP".
Ukrainians FLEE Country Amid General Mobilization.
15K Wagner Soldiers To Belarus, Poland Requests NUKE.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Ukraine crisis: Zelensky insists on Russia's Zaporizhzhia plans; Lukashenko welcomes Wagner fighters.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant to be Bombed? Zelensky's Big Warning Amid War.
Kamikaze Drones and 16 Kalibr Cruise Missiles: Putin's Overnight Aerial Blitz in Kiev | Watch:
"Nuclear War Could Break Out": Putin Ally Medvedev's Chilling Warning to U.S. Over Nukes in Poland.
Russian Lawmaker Tells West to Check if France's Nuclear Arsenal is Safe Amid Violent Protests.
West 'Gives' Ukraine 10 Days to Prove 'Might' Against Russia; Pressure Peaks as NATO Summit Nears.
Putin Dubs Talks With Zelensky 'Senseless' As West Itch For Ceasefire Amid 'Embarrassment' | Watch:
NATO Nation's Arms Giant Thrives Amid Ukraine War; Germany's Rheinmetall Plans New Munitions Line.
Putin Watches as U.S. Plans Transfer of 'Banned' Cluster Bombs to Ukraine to Fight War | Report:
RICHARD MEDHURST
CNN's Worst Article Ever?
JIM RICKARDS
New Feature Unlocked: How Ukraine Has Been a Part of Twitter Censorship.
Biden's Dirty Laundry: Exposing the Corruption of the Biden Clan.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Russia & Putin Are Stronger Than Ever.
RT (RUSSIA TODAY) - ‘CROSSTALK’ DISCUSSION
CrossTalk de 27JUN2023 - Peter Lavelle, Scott Ritter, Steve Gill e Alexandre Guerreiro (legendas PT).
BORZZIKMAN
NATO is Shaking Out of FEAR┃Failure of the AFU Offensive has Enabled Russians to Advance on KUPYANSK.
DEEP WEAPONS
Russia deploys anti-tank armored vehicle set to challenge Bradley IFVs in the battlefield.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
More Failure of Ukrainian offensive along Zaporozhye front to drive out Russian forces.
LENA PETROVA
BRICS Summit 2023: Expectations, Agenda, Goals.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
YELLEN'S DILEMMA. China Dumps US Bonds for Gold, 17 Major Creditors Sell Off, Fed Goes Short.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Finland Threatens To Cut Aid To African Countries For Supporting Russia.
THE GRAYZONE
Was Durham's final report on FBI corruption an empty gesture?
STEPHEN GARDNER
MILLIONS WILL BE HURT By What’s Coming NEXT.
Li Jingjing 李菁菁
Real Stories of Xinjiang: Eradicating Terrorism, and Islam is well preserved in China.
LIU SIVAYA
ZELENSKY RECOGNIZES UKRAINE LOSSES and threatens to take Crimea by the end of the year | liusivaya. (In Spanish. English subtitles.)
RUSSIAN GENERAL ARRESTED?: Where is Sergey Surovikin and why is he not in the media? | liusivaya. (In Spanish. English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 2nd July 2023:
Top US general ‘not surprised’ about Ukraine’s slow offensive.
There should be no illusions about the price Kiev has to pay for making progress, Mark Milley has said.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia will be extremely costly for its troops and will continue for a couple of months, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said on Friday.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the top US military commander offered his take on the Ukraine conflict, saying, “it doesn’t surprise me at all” that Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive is going slower than expected.
“What I had said was this is going to take six, eight, ten weeks. It’s going to be very difficult. It’s going to be very long and it’s going to be very, very bloody,” he said, noting that Kiev’s advance has been hampered by Russian minefields.
“No one should have any illusions about any of that,” he stressed, adding that Ukraine is fighting for survival against a strong adversary.
When asked whether the US will supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, which are banned in more than 100 countries due to the significant risk they pose to the civilian population, Milley noted that Washington “has all kinds of options,” adding that the final decision on the matter rests with US President Joe Biden.
Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale offensive along several sections of the front in early June, but all of their attacks have been repelled with heavy losses, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Last week, Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, estimated Ukrainian losses since the start of the counteroffensive at more than 13,000 troops. Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that for the same period, Kiev lost 259 tanks and 780 armored vehicles.
Ukrainian officials have admitted that the counteroffensive has faced difficulties. President Vladimir Zelensky has said it is developing “slower than desired” in the face of “tough resistance” from Russian troops. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top general, said he gets “pissed off” when people say the offensive is proceeding too slowly, explaining that it is “not a show” and that “every meter is given by blood.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer Operations | The Second Stage Of Ukrainian Offensive Has Started. Military Summary 2023.07.2
Operation Day-D | The Ukrainians Started Reconnaissance Operations. Military Summary For 2023.07.02
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
Commander's Briefing: Wagner Mutiny Memes and what I think actually happened.
DPA WAR UPDATE
[ DPA Open Mic 36 ] France on the verge of Civil War? BRICS+ will be 50% of world GDP; Ukr Offensive.
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: New Russian and Ukrainian ATTACKS (Kherson, Bakhmut, Luhansk).
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine front update [ 2 Jul 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Failed Offensive.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War, Rybar Highlight Reports for the Month of June, 2023.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Ukrainian Assaults & Advances | Ukrainian Summer Offensive Update 07/02/23
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.
NATIONS EXPLOITED BY THE WEST FOR YEARS ARE NOW ESCAPING ITS GRASP
The weight of history lies heavy on all western allies in these extraordinary days we experience now. Their exploits far from their shores over the past century and more have come back to haunt them. These are burdens that come with any control of an empire. The current fall from grace and power of influence across the global south by the West has its origins long ago in the eras of genocide, slavery, plunder, colonialism and exploitation. Reputations built upon these activities do not harm the perpetrators while they maintain a sufficient degree of power over their victims past and present. When the level of power over them is overwhelming of course they tend to be almost totally silent. However, once the western grip slackens and once powers rise that they can align with for protection (such as China and Russia) this changes everything.
The entire world is witnessing the change described above at this, arguably, most crucial time in geopolitical world history. We are at a watershed moment where power and influence are shifting at an unprecedented rate and pace from west to east. The nations of Eurasia and the Global South are realigning themselves at this moment in history where they at long last have the ability to do so. This is seen through diverse changes in what have previously been accepted norms of geopolitical behaviour. The most shocking and unexpected of these has been the reversal of policy by Saudi Arabia, a nation that has in the past been one of the strongest adherents of what became for many the ‘ally with the USA’ norm. This is no longer the rule, in fact it is becoming an extremely rare exception to the rule that has prevailed for so long now.
The USA and its closest ally, the UK have attempted to run the world since the end of WWII. If this is too strong a statement perhaps you will agree to the lesser claim that they were attempting to be the primary controlling influence over the world. During the earliest period of the post-war years they conceived this to be a necessary consequence of having prevailed against the Nazis. Russia of course was crucial in the defeat of the Nazis but this fact was quickly removed from discussion as the Cold War set in. The mythology that prevailed was that the valiant U.S. and UK had won the war due to the fortitude of their elites in standing up to and defeating Hitler. With Europe devastated, with the UK hugely indebted and much of the world reduced to near poverty, who else was going to dominate (and profit) but the USA?
The mythologies that have bolstered North American pride down the years, the pioneering spirit, the self-reliance, pride in achievement, entrepreneurial skill and media professionalism all contributed to giving its population the certainty that it was up to them to “solve” the problems of the world and make each nation into a shining example of how perfect they, their business practices and products, their religious beliefs and their systems of governance were. It felt like the natural order of things with God in his Heaven smiling down on them and urging them on to achieve the ‘manifest destiny’ he had bequeathed them and had charged them with fulfilling. This now almost innate desire to engage with the world and mould each nation into a perfect image of their own nation stemmed from ‘good intentions’.
It was not the intent of the average North American to harm other nations. But at the same time there was a certain virtuous circle involved whereby their acts of assistance generated enormous income for home industries. The high employment and subsequent higher living standards experienced in the Fifties are now seen as the golden age of the North American lifestyle, a time of innocence to a degree when the USA was prospering as the clear winner of WWII. No thought appears to have been given to the inevitable growth of other nations or that they may now always be beholden to the USA and that they would begin to be self-sufficient in many, if not all, the goods that U.S. businesses now sold them. These were the good times and it was felt they were here to stay.
Nations of the historically poor global south began watching the actions of the USA carefully as the Korean War played out, then the Vietnam War. The mythology of the ever-successful and powerful USA began to lose some of its effect. In Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, becoming prime minister in 1954 proceeded to nationalise the Suez Canal. This move, which directly affected western profits, signalled a move away from the notion that the West was all-powerful. The subsequent humiliation of British forces sent to reverse Nasser’s nationalisation emphasised that a sea change had occurred. Of course the success of the West’s long war against the Soviet Union brought Egypt back into line eventually… until now.
‘Egypt has participated in expanded talks within the bloc referred to as "friends of BRICS," which also comprises Argentina, Bangladesh, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Comoros, Cuba, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.’
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/egypt-applied-to-join-brics-russian-ambassador-says/2922050
The Fifties, the heyday of U.S. economic and social success seems a very distant memory (or indeed fabled legend) to most North Americans these days. Riven by a multitude of problems ranging from mass unemployment, collapsing industries, decaying infrastructure, drug deaths, tent cities, regime change war weariness, and political deadlock/corruption, most Americans see their nation moving in totally the wrong direction. With social standards decaying in front of conservative eyes due to the unaccountable rise of wokeism, cancel culture and an apparent ‘anything goes’ attitude that appears rife among the liberal elites of the nation and a new embracing of foreign wars among them is it any surprise that the leaders of the global south look on askance?
So who do the leaders of Asia, Africa and Eurasia look to in response to what they see happening in the United States? Naturally they look to the nations that reflect similar traditional values as they do. These nations have not had the experience or privilege of almost unlimited wealth and seemingly unending success as has been experienced by the USA in the past and at times (though less obviously) the United Kingdom. It has been conservative, traditional values, hard won over generations and the disciples that derive from those traditions that have kept them from the poverty that awaits them otherwise. Not for them the ‘anything goes’, ‘do as you like’ culture that they see infesting most of the western world. To take on such values would mean disaster for these nations and they know that without a shadow of a doubt.
In this day and age technology and software are supposed to solve everything and the western world has graduated away from industries that made things into “industries” that offered a service. One of these “industries” that arguably produces nothing (but occasional bouts of abject misery) is the financial industry of stock market investments. Money making money, or at least this is the hope. The values underlying the ‘making a fast buck’ along with the cutthroat era of casino capitalism has created a great many victims over the years and in North America in particular. This is another aspect of the western lifestyle and general systems overarching everything that traditionally poorer nations could well do without. When they turn to China these days they know that such investments are a far safer bet.
The regime change wars of choice that the collective west has indulged in over the last near two decades have been the final factor on top of all else for the nations now migrating their allegiances east. The apparently unceasing desire of western political elites shared by their media friends, to interrupt and fragment the building of relationships that don’t suit them is no longer being tolerated as before. More than this there is now a clear disgust regarding the fact that the political elites of the West so harmed the world while preening themselves on their “goodness” and the “righteous” nature of these wars. One nation after another was rendered devastated, unstable and a potential threat to order in nations far from western shores but in close proximity to those in the Middle East and closely connected nations and entire continents.
Now we see the African continent realigning, one nation after another, with the BRICS group while strengthening economic ties with both China and Russia. In a number of African nations we see portraits of Vladimir Putin held high in protests along with Russian flags being proudly and hopefully raised. We see colonialist power such as France heavily criticised and encouraged to leave and quit their interfering policies where Africa is concerned. The trend is decisively to steer quickly and resolutely away from the influence and power over them of the western cabal of nations and to align with confidence and resolute determination with their own regional superpower, China. The trend in Africa and in Middle Eastern countries as well as those of Eurasia and Asia appears unstoppable at this point.
The acts down the previous century and long before that made the elites of western nations regarded as invaders, exploiters and illegal, immoral, sources of massive interference were always known. Until recently the opinions and freedom of movement of those who knew of these iniquities created a silent resentment and reluctant obedience to those western “masters”. Now however, the times have changed. Those nations of the West that could threaten with impunity, cause damage and blackmail, twist arms and deliver death and destruction at will if they so desired, are now in a state of inner decay and increasing outward impotence. Now is the time for the nations made victims by these western elite criminals to wrest their long-desired and longed for freedom, connect with those of similar outlook and experience and escape from their western tormentors forever.
