RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.11.2022
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.11.2022
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.
Please note: We are now on the North American continent rather than the European. Updates will occur at different times than previously. This will remain the case for the next five days or so.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’:
Russia Withdraws from Kherson, Surovikin Steadies Nerves, Promises Offensive.
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Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ provides his observations on the strategic withdrawal of Russian troops in Kherson region:
New Atlas LIVE: Kherson Withdrawal - Seeing the Bigger Picture.
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Gonzalo Lira, based in Kharkov, Ukraine holds a group discussion:
The Roundtable #34: The Kherson Withdrawal, with Brian Berletic, Andrei Martyanov.
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Judge Napolitano questions Scott Ritter on the Russian withdrawal from Kherson City:
Kherson Withdrawal... What does it mean?
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Russian retreat or smart strategy? Scott Ritter.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours:
FTX meltdown. Serbia turns to IMF. Biden, NO to drones. Putin, NO to G20. POTUS Fetterman. U/1
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U.S. Tour of Duty channel with Scott Ritter:
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 20: Ask the Inspector.
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Discussion and debate on the conflict in Ukraine from ‘The Real News Network:
Panel: Ukrainian and Russian academics discuss the war.
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Jackson Hinkle and his show ‘The Dive’ have become very popular on YouTube in recent months (195k subscribers):
RUSSIA WITHDRAWS FROM KHERSON.
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Recent editions of ‘REDACTED’, a show that in recent months has garnered an impressive 1.4 million subscribers:
EVERYTHING changes in 4 weeks; this is Putin's calm before the storm | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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Why is NO ONE stopping this? U.S. now provoking war with China | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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This is their SECRET plan to control us | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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The WEF just admitted the TRUTH about the coming recession and China is watching | Redacted News.
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Why are they HIDING this? We need ANSWERS now | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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Latest updates from Firstpost international news channel:
US and Europe Hope for End to Ukraine War in Winter | Russia Gesture in Kherson | Russia Ukraine War.
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Europe Continues Buying Russian Gas Despite Tall Claims | Ukraine Betrayed? | Europe Energy Crisis.
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Widespread Protests Show Support for Ukraine is Evaporating in Europe Amid Economic Crisis.
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Ukraine Submits to US and European Pressure for Talks with Russia | Russia Ukraine War.
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Commentary clip from Colonel Douglas Macgregor:
Catastrophe.
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Latest video from the popular BORZZIKMAN channel (115k subscribers):
The U.S. is Terrified about Russian Top-Secret Satellite Inspectors│Space Turns into a Battlefield.
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Garland Nixon’s observations on Europe’s future in light of the conflict in Ukraine and sanctions on Russia:
EUROPE'S FUTURE IS SET.. AND IT AIN'T PRETTY.
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Judge Napolitano comments upon the American political scene:
Our American political system... Third party 😆
George Galloway talks with Pulitzer- proze-winning journalist, Chris Hedges:
INTERVIEW: Despite confusion there’s one clear US midterm winner. #RonDeSantis. Stalking #Trump.
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Russia-Ukraine War: The West vs. The Rest?
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The Chris Hedges Report: America's dangerous leaders with Andrew Bacevich.
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George Galloway on his ‘The Mother of all Talk Shows’:
INTERVIEW: You can predict the winner with 95% success, dependent on who raised the most money.
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Scott Ritter Explains Why Russia's Kherson Withdrawal is a Pyrrhic Ukrainian Victory.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from parts of Kherson to form defensive positions on the left bank of the Dnepr River, after commander of all Russian forces in Ukraine Sergei Surovikin warned of Kiev's plans to launch a massive missile attack on a local dam and indiscriminate strikes on civilians.
Speaking with Sputnik, Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, has explained why the decision to relocate Russian troops to the left bank of the Dnepr River shouldn't be viewed as a "Russian defeat," but rather as a "pyrrhic Ukrainian victory."
Sputnik: What are the main reasons for the Russian withdrawal from parts of Kherson? Is this a reasonable move, given circumstances such as the approaching winter?
Scott Ritter: I think the decision was made irregardless of the weather. This is a decision that seemed to focus on preserving the lives of thousands of Russian soldiers over holding on to territory which has no intrinsic value in the short term. I think it was a just decision, one that was made based upon purely military objectives. I think the decision had been made because it was too difficult to reliably supply the Russian troops stationed on the right bank of the river in the vicinity of Kherson with the materiel necessary to ensure their victory over attacking Ukrainian forces and that ultimately these lives could be saved by going back to the left bank, securing their defensive positions and then holding off the Ukrainians, until such time Russia was able to accumulate sufficient offensive military power necessary to retake Kherson, reoccupy the right bank and possibly advance further into Ukraine.
Sputnik: What does Ukraine win and lose by occupying the right bank?
Ritter: First and foremost, this will be a very big political victory for Ukraine. There should be no doubt about this. Ukraine will be capturing or recapturing from their perspective the only major administrative center that had been captured by the Russians in their special military operation. The recapture of Kherson has been a strategic objective of the Zelensky government and the Ukrainian military from the start of their major counter-offensive in September. And if they are able to put troops in Kherson, raise the Ukrainian flag over the administrative buildings of Kherson, this will be seen as an extraordinarily important political victory for them, one which will be able to be used to argue for continued military and financial support from NATO, from the United States and from other nations.
But it's a political victory only because unless the Ukrainian occupation of Kherson occured in partnership with a larger peace agreement that guaranteed them possession of Kherson in perpetuity, this is, I believe, simply a temporary state of affairs that ultimately, once Russia is able to assemble the totality of the 300,000 men that were mobilized and then carry out combat operations reflective of this new military capacity, that Russia will recapture Kherson, reoccupy the right bank of the Dnepr River and as I said before, have the possibility of advancing further into Ukraine up to and including the capture of the city of Odessa.
Sputnik: In his report to the defense minister, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine Surovikin pointed out that Ukraine’s losses are 7-8 times greater than Russia’s. Can Ukraine really continue to rely on rapid advances?
Ritter: This is ultimately the military math that must be considered by everybody who is assessing the situation. The fact of the matter is, Ukraine cannot continue to operate under conditions where it's suffering seven to eight times casualties as their Russian opponents and expect to emerge from this conflict victorious. The casualty rate is too high. It's unsustainable, and ultimately, if it continues, will lead to the strategic defeat of Ukraine.
This is why the Kherson operation must be viewed not as a Russians defeat, but as a pyrrhic Ukrainian victory, that means that Ukraine may have achieved a political victory, but the military cost that they take was too high, unsustainable and ultimately will lead to the defeat of Ukraine.
Sputnik: What does this move say about the Russian strategy? Is Moscow playing the long game in Ukraine? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy?
Ritter: First and foremost, this should demonstrate to the Russian mothers, wives and daughters that the Russian government takes the lives of their loved ones, the men who have been sent into combat very seriously and is not willing to sacrifice them needlessly. That's an extraordinarily important statement being made by the Russian government, where they are willing to accept short-term embarassment in exchange for preserving the lives of Russia's most precious asset, which is its human resources, in this case, the men who wear the uniform of the Russian army.
It also shows that Russia is in no hurry to get this conflict over with, that Russia is willing to consolidate its defenses in order to preserve life potentially extending the conflict, but in a manner which allows Russia to gain the advantage at a time and place that's more beneficial to Russia, so that not only will Russia ultimately achieve the military victory it seeks, but it will do so without needlessly sacrificing thousands of Russian military lives.
MAPPING CHANNELS
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL:
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 10.11.2022.
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LATEST UPDATES FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL:
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING :
Russia-Ukraine War: Ukraine Retakes 41 Towns, Russia Retreats From Kherson - November 10th.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’:
Russia Ukraine War Russia Planning Major Summer Offensive.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’:
Ukraine War Map | RUSSIA EVACUATES | Ukraine to soon Occupy Kherson City | Editing is back!
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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.
