RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 07.12.2022
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.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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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’. (185k subscribers):
Kiev Pulling Back in Marinka, Condition Bakhmut Defenders Desperate, Energy System Close to Collapse.
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'Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor' channel. (15.1k subscribers):
Ukraine is not winning and will not win this war.
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‘RealTruthTalk’ channel. (4.93k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks Russia Run Out Of Missiles? Ukraine $helling It's Own!
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ channel. (67.8k subscribers):
Scott Ritter - Ukraine-Russia War Longer than Expected.
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Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’ discuss geopolitical events of the day. (315k subscribers):
Drone strikes, security guarantees, winter build up and oil price caps.
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Latest update from Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ channe. (194k subscribers)
Mark Sleboda: Russia-Ukraine SITREP, Missiles & What Comes Next.
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'Emil Cosman' channel. (37.7k subscribers):
Russia destroys 2 HIMARS systems, 4 more critically damaged, blows up 70 HIMARS missiles in Ukraine.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours (150k subscribers):
Xi Jinping in Riyadh. German crazy coup. Putin, Russia the only guarantor. Person of the Year. U/2
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Musk fires Ex-FBI Baker. Blinken no denial, long range strike. Hungary blocks EU loan. U/1
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‘Scott Ritter Again’ channel. (69.7k subscribers)
Wasteful.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' channel. (112k subscribers):
Xi arrives Saudi's Riyadh for China-Arab summit, China-GCC summit and state visit.
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'Garland Nixon' channel. (37.4k subscribers):
WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER - Episode 12 - West Planned Ukraine War + Battlefield Update.
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‘John Mark Dougan’ channel. (39.9k subscribers):
Interview with Millena Subbotina.
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'Hindustan Times' (4.99 million subscribers):
Jaishankar responds after Ukraine targets India; 'Indian foreign policy is to serve...' | Watch:
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'Hindustan Times' (4.99 million subscribers):
Russian tanks wreak havoc in Maryinka city; No sliver of hope for Zelensky | Details:
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'Firstpost' channel. (166k subscribers):
US Turns its Back on Ukraine After Ukrainian Strikes Deep Inside Russia | Russia Ukraine War.
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'Firstpost' channel. (166k subscribers):
EU Cornered as France and Germany Come to Hungary's Defence | Russia Ukraine War.
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‘True inFo’ channel. (71.4k subscribers):
Russia’s Envoy To UN Made a Harsh Statement about Ukraine and Defiantly Left Meeting Room.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' channel. (112k subscribers):
Putin: Military operation in Ukraine could be 'long process' to achieve results.
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'Douglas Macgregor; channel. (47.3k subscribers):
Ukraine leaves Russia no choice but total annihilation.
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‘John Mark Dougan’ channel. (39.9k subscribers):
Maria is ANGRY! Presents for Donbass Kids, Part 1.
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'Deepin Moments' channel. (45.8k subscribers):
It's Happening! U.S is About to GO BANKRUPT and $31.4 Trillion in Debt Can No Longer Be Paid.
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Europe Finally WAKES UP! Macron's Visit to U.S Unproductive, EU About to Be Torn Apart.
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‘Emil Cosman’ channel. (37.7k subscribers):
Poland arms itself for WAR. Against whom since Russia loses this one? Buys more US Abrams tanks.
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Arrogant Blinken doesn't need our approval to do anything. He knows best.
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West's delusional elites think Russians are ret@rds. They're amazed Russia can make missiles still.
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‘Canadian Prepper’ channel. (886k subscribers):
BREAKING: Russia on High Alert MORE ATTACKS, Poland is Mobilizing For WAR!
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‘Off Grid Desert Farming with Paul & Adrienne’ channel. (71.8k subscribers):
URGENT NEWS:US MILITARY TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE RUSSIA SOON AS 1,000'S OF TANKS & APC'S SHIPPED TO POLAND.
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‘Poland Daily Live’ channel. (21.2k subscribers):
10 modern K2 tanks & 24 K9A1 howitzers from South Korea arrive at Port of Gdynia in Poland.
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‘Redacted’ channel. (1.48 million subscribers):
Attack in Russia: Get ready, this is the last straw for Putin | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’. (198k subscribers):
PUTIN Launches MASSIVE Missile Strike On UKRAINE - HINKLE BANNED From Twitter.
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‘Hindustan Times’ channel. (4.99 million subscribers):
Ukraine embarrassed as EU nation Hungary refuses to train Zelensky's troops, blocks aid to Kyiv.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (33.9k subscribers):
LIVE: DEBUNKING Vaush on China Protests | John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Right, Taiwan WRONG.
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‘Chris Hedges Fan Club’ channel. (53.7k subscribers):
Richard D. Wolff | Decrepit Capitalism.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 7th December 2022:
Ukraine trying to drag US into war – ex-CIA officer.
Drone attacks on Russian airfields fit Kiev’s behavior pattern, claims Philip Giraldi.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is looking for ways to get the US and NATO directly involved in the conflict, former CIA officer Philip Giraldi has said, pointing to Monday’s drone attack at two airfields inside Russia as an example of such tactics.
“This was a clear attempt by Zelensky, in my mind, to escalate the war,” Giraldi told Judge Andrew Napolitano on Monday evening’s episode of the ‘Judging Freedom’ podcast. “He tried to do that with the missile that was misdirected, possibly, and wound up in Poland and killed two people. He even pushed it and said NATO has to intervene now. This could be another attempt to, shall we say, promote an escalation on the part of the Russians that could possibly be construed as a danger to Poland, danger to troops in Poland, that sort of thing. This is the game that’s being played.”
The missile that struck the village of Przewodow last month was quickly identified as Ukrainian, but Zelensky continued to insist otherwise for several days, until both Warsaw and Washington expressed frustration.
Napolitano had pointed out that the US currently has around 40,000 troops in Poland. Their presence creates a “high potential for accidents” and misunderstandings, said Giraldi, noting that Russia would know right away if they made a move to cross the border.
On Monday morning, two drones attempted to strike the Dyagilevo airfield in Ryazan Region and Engels airfield in Saratov Region, more than 500 kilometers from the nearest Ukrainian-controlled territory. Three Russian servicemen were killed and several more injured, but the attack did not disrupt a strategic aviation strike against Ukrainian logistics later in the day, the defense ministry in Moscow said.
“The whole purpose of this is again political,” Giraldi told Napolitano about the attack. “It’s to escalate the process so that Russia – at least in the hopes of Zelensky and his advisers, many of whom are probably American – does something that is really stupid and provocative in return, and this will provoke the NATO-US reaction that Zelensky wants to see. I am convinced that this is what he’s playing at.”
The big question, Giraldi added, is whether the US military and the White House knew of the attack in advance, “and if so, did they approve it?”
The US insists it is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine, but President Joe Biden has said he would support Kiev with weapons and money for “as long as it takes” to defeat Russia on the battlefield.
MAPPING CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (75.8k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 07.12.2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.3k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 286 (6/12): Russia forces attack Bila Hora for the first time, N of Toretsk.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.8k subscribers):
Ukraine War Map | Russia Captures Yakovlivka (Soledar Flank) | New Russian Tanks massing (Somewhere).
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (14.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
Ukraine [7 Dec 2022] 'Today'.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.6k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Dec 7th.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.3k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ VIA ‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
RYBAR: Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on December 6, 2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
[7 December]Russian forces try to encircle Bakhmut from all sides.
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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.