RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.07.2023
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.
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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:
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
LINK: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE UKRAINE WAR. A LECTURE BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
MSM Ukr Heavy Losses: 20% Armour First Weeks, 10% Armour 'Ensuing Weeks'; Ukr Ammo Firing Rate Falls.
THE DURAN
Ukraine big offensive becoming Russian counter-offensive.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
NYT, 20% weapons destroyed. Graham, conflict good for USA. F16 delay. Modi-Macron peace deal. U/1
SCOTT RITTER
Extra Ep. 82: Ask the Inspector.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Ukraine Cannot Win This War: It's Time To Negotiate With Putin.
ANDREI MARTYANOV
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Ukraine EuroMaidan 2014: Revolution or Coup?
JIM RICKARDS
The Cost of War: How the U.S. is Bankrupting Its Economy to Fund Ukraine.
Why the US Keeps Pouring Money into Ukraine.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
German Protesters Rally against Sending Weapons to Ukraine.
EMIL COSMAN
Elite Gurkha soldiers join Russia in its war in Ukraine. Join Wagner and Russia's military.
Massive Wagner convoy arrives in Belarus. Wagner Troops in, Russian military out.
Salesman Ukraine says HIMARS destroyed Russian S-400. The advertising campaign continues.
Ukraine Security Service planned to kill 2 Russian journalists, Simonyan and Sobchak. Russia claims.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russian Forces ‘Defeat’ Ukraine Army In 17 Battles; Putin’s Men ‘Wipe Out’ 73 Artillery Units.
Putin's Deathtrap: 20% Western Tanks Bite The Dust In 14 Days Amid Kyiv's Counteroffensive | Report:
Biden Pushing For U.S.-Russia War? 'Ready To Sacrifice American Lives,' Warns Democrat Kennedy.
MILITARY TV
Why Is Russia Not Dragging The T-14 Armata Tank In Its War With Ukraine Until Now.
MILITARIAN
Russian Troops Blow Up American M2 Bradley.
VANESSA BEELEY - BRIAN BERLETIC
Why doesn't Russia do more when Israel attacks Syria?
VANESSA BEELEY
BBC kicked out of Syria after platforming UK/US/UN proscribed terror group.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Tucker Just ENDED These GOP Candidates’ CAREERS.
CGTN EUROPE
Moscow is yet to make a statement as the Black Sea grain deal deadline nears.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
RUSSIA SHUTS DOWN POLAND'S CONSULAR AGENCY; AN ESPIONAGE IN POLAND UP TO 30 YEARS OR LIFE IN PRISON.
TECH REVOLUTION
Here's The Devastating Reason Behind Europe's Economy's Downfall.
THE HILL
Biden Shipping CLUSTER MUNITIONS to Ukraine; DEADLY To Civilians Incl CHILDREN, Data Show.
SINO SPHERE
China Hits Back In NEW COLD WAR Cancels Top E.U Diplomat Visa to China.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Ghana MP Sam George Dares The West To Sanction Them When They Pass LGBTQ Law.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
U.S. Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 16th July 2023:
India and UAE agree to settle trade in rupees and dirhams.
The two countries have also sealed a deal to link their respective national payment systems.
In a major boost to the position of the Indian rupee, New Delhi and Abu Dhabi on Saturday agreed to create mechanisms for settling trade in national currencies, as opposed to the use of US dollars.
During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s one-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the largest oil producers in the Middle East, the two nations’ central banks signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a framework to promote the use of local currencies such as the rupee and the dirham for cross-border transactions. They will also link their instant payment systems, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the UAE’s Instant Payments Platform (IPP).
"This is a very important aspect of India-UAE cooperation. It paves the way for enhanced economic collaboration and will make international financial interactions simpler," the prime minister said.
The development comes just a day after Modi announced that an agreement had been reached for the use of the UPI payment system in France. The PM said the service will begin from the Eiffel Tower, where Indian tourists will be able to make payments in rupees using a mobile application.
India's Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra described Modi’s trip to Abu Dhabi as “a short but a very significant visit, a landmark in the partnership between India and the UAE.”
Besides the rupee-dirham agreement, it was announced that the state-run Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) would establish a campus in Abu Dhabi in collaboration with IIT-Delhi, while the education ministries of the two nations signed separate agreements on cooperation. IIT-Abu Dhabi will be one of three campuses of the country’s leading tech school, with the other two being in Zanzibar, Tanzania and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Modi hailed India’s global ambitions in the education sphere. “This marks a significant stride in our educational internationalization and is testament to India's innovation prowess. Education is the bond that unites us, it's the spark that ignites innovation. Together, we will leverage this power for mutual prosperity and global betterment,” he tweeted.
During bilateral talks with the president of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, both leaders expressed satisfaction that UAE-India relations have witnessed tremendous progress on all fronts. India-UAE trade rose to $85 billion in 2022, making the Arab nation India’s third-largest trading partner for 2022-23 and India's second-largest export destination. India is the UAE’s second largest trading partner.
Last February, India became the first country with which the UAE signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Bilateral trade has increased by approximately 15% since the CEPA came into effect on May 1, 2022. In a further boost to investment opportunities for the UAE in India, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will set up a free zone in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), which is modeled on the lines of Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), in the next few months.
Indian leader also announced his participation in COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Dubai from November 30 to December 12. The Indian leader met COP28 president-designate Sultan Al Jaber and assured him of India's full support for the UAE’s hosting of the conference.
Modi, who is known to strike a personal rapport with global leaders, thanked the UAE leader for his hospitality. “The manner in which ties between our countries have expanded, you have made a big contribution to that. Every person in India views you as a true friend," he told President Al Nahyan. The UAE leader reciprocated Modi’s goodwill gesture by serving a full vegetarian meal at a banquet in Qasr-al-Watan presidential palace in Abu Dhabi. The prime minister is known to be a strict vegetarian. In 2015, Modi became the first Indian PM to visit the UAE in 34 years. The Gulf state is not just New Delhi’s key trade partner, but provides employment to over 3.5 million Indians and is a major source of remittance inflows to India.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer Operations | Russian Secret Maneuvers In The Northeast. Military Summary For 2023.07.16
The Grain Deal Is Coming To An End | The Battle Of Staromaiorske. Military Summary For 2023.07.16
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
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DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
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DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
FULL FRONT UPDATE: REFLECTION on Zaporizhia Counteroffensive After 41 Days.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Quiet front [16 July 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
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MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
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RYBAR UPDATE
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M MAPPING UPDATE
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WEEB UNION UPDATE
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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.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
THE THREE REASONS YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ALL OF US
The world is on course toward disaster due to the blind arrogance and stupidity of western and Ukrainian elites that takes the form of total insistence upon unattainable goals.
The goals in question cannot be questioned, that is the essence of the danger we all find ourselves in now.
First Reason to Worry - Goal 1
The goal of the neoconservatives who took over all positions of importance after 9/11 is to transform the rest of the world, whether it likes it or not, into a mirror image of the USA, subservient to the USA and therefore of no danger to the USA. This goal cannot be questioned, is set in stone, never to be amended until it has been 100% fulfilled.
Second Reason to Worry - Goal 2
The goal of the extremists in Ukraine (backed by the USA/UK/EU) who took over all positions of importance after the coup there in 2014 have the goal of defeating and destroying Russia, a goal supported by the neocons in Goal 1. This goal, like Goal 1 cannot be questioned, is equally sacrosanct and never to be withdrawn from.
Third Reason to Worry - Goal 3
The goal of the Ukrainian military, as explained by its commander in chief, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, is to strike Russia and kill as many Russians as he likes and he doesn’t care who objects, including any of us who may be wiped out by the very likely nuclear war that then ensues.
What is it that unites all those involved in each of the three goals above?
It is their denial of any alternative to their chosen path. No other means is foreseen by them due to the tunnel vision they all suffer from and through which they cannot help but make the entire world suffer.
These people see diplomacy as a barrier and delaying tactic that will make their goals harder to achieve and set their achievement further back in time. True dialogue they see as a waste of time and instead use every underhand tactic in the book to bring their goal closer to achievement. They have the psychopath’s confidence in self and complete lack of empathy for all others. They are driven men and women who have no time for common sense compromises or the logic of coming to an agreement. For each and every one of them it is all or nothing and always has been.
They would rather see no world at all than a world where their goals cannot be achieved.
And this final characteristic without doubt common to each and every one of them, should be the factor worrying every one of you the most.