RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 01.03.2023
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 men & 3 women died, all civilians.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’.
Russia Repels Drones, Bakhmut Cauldron 48 Hours; Neocons Double Down, Unlimited Ukraine Support.
THE DURAN: Alex Christoforou & Alexander Mercouris
China arms sale panic.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU OF THE DURAN
Greece train tragedy. TikTok ban. More units into Bakhmut. MSNBC journalist on Peacemaker list. U/1
Latest update from Brian Berletic of 'The New Atlas',
Ukraine A Year Later, US DoD & State Department Officials Retreat into Delusion.
PATRICK LANCASTER
Donetsk Streets Continue To Be Mined By Ukraine (SPECIAL REPORT).
Russian Defence Ministry 28 02 2023 report on the progress of the special military operation.
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
A New COLD WAR.
SCOTT RITTER
Episode 49: Ask the Inspector.
LARRY JOHNSON - EX-CIA
Ukraine war in technical military terms - Andrei Martyanov, Larry C. Johnson and Mike Mihajlovic.
JOURNALIST DMITRI LASCARIS
"The Reality is Ukraine is losing."
KIM IVERSEN
NATO Head Says “Ukraine Will Join Our Alliance".
JACKSON HINKLE
US Mercenary In Ukraine DEFECTS To Russia, EXPOSES Nazi Crimes.
CONFUSED PREPPER
UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED - Douglas Macgregor - Stephen Gardner.
DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Russia Starts Targeting American Soldiers.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO
How far will U.S. support reach into Ukraine? Beginning to sound it's limitless.
THE GRAYZONE
Rachel Maddow freaks out over antiwar rally.
SCOTT RITTER
2-Minute Topic: Listen to Putin.
BREAKING POINTS
EXPOSED: Pentagon Has SECRET Plan For WAR With Iran | Counter Points.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Tucker Carlson Features Jimmy Dore’s Anti-War Rant!
Mediaite SMEARS Jimmy Dore For Telling Truth About Ukraine N@zis.
REDACTED
It’s here and it’s MUCH worse than they’re telling us, the 2023 RECESSION has begun | redacted News
TFIGlobal
#TheGlobalGame: Zelenskyy: Stirring the Pot and sabotaging peace talks.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - COL. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
FOG OF WAR - MOATS Episode 217.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO
In Ukraine the Fighting Remains Intense.
Bribery of Ukraine - w. Tony Schaffer.
Aren't We at War in Ukraine? - Phil Giraldi.
BORZZIKMAN
What the Hell is Going On? The West has Abruptly Changed its Rhetoric towards RUSSIA!
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Would America allow Chinese and Russian weapons in Canada?
TRUE INFO
Putin called on the FSB to stop the activation of "all this scum" promoting separatism in Russia.
RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE
Anya Parampil at Rage Against the War Machine.
REPORTS ON CHINA
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SEAN FOO
China Moves To Flip The World Order - It's Official Now!
LINE FLUX
The NDB, BRICS+ in global governance, expansion strategy.
CGTN
The Point: Western media saturated with slanderous news on China.
SINO SPHERE
Saudi Arabia JUST ANNOUNCED BRICS+ Master Plan Set To Be A GAME CHANGER In The Global Economy!
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
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DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA
The Real United States of America by True Americans (Part 3) | DPA Panels.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
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Putin succeeds in repelling Zelensky's aerial attack on Crimea; Russian Army downs Ukrainian drones.
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NATO shatters Zelensky's membership dream? U.S-led military block clears stand on Ukraine.
ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO
Belarus' Lukashenko state visit to China: meets China's Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing.
LEE CAMP
Not Just The China Balloon, US Has A History of Hysteria.
MINTPRESS NEWS
Zelensky Says If Russia Wins US Troops Will Fight in Europe.
LIU SIVAYA
THE WAGNERS ADVANCE IN ARTYOMOVSK (BAKHMUT): they have already taken the first district | liusivaya. (In Spanish.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Examining Ukraine’s History Of Corruption | NBC News Now.
"United States Is Corrupted!" - The Russian-Ukrainian War Explained.
Bill Gates Says: Ukrainians Are Unlucky - One Of The Most Corrupt Governments, Controlled By Rich Few.
Joe Rogan: Ukraine, Azov Battalion, CORRUPTION and DUMB FACT CHECKERS!
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 1st March 2023:
Concerns mounting over Ukraine aid – top US official.
Both Republicans and Democrats “are starting to question” Washington’s support for Kiev, Victoria Nuland noted.
US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are having second thoughts about providing Ukraine with various types of aid amid its conflict with Russia, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland acknowledged on Monday.
Speaking during a panel discussion hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce, Nuland was asked to comment on the political split in Washington regarding support for Kiev.
The State Department official attempted to downplay friction on the matter, noting that the US “has contributed more than $30 billion to the security, economic prosperity, and humanitarian situation in Ukraine.”
“You can’t do that without overwhelming support of both parties in the Congress,” she added.
However, she proceeded to admit that “on the fringes of both parties, folks are starting to question, but fundamentally, when you look at how this issue is polling around the country, Americans hate a bully.”
According to Nuland, US citizens “understand that if we don’t stop this war here, if we don’t restore international law and respect for the UN Charter, then this thing [will] just keep going.”
Nuland’s remarks come as an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released earlier this month found that 48% of Americans support the US providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29% opposed and 22% remaining on the fence. This is a 12% drop compared to a similar poll in May 2022, when 60% of US adults said they favored American military support for Ukraine.
In recent months, some Republicans have repeatedly called for an audit of US aid to Ukraine, with a relevant resolution narrowly defeated in the House of Representatives in early December. However, in early February, a dozen Republicans in Congress put forward the “Ukraine Fatigue Resolution” calling on Washington to end its military and financial aid to Kiev.
According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, between January 2022 and January 2023, the US government committed some $77.5 billion to Ukraine, with a sizable part of this sum constituting military aid.
Russia has repeatedly warned the West against arming Ukraine, saying it would only prolong the conflict. On Tuesday, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that, by supporting Ukraine, NATO had become fully involved in hostilities between Moscow and Kiev, adding that the US-led military bloc “is no longer acting as our conditional opponent, but as our enemy.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (87.3k subscribers)
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.01
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Final Battles Over Bakhmut Supply Lines Commence 01/03/23.
1 Village Stands Between Wagner Fully Encircling Bakhmut | Full Front Update 01/03/23.
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
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UKRAINE: A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK - WILL IT BE CRACKED IN 2023?
Dismantling the extremist and deeply criminal regime in Ukraine, or at least making it amenable to Russia's needs, is proving much harder than most of us believed at the start of Russia's special military operation. This is due of course to the regime being backed to an enormous degree by the powers of the collective West plus the inhibitions Russia has had regarding the great risk of killing brother and sister Slavs.
All of the above has resulted in a hard slog where the Russian military has had to fight well dug in Ukrainian forces trench by trench and street by street with their enemy occupying emptied out civilian homes, schools and hospitals equipped with the most modern weaponry NATO has. An entire defence line some 1,000 miles long of well-fortified positions were constructed between 2014 and the present day. Breaking through these lines has been a monumental task.
The task of liberating the people of the Donbass region of easter Ukraine who have been shelled remorselessly since 2014 by the Ukrainian army (14,000 have died) has been made even harder by the regime in Kiev sending tens of thousands of poorly trained cannon fodder into the fray as well as using foreign mercenaries and troops from all NATO nations in anonymous uniforms, also in their thousands to the front lines.
I, like many others, assumed over the years since 2014 that if Russia fully committed itself militarily to solving the problem of the Donbass (and NATO) that the fight would not last long and would most likely be over within a few weeks at most. Perhaps this would have been true in 2014 or 2015, Putin has inferred this in recent times. However, in 2014 and 2015 Russia was extremely vulnerable to the inevitable reaction of the western powers by way of sanctions and, due to this, could not do what many in the Donbass, considered vital for their long-term security.
Since 2014, which we can see by the way the fighting has gone, the western powers built the military potential of Ukraine to an inordinate degree. It is clear they knew the start of a Russian military campaign in Ukraine was only a question of when. It must be suspected that the western powers actively planned to create the conditions so that this did indeed occur. Why otherwise would they create such massive defences by way of array after array of trenches and command points, and of course train the Ukrainian military to a NATO standard of readiness?
The goal was clearly from the start to invite Russia to invade Ukraine in order to drain it of its financial and economic resources and so weaken it. The plan was to apply as many sanctions as possible to Russia while doing so, thus delivering a double-whammy that would undermine the nation, cause chaos on the streets and ultimately bring about regime change and the replacement of Russia's president and system of governance. New people, willing to be compliant to the commands of the western powers were envisaged within the plan to take over and neutralise Russia and subsequently split it into pieces, Balkanizing it.
Though the western powers may have planned to have Russia instigate its campaign it was a high risk strategy. If Putin and his advisers underestimated the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to negotiate, and therefore the degree of determination of its backers to resist anything amounting to negotiations, then those western leaders have also miscalculated.
Russia had successfully strengthened its economic and financial systems since 2014 just as the West has strengthened Ukraine's defensive capabilities. Due to this robust level of strength in depth Russia has been able to successfully weather every attack upon it by the West and has accurately delivered many blows of its own upon each unfriendly western nation.
But this still leaves Ukraine as a very tough nut to crack, mainly due to Russia not just fighting Ukraine but the entire western world as led by its current crop of leaders, determined as they clearly are to win out against Russia no matter the cost. We have seen the leaders of these nations continue to double down to this point in time. But are we seeing things begin to change? Throwing billions after billions can surely only last so long and as the taxpayers increasingly see their hard-earned money thrown away abroad while they suffer more and more at home, something's surely got to give sooner or later.
2023 will I, believe, be the crucial year that reveals the outcome of what may be called the end game war, the very last world war, a war that will determine nothing less than the global political, geopolitical, economic, financial and social global future for all years and all generations to come. Clearly this is a battle to achieve a unipolar world by the West where its leaders act as wardens over a de facto prison planet. While the West seeks this, Russia, China, India and others are working to succeed in bringing about a multipolar world where diverse forms of governance are tolerated, and where trade, agreement and mutual respect for sovereignty between nations are the most primary features.
2023 will, I believe, at the very least, show us clearly which of these two crucial outcomes for each side is most likely, even if an outright victory for one or the other is not achievable by year's end. At the very least we will know without doubt exactly where we are headed and that alone will surely signal the coming the end of this struggle. The stakes therefore could not possibly be higher.
The signals emerging now show increasing doubt among the western protagonists and alongside this an equal measure of increasing unwillingness by western populations to continue down the present path their leaders appear determined to take them.
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