RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 30.03.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 30.03.2024
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.
*** WHAT CAN THE UKRAINIAN REGIME DO WITHOUT ENERGY? ***
“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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.
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Another suspect arrested in connection with Moscow terrorist attack.
The Tajikistani national was detained for violent behavior near Crocus City Hall, one day after the shooting.
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has placed a ninth suspect under arrest in connection with last week’s Crocus City Hall terrorist attack. Nazrimad Lutfulloi, a Tajikistani native, will remain in custody until May 22, according to the court’s ruling.
Lutfulloi was detained by law enforcement near Crocus City Hall on March 23 – one day after the deadly shooting that claimed the lives of more than 140 people. When police officers asked him to show identification, the suspect allegedly started to behave violently, did not respond to police commands, and insulted the security forces.
On March 25, Moscow’s Preobrazhensky Court arrested Lutfulloi for 15 days for petty hooliganism. He pleaded guilty to the charge.
Several days later, however, Russia’s Investigative Committee asked the court to place the Tajikistani national under arrest as a suspect in the Crocus City Hall attack, accusing him of being involved in funding the terrorists.
The Basmanny court had previously approved the arrest of four men believed to have carried out last Friday’s attack, as well as four others who are accused of aiding the terrorists by providing them with a vehicle and renting them an apartment.
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Investigators have confirmed that 11 people have been detained in relation to the attack.
On the evening of March 22, a group of gunmen armed with assault rifles attacked the Crocus City Hall venue in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk, just before a concert by the rock band Picnic was due to start. The venue, with an estimated capacity of 7,500, was almost full at the time of the attack. The terrorists killed the guards, shot concert-goers on sight, then started a fire that quickly spread throughout the building.
At least 144 people, including three children, were killed in the attack, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko reported on Friday. Another 382 people are believed to have been injured, according to the latest media reports.
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Unconditional patriotism has surged to 62% since last year.
Some 94% of Russians describe themselves as patriots, more than at any point since surveys first began, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM) said on Friday.
The increase was driven mainly by a ten percentage point surge in “unconditional” patriotism since last year, which now stands at 62%, VTSIOM revealed. Back in 2005, when the survey first started, it was just 47%.
“Today, the feeling of patriotism is shared approximately equally by men and women (93% and 95%, respectively), the young and the old (87% in the 18-24 category and 94% among those 60+), and residents of cities and the countryside (94% and 95% respectively),” said the pollster.
The recent surge in unconditional patriotism is higher than the eight-point increase in 2022, after the military operation in Ukraine began.
The percentage of Russians who described themselves as “not very” patriotic was the highest in March 2014, prior to the reunification with Crimea. It stood at 13% at the time but has shrunk to just 2% today. Only 1% of Russians have openly declared they don’t feel patriotic at all.
VTSIOM’s poll was based on phone interviews with a representative sample of 1,600 adult Russians, carried out at the beginning of March.
Share of ‘patriotic’ Russians reaches all-time high – poll.
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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 TRAGEDY OF UKRAINIANS AS A TOOL OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
The West, led by the USA, is conducting a proxy war against Russia using the Ukrainian people as an expendable asset. For how much longer will Ukrainians suffer under the rule of U.S. puppet Zelensky?
The political and media elites of the USA, UK and EU are conducting a war to maintain their relevance, a relevancy underpinned by the historic dominance of the West. It may be hard to believe that these elites could be so thoroughly cynical that they could contemplate pursuing a policy where hundreds of thousands die amidst a scenario of mass destruction for the benefit of themselves but this is exactly as it appears. Only the Nazis during the second world war could be said to be more cynical in the pursuit of their own war aims.
As you read this commentary the Ukrainian authorities are using their army to shell the civilian population of Belgorod in Russia, day after day and night after night. There are no military targets in Belgorod, it is a civilian town plain and simple. Yet, since last Christmas the Ukrainians have mercilessly targeted it killing innumerable civilians including several children. You will have noticed no doubt that there has been zero outcry concerning these blatantly terrorist actions across western mainstream media. This absence reveals an implicit support for the targeting of the civilian population in Belgorod and is absolutely shameful.
If Belgorod was an isolated and inexcusable case this would be bad enough, however this behaviour has a long and bloody track record stretching all the way back to the early months of 2014. Back then, after installing a military siege of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine the Ukrainian army and radicals bearing swastika tattoos and insignia, a campaign of mass shelling of the civilians in these regions began. To date some 15,000 to 17,000 have died and the shelling of these primarily civilian populations continues to this day. Yet do we hear condemnations of the Ukrainian army and its extremist militia helpers by the BBC, CNN, MSNBC or any others across the western mainstream media sphere? We do not and have not since the shelling began in 2014.
What we have heard instead from these and other western mainstream media outlets are claim after claim that Russia has engaged in atrocities against the civilian population of Ukraine. These claims are made without any proper, independent investigation having been carried out and against all of the common sense factors mitigating against these claims being true. One of these factors concerns the reason the Russian military has been sent into Ukraine in the first place. This is the goal of protecting the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine from the extreme hatred and violent intent of the ultranationalist population of western Ukraine.
An example of the western media fixing on the Russians as the culprits regarding the mass death of civilians is the incident which occurred early in the conflict in the city of Kramatorsk, a city with a primarily Russian-speaking population. A large number of people had gathered at the main train station hoping to take a train out of the city and away from the front lines. At least one missile hit near the crowd causing many casualties. Cui bono, who benefits? Russia, that is seeking in its campaign to protect such Russian-speakers from Ukrainian missiles and mortar shells? Or the Ukrainian radicals who see all Russian-speakers as subhumans to be destroyed or driven out from Ukraine?
Another example was the destruction of the most popular theatre in Mariupol while a large number of Mariupol residents sheltered inside. Mariupol is another city of the Donbass region that is predominantly Russian-speaking. Once again there is no earthly reason why Russia would wish to attack the people it is seeking to liberate from the yoke of western Ukrainian rule and domination.
In both of these cases and in the case of the mass atrocity committed in Bucha, there are no good reasons why the Russians would perpetrate such crimes against humanity. In the case of Bucha the evidence shows that the victims were those who had previously accepted Russian military rations from the Russian soldiers who had occupied the region. In many cases the ration boxes were strewn near the bodies of those murdered, apparently by Ukrainian special forces. A white armband was also in evidence, something the Ukrainians placed on the arms of those they labelled collaborators. Yet the mainstream media and politicians across the West put the blame on the Russian army who had retreated from Bucha days before.
Ask yourself four questions in particular regarding these events.
1. Cui bono, who benefits?
2. What sense would it have for Russia to target those it had come to liberate?
3. What could be hoped to be gained by Russia while suffering reputational loss?
4. Russia, it is claimed, uses missiles to target civilians. These are expensive missiles in short supply. Where is the sense of doing this while the drawbacks are obvious?
Russia can ill-afford reputational damage either at home or in the West, so why would the Russian military command risk such reputational damage by using extremely expensive missiles to target the Russian-speaking population they have mounted their campaign in part to protect?
The answers to all these questions should be obvious… except for the fact that a never-ending stream of invective from the western mainstream demands that contrary to all logic it was always the Russians who did wrong and never the Ukrainians. This conditioning of western populations has been incessant since Russia began its military engagement with the Ukrainian regime’s forces. In fact it stretches back far further, back to the year 2007 when Vladimir Putin told the assembled dignitaries and political elites of the western world that Russia would not be commanded by any single or group of nations but would tread its own, independent path forward. While reiterating that Russia would cooperate on all issues of international concern such as nuclear proliferation or international terrorism it would remain a thoroughly sovereign nation not subject to outside command or domination.
Putin’s speech in Munich in 2007 was greeted by dismay among the gathering of western elites that February day. The willingness of Putin and Russia to assist on matters of greatest need internationally fell on deaf ears. What was heard and what caused western elite shock and dismay was that Russia had emerged from its poverty-stricken status as an easily manipulated entity and was unwilling to take orders from the West. From that February day onward nothing Putin could say would mend the fences that were smashed during his calmly delivered speech. He became public enemy number one in the West when before he had been largely accepted as the manipulable president of a weak and manipulable Russia.
Putin was slandered from Munich onward. Newspaper and magazine articles began to portray him as a dangerous monster, almost a new and perhaps even more dangerous “dictator” than Hitler. Whereas before Munich, from 2000 to 2207 George W. Bush said he saw a good man in Putin’s eyes, where Putin and his wife were invited to meet with the British royal family in Buckingham Palace and many other positive occasions of acceptance were enacted, after 2007 he was suddenly portrayed as a demon, a thief, a murderer, a dictator and in essence the world’s most evil man. This depiction has continued to be the standard fare within both media and political circles in the West ever since.
The name of Vladimir Putin became fixed in the mind of most westerners as one to be feared and loathed even while the deadly siege of the Donbass regions of Donetsk and Lugansk were pummelled day and night by the Ukrainian army with the full, and indeed fulsome support of the entire political and mainstream media classes of the western world. Ukraine had, in 2014 become fixed upon as the ideal way to bring Putin down. Ukraine was to be drawn away from Russian influence (even though half the country spoke Russian) toward the West provoking and enticing Russia to respond. Ukraine was to be the chosen battering ram against Putin in the West’s desire to collapse the entire system of governance in Russia.
It was clearly thought by the political elites of the West supported fully by western mainstream media that the plan to make Russia expend extensive financial resources militarily in Ukraine (both blood and treasure being expended) while bringing down the Russian economy and banking system through sanctions would result in the toppling of Putin and his subsequent replacement. The Russian campaign would be stopped in its tracks through its financial unsustainability. Russia, hit from all sides due to the effects of the sanctions would have to capitulate, the Russian people would subsequently revolt against him, and Putin would be gone. However, things went catastrophically wrong and it slowly but surely became clear that the very opposite to what was planned was occurring.
When some of the largest, most influential and resource-hungry nations in the world failed to come onboard with the western plan it must surely have become clear to the western elites that they were in serious trouble. When the Russian economy began to stabilise once more with internal solutions found to external threats and attacks this was the time for the West to rethink its plan and negotiate for peace. Instead they doubled down. Negotiations for peace came very near to a successful conclusion soon after Russia’s military campaign began. This was first in Belarus then continued in Istanbul. The essence of a settlement that could bring peace was within reach. Just as this hopeful scenario emerged requiring additional discussion the western elites stepped in and brought all such discussions to a halt. Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev bearing news from the western sponsors of Ukraine that virtually unlimited finance and weaponry would be supplied. Ukraine was to continue the war and, with western help, win.
This secondary ploy can now also seen to have failed. The great Ukrainian summer offensive which was supposed to carry all before it and strike a mortal blow to Russian plans failed abysmally. Ukrainian troops were dying and being injured in their droves. The Soviet-era weaponry Ukraine had used was now all gone along with the most professional of its troops. Air defence was bit by bit destroyed by a Russian air force which gained air superiority. The supplies of munitions as well as most other military resource to Ukraine from the West dwindled as western manufacturing could not keep up with Ukraine’s needs. Meanwhile Russia grew in strength financially, economically and militarily. Now, as you read this, Ukraine is in a truly parlous condition. Not enough manpower for the army. Not enough ammunition for its guns. Not enough air defence to protect itself. Not enough money to pay its bureaucracy. Riven by corruption. Its future as a viable state in increasing doubt. Its troops dying and being grievously injured in ever increasing numbers.
All this while western political elites continue to double down and call for the sacrifice of ever more Ukrainians, unwilling in the face of ever-increasing defeat to let go of their disastrously back-firing plan to undermine the president of Russia. The insanity of attempting the same thing time after time and experiencing the same result is apparently completely lost on them. Determined to use this tool that they have made of Ukraine they double, triple and quadruple down, totally unwilling to recognise their defeat or contemplate the fact of their continuing defeat. No matter how many more hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian die or suffer terrible injury they appear dedicated like a human juggernaut to collectively bring ever more tragedy to that benighted nation.
