RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.03.2023
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.
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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:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Russia Storms Bakhmut Defence, Ukraine Counterattack, Putin Meets Commanders, FT EU Out of Shells.
BRIAN BERLETIC
Avdeevka Encirclement + US Prepares Ukraine for "Last Chance" Offensive, Surging Ammunition.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Germany, we will arrest Putin. Denmark denies Russia. Vucic, close to deal. US airlines upset. U/1
GEORGE GALLOWAY
IRAQ REQUIEM - MOATS Episode 222.
THE DURAN
SVB collapse, surviving Biden's presidency.
Q & A: Bakhmut heats up.
RICHARD MEDHURST
“Our Society Is Sick” | They Brainwash You About Ukraine.
BRIAN BERLETIC
Washington's Downed Drone + Growing Admissions of Ukraine's Military Deterioration.
IEARLGREY
Putin Visits Mariupol. Ukrainian Troops Gas THEMSELVES. UBS asks for $6bn government guarantees.
GARLAND NIXON
PUTIN XI MEETING - CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP AND PUTIN.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Update on Ukraine, Putin in Crimea and Donbass, Trump, Banking Crisis, Russia's Economic Success...
CCTV
Nobody Believes Official Narratives on Iraq War: Former U.S. Marine.
U.S. Tour of Duty
Scott Ritter on the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
TUCKER CARLSON - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The last thing Americans need is war against Russia and China.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
"UKRAINE is About to be ANNIHILATED".
The Russians have destroyed THREE UKRAINIAN ARMIES.
It’s Over For Ukraine.
Russia's Major Victory in the East.
Not Good Strategy.
numuves
How much is Lockheed Martin profiting from Ukraine war?
Madeleine Albright justifies killing 500,000 Iraqi children as result of US invasion.
American soldier exposes lies about Iraq's WMD used to justify invasion of Iraq.
Invitation of Ukraine into NATO by G.W. Bush was act of planned aggression against Russia.
CTGN EUROPE
Putin makes surprise visit to Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.
JACKSON HINKLE
PUTIN Issued Arrest Warrant & Declared "WAR CRIMINAL" By ICC.
KIM IVERSEN
Economy Headed for Massive Deflation?
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
U.S. General Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ukraine!
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin stuns Zelensky, lands in Ukraine; Drives car in Russia-held Mariupol, chats with people.
Putin's surprise visit to Ukraine war control room; Gets briefed on Russian military operation.
Putin's army brings out 'Typhoon' APC as Russia eyes 'liberation' of Bakhmut in Donetsk.
‘Schizophrenic’: Russia fumes as Biden welcomes warrant against Putin | What Happens Next?
Iran says 'powerful' India can stand against West; Renews offer to sell oil to New Delhi.
Watch dramatic footage of Putin’s ‘Bomber’ drone destroying NATO-made MLRS in Avdiivka.
Serbia fumes at EU; Putin’s ally protests West-backed peace deal | ‘Kosovo Not For Sale’.
STEPHEN GARDNER
System RIGGED: Confidence In Banking System COLLAPSING | Gregory Mannarino.
Donald Trump BEING ARRESTED By New York District Attorney.
RUSSELL BRAND - DR. CORNEL WEST
You're NOT ALLOWED To Say THIS About Jan 6th.
Democracy Now!
The Nord Stream Bombing: Jeremy Scahill on Why U.S. Remains Most Likely Culprit in Pipeline Sabotage.
LONDON REAL
I Would Not Mess With Putin 🇷🇺👊- Seymour Hersh.
LINE FLUX
BRICS Currency already in circulationB i RICS+ go for single cryptocurrency.
CGTN
Black Sea grain deal extended.
TFIGlobal
Biden is finally coming to terms with Maduro | World News.
TECH REVOLUTION
China's NEW Oil And Gas Deal With Afghanistan STRIKES U.S With A MASSIVE Blow.
CGTN EUROPE
Pension protests hit Paris.
New Journey - The Agenda.
CANADIAN PREPPER
URGENT WARNING: "THE Games OVER" Prepare IMMEDIATELY.
INVESTOPADS
You're Being INSTRUCTED Not To Notice This. | Jim Rickards' Last WARNING.
LIU SIVAYA
Planes for Ukraine, Western sanctions against China and Putin in search and capture | liusivaya.
(In Spanish.)
YES, THERE IS LACK OF MISSILES BUT not only Russia is suffering it. "Ammunition Hunger". | liusivaya.
(In Spanish)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
John Mearsheimer discusses his book "The Great Delusion".
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 19th March 2023:
Arrest would deliver Trump 2024 election in ‘landslide’ – Musk.
The former US president has predicted he will be detained on Tuesday on a charge of falsifying business records.
If former US President Donald Trump is arrested next week, he will win the 2024 election in a “landslide victory,” Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday in response to a Fox News clip discussing the possibility of the former president being “handcuffed” and processed through the New York City court system.
“If this happens, Trump will be re-elected in a landslide victory,” Musk said in the tweet, a reply to a similar – though less emphatic – prediction from Canadian lawyer @thevivafrei.
The opinion that this scenario might propel the former reality TV star back into the White House is not an uncommon one, and appears to be shared by Trump himself. He alerted his followers to his impending arrest on Truth Social on Saturday, urging them to “protest, take our nation back!” His post highlights that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is discussing security for such an eventuality, perhaps suggesting that the authorities may be wary of the response of Trump’s followers.
The predicted indictment of the former president on what are expected to be campaign finance violation charges would be the first of its kind in US history. Even former President Richard Nixon was not prosecuted after he resigned from office following the Watergate scandal.
Trump’s lawyer has accused prosecutor Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, of having “weaponized” the legal system, leveraging a misdemeanor charge that federal prosecutors did not deem worthy of prosecution into a felony. If he is found guilty before November 2024, it could potentially keep him from the White House.
When the FBI staged a nighttime raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida estate last summer, the New York Times expressed concern that the agency’s heavy-handed tactics would galvanize the former president’s base, with the resulting electoral turmoil not only allowing Republicans to seize control of Congress, but handing Trump the 2024 nomination on a silver platter.
While Republicans did take back the House of Representatives, the midterms fell short of the partisan rout expected by many on the right, with the Senate remaining in Democratic hands. Although incumbent President Joe Biden’s approval rating hovers near record lows, even among those in his own party, most polls pitting him against Trump have Biden leading by a handful of points. An arrest could easily push Trump over the top, according to Musk and many others.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Bakhmut operational pause. Avdiivka cauldron. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.19
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Russian Forces Pierce Central Bakhmut.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Open Mic 21 ] Canada Stronk? Manipulation of Thoughts; ICC vs Putin; USD threatened; Orthodoxy war.
DPA WAR UPDATE
UKR ZAPO SPRING OFFENSIVE; Russia progress in Bakhmut & Avdiivka [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 388 (18/3).
[ BAKHMUT ] 500 METERS FROM ADMINISTRATION BUILDING - Wagner Forces progress in the S & SW Bakhmut.
UKRAINE ZAPORIZHZHIA OFFENSIVE - Ukraine launches major ground ops south of Orikhiv/Novodanylivka.
RUSSIA CLOSING ON AVDIIVKA COKE PLANT - Russian forces expanding control south of Krasnohorivka.
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front update [19 March 2023] 'Today'.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Double Envelopment of Siversk.
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Double Envelopment of Siversk.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Day388 [19 March] Russians continue to expand territories in Bakhmut.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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
UKRAINE: THINKING WITHIN THE WESTERN GEOPOLITICAL BOX
How much sense does it have to ignore objective reality and to instead embrace a subjective wishlist of concepts creating boundaries outside of which you cannot think or speak?
This for me is the self-created miasma of myopia that western political and media elites have created for themselves.
Conceiving Putin as Hitler and the Russian military as the new Nazis is all very well and effectively shores up massive support in the western world among those who retain belief in their elites despite all historical reasons not to. But what happens when objective, on the ground, reality is completely lost sight of and a massive consensus based on the desired reality rather than the actual reality permeates and dominates pervasively?
Waging any kind of war brings with it the obvious and natural use of the information weapon, the creative distortion of reality that serves to bolster support and potentially weaken enemy morale. My contention here however is that this can only be sustained while that enemy shows any sign of being beaten.
There lies the rub.
Russia is winning.
On the economic front Russia has taken each and every blow aimed at it and has survived. More than that and much to the chagrin of western leaders it has adapted its systems to ensure they are further strengthened and made impermeable to future attacks from the West. We can add many features of the new reality which demonstrate beyond any question that Russia will ultimately be greatly strengthened, not weakened by western aggression toward it.
A fundamental miscalculation has been arrived at in the West that failed to acknowledge the reaction of much of the world to its many regime change wars of recent years. Nations attempting to build their economies and the politicians charged with doing this across the global south can surely only be doubtful regarding whether such actions can bring the stability they need. Quite on the contrary such upheavals are much more likely to bring them worse conditions and all, apparently, for the sake of the self-interests of the West.
The western political elites have found much to their dismay that those they relied upon in the global south to support them and condemn Russia are not doing so. Exacerbating this factor is a further economic factor, that Russia has many of the vital resources and products they can hardly do without. This leaves the West increasingly isolated, not Russia. In fact the prestige and respect along with its power of influence is rising, not falling.
Meanwhile a mass propaganda (or if you like an information) campaign has been mounted to promote the western view, its agenda, narratives and talking points. This has sought to create a black and white scenario absent any reference to the past whereby the West and their allies/proxies are wholly right and Russia and its allies are wholly wrong.
This is where subjective wishlist fantasy conflicts with objective, on the ground, reality.
Many pejorative things, in fact a plethora of these arrows of propaganda and viewpoint manipulation are created on a daily basis about Russia and its campaign in Ukraine, all attempting to build a certain picture that it is hoped will achieve certain aims. These comprise bolstering Ukrainian morale, shoring up to the max all opinionating that casts Putin as a vengeful, out of control demon facing imminent defeat by the plucky, infinitely brave Ukrainians who are defying all odds as a David defeating an evil Goliath and creating an overall momentum that it is hoped will lead to Russia being weakened, defeated and withdrawing from Ukraine.
The wishlist, wishful-thinking fantasy had its merits and achieved an enormous groundswell of support along with an acceptance that almost unlimited funds needed at home should instead be sent to Ukraine. However, with Russia winning on all fronts this consensus is beginning to fall apart and some rowing back on the expenditure via weaponry and financial gifts to Ukraine is now in evidence.
Everyone in the West is used to the endless series of TV and movie creations where the villain always loses in the end after seemingly unstoppable progress doing his or her evil deeds. The hero always prevails against all odds to slay whatever storyline “dragon” is involved. Reality is suspended. But life is not like that. However, in certain circumstances and especially when the full might and weight of political and media volume wishes it, a similar suspension of reality can be achieved in real life as opposed to within some Hollywood fiction.
So has it been with Ukraine. And so it was with several regime change wars conducted previously, most infamously against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. The demon must be depicted as totally black. Now of course virtually no historical leader has been totally white, unimpeded by egotistic peccadillos, moral failings or dubious ethical values in thought or deed. But those who are conceived as vital subjects for elimination by western powers have universally been depicted as being as black as night (or whatever other analogy you prefer).
Putin was not supposed to survive. This was not the movie being envisaged. Russia was meant to descend screaming to a state of abject penury whereupon all those aspects of its governance would be overturned. The western “heroes” were then to march in to save the day and rescue every princess from every dragon’s clutches or fiery jaws.
The movie projector has gone rogue. What is being increasingly seen on the screen of elite western minds is not at all what they wished for and they are having huge problems in negotiating ways to deal with this fat, with the realities they are being exposed to.
What to do?
How can all those PR realities now be negated after their careful creation? How can the expectations that everything will come right at the end of the “movie” be adjusted significantly enough to allow those things which must now be done to be done? How much lying will be exposed destroying reputations across the board with the attendant humiliation this will entail?
Western political elites WILL find ways to fudge reality and avoid the maximum humiliation that should come their way. They showed this in the aftermath of many previous inadvisable adventures they involved themselves in such as that over Iraq and its non-existent WMD. But make no mistake. There WILL be a heavy price to pay over the Ukraine debacle and the reputation of the West, already hugely damaged by the reckless regime change wars of the past will, in my estimation, be dealt a terminal blow in regard to it creating a unipolar world where it is supremely dominant.
That is arguably, ultimately the greatest and most sought for reality that will be exposed as a totally unattainable fantasy and which the global south along with Russia and China will increasingly point to as the last great delusion held by an economically dying western world.
