RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 06.05.2024
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.
*** HOW LONG BEFORE UKRAINE’S FRONT LINE CRUMBLES? ***
“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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
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ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: Ammo to Israel frozen. French Foreign Legion in Ukraine. Macron meets Xi. Elensky changes shirts.
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Ukraine Risks Losing Key Donbass City 'Before Summer'.
Having successfully repelled the massive Ukrainian counteroffensive last year, Russian forces have been hammering Kiev regime forces across the front line.
With the Ukrainian military suffering one defeat after another, things are looking pretty bleak for the Kiev regime.
As Russian troops continue to make gains after punching through the Ukrainian defenses at Avdeyevka, Kiev may soon lose its hold on a number of key cities, Newsweek claims.
According to the media outlet, the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People’s Republic, currently under Kiev’s control, may fall to Russian forces “before summer.”
Chasov Yar has served as a “vital staging point for Ukrainian forces and sits on a hill with commanding views over the surrounding area,” the media outlet notes, adding that it also serves as a “gateway” to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, two prominent cities that Russia needs to secure in order to finally drive the Kiev forces from Donbass.
Ukraine Risks Losing Key Donbass City 'Before Summer'.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: The death of ideology | John Mearsheimer [Full Interview].
GARLAND NIXON: NATO PANIC - UKRAINE'S TOWNS FALLING LIKE DOMINOES.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER: Ukraine is Heading for TOTAL COLLAPSE and Russia's Had ENOUGH ft. Garland Nixon.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER: NATO CROSSES PUTIN’S RED LINE | STORM COMING FOR UKRAINE | US-CHINA WAR ESCALATES.
REDACTED: "Ukraine will COLLAPSE in 2 weeks." as Putin readies massive offensive.
'Putin Winning, Ukraine Losing': Big Confirmation By CNN From Eastern Areas Of War-Torn Nation.
Russia Deploys 50+ Pantsir Systems to Counter Drone Strikes.
BORZZIKMAN: French Soldiers Were Wiped Out In KHARKIV By ISKANDER Missiles┃Russia Captured KOTLYAROVKA.
EU Top Official's Big Confession: 'Not All See Russia As Threat'; West's Pro-Ukraine Push Fumbling?
RUSSELL BRAND: “This Is A Dangerous Moment In American History” - They're Pushing For WW3.
EMIL COSMAN: I told you. France's Mini Dictator Macron wants to RUN again. But, Putin is bad!
ISRAEL <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDERMERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Campus protests and Biden policy w/ Jeffrey Sachs.
GEORGE GALLOWAY MP - CHRIS HEDGES: INTERVIEW: The walls are closing in on the ability to dissent, says cancelled Chris Hedges.
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt college commencement ceremony (VIDEOS).
The activists shouted slogans against “funding genocide” during a ceremony at Michigan Stadium.
(View videos at main article link below.)
Pro-Palestinian protesters shout slogans at the University of Michigan’s spring commencement ceremony on May 4, 2024 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. © Nic Antaya / Getty Images
Dozens of pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the University of Michigan spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, demanding that the college cut ties with Israel over the ongoing war in Gaza.
During the event at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, students in Arab-style headscarves and graduation caps chanted “regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!” and “disclose, divest, we will not stop!” They held up Palestinian flags as they were walking between the aisles.
Some attendees shouted back at the protesters. One yelled “shut the f**k up,” while someone in the audience was heard screaming “you’re ruining our graduation!”
According to the New York Times, a plane flew over the stadium with a sign that said “Free Palestine” and “Divest from Israel now.” Another plane carried the message “We stand with Israel. Jewish lives matter.”
The protest occurred after more than 2,300 Palestine supporters were arrested across over 70 US college campuses this week for sit-ins and refusing to leave makeshift encampments on university grounds, according to an NBC News tally. On several occasions, police resorted to using stun grenades and pepper spray when students and activists failed to comply with orders.
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The affected universities issued statements saying they were forced to turn to the police for help because the protesters were disturbing the education process and violating campus regulations. Pro-Palestine activists have also been accused of accosting Jewish students and shouting anti-Semitic slogans.
“There’s the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos,” President Joe Biden said in a televised statement from the White House on Thursday, adding that students have “the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked.”
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel’s military campaign, which has lasted nearly seventh months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated this week that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would enter the southern Gazan city of Rafah, which is crowded with Palestinian refugees. The IDF still intends to “eliminate Hamas’ battalions” in the area, Netanyahu said.
The latest round of fighting between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, when the Palestinian militants carried out a surprise raid into Israeli territory, killing some 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages. Dozens of captives were subsequently released as part of a prisoner swap during a weeklong ceasefire in November.
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt college commencement ceremony (VIDEOS) .
CYRUS JANSSEN: You Can't Believe What the US is Doing in Gaza Now.
‘Israel Aljazeera ban is an act of desperation’: Marwan Bishara.
EMIL COSMAN: Israel closed Al Jazeera news network on "NATIONAL SECURITY" grounds.
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EMIL COSMAN: H@uthis threaten to attack Israeli-linked ships in the Mediterranean. They EXPAND their operations?
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
Cuba: World Council of Peace calls for shutdown of the Guantanamo Naval Base.
USA
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW: Political Speech Now Classified As “Terr@rism”! By NYPD Commissioner.
EU/UK
REDACTED: Why all E.U. Politicians Are Lying To You.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
New Delhi issues firm rebuke to Biden.
India’s economy “is not faltering” as the US leader claimed, the country’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar insists.
Indian’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar © AFP / Saul Loeb
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has rejected a claim by US President Joe Biden that the South Asian nation’s economy was slowing down because of xenophobia. It has one of the “most pluralistic” societies in the world, the senior New Delhi official also pointed out.
The country’s economy “is not faltering” and it has never had any dislike of foreigners, Jaishankar insisted, during a round table meeting on Friday hosted by the Economic Times newspaper.
In February, New Delhi announced that gross domestic product had grown 8.4% in the most recent October-to-December quarter, making it one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
“India has been a very unique country... in the history of the world… it’s been a society which has been very open,” the foreign minister said. “Different people of different societies come to India,” he added.
”We’re the most open, most pluralistic, and in many ways the most understanding society in the world,” the diplomat added.
He reminded the group that New Delhi has introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which is intended “to open up doors for people who are in trouble. I think we should be open to people who have the need to come to India, who have a claim to come to India.”
READ MORE: India snaps back at US over citizenship law concerns
The CAA, which came into force in March, halves the residency requirement for undocumented migrants from Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, or Christian communities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, or Pakistan, who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
Speaking at a fundraising event in Washington earlier this week, the US president claimed that migration was good for the US, while some other major countries were suffering setbacks due to their unwillingness to let foreigners in.
”Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan in trouble? Why is Russia in trouble? And India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,” he said.
One of Washington’s main Asian allies, Tokyo, responded to the US leader with a government statement saying it was “unfortunate that comments not based on an accurate understanding of Japan’s policy were made.”
New Delhi issues firm rebuke to Biden.
EUROPE
German Economy Hit by ‘Unprecedented Outflow of Capital’ – CDU Chairman.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck earlier admitted that the government's forecast for 2024's economic growth had been revised down from 1.3% to 0.2%.
Europe's largest economy is facing a huge outward drain of funds, Friedrich Merz, the chairman of Germany’s opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
This is one of the many problems that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz "no longer notices," Merz pointed out.
"Yes, we have a strong economy. But we also have noticeable weak points [in the economy] that the chancellor simply ignores, for example, an outflow of capital on an unprecedented scale," the CDU leader emphasized.
He also underscored the need to hammer out "an immediate economic program to lift the spirits" of German companies. "We [the country] are probably in worse psychological shape than the economy itself," according to Merz.
The comments come after Bloomberg News reported that Germany’s economic prospects are "looking up after two grueling years of near-zero growth," but added that there will be "no quick fix” for the country’s "enduring industrial weakness."
The authors of an International Monetary Fund survey, for their part, earlier noted that Germany was the only G7 economy to shrink in 2023, and that the country "is set to be the group’s slowest-growing economy again this year."
In the same vein, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck acknowledged that his country is "in troubled waters" when it comes to its economic growth for 2024, and that lack of workers remains “the broader structural problem” for the national economy.
German Economy Hit by ‘Unprecedented Outflow of Capital’ – CDU Chairman.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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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 INESCAPABLE REALITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN BATTLEGROUND
What can be said about the situation in Ukraine free of the biases of western political narratives & their mirror image in western mass media? This is my attempt to present the facts on the ground.
The Russian military is pushing relentlessly forward, liberating strategic villages and positioning itself to take small towns all across the Donbass region and in particular within the territory west of Donetsk City. The Ukrainian forces are putting up some resistance but holes in the Ukrainian defence line are leaving areas without the support needed due to the increasing problems of lack of additional manpower and of replacement of weaponry and ammunition. Over the last year and more Russia has vastly increased its military manpower with an estimated 1,400 volunteers per day entering the Russian military and going on to receive extensive training.
While Russia’s manpower resources have steadily increased, those of the regime have decreased and at an unsustainable level. In the last many months the attrition rate of Ukrainian troops being taken off the battlefield dead or wounded has run at a level of approximately 1,000 per day. The Kiev regime has, at the same time, struggled to recruit and train additional troops. Ukrainian men are hiding in their apartments, sometimes venturing out disguised as women or are fleeing to the Romanian border in an attempt to escape mobilisation. All know that to be dragooned off the streets and sent to the front with minimal training is a death sentence at this stage.
More and more of those Ukrainians who have been frogmarched to the front, often elderly men who should not be there (the average of a Ukrainian trooper is reported to be 43) cannot possibly stand for long against the highly trained and constantly refreshed Russian troops who are given regular downtime away from the front lines. The Russian troops are, in addition, highly trained, armed with the latest kit and equipment and have a constant supply of all the various resources to sustain life at the front. In addition, the Russian military has at least a six to one advantage, and sometimes as high as a ten to one advantage in firepower with its artillery and ammunition supplies. Add to this the Russian military complex now in high gear producing more and better weaponry all the time. With hypersonic and supersonic missiles on stream and a Ukrainian air force all but decimated allowing Russia to rule the skies what chance does Ukraine have?
The Ukrainian offensive last year was conclusively defeated by Russia with the Ukrainian military not even reaching Russia’s defensive lines. At the cost of many tens of thousands of lives the regime managed to take limited territory, most of which has now been taken back by Russia. The western powers talk of the possibility of Ukraine mounting another offensive in 2025 but with Russia now on the march and Ukraine struggling in almost every area the chances of this occurring are decreasing rapidly by the day.
It must be evident to any serious observer by now that the experts on war outcomes are correct when they say that Russia will prevail simply on the basis of a far greater ratio of resources compared to that available to the Ukrainian regime. This despite the pouring of weaponry into Ukraine by the western powers, the level of which is set to diminish despite the latest tranche and threats from both NATO and the EU to boost this.
When it became clear that Russia had withstood the onslaught of western financial and economic sanctions and even began to prosper economically while the West suffered it was clear Russia would prevail. It would have been sensible and pragmatic for the western powers to convince Zelensky to halt his useless resistance when this became clear. It seems clear to me that the West was relying on a double whammy of a weakened Russia through sanctions along with the expenditure of much blood and treasure to effect a victory by the Ukrainian regime in combination with the West. Now, after the almost complete failure if not indeed the COMPLETE failure of this policy I don't see anything stopping Russia.
Rump Ukraine, west of the Dnieper will most likely be reformed into several protectorates governed by EU nations until new elections are organised and run. These elections will with absolute certainty see peace candidates, Russia-neutral and Russia-positive candidates win across the board. That will signify the complete end of Zelensky and all who cleaved close to him.
The end will be humiliating for the USA and particularly for the EU. Brussels will have to eat crow and cough up billions from EU taxpayers to put rump Ukraine back into some kind of shape that comes half way toward economic viability. Russia will reinforce its governance in all its new territories, bringing all the benefits of Russian pensions, health care, education, salaries, infrastructure such as airports, rail lines, motorways etc. etc.
Ten years from now the entire location will be transformed and any historian looking back will surely remark at the incredible and disastrous folly of western geopolitical entities of the West and shake their heads in utter disbelief that such arrant stupidity with such catastrophic and tragic outcomes could ever have been allowed to take place.
