RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 01.09.2023
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.
*** KIEV’S INTENT? DRAG NATO INTO CONFLICT STARTING WWIII ***
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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
Rus Repels Attacks Verbovoye, Advances Bakhmut; Demands in West to End War; Erdogan to Meet Putin.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Estonia denial. Elensky, we hit target. Neocons, UKR great investment. Kuleba, shut up go fight. U/1
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA) - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Intel RoundTable: Sustainable Peace in Ukraine Possible?
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Defending Russia's Sovereignty: Understanding Legitimate Security Interests.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - TONY SHAFFER
INTERVIEW: The odds are on a nuclear war.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Out of Africa.
REDACTED
Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight.
Ukraine launches DEVASTATING attack on Donetsk, civilians killed.
Gabon just SHOCKED the world with a coup, Africa breaking from Western rule.
ANDREI MARTYANOV
Strategy (Again).
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Belarus' Lukashenko says demands by Poland and Baltics for Wagner to quit Belarus are 'stupid'.
JACKSON HINKLE - JIMMY DORE
Ukrainians Are Being SLAUGHTERED Over Lies.
STEPHEN GARDNER - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Russia Will DESTROY Western Ukraine Next.
SEYMOUR HERSH
The Road to Peace in Ukraine: Who Really Wants to End the War in Ukraine?
GEOFFREY ROBERTS
Ukraine's Turbulent Path to Peace.
ALEXANDER KONKOV - MATTHEW CROSSTON
West Beware: Russian Foreign Policy Just Got A Big Upgrade.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Ukraine Tells Counteroffensive Critics to 'Shut Up.
EMIL COSMAN
Game changer! Russia puts SARMAT Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on combat duty. 11,000 km range.
US companies, PepsiCo and Mars, are International sponsors of war. Ukraine decided.
British Mercenary Killed Fighting in Ukraine. For whom and what he died?
Russia hurts France through African coups. Macron allegiance to globalist power screwed France.
Serbia could join BRICS and dump EU. MPs propose. The "West's" offers rejected?
RUSSIAN NEWS
NATO countries are persistently building up their military presence around Belarus. - Lukashenko.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin's T-80BVM Tanks Ravage Donetsk Region; Russia 'Wipes Out' Nearly 700 Ukrainian Troops | Watch:
'Go Fight Russia...': Ukraine Dares West After Being Grilled Over 'Failed' Offensive | Watch:
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
The West Is Afraid That BRICS Can Possibly Control World Trade & Minerals.
MATT TAIBBI - MAX BLUMENTHAL
Neoliberal Censorship.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Gabon Military Coup: What You Need to Know.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
French Neo-Colonialism in Africa is Falling: What’s Behind the Anger on the Streets?
Can BRICS Be Anti-Imperialist With Countries Like India and Saudi Arabia? w/ Prabhat Patnaik.
CITIZENS PARTY
BRICS 11 - end of Anglo-American hegemony / China not a threat.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
China DESTROYS the Neocons as Biden's WAR Fails w/ Brian Berletic.
KATIE HALPER
‘We're Pretty Close’ To Nuclear War.
PETER SCHIFF
Government Spending Has Bankrupted the US.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
DE-DOLLARIZATION IN FULL SWING! The Global Shift Away from the Dollar.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
HEINZ GARTNER
Europeans Cant Believe BRICS Summit Success.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 1st September 2023:
Ukraine threatens long-range strikes into Russia.
Kiev claims to have weapons that can hit targets 700km away.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Thursday that the country has produced long-range weapons domestically, while his top security official claimed that a new missile program is in place.
“Successful use of our long-range weapons: the target was hit 700 kilometers away!” Zelensky posted in a Telegram message, referring to an exercise by the Ministry of Strategic Industries. Zelensky did not specify what kind of weapon was used, or what the target may have been.
Shortly afterwards, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Aleksey Danilov posted a 20-second video on X, formerly Twitter, showing what looked like a missile being launched into the night.
“The missile program of the President of Ukraine in action. The tests are successful, the implementation is effective,” Danilov said. “Sevastopol is waiting, Kamchatka is waiting, Kronstadt is waiting...”
While it sounds like a threat against Russian naval bases or even a peninsula in the Far East, it appears to be a misquoted lyric from a popular song by Lyube, said to be the favorite band of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Several Ukrainian media outlets linked Danilov’s post about the “missile program” with Zelensky’s claim about a long-range weapon, though there is no evidence to suggest a connection.
The “700 kilometers” may be a reference to Pskov, a city in northwestern Russia which is precisely that far from Ukraine’s borders, but just 30km away from NATO member Estonia. Several military transport planes were damaged at Pskov airport early on Wednesday, in what local authorities described as an attack by more than ten drones. There has been no official confirmation from either side as to what kind of UAVs may have been used in the attack, or where they came from.
Zelensky, Danilov and other Ukrainian officials have repeatedly insisted that they use only domestically produced weapons against Russian territory, since the US and its allies have ostensibly forbidden them to use Western-provided missiles and drones for this purpose.
Earlier this week, however, The Economist revealed that Ukrainian drone operators greatly rely on Western intelligence and satellite data to avoid Russian air defenses.
Ukraine first targeted Moscow with drones in May, and began launching more frequent attacks in July, as its much-heralded counteroffensive in the south became bogged down in Russian fortifications.
The attacks have caused only minor property damage so far and the Kremlin has described them as “acts of desperation,” meant to cover for Kiev’s failures on the battlefield. According to US officials, the attacks are intended “to bolster the morale of Ukraine’s population and troops,” and show that Kiev “can strike back.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
The Fall | The Russians Inflict CRITICAL Losses. Final AFU Redeployment. Military Summary 2023.09.01
Iskander Destroyed The AFU Headquarters Of The Tactical Group "Donetsk". Military Summary 2023.09.01
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 553-554 - Technical Ukraine War Situation Report & Comprehensive Summary.
UKRAINE'S BERDYANSK OFFENSIVE ABANDONED / ENDED - Velyka Novosilka sector, Zaporizhzhia Front.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
End In Sight.
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
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
The annual subscription to Scott’s Substack account he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman is a crucial source of income for him. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances through which he can upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine.
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, until this week, you could have found the video where Scott talks of his commitment to get the facts out on events in Ukraine. However, this week YouTube deplatformed two of the channels Scott appears on using the completely false charge of him using ‘hate speech’.
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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 WESTERN TOTALITARIAN COALITION OF COMPLETE NARRATIVE CONTROL
It was a clever move but not without precedent. Those who had read George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ were (or should have been) very familiar with it. Those who hadn’t… well, most appear to have been taken in, many completely.
The runup to the morphing into a totalitarian controlled zone was gradual. The establishment of that zone required a clear enemy (as in ‘1984’) a perpetual and heinous enemy with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. A source of pure evil and a history of vile deeds that put that enemy beyond the pale. That enemy was relentlessly demonised by every form of media for a decade and a half. Books, magazine and newspaper articles, television programmes, speeches by prominent political figures and by notable pundits and commentators. Any counter arguments to the prevailing narratives promulgated by mass media and senior figures had no meaningful effect. As far as the vast mass of the general public were concerned they had been told the truth and that “truth” was laid in deep in the subconscious by myriad sources relentlessly communicating the same message: “Here is our evil enemy, the enemy you should fear, loathe, hate and wish totally defeated, eliminated and replaced. This enemy cannot be redeemed, no good will come from talking with it. Diplomacy is wasted on it. It should only be tricked, fooled, confused, and relentlessly attacked until it is no more.
This tactic, employed consistently since 2007 worked all but perfectly. The only ones not conditioned completely by the relentlessly negative targeting of them were those who had an interest in geopolitics and had observed how half-truths and downright lies had become a weapon of war in the two decades before when a series of nations were attacked in one form or another by use of deceptive and dishonest means. Most people however had remained largely oblivious to the lies they were told during this time, either didn’t care much or firmly believed the lies were true and supported each and every attack or invasion. The majority of western populations then were open to a fresh series of conditioning messages broadcast from every possible media source and elite communication. Despite all the fabrications of the past two decades the new fabrications passed for truth with the majority, indeed with almost everyone. The percentage of skeptics was undoubtedly extremely low.
So, the groundwork was laid for the next push by those who had held the levers of power regarding the regime change wars of choice that had gone before. They or those who took their place and held the same stances regarding foreign policy as those they replaced. The necessity to destroy the enemy was held as a sacrosanct and unquestionable fixed idea. To rebel against it meant career suicide and was totally unthinkable. To demonstrate that you were the most fervent believer in that necessity was the path to ever-greater success, job advancement and all-round acceptance by your peers. In this way the coming totalitarian environment for the general population began with its installation in all the corridors of power across the West.
What were the reasons for such a dramatic shift in behaviour? Western state institutions had always been highly conservative and used to a certain degree of uniformity in thinking… but at the same time it was realised that complete uniformity might lead to blind spots where reality was obscured by dogma and fixed modes of thinking. Specialist teams in the UK Foreign Office and U.S. State Department along with similar components in the UK MI5/6 and CIA had performed similar functions. By 2011 however, all were to be politicised and very soon after virtually all mass media also. From then on there would one single view, one series of narratives and, for the time being one single enemy. But why? Why do this to a system that had by and large worked well for you over centuries? Why turn a complex world of colourful geopolitical realities into one simple black and white fabrication?
Because the worst thing imaginable was going to happen to you. You were going to become impotent, weak and no longer able to have your way. The entire proud edifice of western power was clearly at enormous risk. The political, economic and military power and influence of the West was in imminent threat of dissolution in geopolitical terms threat. It was clear that within thirty years at most what had been built up over the previous three hundred would be totally lost. Those first would soon be last. All the status, the power, the pride, the “glorious” history, the right to govern, to manipulate, exploit, punish, obliterate, denigrate and push around would be gone… forever, never to return. Powers were seen to be rising that would take it all away, every last prideful and sexy, glorious and self-appointed, enriching and empowering, chest-puffing and status-ensuring reason for being what it was always assumed they would be forever and a day, special, exceptional and always, superior. The warders of the world would lose their place. The global cops would be retired and told to stay home. It was utterly unacceptable.
And so here we are. What was seen thirty years ago to be coming has arrived. Ironically brought on in a significant degree by the very actions designed to thwart it. The western elites, the power junkies that they have become over centuries, are losing their fix. And we all know what happens when a junkie begins to lose his or her fix. Desperation sets in. A willingness to contemplate acts that would have been eschewed in times of plenty. And, as the fix became ever more endangered all aspects of earlier relatively reasonable and ethical behaviour began to be dispensed with. Torture began to be used and semantic exercises indulged in to justify it. Wars were initiated along with invasions and attacks of many kinds both overt and covert, some using terrorist proxies. All leading to the point where no holds were barred at all. And this is also where we are now.
One of the primary weapons of these times where nothing is “off the table” is the creation of a coalition of states where the truth is what the agreed narrative is as decided by the coalition leader. In the case of the western states this is of course the USA, the state with most to lose by the rise of those who would inexorably take away its power, as foreseen all those years ago when the plans to counteract their development and to contain them were laid. The most potent element of the “truth” broadcast by all possible means was of course that about the enemy. That “truth” was paramount in creating the obedient states necessary to fight the enemy and to submit their taxes, energies and end of their life ambitions to the task of defeating that enemy without let or hindrance. And this is also where we are now. In a fight to the death with no Plan B, no questioning of the need to press onward, no matter the cost, even if the cost is the end of life itself as it has existed on this planet. Anything is better for the elites driving this juggernaut than losing the power and all that comes with it that they have enjoyed for so very long and cannot for even a second contemplate losing.
‘1984’ is recommended reading, to see where this leads, to understand what a totalitarian regime is capable of doing to its citizens. And then to consider the message of ‘1984’ in our present era where the use of strategic nuclear weapons is seen by some as yet another way to “win”…