RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.07.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in Italy for the next nine days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
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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:
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
LINK: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE UKRAINE WAR. A LECTURE BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
US Blames Minefields Ukr Failure; Zaluzhny Syrsky Rivalry; Yellen Visit China Markets Support.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Crimea bridge hit. Grain deal ends. Annalena; no holiday, blame Putin. Yellen magic mushrooms. U/1
THE DURAN
Burisma emails and Biden Ukraine escalation.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
Ukraine's Recent Attack on the Crimean Bridge & Why it Doesn't Matter.
DIALOGUE WORKS
Ukraine LOST! The Endgame in Ukraine? | Joe Atkins.
GARLAND NIXON
THE CATASTROPHIC MELTDOWN OF THE UKRAINE PROJECT.
REDACTED
Oh SH*T, Putin and China just watched the US dig its own grave.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
China will DEFEAT the US' Dangerous Meddling in Taiwan and Asia.
THE HILL
NATO Uses Military Budget For AGGRESSIVE ACTION, NOT Protecting North Atlantic: Max Blumenthal.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Report: FBI Pushed CENSORSHIP on Ukraine's Behalf.
Dr STEVE TURLEY
Will WWIII Be the END of the World?
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Around Biden the kids aren’t all right | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 256.
PATRICK LANCASTER
NUCLEAR WAR From Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant Attack Possible?(Russia Ukraine War Special Report).
THE HILL
RFK Jr, Glenn Greenwald, SLAM Warhawk Lindsay Graham For Nato, Russia Provocations: Robby & Brie.
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine LOSES 30% Of Bradleys To Russia, Tucker Carlson DESTROYS Ukraine Liars.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
FUTURE SHOCK | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 256.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin’s Lancet Drones To Get Deadlier; Next Gen UAVs To Become Tank & Air Defence Killers.
Ukrainian Official Fights With Elon Musk Over Tweet Slamming U.S.' Cluster Bomb Transfer | Details:
Russia To Reverse-Engineer Western Weapons Captured Amid Ukraine War; Putin Says “Why Not?”
Putin Officials' Phones Bugged? Russia Bars iPhone Use; Accuses Apple Of Spying For U.S. Intel.
Explosions Reported At Crimean Bridge: Two Killed, Traffic Suspended Due To 'Emergency' | Details:
Russia To Fire Indian Cruise Missiles? Putin Eyes BrahMos To Counter West-backed Ukraine.
NATO & Ukraine's Ugly Spat Amid Russian Blitz; 'West Lucky We Are Fighting Putin's Men,' Taunts Kyiv.
Russia's Hellfire near Bakhmut As Ukraine Tries to Encircle City; Prestige Battle Reignites | Watch:
LONDON REAL
Tucker Destroys War Mongering RINO's Over Ukraine War Support.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Lavrov Issues Nuclear Warning to Ukraine/Us About F16s.
EMIL COSMAN
Ukraine panics on the defense. Russians've been advancing on Kupiansk front for 2 days in a row.
Russians launched 6 missile and 38 airstrikes on Ukraine. Front Update. July 16th.
Crazy "admission." Helping Ukraine is best stimulus for global economy. US Treasury Sec.Yellen says.
TFIGlobal
Czech Republic issues a warning to Zelensky and it’s pretty bad.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Iraqi PM Visits Syria for First Time Since 2011.
China's GDP Expands 5.5 Pct in H1.
Algerian President Arrives in Beijing for State Visit.
FIRSTPOST
LIVE: China's Foreign Ministry Speaks on Joining Russia For Naval Drills in Sea of Japan.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
U.S. Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 17th July 2023:
Ukraine having ‘no success’ with counteroffensive – Putin.
Kiev’s troops have failed to penetrate Russian defenses anywhere along the front line, the president has said.
The much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive has seen no success more than a month after it was launched, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday. Putin praised Russia’s “heroic” troops and insisted that the direction of Moscow’s military campaign was “positive.”
“All attempts by the enemy to breach our defenses… including through the use of strategic reserves have fallen flat throughout the counteroffensive. Our enemy remains unsuccessful,” the Russian leader told journalist Pavel Zarubin.
According to Putin, Russian troops are launching counterattacks of their own in some sections of the front line and are “taking the most advantageous positions.” The Russian Defense Ministry previously reported that Ukraine has suffered heavy losses and has failed to reach even Russia’s first line of defense on most fronts. The Defense Ministry has also published numerous videos showing damaged or destroyed Ukrainian heavy military equipment, including Western-made tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
According to the ministry, the Ukrainian military has lost 26,000 men advancing through minefields and without air support during its counteroffensive. The Western media has also acknowledged heavy losses among Ukrainian troops, with Forbes describing them as “disastrous” in late June. The New York Times reported this week that the Ukrainian military lost 20% of the equipment it sent into battle during the first two weeks of the operation.
According to Putin, Russian forces have destroyed 311 Ukrainian tanks since June 4. “At least a third of them, I believe, were Western-made tanks, including Leopards,” Putin told the Russia 24 TV channel on Thursday.
The slow pace of the counteroffensive has led to friction between Kiev and its Western backers. In June, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky blamed the lack of progress on the West’s hesitancy to send more weapons to Kiev.
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley warned in early July that there should be no illusions about the operation, and that it would be “difficult” and “very, very bloody.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
Summer Operations | Russia Waiting For A Retaliatory Decisive Strike. Military Summary 2023.07.17
Ukrainians Attacked The Crimean Bridge | End Of The Grain Deal. Military Summary For 2023.07.17
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
Analysis ] Diversionary attacks shift vector to Shcherbaky - Kamyanske sector, Zaporizhzhia Front.
RUSSIAN KUPYANSK OFFENSIVE? Russian attack report across entire front - Ukraine War Quick Update.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
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BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Tides of War.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Western Ammo Shortage Affects Ukraine's Offensive.
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.
THE WEST MUST NO LONGER ELECT WARMONGERS TO POWER OR WE FACE WWIII
We are all selfish to some degree. A majority of us tend to vote with our wallets a lot of the time, due to the inevitable stresses of living in capitalist societies.
All that was promised down the decades of greater leisure time with our families and shorter working hours… it all turned out to be bullshit.
In reality we all got pressed into a shitty, stressful environment where the carrot hung on a line in front of us was ever further from reach.
So voting with your wallet became a normal thing. Politicians made their four-yearly round of promises, each side saying this time it would all come true. And of course it didn’t… but still we needed those extra pounds, dollars or whatever to make ends meet. So the carrot on the end of the line transformed into us on the end of a fishing line, hooked into the grind of never quite making enough to feel we had made it to the good life or the American Dream or whatever the ideal was supposed to be in our native land.
But these bozos who were elected to power, what did they do with that power in recent times?
Where to start? There are too many areas of concern to cover in detail but here are a few bullet points at least:
1. Eternally feeding those at the top of the tree, vacuuming up cash from below to those above.
2. They created a police state around us of state and social media surveillance.
3. They began the path to a totalitarian state through inveigling mass media obedience.
4. They jailed and persecuted whistleblowers who were informing us of their crimes.
5. Worst of all they formed a coalition to engage in the channelling of lies to “justify” ever more war.
You will have other issues which you would like to see added to those five above I know but these are the five off the top of my head I am most concerned with currently. Ultimately, in my opinion, these five have produced the shitty mess that is the western world today.
George Orwell predicted much of this. If there was ever a good time to read his novels, ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ it is now.
The majority of us have been herded into the abattoir of the mind where after being anaesthetized against reality we have had the talking points, memes, tropes, narratives and agendas of our political elites placed repeatedly in our heads. Creating sheep bleating acceptance of war has been the goal and it has been largely successful.
Why? What was the point? What reason could they possibly have for doing anything so heinous and against all these elites supposedly wanted to preserve in us, freedom of thought, speech and assembly and transparency of governments to public view. It all got turned against us since nine eleven, for that was indeed the turning point, the point where all western elites went into myopic war mode.
In war mode many aspects of thoughtful consideration are shut down. Focus narrows to a pin point at times refusing to accept alternate routes that might lead to peace. Those who advocate for those routes are perceived as dupes, agents or traitors… perhaps cowards. In war mode only warriors are allowed to speak and warriors don’t do nuance.
So it has come to pass that the upper echelons of the western political elites are crowded out by warriors now. Those who were of milder (and more insightful over the historical past and long term eventualities) were either sidelined or shown the door. Any such candidates for positions of influence stood no chance after 9/11. Only warriors need apply when war mode descends upon nations.
Nine eleven created a determination among western elites that opposition to their continued power could no longer be tolerated. That is NO opposition. Even the weakest of opposition was seen as potentially leading to something more dangerous to the West over time. It ALL had to go. Every leader, every system of governance, regime change was to at least mortally weaken each foe if not destroy them and replace them. One by one the individuals and nations where such opposition was seen, were attacked.
From 2000 to 2007 Vladimir Putin had been more or less accepted within the ranks of the West’s core elites. He was wined and dined and received the praise of many, for what it’s worth, that of George W. Bush. But in 2007 he made the mistake that would mean he went right to the top of the target list. He addressed the assembled elites of the western world and told them that their concept of a unipolar world run by them was nothing more than dictatorship and Russia would not accept this but instead promote a multipolar world.
Those western elites, deep within war mode myopia, didn't hear Putin’s words about how Russia was willing to cooperate on every major issue from international crime to nuclear proliferation. All they heard was that Russian would not subjugate itself to the control of any other nation or group of nations. And of course, since 9/11 subjugation or total compliance with western rule was exactly what was expected by those imbued with the determination that being in war mode brings.
Thus we began the era which is ending now, with Putin being treated as a pariah, Russia as a hostile state and every possible effort being made by both the political and mass media spheres of the West to undermine and replace both Putin and the system of governance within Russia.
Those in war mode in the West then discovered a secondary problem to their need to establish full spectrum dominance globally to secure their dominance. China began her precipitous economic rise. How were the goals of global surveillance to detect potential enemies going to be effected now? If China’s economic and therefore political, social and military influence was going to grow then as night follows day those of the West would wane. This was another enormous threat to the universal dominance believed vital for those in war mode to establish total security for the West and its allies.
Doubling down became the rule, this due to the fact that the goals set after 9/11 COULD NOT be altered, let alone countermanded. They were decided upon and set in stone, in fact set in Titanium. The COULD NOT be altered. Too much depended on their TOTAL realisation. It was unthinkable that they NOT be realised. That would mean a possible recurrence of the events of 9/11 was possible. Not even the most minuscule possibility of this could be left open to chance.
So, we are here now. Those goals are now totally unattainable because Russia has taken a step that has undermined them still further than the catastrophic failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen. The reputation of the West will now lie in tatters, unable, incapable, weak and dying while Russia’s reputation rises to join that of China as the new guardians of world security just as the West implodes in energy and resource poverty and perpetually undermining debt.
These circumstances where Russia achieves ultimate victory and acquiescence to all her demands for assured security will leave the elites of the West, still in war mode, desperate. Only one possibility will be seen still available that could turn things around for them, just one weapon whose use could devastate the opposition they have till now used all other means to destroy.
And this is why no westerner should vote with his or her wallets any more if they love their friends, colleagues and families. That true love should focus unselfishly on the lives of all of us here on this small benighted planet. And should raise to power those who could just possibly save our world for future generations, those who seek agreement, compromise, resource-sharing, trade and most of all… peace. And never, ever again raise to high political office those who favour aggression, selfish ambition, the hatred and division that comes from a perpetual state of being in war mode and furthering war.