RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.05.2023
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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*** CONFLICT IN UKRAINE REACHES MOST DANGEROUS PHASE ***
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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:
FIRSTPOST
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USEFULIDIOTS
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JIM RICKARDS
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
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U.S. denies Russia shot down British Storm Shadow Missile in Ukraine | Details:
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Putin's new strategy to crush Ukraine's counterstrike? Why Moscow has amplified strikes | Report:
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Putin's Ally puts military on high alert; Belarus 'fears' attack after Russian aircraft 'shot down'.
Putin unleashes 'strongest' missile-drone assault on Kyiv; 10 loud blasts rock Ukraine's capital.
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GEORGE GALLOWAY
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JOHN MARK DOUGAN
Tour of Alexander Gardens!
CGTN
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: THE NEW COLD WAR
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 16th May 2023:
African leaders to mediate in Ukraine conflict – South Africa.
Putin and Zelensky have both agreed to receive a peace delegation, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to host a peace mission from African leaders who are seeking to resolve the conflict between the two nations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Ramaphosa revealed he had talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky about the proposal.
“My discussions with the two leaders demonstrated that they are both ready to receive the African leaders and to have a discussion on how this conflict can be brought to an end,” Ramaphosa said, as cited by Reuters.
“Whether that will succeed or not is going to depend on the discussions that will be held,” he added.
South Africa, which is part of the BRICS group of nations along with Brazil, Russia, India, and China, is among the countries that have refused to join the US-led campaign to sanction Moscow in response to the hostilities in Ukraine.
Earlier this week, Ramaphosa noted that South Africa had a tradition of non-alignment stemming from the Cold War.
“Throughout, we have been firm on this point: South Africa has not been, and will not be, drawn into a contest between global powers,” the president said.
In his announcement on Tuesday, Ramaphosa said the leaders of Senegal, Uganda, and Egypt had agreed to participate in the initiative. The UN secretary general, the US, and the UK had all been briefed on the idea, the South African leader added.
Several nations, including China, Brazil, and Türkiye, have offered assistance as mediators between Moscow and Kiev. However, Ukraine and its Western backers have insisted that Zelensky’s peace plan is the only viable path to resolve the conflict.
The Ukrainian proposal, which has been firmly rejected by Moscow, boils down to Russia conceding defeat, withdrawing from territories Kiev claims as its own, and paying reparations. Ukraine also envisages assistance from the international community for reconstruction and security.
The Russian government perceives the conflict in Ukraine as part of a wider proxy war waged against it by the US and its allies, as they seek to protect their hegemony from an emerging multipolar world. Moscow has accused Washington and London of derailing Ankara-mediated peace talks with Kiev, which took place in the first months of the conflict and appeared to be on the verge of agreeing a truce.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
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NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
UKRAINIAN DRG DISCOVERED NEAR UROZHAINE; est. 5-6km from frontline - and at Prechystivka & Solodke.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
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FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
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THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
Ukraine Russian War, Rybar Map and Events for May 15th, 2023 Russian Forces Keep Moving Forward.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Steel Rain Over Ukraine.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, May 15th.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Bakhmut Endgame | Northern Citadel Has FALLEN.
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
WHY IS UKRAINE SO IMPORTANT TO THE USA, UK & THEIR EUROPEAN ALLIES?
The first thing to say is that Ukraine is clearly not intrinsically important by and of itself.
Until a few years ago it was hardly mentioned and rarely appeared in any official state document in the West regarding any such importance and even more rarely did it feature in western mainstream news.
In addition, it is clear that the collective west is fully committed to Ukraine even if it causes a complete breakdown of its own economic system, the collapse of confidence in its financial dominance and the abject misery of its people and those of the entire world as energy and food poverty reach levels not seen in centuries.
Why is it then, despite its insignificance in years past that Ukraine has been accorded a status of the highest possible category of importance to just about every western state you could mention to a frenetic degree approaching rabid hysteria?
It’s a story that goes back to the most seminal events of our lifetimes, the 9/11 attacks on the United States and the decisions made immediately afterwards by the most powerful elites on the planet.
In essence Ukraine is important because of Russia. And not because Russia sent a military force into Ukraine on the 24th of February this year… but as a tangential factor, the possibility of a Russian success.
Going back to 9/11, it was quite clearly decided that there existed an absolute necessity that the USA must accomplish in the shortest time frame possible, i.e. the next day if at all possible. Naturally this was not possible but the time frame I have given is my suggestion of just how urgent this absolute necessity was and which would lead ultimately to lowly Ukraine becoming vitally important.
The vital necessity was of course in the furtherance of the 100% security that it was naturally decided that the USA MUST have to prevent anything remotely like the events of 9/11 happening again. This would require not only removing and replacing all regimes antipathetic to the means required for this necessity to be achieved, but due to the zero-limited time frame no such regime or the entities within it must have ANY success that could make the difficulty of unseating it more difficult than it already was.
This is the essence of why Ukraine is important now and why it has little to do with Ukraine, its merits, demerits, attractiveness of its people or otherwise, or any factor intrinsically to do with the nation itself.
Let me explain the fundamentals involved as I see them.
You will perhaps have noticed how those nations that the USA and its allies have targeted have been harried without let or hindrance and quite beyond what might have been expected in previous times when a certain degree of compromise via diplomacy was usual. After 9/11 diplomacy was discarded except as a pretence, used as a tactical weapon, a means of snowing an opponent for a while until the coup de gras could be more methodically applied.
No target was to be granted any leeway and if at all possible was to be demonised to the nth degree and allowed zero successes of ANY kind if this could possibly be avoided.
The fact that the Skripals incident happened just weeks before the Russian presidential elections and the Russian soccer World Cup is no coincidence. The way the Clinton defeat of 2016 was blamed was part of this same pattern, as was the “poisoning” of Alexei Navalny. Neither too were the hundreds of poison pen articles spreading rumours concerning the purportedly dastardly nature of Vladimir Putin however without producing the hard facts required to prove any of it.
The examples are too many to mention and cover every regime change target from the first to the latest. Reams of demonising text and a complete absence of any true diplomacy that might cast the target in anything approaching a positive light.
Russia however is the number one target currently and has been for many years now. Not that it is the ultimate target, that of course is China, but for now until certain objects have been achieved, it is Russia. And therefore wherever and whenever possible no good news of any kind should emerge from that land, nothing positive should be said about its leadership and absolutely no successes are to be permitted. NONE.
THIS is why Ukraine is important, not for itself alone, Ukraine and its people is not of ANY true interest of any American outside of those who have some ancestral legacy there or who have a need for it for money-laundering transactions or those who have some offspring gaining copious money for his drug habit from it.
No, Ukraine is important for the USA, UK and their European allies because Russia, as the long-time number one regime change target, cannot possibly be allowed to successfully protect its border securely. Its border must remain fragile and increasing pressure be placed upon it until something breaks inside the country. This and myriad other means have been applied across the board to instigate regime change in Russia.
And Russia breaking out from this cascade of weapons of all kinds designed to undermine it was absolutely not to happen. And therefore it was completely unthinkable that Russia would win in Ukraine. This would make undermining it, removing its leader and system of governance and replacing them both would make an already hard job much harder.
And the ultimate solution to ensure nothing like 9/11 would ever happen again, global full spectrum dominance, would be just that much further off.
