RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.09.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.09.2023
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.
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*** HOW MANY UKRAINIANS WILL ZELENSKY SACRIFICE FOR USA/UK? ***
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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
Putin Lauds Arms Output; Ru Gain Bakhmut; Kupiansk; Biden Ukr Negotiate, Nagorno Karabakh Capitulate.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
JD Vance, Gonzalo hostage. Elensky, UN panic. Pashinyan green T. Duda-Elensky bromance ends. U/1
THE DURAN
Russia strategic victory. Ukraine focus on Bakhmut. EU diamond sanctions.
DANNY HAIPHONG
The Duran: Armenia DESTROYS Itself as Russia Rejects NATO Meddling in Conflict with Azerbaijan.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
West Admits Russia Outguns Them as Ukraine Suffers Heavy Losses Amid Failing Offensive.
RUSSELL BRAND
So, This Is Happening.
DANNY HAIPHONG - THE DURAN
THE DURAN ON UKRAINE'S FAILED OFFENSIVE, ZELENSKY'S UN TRIP, NATO'S WOES PLUS MORE.
PATRICK LANCASTER
Japanese Fighting On Russian Ukraine War Frontline For Russia.
THE HAGUE PEACE PROJECTS
Time to Talk: Jeffrey Sachs calls upon EU leaders to push back against foolish US war policies.
KIM IVERSEN
Judge, Jury and Executioner YouTube Demonetizes Russell Brand Over Unverified Allegations.
Zelensky Says Ukrainian Refugees Will Commit Acts Of Terror In Europe If They Don't Get More Weapons.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
LIVE WITH LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Ukraine and American Decline.
BREAKING POINTS
Zelensky CAUGHT LYING Ahead Of U.S. Visit.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Who will eat grain that grows on lands contaminated by depleted uranium shells?
Meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia | Putin, Izhevsk, Ukraine.
REDACTED
State of Emergency declared at U.S. Border, Europe under siege.
SEAN FOO
China, Russia Moves To RESET The World - Wang Yi Lays Ground For Historic Meeting.
GARLAND NIXON - Dr. GERALD HORNE
UNITED NATIONS MEETING + RUSSIA, N KOREA, AND IRAN JOIN HANDS.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Hungarian FM Calls for Peaceful Solution to Ukraine Crisis.
PROFESSOR RICHARD D. WOLFF
Obsolete Notions of Capitalism and Socialism.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China, Russia Deepen Strategic Security Cooperation to Defend True Multilateralism.
STEPHEN GARDNER
White House SHAKEN Over Biden's New Scandal.
SCOTT RITTER
WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER - BATTLEFIELD UPDATE - MILLEY BACKTRACKS.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Ukraine Is Being Annihilated.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Biden Speech at UN Exposes Hypocrisy on Russia, Govt Shutdown Could Hinder Ukraine Aid, and More.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Russia Just Did THIS & No One Noticed.
ANGRY WARHAWK
Why Russia Must Win.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Russian BMP-3 group impressively storm AFU site on Verbovoye.
JACKSON HINKLE
Meeting RUSSIAN SOLDIER At Moscow WW2 Museum.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Putin congratulates re-election of Moscow mayor, reaffirms Russian economic recovery has completed.
EMIL COSMAN
List of Countries outside US' control. Travel advisory: Don't travel, WE will invade.
Zelensky's UN infantile CLAIM. "Evil/Russia cannot be trusted."
Russia tests Hypersonic bullet, speed of more that 1,500 m/s. Can reach targets instantly.
Isolated? Putin to visit China next month to meet with Xi Jinping and 90 countries' leaders.
Türkiye's Erdogan trusts Russia! Insults the "PERFECT" West?
Ukraine BUK Missile hits its own market, blames it on Russia's S-300. Kostiantynivka Market.
A Second War in Europe started? Azerbaijan "attacks" Armenia. Al Capone succeeds to open 2nd front?
Massive Russian drone attack (30) on Lviv destroys industrial facilities. Iskander-M missile hit.
RUSSIANS WITH ATTITUDE
RWA x Andrey Martyanov: Do the Russians Want Total War?
SCOTT RITTER
MILLIONS WILL BE HURT By What’s Coming NEXT.
TFIGlobal
Zelensky Gets an Unwelcoming Welcome from Joe Biden.
BREAKING POINTS
Will Republicans SHUT DOWN GOV Over Ukraine Aide?
MILITARY TV
Mine and Drone Sent Challenger 2 Tank to Its Grave in Ukraine.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
Germany: From an Economic Powerhouse to the Brink of Recession! Here’s why:
THE GRAYZONE
Report for European Parliament challenges OPCW’s Syria cover-up.
TECH REVOLUTION
Britain Just Declared Bankruptcy, Economy Hits Rock Bottom.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Canada's Ally Britain Leaves Trudeau Red-faced; UK Won't Halt Trade Talks With India | Details:
DAVID T. PYNE
Taiwan Will Be The Next Ukraine. A Compromise Is Needed To Stop Neocon Escalation.
SINO SPHERE
Despite U.S Blackmailing, Australia Won’t Ban Chinese Tech Firms.
Taiwan Afraid As U.S Military Finds Itself In Weak Position Against PLA.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing: China’s economy going strong, will create favorable conditions for businesses, investors.
Beijing: Over 110 countries to send representatives to BRI Forum for International Cooperation.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China, Cuba to Support Each Other on Issues Concerning Core Interests, Says Senior CPC Official.
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Oh SH*T, the deep state plan for Africa is happening.
HACKED? F-35 mystery deepens after Pentagon refuses to answer questions.
What are they hiding? F-35 missing jet story doesn't add up.
THE CONVO COUCH
F-35 Missing, Biden's guff at the UN and more with Don Debar.
MORRIS INVEST
Biden just F**KED up BIG TIME and Putin and OPEC Called His Bluff.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Niger Junta Orders French, German & American Ambassadors Out Of The Country.
Niger Accuses France Of Planning An Invasion In Collaboration With The ECOWAS.
GLENN GREENWALD
Russell Brand Suspended on YT | Rachel Maddow: Elon Musk Helped Putin | Gavin Newsom on CNN.
Dr STEVE TURLEY
Here’s What’s REALLY Going On With Russell Brand.
acTVism Munich
Unterstützung des Ukraine-Kriegs: Slowakische Wahlen zeigen veränderte Stimmung in Europa.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
LARRY C. JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Russia Knows Exactly What It Is Fighting For.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 20th September 2023:
Zelensky’s terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine’s secret murder squad kills journalists and activists.
Threats and tactics that would be instantly labelled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
Threats and tactics that would be instantly labelled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
As winter approaches and the scale of Kiev’s losses in its failing counteroffensive emerges, Ukraine’s transgender military spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo has deftly avoided the topic and instead delivered a cringeworthy threat-laden rant on social media.
The one-time American political campaigner and newfound “Face of free Ukraine” struggled to contain her hatred for Russia and all things Russian. In a particularly energetic monologue, she said “propagandists” (meaning journalists who don’t toe Kiev’s narrative line on the conflict) would be “hunted down,” and made to “pay” for their refusal to agree with the Kiev regime’s worldview, apparently a war crime in the court of Ashton-Cirillo’s imagination.
Amidst her over-the-top promises of “gnashing of teeth and foaming at the mouth” to come, it’s worth pointing out that in many ways this person defines the many moral contradictions of the West’s proxy war. This theatrically presented individual is routinely rolled out by the Kiev regime, presumably in an attempt to underline Ukraine’s apparent acceptance of transgender people. In this, Vladimir Zelensky’s PR priority to virtue signal to the West trumps reality: his country has a track record of oppression against LGBTQ rights, detailed in multiple human rights reports published prior to the start of Russia’s military operation in February 2022. In an apparent effort to memory-hole that history, Kiev is now parading one of the world’s best-known transgender personalities, a personality who seems all too happy to deliver the threats of a regime capable of deploying a well-resourced and deadly security service to kill, maim, and terrorize its political opponents at home and abroad.
Interestingly, and likewise prior to the latest phase of the conflict, the English-language megaphone of the Zelensky regime, the Kyiv Post, published a story outlining deep seated corruption and dysfunction in Kiev's main security and intelligence agency, the KGB successor known as the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In that article, which would be almost impossible to publish in today’s utterly repressed Ukrainian media landscape, the paper suggested that since the beginning of the Donbass conflict after the Maidan coup in 2014, the SBU had been abusing its powers, enriching itself while acting with absolute impunity as what amounted to a private security and enforcement army for the oligarch turned president, Pyotr Poroshenko.
Fast forward to 2023 and this controversial and secretive agency has cemented its position as the most feared element in an increasingly authoritarian and aggressive Ukrainian security infrastructure. The SBU is now central to the internal repression of all political opposition, the Orthodox Church, and control of all domestic challenges to the pro-Western government of Vladimir Zelensky. Six years ago, the Kyiv Post suggested that the SBU had “become effectively uncontrollable and unaccountable,” and given the scale of the conflict and dysfunction enveloping Ukraine today, we can presume that the SBU’s impunity and power has expanded to impact every element of Ukrainian society. With apparent assistance from the CIA, MI5 and other NATO intelligence services, it has now further expanded its access to data on “enemies of Ukraine,” whether real or imagined.
Most crucially, the SBU now projects its sinister capabilities well beyond the borders of its own state, targeting what it deems “propagandists” and “collaborators” in eastern Ukraine and Russia with terrorist attacks and intimidation via its network of agents and operatives. While never openly admitted, the SBU’s involvement in attacks on Russian soil is all but certain, with evidence ranging from a perpetrator’s confession and revelations by a former head of the service, to the sheer reach of the operations and the choice of targets themselves – taken straight from the notorious ‘Mirotvorets’ kill list, which had openly advertised its links to the SBU and Ukrainian police in the past.
What’s perhaps more fascinating about the bloody operations the SBU has embarked upon since the beginning of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine in 2022, isn’t the extrajudicial killings and assassinations themselves. What’s really fascinating is how Kiev’s Western funders and “partners” choose to actively ignore its routine use of what any objective observer would have to describe as terrorism, with “respectable” Western publications like The Economist publishing disturbingly complimentary articles about the SBU, describing its gruesome work against unarmed “targets” in articles stylized as adventurous escapades by a steely underdog. The Economist’s article “Inside Ukraine’s Assassination Programme,” blatantly attempts to legitimize the brutality of the covert assassination operations, only voicing concern that “a clear strategy is absent.”
Despite this, the glorification of this shady and corrupt organisation is evident across the Western media, with attempts to present the murder of a defenseless, unarmed young woman like Daria Dugina as legitimate, snidely implying that her brutal killing was in some way justified by her opposing political views. Another allegedly respectable news outlet, The New York Times, suggested that “since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s security services have demonstrated their ability to reach into Russia to conduct sabotage operations.” Tellingly, rather than describe the killing of Dugina as what it was, murder, the NYT said it was “one of the boldest operations to date — showing Ukraine can get very close to prominent Russians.”
An American newspaper describing the killing of an innocent young woman, by a car bomb, near a European capital as “bold,” underlines the selective morality that Western media willfully deploys when it comes to the coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, an attitude that was similarly exposed when blogger and war reporter Vladlen Tatarsky was murdered in a targeted assassination in St. Petersburg in April. In the aftermath, Reuters suggested that “the killing is an attack on the hardline pro-war camp in Russia, and sends a warning to other members of this group that they could be targeted anywhere.” Again, there is no concern that it took place in a restaurant full of civilians, on a public street, with absolutely no warning being given. What would routinely be described by Reuters as terrorism anywhere else, is subliminally conjured into some form of heroic resistance operation targeting a “propagandist,” rather than the daylight murder of a private individual for disagreeing with the Kiev narrative on the conflict in Ukraine, a country of which he was once a citizen.
So, as the Western media increasingly fails to suppress the gruesome reality of Ukraine’s military failures, it's unfortunately likely that Kiev will increase attempts to deliver some sort of impact elsewhere, and despite reports that Ukraine’s targeted assassinations have likely left a bad taste in their NATO handlers’ mouths, its equally unlikely that they are in any position to restrain the brutal apparatus they have been so instrumental in creating. While Kiev’s Western partners publicly evangelize values like freedom of speech, democracy, and the rights of the individual, privately they arm, train, and intimately collaborate with an organisation that now openly boasts of carrying out terror attacks against civilian infrastructure and political adversaries, cynically targeted for simply disagreeing. All things considered, it’s now absolutely obvious that Western moral outrage mysteriously evaporates at the Russian border, with no crime against Russians, or those calling for balanced debate, being unforgivable in the West. Sadly, it seems NATO’s proxies in Kiev are determined to license, facilitate, and then ignore increasingly sinister and brutal “operations” by the SBU and its paid accomplices, with Washington’s and Brussels’ willful “a-la-carte” attitude to morality remaining as stunning as it is indefensible.
By Chay Bowes, journalist and geopolitical analyst, MA in Strategic Studies, RT correspondent.
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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.
WHAT FUELS NORTH AMERICAN AGGRESSION?
The phrase ‘Manifest Destiny’ reveals almost all anyone needs to know concerning where the source of today’s global instability lies:
‘The term "Manifest Destiny," which American writer John L. O'Sullivan coined in 1845, describes what most 19th-Century Americans believed was their God-given mission to expand westward, occupy a continental nation, and extend U.S. constitutional government to unenlightened peoples. While the term sounds like it is strictly historical, it also more subtly applies to the tendency of U.S. foreign policy to push democratic nation-building around the globe.’
https://www.thoughtco.com/american-manifest-destiny-3310344
The concept of ‘Manifest Destiny’ arguably reflects the partly subconscious notion that many Americans feel that they have been chosen by God for the purpose of transforming the world into some form of reflection of their superior selves. This plays heavily into the notion if U.S. exceptionalism, that the history of their nation reflects a journey that was no accident, in fact one that was guided by God.
Much store is set by the way the pilgrim fathers left oppression in Europe and founded a new and godly land in what would become North America. This was to be a perfect society under God and had been destined to be such. New and better rules were to be devised and made law which reflected none of the oppressive, exclusive and loathed laws of the lands the pilgrim fathers had escaped. This new land was to be exceptional, blessed by God and given a mission, to return where possible to the lesser lands they had escaped and transform them into a mirror image of the what became the United States of America.
Religion plays a huge part as does commerce in the drive to spread American influence worldwide. Little to no thought is given to whether other nations have given consent to this “blessing” of outside interference in their affairs just as Africa was given none regarding the relentless and invasive influence of Christian missionaries. It was all ‘for their own good’ whether they understood that or not. The westerners ‘knew better’ and national sovereignty was to be no barrier to the perceived necessity to civilise the world to the western manner of thinking.
Little has changed over the centuries since these concepts and belief systems were formulated. They are in fact set in stone, unchangeable and largely unquestioned, laid down so deep that they represent a massive subconscious layer of self-serving prejudice that whether voiced or not, is ever-present. And this is where the processes involved are so resistant to change. The various mythologies connected to the so-called pioneer spirit of American forebears, the required self-induced amnesia regarding slavery and the genocide applied to the native population override doubt and serve to continually bolster a sense of rightness and aversion to thinking they could ever do wrong.
Mass death and destruction via regime change wars waged by the USA and its allies are regarded when they occur as “mistakes”, errors of judgement, and nothing more. The intent is ALWAYS good and informed by motivations to “help”, deliver “freedom”, “good order”, and of course the precepts of the unquestioned benefits of “democracy”. Of course it is regarded as very unfortunate when others than those they wished to die re sent to their maker alongside them. As the phrase commonly seen during the second iraq war goes, “Kill ‘em all and let God sort them out!”. In this phrase we can see in short form the belief in American superiority and a supreme confidence that God is ‘on their side’.
The war the USA is waging in all its diverse battlefronts, whether against Russia, or China, Iran or Syria, Cuba or Venezuela, Nicaragua or Belarus can all be fully justified by American elites using the concepts described above. There is no sign that any of them will be abandoned any time soon. They are embedded firmly within the collective psyche of all U.S. elites. They see themselves and their systems of governance as sanctified by God and so are insured as to their immunity from intending or doing wrong (only, as sinners making unintended mistakes at times along the way). To give up on their mission would be to betray God’s command. To stay home and instead of aggressively seeking to change others against their will would signify their failure to carry out His will.
Due to the above there appears no end in sight to the turmoil the world will experience as American elite warriors attempt to force others to ‘see the light’, accept them as their “saviours” and conform to their holy command. No end of death, destruction, instability or the methods of overt/covert chaos-instigation as required ‘softening up processes’ prior to the elimination and replacement of individuals and systems of governance that are unacceptable according to western “values”. By all of this we see who are those who will NEVER be content with the status quo but who feel charged by God to relentlessly interfere even to the Last Days themselves when all is destroyed and they are raptured up to meet their Heavenly Father on the Day of Judgement.
The rest of us are to have no choice but to be modified and where necessary destroyed in a process that American elites believe is essential, a process which they will NEVER relent from but pursue to the very last human alive.
