RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.08.2023
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.
We will be in Belarus for the following 5 days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
*** RUSSIA-US/UK/EU WAR WILL END IN UKRAINE’S DESTRUCTION ***
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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:
STEPHEN GARDNER
Ukraine HUMILIATED As New Videos Expose The Truth!
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA) - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Worst Crimes Committed by Federal Gov.
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
The USA/Ukraine Proxy War.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Lukashenko's meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu.
THE GRAYZONE
You and what army? - The Grayzone live.
GARLAND NIXON - SCOTT RITTER
NATO AND UKRAINE SPAR OVER TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS.
EMIL COSMAN
Ukraine Front Update. Aug. 18. Russian offensive operation continues in four sectors.
No other VERSION allowed. Kyiv asks Romanians to not film Ukrainian air defense near the border.
"Washington wants to create biological crises when needed." Moscow thinks.
GARLAND NIXON
UKRAINE END GAME - MASSIVE BARRIERS TO A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT.
JEFFREY SACHS
The Battle for Global Influence.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'Ukraine Will Fail': U.S. Intel 'Admits' To Kyiv's Counteroffensive Failure | Details:
Putin 'Punishes' Ukraine's Neighbour Amid War; Moldovan Officials Banned From Entering Russia.
Russia's Big Nuclear Declaration Amid Ukraine War; Putin Meets Top Generals In Border City.
'Belarus Protects Russia From NATO Strike'; Putin Ally Emboldened By Moscow's Nukes?
Germans Reject NATO Nation's Decision; 52% Oppose Arming Kyiv With Lethal Taurus Missiles | Poll.
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia STORMS Kupyansk, Lukashenko DESTROYS Ukrainian Reporter.
Is North Korea EVIL?
BORZZIKMAN
The British Are Fascinated & Frightened By The Latest Russian Weapon 'SHIPOVNIK-AERO'.
TFIGlobal
War Lobbyists of Deep State Aren't Hiding Anymore.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
African Union Says No to ECOWAS Military Plans to Invade Niger.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
US Can't Bully South Africa, Arrest Tony Blair & George W Bush Before You Lecture Africans On Putin.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
US Can't Bully South Africa, Arrest Tony Blair & George W Bush Before You Lecture Africans On Putin.
SINO SPHERE
Saudi Arabia Finally UNCOVERS The HIDDEN Disturbing Truth Behind Ukraine.
LENA PETROVA
🔴 BRICS Summit 2023 THE BIGGEST YET In History For Resource Rich Countries To Unite.
LINE FLUX
BRICS 2023 Summit: Key Participants, Talking Points, and Geopolitical Deliberations.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
No Room for Negotiation! China Unleashes $11.3B US Bond Sell-Off, Bolsters Gold Reserves Against USD.
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO
Ucrânia sofre em Zaporozhye e Rússia ultima Kupyansk.
LIU SIVAYA
POLAND IS AFRAID: the Polish government prepares the country for war... Against whom? | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine Offensive's NEW Strategy - HOPE?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 19th August 2023:
US intelligence believes Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail – WaPo.
Washington doubts the mission can achieve its “principal objective,” officials told the newspaper.
US intelligence agencies have made a “grim” assessment of Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive, believing Kiev will fail to plunge south toward the Crimean Peninsula by the end of the year, according to the Washington Post.
Officials have voiced grave doubts about the Ukrainian mission in a classified intel report, the contents of which were relayed to the Post on Thursday, with the outlet citing Moscow’s “brutal proficiency” in defending captured territory.
“The US intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol,” the report said, adding that Kiev would then be unable to “fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.”
Though the peninsula has been under Moscow’s control since its residents voted to rejoin Russia in 2014, Ukrainian officials have repeatedly vowed to retake the region by force, insisting it is Ukraine’s sovereign territory.
In Kiev’s plans to reclaim Crimea, Melitopol would reportedly play a significant role as one of the largest urban centers near the Azov Sea coast. Taking the city could offer a staging area for further attacks on the peninsula itself, which has already been the target of several Ukrainian strikes this year.
The Post report appears to echo recent revelations by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. In a story published earlier on Thursday, he cited an unnamed US intelligence official who bluntly stated that Ukraine “will not win the war.”
“The word was getting to [US Secretary of State Antony Blinken] through the [CIA] that the Ukrainian offense was not going to work,” Hersh’s source said. He added that the offensive has merely been “a show by [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky, and there were some in the administration who believed his bulls**t.”
The Ukrainian counteroffensive began in early June, with Kiev deploying its best Western-equipped and trained brigades in an attempt to sever Russia’s land bridge linking the Donbass with Crimea in the southern province of Zaporozhye. The operation has been a failure by most accounts, and according to Russian estimates, has cost Ukraine more than 43,000 troops and nearly 5,000 pieces of heavy equipment in exchange for a handful of villages.
Since June, Zelensky has repeatedly blamed his military’s lack of success on the West, insisting he was not provided adequate weapons to penetrate Russian lines while demanding fighter jets and long-range missiles. Ukrainian leadership is now split on whether to continue the operation or wait and try again next spring, Newsweek reported on Wednesday. According to the American magazine, Zelensky must now decide “whether to go all-in and risk a costly failure, or to cut Ukraine’s losses and accept a politically damaging defeat.”
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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, 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.
WHERE WE STAND NOW. ON THE BRINK OF GLOBAL DESTRUCTION.
We can see that the situation which has developed is in the make or break, do or die category. Since 9/11 the USA and those in its orbit made a decision that they cannot tolerate a world that is not safe for them, i.e. a world where there are individuals, governments and systems of governance that are not compliant and even antagonistic.
The decisions made immediately following 9/11 require the elimination (at all costs) of these entities. This is why we are where we are now. I am extremely surprised and on a daily basis that 9/11 is never mentioned. No other event could possibly account for the determination we see now to take the situation regarding Ukraine to this extent and beyond.
The U.S. political elites and those allied with them wish to increase their position to one of 'full spectrum dominance' and will tolerate nothing less. A virtual prison planet will result of course. A prison planet where Russia, China and all like them have been completely undermined and their leaders and systems of governance replaced. We will then all be monitored from near space and whipped into line wherever and whenever it is considered necessary by the agents of the then supremely dominant powers, the USA primarily, then the UK and thirdly, by the EU elites.
This is certainly (in my mind) what awaits us if Russia and then China are undermined, weakened and destroyed and their systems of governance replaced. This is the grand scheme... all to ensure that there is a possibility as close to zero as possible that any such event as 9/11 could ever occur again.
That the 9/11 events are not an integral part of the discussion generally is incredibly surprising. It is these events that lie at the heart of the determination of the USA and its allies to carry the present conflict in Ukraine on and far beyond it. Those who are fuelling the war are doing so in full knowledge of the risks. However, for them these risks are far outweighed by the risks they see in the status quo where more 9/11 type events could eventually occur. That belief powers all we see happening now and any expectation that we will see some reduction in the determination to offset and eliminate that risk is totally misguided.
We are on course for one of three futures.
In the first and by far the only hopeful the rising union of Eurasian, Asian and Global South states will reach such a peak of economic, military and financial cooperation and successful outcomes that the ability of the USA and its allies to wield power and destructive force are reduced to such a degree that their virtual quarantining takes place. This of course is the promise contained within the concept of a multipolar world.
The second eventuality is the prison planet described above whereby the USA and its proxies permanently hold sway and work constantly to identify and eliminate any and all nascent threats against them.
The third and in many ways the most likely outcome if a multipolar world is too slow in rising to its most effective and power-changing extent globally is a nuclear conflict between east and west where the world is thrown back in vast areas to dystopian existence never before known. The world that rises from those ashes can hardly be hoped to develop in any sense that could be recognised as normal. Without doubt the conflict would continue even beyond the nuclear stage which in itself could last some weeks. Any semblance of normality is unlikely EVER to be resumed. Not, at least, for generations.
