RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.11.2023
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.
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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
Ukr Avdeyevka Collapsing: Shoigu: Rus Arms Output Multiplies; Gaza 4-Day Pause; BRICS Troops Gaza.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Gaza 4 day ceasefire. The Sun, Putin tried to kill me 5 times. Shoigu, 13.7K November losses. U/1
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
BRIAN BERLETIC ON GAZA CEASEFIRE, UKRAINE'S DEMISE, AND NATO'S NEXT WAR.
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Russian economy investment boom, industrial surge.
RUSSIAN NEWS
How did the coup d'etat in Ukraine begin 10 years ago?
Lavrov spoke on the issue of the Gaza Strip.
Russia is building up its naval strategic nuclear forces.
REDACTED w/ SCOTT RITTER
"Ukraine's ARMY is about to Collapse and it's OVER" Fmr. Marine Scott Ritter.
U.S. Army prepares for War with China and Congress is EXCITED about it.
GLENN GREENWALD
Orwellian Morning Joe "Redefines Success" in Ukraine—Erasing Their Warmongering.
EMIL COSMAN
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A Ukrainian Battalion fights for Russia.
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
'Military Ties With Iran': Russia Trashes U.S. Concern Over Reported Ballistic Missile Deal.
'Russia Not Afraid, Not Isolated': Zelensky's Big Admission; Says 'Ukraine Facing Challenges'.
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PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
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KATIE HALPER
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TELESUR ENGLISH
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COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
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SYRIANA ANALYSIS
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DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
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KIM IVERSEN
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
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THE PRINT
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CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
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ASIAN QUICKTAKE
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STEPHEN GARDNER
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GERALD CELENTE
RETAIL RECESSION, GLOBAL PANIC.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
ALEXEI MARTYANOV
When Ignorance Rules.
Articles by Russia Today (RT) - 22nd November 2023:
Zelensky slaps down Ukraine’s military leadership.
The president has warned his top commanders to stay out of politics or risk harming “the unity of the nation.”
Amid a brewing conflict with his top general, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told The Sun on Monday that it would be “a huge mistake” for military leaders to enter the political arena.
Zelensky became embroiled in a public spat with the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, last month, after Zaluzhny told The Economist that the conflict with Russia had entered a stalemate. Zaluzhny added that Russia would eventually prevail due to its larger population and greater resources.
The Ukrainian president’s office publicly rebuked the military commander, and Zelensky went on to sack one of the general’s top deputies and publicly declare that the conflict was “not a stalemate.”
Speaking to The Sun, Zelensky said that “if a military man decided to do politics, it is his right, then he should enter politics and then he can’t deal with war.”
Read more: Zelensky in ‘conflict’ with his military – ex-adviser
“If you manage war keeping in mind that tomorrow you will do politics or elections … you behave as a politician and not as a military man, and I think that is a huge mistake,” Zelensky added.
“With all the respect to General Zaluzhny and to all the commanders who are on the battlefield, there is an absolute understanding of the hierarchy and that is it, and there can’t be two, three, four, five [leaders],” Zelensky told the British tabloid. “In accordance with the law and in times of war this can’t even be discussed. That does not lead to the unity of the nation.”
Prior to Zaluzhny’s interview with The Economist, a report in The Times suggested that Zaluzhny had urged Zelensky to call off Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive against Russian forces, only for Zelensky to refuse. The Ukrainian military ended up losing more than 90,000 troops during the June-October offensive and another 13,700 so far this month, according to the latest figures from the Russian Defense Ministry.
READ MORE: Ukraine’s top general admits Russia has the advantage
“There is a conflict between the president and the military,” Zelensky’s former adviser, Aleksey Arestovich, told Spain’s El Mundo newspaper earlier this month. “The commander-in-chief says one thing about the war and about the prospects for victory, and the president says something completely different. It is not a normal situation.”
Arestovich has urged Zelensky on several occasions to hold elections next year, and has signaled that he would run for president if a vote were held. However, Zaluzhny is a popular figure in Ukraine, and Arestovich has said that the general could emerge as the “only real” challenger to Zelensky.
Zelensky slaps down Ukraine’s military leadership.
More Ukrainian veterans complain about ‘lack of respect’.
Over 44% of those who have served in the military believe the state does not do enough for them, a new survey has shown.
A growing number of Ukrainian combat veterans are feeling neglected by both the nation’s officials and society in general, an online survey conducted by the Ukrainian Veterans’ Fund and published on Monday has shown. The number of respondents who said they felt a lack of respect has also doubled since the last poll.
A total of 44.6% of Ukrainian veterans polled believe that those in charge “do not fulfill their obligations” to them. More than one in five (21.4%) said that the state does nothing at all for them, up from 8.3% in the February 2023 survey. Only 18.8% of the survey participants assessed Kiev’s policy towards veterans positively.
Veterans who have already left active service and returned to civilian life pointed to a lack of support for them among ordinary Ukrainians as well, according to the agency created by the Ukrainian Ministry for Veterans Affairs.
In the October survey, almost 10% of veterans said society “does not respect” them at all. In February, only 4% of them believed the same. Meanwhile, 44% said they felt a lack of respect in some sense, up from around 25% in February.
Well over half of veterans also reported physical health problems and difficulties in obtaining medical care, while over 40% said there was a lack of work for veterans and issues gaining access to social benefits.
The fund’s CEO, Ruslana Velychko-Trifonyuk, said that the results of the regular surveys her agency conducts “speak of the stigmatization of the image of a veteran.”
The Veteran Affairs Ministry said in July that it expected the number of veterans in Ukraine to grow eightfold, to four million people, by the end of the conflict with Russia. Some Ukrainian media outlets warned at that time that the nation could face an “economic collapse” if the existing veteran assistance system was kept and the number of veterans so much as doubled.
The survey comes as Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that Ukraine's Western backers have encouraged Kiev to expand draft efforts and enlist the elderly, teenagers and women into the army. The new draft is supposedly needed to replace the heavy losses Kiev’s troops suffered in the largely unsuccessful summer counteroffensive.
More Ukrainian veterans complain about ‘lack of respect’.
Western policies putting global economy under ‘colossal stress’ – Putin.
Massive money printing is driving up inflation and food prices, according to the Russian president.
The world economy is struggling under overwhelming stress caused by the unwise macroeconomic policies of some countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during an online address to an extraordinary G20 summit on Wednesday.
Speaking via video link, the Russian leader noted that measures taken by governments, including those defended as necessary to fight the effects of the pandemic, have led to global economic turmoil.
“The injection of trillions of dollars and euros into the economy, into the banking system, ultimately provoked a surge in global inflation, a rapid increase in food and energy prices. This is precisely what lies at the heart of the events that I mentioned [turbulence in the global economy], not our actions and our attempts to achieve justice in Ukraine, no,” Putin said.
According to the Russian president, such policies have also led to higher interest rates, which have hit poorest countries the most.
Moscow stands for the rebuilding of open and mutually beneficial international economic cooperation, based on the principles of the UN Charter and of “collegial and mutually respectful teamwork,” he stated.
According to Putin, “It is important to achieve effective optimization of the system of global economic management. Namely, to restart the WTO [World Trade Organization] in full, including its arbitration function.”
READ MORE: World economy may split into rival blocs – ECB
Putin also stressed the importance of increasing the role of developing economies in international financial institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank. According to the Russian leader, it is critical “to use the resources of these organizations in the interests of the development of countries and regions that are truly in need, and not for opportunistic political purposes.”
“We are ready to work together to solve the problems of the economic agenda within the G20, as well as other international institutions, including the BRICS, the weight and influence of which is obviously growing, especially taking into account the process of its expansion,” Putin concluded.
Western policies putting global economy under ‘colossal stress’ – Putin.
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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.