RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 11.07.2023
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.
*** NATO SUMMIT TO PRETEND UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE A SUCCESS? ***
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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.
THE DURAN
Biden to CNN, USA is running out of ammo.
Anders Rasmussen has a NATO plan for Ukraine.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Erdogan, YES to Sweden-NATO. Sullivan, EU-NATO not interconnected. Putin 3 hour Wagner meeting. U/1
CYRUS JANSSEN
NATO Defending Freedom Or Causing WAR | The Duran | Cyrus Janssen & Reporterfy.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
U.S. Stockpiles are Low / Ukraine Running out of Ammo - Cluster Bombs are the Answer?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Ukraine Running Out of Ammo & U.S. Stockpiles Are Low.
SCOTT RITTER w/ DMITRY BABICH
❗Biden approves cluster munitions for Ukraine | NATO summit in Vilnius.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive failed, Leopards and Bradleys destroyed, NATO Summit, North Korea vs USA.
REDACTED
You'll Never Believe What We Are Sending to Ukraine.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine NOT the Way to Go.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Biden Approves CLUSTER BOMBS for Ukraine, BANNED in Over 100 Countries.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'U.S. Does Not Care': Putin Shows Rare 'Concern' For Europe Amid NATO Huddle | Details:
Russia Lashes Out As NATO Eases Ukraine's Membership Process; Says 'Don’t Cross Red Line'.
NATO Nation Erupts Against 'Killer Zelensky'; Big Protest in Bulgaria Amid Vilnius Summit.
'No Gains For Ukraine, West Lying': U.S. Special Forces Veteran 'Exposes' Ukrainian Fightback.
China's Big Warning After U.S. Nod To Cluster Bombs For Ukraine; 'Irresponsible Transfer'.
EMIL COSMAN
Ukraine Front Update. Jul. 10. Fierce battles in Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Marinka.
CIA helps Ukraine recruit Mercenaries in US + Canada. Russia MoD claims.
Russia accuses US of helping Ukrainian S-200s attack on Kerch bridge and military airfield.
Terrifying news for West. Russia started "mass producing" Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
ANDREI MARTYNOV
Jomini and Operational Capacity.
JACKSON HINKLE
Putin DEPLOYS 150K Russian Reserve Soldiers.
Ukraine Supporters UNMASKED.
JIM RICKARDS
The Price of Freedom: How Much Is the US Willing to Pay to Help Ukraine?
BREAKING POINTS
US Faith In Institutions HITS ALL TIME LOW.
KIM IVERSEN - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The Russians have 750.000 troops READY TO STRIKE.
DEEP WEAPONS
Russian air defenses destroy Ukrainian Su-27 jet in Kherson Region.
MILITARY TV
How Did Lancet 3 Find Leopard 2 Tank?
DANNY HAIPHONG
China DESTROYS Taiwan 'Independence' as Blinken Begs for Reset w/ Xiangyu and Li JingJing.
LIU SIVIYA
TURKEY BETRAYS RUSSIA: Erdogan allows Azov commanders to return to Ukraine | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
U.S. Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 11th July 2023:
US denies involvement in neo-Nazi prisoner transfer.
Washington will not comment on why Türkiye handed over Azov leaders to Ukraine, senior official said.
President Joe Biden’s administration has distanced itself from Türkiye’s decision to release five military commanders of the notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov unit. Moscow has called Ankara’s move a breach of agreement.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan declined to speak about the motivation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to hand over the Azov leaders to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, during the latter’s visit to Türkiye on Saturday.
“We weren’t a part of this and aren’t in a position, really, to comment on what Erdogan was trying to accomplish by it,” the US official told the media on board Air Force One on Sunday.
The Ukrainians in question were captured by Russia last year in the city of Mariupol and handed over to Türkiye as part of a prisoner swap with Ukraine. The terms of the deal specified that Ankara would keep them in custody until the armed conflict in Ukraine is over.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov surmised that Ankara had broken its commitments due to pressure to show solidarity with NATO ahead of this week’s summit of leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Some members of the press accompanying President Biden, who is in the UK, suggested that Erdogan’s behavior revealed a perceived weakness of Russian President Vladimir Putin following last months’ aborted mutiny by Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group private military company.
Sullivan stated that Türkiye has maintained an ambivalent position regarding the Ukrainian conflict from the start. Ankara, for example, had supplied “some sophisticated weaponry” to Kiev, he said.
“How much this is related to Prigozhin versus how much this is just related to [Erdogan’s] approach to the Ukraine conflict writ large, it’s hard for me to say,” the senior official added.
Moscow considers Azov to be a terrorist group and has accused its members of committing war crimes during the battle for Mariupol.
Western nations formerly considered the Ukrainian neo-Nazi unit as extremist. A 2021 TIME magazine investigation detailed how Azov recruiters “made no secret of [their] neo-Nazi politics” when they reached out to “white supremacists from around the world” to find new members or inspire allies.
Since the hostilities in Ukraine broke out in February 2022, Azov was rebranded in Western media as heroic defenders of their nation, who have overcome their origins.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer operations | The Russian Offensive Is Gaining Momentum. Military Summary For 2023.07.11
Operation D-Day | Undeniable Russian Superiority On The Battlefield. Military Summary For 2023.07.11
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Ukrainian Army approached Bakhmut as Russia Counter Attacks.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
THE RUSSIAN SUCKER PUNCH; Ukraine shocked by major counters [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 501-502 (9-10/7).
RUSSIA REGAINS RIVER DEFENSE LINE - Velyka Novosilka, Zaporizhzhia Front - Ukraine War Quick Update.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Update on the Ukrainian Summer Offensive [11 Jul 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
Ukraine War Frontline Report, End of July 10th, 2023 Heavy Fighting in Orekhovsky.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine The Summer Debacle.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, July 8-9th.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russian Armored Spearhead Ends In Complete Failure | 3rd Phase Of Ukraine's Summer Offensive Begins.
Ukrainian Armoured Spearhead Ends In Ruins | Breaking News | Daily Update 07/10/23.
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.
WHAT CAN BE COOKED UP BY KIEV & ITS FRIENDS FOR THE NATO SUMMIT?
The latest NATO summit has its first day tomorrow. So far the much-heralded Ukrainian counteroffensive hasn’t served up much of a meal for the members attending to happily digest, review and comment upon.
Yesterday a Ukrainian cruise missile, sent to hit a tasty target for the Ukrainians, the Kerch Bridge linking mainland Russia with Crimea, was shot down. Concurrently Kiev admitted to the previous attack on the bridge in October last year which was successful. Widely termed a terrorist attack it seems this announcement of Ukrainian responsibility appears designed to elicit some admiration from the attendees tomorrow. However, it is much more likely to elicit a condemnation of Ukraine as a terrorist state by Russia.
In any event Kiev continues to struggle to come up with anything resembling a striking success in its offensive. Though you might believe otherwise if you read western newspapers and watch western news bulletins. Each of these has been rather creative in their approach to the facts and supremely economical with the truth. Their recipe is to take the tiniest morsel of a few metres gain in ground by the Ukrainian military and bulk it up with a mass of hyperbole. This seems to go down well with many westerners who are anxious to see Kiev succeed.
The tactics above by western press and media have been very successful so far with a PR campaign that is well-funded and which has endured for the duration of the conflict. George Orwell would be very appreciative concerning the depth, breadth and success of the conditioning that both political and media elites have achieved. So perhaps no real successes are required regarding the current offensive, western news media can provide all the ingredients necessary to impress NATO elites tomorrow.
The conflict in the Donbass region began in the spring of 2014 when Kiev sent its army and militia sidekicks to stir up trouble for the civilian population there who had decided they would rather not be ruled by an illegal coup regime with modern day Nazis holding important positions within it. Their preference was for the democratically-elected president and government that had been overthrown and acted to resist their enslavement within a political system incorporating henchmen that despised them. This reality was not communicated to western publics however. A different tale was conjured up which made the victims the bad guys and made the bad guys into virtual saints.
The trend above to fabricate a reality and communicate it widely became known as fake news though this term was applied to those who insisted on telling the truth by communicating reality rather than a constantly rehashed fantasy. Once again George Orwell would likely have smiled ruefully in appreciation.
Time and time again the “saintly” criminals of the kiev regime sent a tasty morsel of “news” to their faithful stenographers within western mainstream media and of course it was faithfully transferred to western publics. With all mainstream news outlets having sworn allegiance to their western state leaderships from 9/11 onwards a perfect pressure cooker of lies could be kept constantly on the boil.
Atrocity porn followed atrocity porn, war crimes, crimes against humanity, claims of unending inhumanity by the Russians poured out in a constant stream. Who could blame hapless western citizens when they were deluged with this material hourly that they began to implicitly believe it. Their brains were not only being washed, they were being boiled, their grey matter decomposed, rendered bland and converted to a rather tasteless soup. They are of course busy people. Survival in the western world requires fortitude and alertness to danger with stresses and demands being ubiquitous on a daily basis. Work, relationships, leisure and entertainment take most of the attention available. Only a very few have the inclination, or time to spare from their busy lives, to double check what they are being told by their favourite news media options.
So, tomorrow we can expect a feast of fake news regarding Ukraine’s wonderful successes on the battlefield. Stories of brave derring-do by saintly Ukrainian soldiers. Tales of an admirable Kiev regime that pluckily fights back against the evil Russian hordes, veritable Davids against a horrendous Goliath. Will it do the trick? It will have to as the reality of the meal being served up resembles a pretty stinky gruel that NATO noses would certainly eschew.
Will they swallow what’s offered? It must strongly be suspected that they will accept it wholeheartedly and even give it a five star rating. Little Zelensky will once again be transformed semantically into a giant among men, a valiant defender of all decent western values such as democracy and freedom (this despite him jailing those opposed to his policies and shutting down all media not agreeing with them). Ukrainian flags will fly proudly, not a trace of blood upon them. The rhetoric will be strident. Support for Ukraine will be unqualified. Unity will be displayed by all. The choreography of lies will be honed to perfection.
And the meal afterwards? What of it?
Will it be delicious? Will Ukrainians lick their lips in anticipation of yet another course? And then another and another…?
The above may well occur. But what of reality, that awkward customer who can spoil any party where so many cooks have worked so hard? Though you know the saying about too many cooks and the broth, don’t you?
Reality, grungy, horrible reality is all set to intrude and as is becoming the custom these days will be delivered by road. It may well be tasteless fare for the designer suited NATO attendees. They may turn up their noses, even spit in disgust, lips writhing and hot-blooded eyes popping in rage… however, their facade of fake war success will not prevail, it will not stand for more than a day.
What is that other saying that’s somewhat apposite in this culinary themed context?
Revenge (like reality) is a dish best served cold?
