RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.12.2022
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.12.2022
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.
*** WHO PROFITS FROM STOKING FURTHER WAR IN UKRAINE? ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (189k subscribers):
Russia Belarus Cooperation, Zelensky Determined to Hold Bakhmut, Turkish Media Savages Zelensky.
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‘The Duran’ (319k subscribers):
Global economic crisis & the geopolitical reaction w/Jeffrey Sachs (Live).
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‘Dialogue Works’ (6.86k subscribers):
The ugly face of WAR | Douglas Macgregor, Scott Ritter & Jeffrey Sachs.
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ (20k subscribers):
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 31: Ask the Inspector.
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‘BreakThrough News’ (138k subscribers):
Europe Self-Destructing for U.S. Proxy War In Ukraine, w/ Prabhat Patnaik.
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‘WION’ (7.14 million subscribers):
Gravitas: American Defence Companies are profiting from Ukraine War.
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‘Rachel Blevins’ (5.46k subscribers):
U.S. Officials Admit Their Goal in Ukraine is to ‘Weaken’ Russia.
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‘Roundtable’ (26.2k subscribers):
Is the US making a profit from the conflict in Ukraine?
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (35.3k subscribers):
LIVE: Ukraine ATTACKS Russia | Scott Ritter on Diplomacy is DEAD, the West Killed It.
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‘Russell Brand’ (6.08 million subscribers):
THE END
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (72.4k subscribers):
Ukraine Russia War - Power and Patriot Missiles.
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‘MintPress’ (30.7k subscribers):
Max Blumenthal on St. Javelin And Ukrainian Mafia Fundraising On Social Media.
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‘Redacted’ (1.53 million subscribers):
They have 24 HOURS left to stop this or else it's "total chaos" | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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‘Douglas Macgregor Col (9.1k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor - Russia’s Fighting Force in Ukraine.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (202k subscribers):
Russia CAPTURES Marinka, Putin PLANS OFFENSIVE In Belarus w/ @historylegends.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.02 million subscribers):
American missiles fired at Russia's Belgorod; Putin strikes back, Ukraine sounds alarm | Details:
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‘usefulidiots’ (67.7k subscribers):
Mick Wallace: The EU is Sacrificing its Own Citizens.
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‘Garland Nixon’ (38k subscribers):
NEOCONS FACE THE MOTHER OF ALL DEBACLES - RUSSIA COCKS ITS FIST - FBI OUTTED ON TWITTER.
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'Deepin Moments' (47.4k subscribers):
THERE MUST BE A PRICE TO PAY! 30 countries around the world grill the US at the WTO meeting!
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‘Info Defense’ (39 subscribers):
Most of mass media telling us about war in Ukraine has been a lie?
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‘Djuki San’ (37k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (December 20, 2022).
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'Международное радио "Беларусь"' (4.06k subscribers):
Aid to Ukrainians comes at expense of millions of people worldwide.
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'Международное радио "Беларусь"' (4.06k subscribers):
Украина убивает своих! Как зачищают медийное поле. Цензура и устранение неугодных. Понятная политика.
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'The Roundtable - Gonzalo Lira' (111k subscribers):
The Roundtable #38: Why Bakhmut Matters.
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‘George Galloway’ (235k followers):
How many have actually been killed in the war in #Ukraine and why don’t we know?
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'CHRIS THRALL' (75.1k subscribers):
"Ukraine's 'Joan Of Arc' Arrested Over Cop KiIIing" | A Royal Marine Reacts.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.03 million subscribers):
Russia-China deepen ties with live-fire naval drills. Why the West is worried?
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Putin's new plan terrifies Ukraine; 'He is taking notes from World War II, will unleash...'
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Putin to go to war with Biden after Ukraine? Russia warns of ‘direct clash’ with U.S. | Details:
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'Opiniono' (1.12k subscribers):
Avoidable inevitability? Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Cork.
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'iAFRICAN' (29 subscribers):
❗️Last highlights on Russian special military operation in Ukraine as of December, 20.
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‘ShanghaiEye魔都眼’ (117k subscribers):
Putin supports training Belarus on nuclear jet use, adding Russia not interested in absorbing anyone.
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Putin: 'I watched 2nd half of WC final from when score was already 2:2'.
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‘The Duran’ (319k subscribers):
Truth and transparency. Secrets and disinformation w/Robert Barnes (Live).
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 20th December 2022:
US has put itself and Russia ‘on brink of direct clash’ – Moscow.
The Biden administration is lying about maintaining contacts between the two countries, the Foreign Ministry says.
Washington’s “dangerous and short-sighted policy” has put it “on the brink of a direct clash” with Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Monday, responding to US State Department spokesman Ned Price, who blamed Russia last week for making relations between the two countries “unstable and unpredictable.”
Moscow has “genuinely strived” to make relations with the US stable and predictable, even as Washington stokes tensions, Zakharova added.
“It is the US’ desire to maintain American hegemony at all costs… as well as its arrogant unwillingness to engage in a serious dialogue on security guarantees” that led to the current crisis, the spokeswoman said.
Russia is calling on the administration of US President Joe Biden to avoid further escalation, Zakharova said, adding that Moscow still wants to defuse tensions and is open to talking to the US at various levels.
However, the US is openly lying about maintaining contacts with Russia, Zakharova claimed. Last week, Price said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken still keeps in touch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Zakharova called the statement a “banal lie,” adding that the last time the two diplomats spoke was July 29.
Amid the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Washington has provided massive amounts of financial and military aid to Kiev and has led the drive for sanctions on Moscow, which was also joined by US allies in the EU and elsewhere.
The conflict in Ukraine broke out after the US rejected Russia’s proposals for security guarantees in Europe, including a limit on NATO expansion to the east. Moscow repeatedly warned that Ukraine’s potential membership in the US-led military bloc would cross a red line and that arming Kiev would only prolong the conflict.
MAPPING CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (76.2k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 20.12.2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.6k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 299 (19/12) Summary: Russia near capture of Novoselivske (Lugansk).
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.9k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (14.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.7k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Dec 20th.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ via‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on December 19, 2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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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 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.
