RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.08.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.08.2023
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 2 days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Updates may be absent at times. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
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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
Russia Breakthrough Kupyansk, Sinkovka Encircled, Kiev Evacuations; US-Japan-S.Korea Against China.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Elensky; Dutch F16s, Gripen fighter jets. EU sanction Poland. Borrell, Russia dwarf gas station. U/1
THE DURAN
Collective west preparations for the West Germany plan.
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In 24 hours EVERYTHING changes for the United States, Putin and China are ready.
DANNY HAIPHONG
RUSSIA DEFEATS UKRAINE'S OFFENSIVE. HAS NATO LOST? W/ BRIAN BERLETIC OF THE NEW ATLAS.
Neocons CRUMBLE as China DESTROYS the US-led Unipolar Order.
JACKSON HINKLE
US Admits Ukraine Is DONE.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 266.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
US 'Fears' Ukraine Is Too 'Casualty Averse,' Niger Junta Holds Talks With ECOWAS, and More.
GARLAND NIXON
DEBACLE! - THE NEOCON PLAN TO WEAKEN RUSSIA.
KEEP IT SECRET MEDIA
Ukraine War, Rybar Map Frontline Report, Russia Holds Robotyne While Moving towards Kupyansk.
GRAHAM FULLER
Ex-Agent: US Ignores Its Own Intel And Uses Spy Agencies For Internal Propaganda.
STEPHEN GARDNER
Retired Colonel: Ukraine CRUSHED By Putin's Latest ASSAULT.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Biden Rival Slams F-16 Jets For Kyiv Decision; 'Disaster For Ukraine & Humanity' | Details:
Biden Embarrassed; NATO Nations Admit Russia ‘Can’t Be Defeated’, Seek Talks With Putin | Details:
Biden Drains U.S. Artillery Stocks To Arm Ukraine; TNT ‘Shortage’ Bites Washington | Report:
Russian FPV Drone Bombs Ukrainian Armoured Vehicles; Over 700 Soldiers 'Wiped Out' | Watch:
'Zelensky Dangerous For Ukraine': Kyiv 'Insider' Warns, Exposes 'Faults' In War Strategy | Details:
Ukraine Mocks U.S. For 'Offensive Will Fail' Assessment; 'Kyiv's Win Will Ruin Doubters...'
RUSSIAN NEWS
Interview with Alexander Lukashenko. 1/3
Interview with Alexander Lukashenko. 2/3
Interview with Alexander Lukashenko. 3/3
BORZZIKMAN
PMC 'Wagner Group' Arrived In Niger To Repel The Attack of France and the U.S.
TFIGlobal
Sacrifice the East…. NATO’s latest advice to Ukraine.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Many drone specialists of Ukraine-NATO killed at drama theater building in Chernihiv.
MILITARIAN
Russian RPG-4 Units Blow Up 16 Armored Vehicles Ukrainian Army.
FIRSTPOST
LIVE: Ahead of BRICS Summit, Why China Wants the Bloc to Rival G7.
CGTN
BRICS: Rising South with Stronger Voice.
Watch: BRICS Round Table - building an inclusive world.
Why do more countries want to join BRICS?
BRICS mechanism shows attraction of multilateralism: African experts.
Exclusive with the president of the New Development Bank.
Live: BRICS Roundtable – expansion of BRICS and boosting South-South cooperation.
THE BRIDGE PODCAST
Friends from another continent.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China Launches New Satellite for Earth Observation.
TECH REVOLUTION
The US Debt Explosion Just Set The Entire US Economy For Ruin | No One Saw This Coming.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Russia Warns ECOWAS Not To Take Military Action Against Niger.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
Yellen's CRITIQUE and China's Response: Unveiling Economic Strategy Shifts.
LIU SIVAYA
RUSSIAN ATTACK IN CHERNIGOV: Russia attacks the drama theater in Chernigov, Ukraine | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
CYRIL AMAR
Is the US Proxy War in Ukraine Making Europe Poorer?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 21st August 2023:
BRICS aiming for just, multipolar world order – Lavrov.
The global community is tired of “blackmail and pressure” by Western elites, Russia's foreign minister has claimed.
Attempts by the “collective West” to preserve its hegemony have had the opposite effect, encouraging the real “world majority” to dismiss and reject the exploitation of their resources by foreign states, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has argued.
“Tectonic shifts are taking place in the world today… We are witnessing the emergence of a more just multipolar world order,” Lavrov wrote in an article for South Africa's Ubuntu magazine ahead of the BRICS Summit, which opens in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Lavrov called BRICS a “symbol of true multipolarity” for many like-minded countries, which serves as a “positive force that can strengthen the solidarity of the Global South and Global East and become one of the pillars of a new, more just polycentric world order.”
“The international community is tired of the blac kmail and pressure from the Western elites and their colonial and racist manners,” Lavrov wrote. “That is why, for example, not only Russia, but also a number of other countries are consistently reducing their dependence on the US dollar, switching to alternative payment systems and national currency settlements.”
Russia has “consistently stood for strengthening the position of the African continent in a multipolar world order,” according to Lavrov, who promised that Moscow “will further support our African friends in their aspirations to play an increasingly significant role in resolving the key problems of our time.”
The summit in Johannesburg will focus on such “unconditional priorities” as strengthening the BRICS bank, improving payment mechanisms, and increasing the role of national currencies in mutual settlements, said the top Russian diplomat, who will represent Moscow in person, while President Vladimir Putin will join in via video link.
According to Lavrov, the BRICS partnership is gaining momentum, offering many creative initiatives aimed at ensuring food and energy security, healthy growth of the global economy and conflict resolution – although the group does not aim to replace existing international mechanisms, much less to become a new “collective hegemon.”
“That is why we launched the expansion process,” he noted. “It is symbolic that it has gained such momentum in the year of South Africa's Chairmanship, a country that has joined BRICS as a result of a consensus-based political decision.”
Originally consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China, BRICS has only expanded once, when it added South Africa in 2010, without any prior conditions. Member states are currently discussing internally what criteria candidates should meet and how the expansion process would work, given that BRICS takes decisions by consensus. Officials from the five nations have expressed hope that by that time the procedure governing expansion will be finalized and ready for approval in Johannesburg.
BRICS members account for some 40% of the world population and, according to experts' forecasts cited by Lavorv, in 2023 the “Big Five” will account for about 31.5% of global GDP (at purchasing power parity), while the share of the G7 will fall to 30% .
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
Operational Success In The Donetsk Direction. Failed Counterattack. Military Summary For R2023.08.21
Fake Battle | The Last Days Of Battle At Robotyne. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.08.21
Summer Operations | Ukraine Will Get 61 F-16 | Mass Evacuation In Harkov. Military Summary 2023.8.20
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING UPDATE
Massive Fighting Continue To Gain Upper Hand In Klischiivka.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Dozens of Armored Losses As Ukrainian Offensive Struggles | F-16 To Ukraine Announced.
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.
