RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 04.12.2023
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.
*** WORLD IN SHOCKED DISBELIEF AT TWO NEOCON-CAUSED WARS ***
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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
Rus Victory Closer; Washington Berlin Panic; Greens Want EU A-Bomb; Dems Fear Biden Lost Ukraine.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Austin, strategic defeat. $50B to MIC, jobs in USA. NATO, bad news. Arestovich, coup Maidan 3. U/1
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Biden White House diplomacy backfire. Tracking the USS Eisenhower.
Henry Kissinger, preserving empire and power.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
Russia Has DEFEATED Ukraine as NATO Loses War of Attrition.
DD GEOPOLITICS
Inside Ukraine's Power Struggle: Mark Sleboda Analyzes Zelensky vs Zaluzhny Dynamics.
STEPHEN GARDNER - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Russia Mocks Israel As Putin Decimates Ukraine.
CYRUS JANSSEN
US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor Reveals the TRUTH About Ukraine War.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
EU promoted war instead of peace in Ukraine, Gaza: Irish EU MP Mick Wallace.
SERGEY LAVROV
Sergey Lavrov's Full Press Conference at OSCE Meeting 2023 - Skopje Macedonia - English Subtitles.
LEVAN GUDADZE
West abandons Zelensky, Escalation in the Gaza Strip, Nuclear weapons for the EU, Russian Chocolate.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - UKRAINE/RUSSIA
NATO Nation's Big 'Pro-Putin' Move; Bulgarian President Vetoes Armoured Vehicles Delivery To Ukraine.
EMIL COSMAN - UKRAINE/RUSSIA
NATO prepares for defeat in Ukraine. Proof US+UK planned Ukraine's FAILED counteroffensive.
'Desperately Need Money...': Fearing Russian Victory, Biden Pleads U.S. Cong For Ukraine Aid.
Zelensky isolates Gen. Zaluzhny, breaks the army. What's the outcome? Insurrection, Civil war?
Bulgarian President Vetoes transfer of 100 Armored Vehicles to Ukraine. Why, what's the trick?
Proof of Conflict between Gen. Zaluzhny and Zelensky. Zaluzhny complains to US about Zelensky.
Klitschko punches Zelensky again. "Zelensky losing popularity." I predict WAR between the three.
The West promotes Ukrainian "Heroes" Kamikaze syndrome to promote their hidden agenda. Sick!
US "Military Secret" revealed by Below 86 IQ US Defense Secretary, Austin. Russia's Medvedev says.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
NATO admits Ukraine is on the Brink.
ANDREI MARTYANOV
Mitigating Factor.
RUSSIAN NEWS
In Kiev, young people dance in nightclubs. Meanwhile, children are dying in Gaza! Nebenzya, Russia.
BORZZIKMAN
'Hold AVDIIVKA at Any COST': NATO Special Forces Were Thrown To The Aid Of The Ukrainian Army.
It's CRAZY! I Can't Believe This Is Happening! ISRAEL's Fatal Mistake Had Led The U.S. Into a TRAP!
DEEP WEAPONS
Thermobaric warhead was found in a Russian kamikaze drone.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
UNSTOPPABLE! Russian troops began expanding attacks on Khromovo Chasov Yar highway.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Major Rifts: How Gaza is Reshaping a Multipolar World w/ Manolo De Los Santos.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
INTERVIEW: We’re going to die on our land.
Britain has joined the war.
GENOCIDE 2.0 - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 296.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Biden COLLAPSES to the LOWEST Approval Rating EVER!
You Won’t BELIEVE What Russia’s Supreme Court Just Did!
BREAKING POINTS
'STRATEGIC DEFEAT': Sec Def WARNS Israel As US Warship ATTACKED.
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Henry Kissinger and His Legacy.
EMIL COSMAN - ISRAEL/GAZA
"Victim" US Destroyer shoots down ballistic missiles and drones in "SELF-DEFENSE" in the Red Sea.
STEPHEN GARDNER - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Most Americans Are Still Not Paying Attention.
REDACTED
Deep State False Flags Pushing America to War, COP28.
REPORTERFY MEDIA
🔴Bombing Continues Inside Gaza | Life Under Fire In Palestine | Reporterfy Media Daniel Dumbrill.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
American warship USS Carney destroyed in the Red Sea.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Israel Expands Bombardment and Ground Ops Across Gaza, US Airstrike Kills Five in Iraq, and More.
KATIE HALPER
Palestinian Writer SLAMS Israelis CELEBRATING Palestinian Death As ‘Not Normal’.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - ISRAEL/GAZA
'Netanyahu Will Pay...': Top NATO Leader Predicts Israeli PM's Fate Over Gaza 'Butchery'.
Qassam Fighters Inflict Heavy Losses On IDF; Hamas Chief On Israel Kill List, U.S. Jabs Abbas' PA.
Hamas' First Direct Threat To U.S. Over Israel's War On Gaza | 'Will Pay A Heavy Price...'
Al-Qassam Sniper Enters Israeli Post, Kills Soldier; Heavy 'Losses' For IDF In Gaza | Details:
Israel Pounds South Gaza, Kills Hamas Commander; IDF Loses Three Soldiers In Fighting | Watch:
U.S. Angers Iran-backed Militia With Strikes In Iraq | Watch Islamic Resistance Respond With Rockets.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Gaza Conflict About Israeli Expansion At Expense Of Palestinians: Jeremy Corbyn.
US Secretary Of Defence Accuses Iran Of Fueling Conflict In Gaza, Ukraine.
THE ECONOMIC TIMES
U.S. claims their warship, multiple commercial ships attacked in Red Sea amid war in Gaza.
DECLASSIFIED UK
British Fighters in Israel’s Military: Is it Legal?
MIDDLE EAST EYE
‘A night of utterly relentless bombardments’: Unicef spokesperson on Israeli bombing of Khan Younis.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Palestine is undergoing a massacre by Israel.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
Will Iran & Saudi Arabia Arm Hamas?
CGTN
Close-ups in Gaza Ep. 32: One of the last standing hospitals grapples with medical shortage.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Xi Meets Belarusian President in Beijing.
China Helps Egypt Send New Satellite into Orbit.
TECH REVOLUTION
What Russia And China Just Did To Venezuela SHOCKS The Entire World, U.S Is Terrified!
REPORTS ON CHINA
NASA BEGS WASHINGTON: "Please let us work with China!"
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
GEOFFREY ROBERTS
Putin wants Peace.
Articles from Russia Today (RT) - 4th December 2023:
Sergey Poletaev: Here's the reason why next year's Ukrainian elections have been cancelled.
Washington doesn’t know what to do with Kiev, so Zelensky will remain in power.
Back in October, it seemed that Vladimir Zelensky’s days as president were numbered. Time magazine and other publications accused Ukraine’s leader of being responsible for failures at the front. He was described as having lost touch with reality, being unwilling to negotiate, with increasingly dictatorial and narcissistic tendencies, and so on. Prior to that, some prominent figures in the West had stressed the need to hold presidential elections in Ukraine exactly on time – in March 2024. This was mentioned by US Senator Lindsey Graham, who visited Kiev in the early fall.
Now, despite the fact that the media keeps publishing stories about the deplorable state of affairs in Ukraine, it looks like Zelensky will remain in power. In early November, the spokesperson for the US Department of State said that the Ukrainian constitution allows the country to cancel elections, and, on November, 30, all factions and groups of the Ukrainian parliament agreed that elections should be put off for as long as martial law remains in effect, plus for an additional six months after it is lifted.
What does all this mean? Is this the result of Zelensky’s skilled politics or a trap into which he voluntarily fell? Or else, is it an indicator of Washington’s political paralysis on the Ukrainian front?
Post-Azov stupor
A year ago, trusting in their omnipotence, Ukraine and the West anticipated Russia’s inevitable defeat on the battlefield. Vladimir Zelensky personified this confidence, which culminated in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ (AFU’s) counteroffensive in the direction of the Azov Sea. However, the AFU’s failure in the summer and fall of this year was not just a military defeat – it demonstrated the failure of Ukraine’s entire post-Soviet policy, which has been actively supported by the West.
After such a fiasco, one would think Ukraine might fancy a change of leadership. So, why does Zelensky remain in office?
It looks like the most obvious answer to this question is also the most probable one – the West does not know what to do. In order for a new person to replace Zelensky, Ukraine needs a new strategy, which it doesn’t have. Western elites who went all in on the illusory idea of Russia's military defeat are now at a loss and face a bunch of new problems: the conflict in the Middle East, far-right parties gaining support in Europe, and the political paralysis ahead of the US elections. After all, no one is quite certain that Joe Biden, whose health is deteriorating with each day, will be able to run for another term.
It is important to remember that Washington has no need for Ukrainian elections as such, it just needs to keep a tight grip on Kiev. It’s true that Zelensky started to get out of control – he imagined himself to be a great military commander, lost his head, and started throwing tantrums in public, like at the NATO summit in July. The US understands that something has to be done, since a mentally unbalanced head of state is dangerous and unpredictable.
However, as of now, the US Department of State cannot orchestrate a change of power in Ukraine, particularly since Ukraine’s ‘prima donna’ refuses to leave the stage.
In the absence of a clear strategy, keeping Zelensky in office seems like the lesser of two evils – if political chaos were to break out in Ukraine, it would inevitably impact the Democrats’ ratings during the upcoming elections, but if everything stays as is, the issue could be swept under the rug for the time being. Moreover, if the current administration manages to convince Congress to approve a minimum aid package for Ukraine, it would consider the job done.
The lame duck
There is another important aspect, however. An increasing number of people both in Ukraine and in the West realize that the coming year will be a lot more difficult for Kiev. The consequences of the fatal decisions made by Zelensky in the past two years will become fully evident – from the refusal to conclude a peace agreement in Istanbul, to the meaningless fight for Bakhmut, the failed counteroffensive, and other battles that resulted in heavy losses.
Zelensky was the one who ‘embodied’ these decisions, and many people want him to suffer the consequences, so that all the negativity will be buried alongside the president when he descends into the political grave. But, for now, while Ukraine can still fight, the West wants it to fight with Zelensky in charge.
In this respect, the country’s current president is following the path of his predecessors – it has become traditional in Ukraine to heap all the guilt on the leader and then push him into oblivion. This means that soon, everyone in Ukraine may unite against Zelensky. Even his own party is involved in the game. In a recent interview, head of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia admitted that, in March 2022, Kiev had the chance to conclude a peace agreement on very favorable terms and without spilling so much blood – in other words, he was accusing Zelensky of failing to ensure peace.
The conflict between the president and the country’s military leadership is also growing – in a number of interviews and articles, AFU Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny has basically admitted that Ukraine’s army is in a hopeless situation and made it clear that Zelensky’s interference in military matters is to blame. This accusation is quite serious, since the AFU has the full support of Ukrainian society, and Zaluzhny, who is not afraid to speak the truth, may use the army’s popularity to boost his own rating.
Other Ukrainian political figures have also come out of the shadows and reached out towards the West. Zelensky, however, is trying to thwart such attempts. For example, on Friday morning, it became known that former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, who was reportedly on his way to Washington to meet with the new speaker of the US House of Representatives, was not allowed out of the country. Either way, it looks like Ukraine’s entire beau monde is ready for the new political season, which may last anywhere from six months to two years, and will probably end in Zelensky’s quiet (or maybe not so quiet) resignation, and a successor who will promise to fix everything and clean up Ukraine’s ‘Augean stables’.
Maybe the new president will even agree to a truce, and Ukrainian society, tired of the war, will accept this fact – perhaps without enthusiasm, but with a sigh of relief. And then, everything will go back to normal, and Ukraine will prosper and will surely join NATO and the European Union.
An elephant in the room
All these daydreams, however, are unrealistic since they completely ignore Russia’s position. For some reason, Ukraine thinks of Russia as a passive entity that will silently accept any proposal– such as agreeing to a truce without any commitments on the part of Ukraine, freezing the conflict, or allowing Ukraine to join NATO.
Russia, however, will agree to such conditions only if its military potential is exhausted and it is unable to continue fighting. In the nearest one or two years, such a scenario is highly improbable. On the contrary, most likely Russia’s army will be in its best shape for the 2024 campaign, while Ukraine’s forces will continue to grow weaker.
No one knows whether this will suffice to completely defeat Ukraine in the coming year, but some smart Ukrainian experts have already said that the country has no chance of winning even the current war of attrition.
This means that Zelensky’s successor will not merely inherit some ‘negativity’, which could be swept aside with the help of political manipulation – he will take over a country in catastrophic condition. And this national catastrophe will also bring down Ukraine’s current political elites, who hope to profit from Zelensky’s mistakes.
Perhaps then, Ukraine will finally be governed by leaders who are concerned about their country – who want to save what is left of it, defend national interests, not Western ones, and who will stop turning Ukraine into an ‘anti-Russia’.
Sergey Poletaev: Here's the reason why next year's Ukrainian elections have been cancelled.
Money for Ukraine ‘desperately’ needed – White House.
The Biden administration urged Congress to act “immediately” to resolve the military aid deadlock.
The Biden administration is “desperately” trying to release funds to help Ukraine’s military in the conflict with Russia, the White House National Security Council coordinator has said.
During an appearance on ABC News on Sunday, John Kirby was asked whether US President Joe Biden would give in to demands by Republicans, who are insisting that a $106 billion ‘national security supplemental request’ for Ukraine and Israel be conditional on a security spending boost for the US-Mexico border.
Kirby declined to answer the question, saying he “won't get ahead of the president's decision-making.” Instead, he again stressed the importance of the stalled aid package.
“I’ll tell you in that supplemental request that we put forward... yep, there's money for Ukraine which we desperately need. There's money for Israel. There’s also money for border security,” he explained.
According to Kirby, an immigration reform plan was put forward “on day one of this administration.” However, the Republican-led Congress “basically ignored it.”
If lawmakers “are serious about immigration reform, they ought to take that proposal up by the president. They also ought to pass our supplemental request, all four of the major buckets in there, which also includes money for the Indo-Pacific, is important to our national security,” he said.
Kirby urged Congress to act “immediately” to resolve the military aid deadlock.
The administration has been struggling to push through the $106 billion aid package since early October, largely due to opposition from Republican hardliners, who are resisting further funding for Kiev.
The Biden administration has provided Ukraine with more than $76 billion in military and other assistance since the start of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. However, the flow of money has recently dried up. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who visited Kiev last month, could only announce a new arms and ammunition package worth $100 million.
READ MORE: ‘Prepare for bad news’ from Ukraine – NATO chief
Last week, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Kiev’s forces would switch to building fortifications, acknowledging that the counteroffensive, which began in early June and heavily relied on Western-supplied hardware, has failed to deliver the desired results. According to Russian estimates, Ukraine has lost over 125,000 troops and 16,000 pieces of heavy equipment in unsuccessful attempts to advance over the past six months.
Money for Ukraine ‘desperately’ needed – White House.
Russia about to become one of the world’s biggest LNG producers – Gazprom.
The energy giant expects production in Australia to decrease, pushing Moscow up in the rankings.
Russia could become the world’s third biggest producer of liquified natural gas (LNG), according to Gazprom, the country’s biggest state-run energy company.
The gas giant expects a significant increase in production of the supper-chilled gas to be recorded in the US, Qatar, and Russia, while Australia is projected to see a relative decrease in LNG output.
“As a result, Russia could become one of the three biggest LNG producers in the world,” the company said in a statement. It followed a meeting of the board of directors that reviewed prospects for the global shale gas and LNG sector.
According to Gazprom, the volume of global LNG trade in the first three quarters of 2023 increased by 2%.
The company also said that Europe is expected to decrease LNG imports due to a projected decline in gas consumption by the EU as a result of weakening economic and industrial potential.
In the long term, China, India, and the countries of Southeast Asia should provide the main global increase in demand for LNG, Gazprom added.
The energy giant stressed that the decrease in global consumption of LNG was being driven by low levels of fulfillment of supply contract obligations.
“The global market continues to record cases of failure by LNG suppliers and producers to fulfil obligations under long-term contracts,” Gazprom said, adding that the unfair actions of energy companies from Europe and the US were having a negative impact on the reliability of gas supplies to consumers.
Russia about to become one of the world’s biggest LNG producers – Gazprom.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL UPDATE
The Fall | 400 Billion, 17 Million Shells | Project Ukraine Is Finishing. Military Summary 2023.12.4
The First Death Of A Mobilized Teenager Was Recorded In Ukraine. Military Summary For 2023.12.04
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
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NEW WORLD GEOPOLITICS UPDATE
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MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Forces Penetrate Deeper Into Ukrainian Lines.
HS MAPPING UPDATE
Russia Gains Momentum Across All Fronts l Bohdanivka Is Next.
RYBAR MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, December 1st-3rd.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
UKRAINE DOOMED | Winter is here "Prepare for bad news" - Stoltenberg.
IDF Faces MASSIVE RESISTANCE | New Front Opened.
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 IS THE TRUE, ALMOST HIDDEN GENESIS FOR PERPETUAL GLOBAL INSANITY?
Who “knows best” in this world? Who are the new missionaries travelling around the world to “civilise” savages and tell them how they ought to live? Who are those who believe their interests are more important than anyone else's? Which people believe they are exceptional when others are not? Which believe they are superior and have a duty to make others live like them? Who are those who are causing 90% of the turmoil, death and destruction in this world?
A minority among us see it as their vocation in life to terminate that which offends them and replace it with something they have agreed among themselves is more fit and proper. They consider themselves as “doing good” by disrupting any status quo they deem unfit and instigating whatever chaos is necessary to replace it. They never seem to doubt themselves or their mission for a moment. They portray themselves as saints doing “God’s work” just as the missionaries who told the Africans to cover themselves and adopt western ways.
Much as the Nazis or Fascists who so believed in themselves that committing mass slaughter didn’t trouble their consciences at all there are currently people wearing crosses and swearing on the Bible who see no part of the world where war would be a problem. These are not priests or ministers of the church, these are politicians. Politicians in designer suits who appear to be respectable people to any casual observer. They speak in quite measured tones. But they wield influence that is utterly deadly.
No atrocity is to be seen as wholly bad by such people. If the result suits them then it will have been “worth it”. The end always justifies the means to such people. In public they will assume the mantle of fair-minded men and women who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Family men and women who went to the very best schools and universities, who served their countries to the best of their ability… apparently. They will smile for the camera and kiss babies at election time. They visit the required events and give convincing speeches. They will shake your hand warmly if you seem safe and presentable to them and their bodyguards.
Was it always so that these men and women acted as genesis to mass slaughter through history? The “benign” elites with a perfect public persona but who, when back within their private seclusion signalled their armed minions to do their evil bidding where thousands, or millions, died? Was it always such publicly empathetic and privately psychopathic individuals who wreaked havoc down the ages after gaining the power they required through such endless deception? Are they operating now in Israel, Ukraine, Whitehall and Washington? If there is terror, death, destruction and atrocity then they surely are.
