RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.02.2023
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.
*** THE UKRAINIAN REGIME IS BEING SHAKEN TO ITS CORE ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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 particularly newsworthy in the western mainstream. Below it you can watch the CNN report which contradicts the lies the Ukrainian regime were concocting at the time to escape being identified as the perpetrator.
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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’. (201k subscribers):
Bakhmut About to Fall, Russia Says Ukraine Leaving Kupiansk; Report Implicates Biden in Nord Stream.
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'Redacted' (1.69 million subscribers):
TERROR ATTACK on pipeline exposed and CONFIRMED, Putin's next move | Redacted w Clayton Morris.
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‘BreakThrough News’ (145k subscribers):
NATO’s Fascist Inheritance & the Long War On the Third World, w/ Pawel Wargan.
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'Scott Ritter' (52k subscribers):
⚡When will Russian offensive begin? | Zelensky speaks in front of UK Parliament | Scott Ritter Show.
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'Kim Iversen' (507k subscribers):
EXPOSED: Hundreds Of Children Listed On Kiev-Backed Kill List. One Child Speaks Out.
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'Chris Hedges Fan Club' (62.9k subscribers):
John Mearsheimer | RACING toward NUCLEAR DEMISE.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (158k subscribers):
Biden's Xi Jinping meltdown. NYT prepares for Bakhmut defeat. Lavrov replies to gardener Josep. U/1
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.86k subscribers):
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine About To Be annihilated.
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'The Duran' (332k subscribers):
Sweden focuses on NATO as economy, law and order declines.
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‘The Duran’ (332k subscribers):
Q & A: The escalation escalator.
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'The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
Why You Should Hate Corporate News Even More Than You Do.
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'Levan Gudadze' (3.54k subscribers):
London escalates, Russian offensive, German tanks, anti-war movement - News from Russia.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (31.6k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Leopard 1 And M1 Abrams Tanks Are Not Game Changing Weapons In Ukraine Conflict.
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Latest update from Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (213k subscribers):
IN-DEPTH: Chinese-Russian History with Mark Sleboda & Carl Zha.
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'The Convo Couch' (47.2k subscribers):
Bidens SOTU Pro War, Anti Poor, Johnny Vedmore on WEF, Zelensky, & US Wont Aid Syria, Praises WH.
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'Djuki San' (38.6k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (February 8, 2023).
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Russia Today (RT) News.
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'Gonzalo Lira - Again' (66.4k subscribers):
2023.02.08 The US Has Legalized Theft.
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Russia Today (RT) - Crosstalk.
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'iEarlGrey' (116k subscribers):
Sunak & King Charles Meet With Zelensky. UK Promises Long Range Weapons Pilot Training To Kiev.
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'George Galloway' (245k subscribers):
Love them hate them #MOSSAD are a pretty sharp outfit.
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RealTruthTalk' (5.86k subscribers):
Ukraine/Russia Report: Special Military Operation : 2-7-23.
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'Scott Ritter - Again' (82.4k subscribers):
Putin is a great man.
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'HistoryLegends' (236k subscribers):
Wagner Assault Units BREAKTHROUGH North of Bakhmut.
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'Michael Rossi Poli Sci' (42.2k subscribers):
New Feature Video - The Russian Ukrainian War: One Year Later - February 25, 2023.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (90.7k subscribers):
No one in DC is facing reality about Ukraine - Col. Doug Macgregor.
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‘NäköKulmaPulma’ (303 subscribers):
Southfront: Northern Donbass frontline moving.
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'MintPress News' (33.9k subscribers):
10 Ways The US Is Out Of Line With The Entire World.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (128k subscribers):
Russia's Shoigu slams NATO involvement in Ukraine threatens 'unpredictable' escalation.
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Beijing calls on US to lift sanctions on Syria in time of humanitarian crisis and announces more aid.
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US and EU sanctions are hampering Syria earthquake aid, as Syrian envoy explains why.
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Beijing stresses competition not everything in China-US relations, urges rationality & objectivity.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.14 million subscribers):
'West Will Kneel...': Chechen Warlord and Putin Ally Ramzan Kadyrov predicts end of War | Watch:
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Russia promises India delivery of third S-400 air defence system amid Ukraine War | Details:
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Putin snubs Pakistan; Russia declares 'won't do anything that impacts India ties' | Watch:
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‘Garland Nixon’ (44.5k subscriptions):
THE US EMPIRE PLOTS ITS OWN DESTRUCTION.
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'Gerald Celente' (196k subscribers):
We’re Living On Borrowed Time and Borrowed Cash.
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‘Syriana Analysis’ (42.9k subscribers):
Expert Opinion | Things You Need to Know About Germany's Policy on the Ukraine-Russia war.
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'Firstpost' (519k subscribers):
Russia-Ukraine War: Ex-Israel PM Naftali Bennett's Shocking Revelations | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
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'TFIGlobal' (430k subscribers):
Zelensky is on a firing spree as he fears his ouster.
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Putin’s friend bails out Germany’s airport.
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'TeleTruth' (15.3k subscribers):
Recruit civilians on the streets, Ukraine running out of infantry against Russian forces.
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'Through the eyes of' (73.1k subscribers):
POLISH GOV PAYS MILLIONS OF $ TO MAKE AMERICANS AWARE OF ..."TELL A LIE VISION" SETS DROP IN SALES.
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‘Li Jingjing 李菁菁' (32.4k subscribers):
Tensions over Taiwan & U.S. preparations for war in the Pacific 🔴 LIVE.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (90.7k subscribers):
Chinese spy balloon?... Hell, they've got satellites.
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Russia Today (RT) - 360 View.
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'Info Defense' (144 subscribers):
Brave Ukrainian lady stands up against Nazi for her rights to keep name parents gave her.
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‘Tech Revolution’ (67.5k subscribers):
Russia And China JUST ANNOUNCED This NEW GAME CHANGING Strategy That Is A MASSIVE Blow To The West
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'ASK RUSSIANS' (2.36k subscribers):
Rural Russians talk about black people / ASK RUSSIANS.
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'Chris Hedges Fan Club' (62.8k subscribers):
Michael Parenti | BOMBING and DESTABILIZATION.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (40.9k subscribers):
BUCKLE UP: Neocons Are Preparing for a DEVESTATING War with China.
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'The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
“China Is Not Our Enemy” – Says Top General Mark Milley.
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‘Redacted’ (1.69 million subscribers):
Banks admit the COLLAPSE is coming and they don't want YOU to know about it | Redacted News.
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Syria needs our help! Instead we give them SANCTIONS | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris.
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‘Gareth Price’ (3.89k subscribers):
Satanic Sanctions Starve Syria of Desperately Needed Humanitarian Aid As US Thieves Steal Their Oil.
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'Opiniono' (1.27k subscribers):
The rise of terrorism in Africa.
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'BORZZIKMAN' (124k subscribers):
That's why Putin's Russia became the 'Blood Enemy' of the West! [BORZZIKMAN's Explanation].
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'Habla News!' (165 subscribers):
Russian Armata Specifications. Animated Simulation of combat.
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'The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
NBC’s Hit Piece On Jimmy Dore/Taibbi/Greenwald Is Dumbest Yet.
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'TFIGlobal' (430k subscribers):
Biggest lie of Volodymyr Zelensky uncovered.
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'Li Jingjing 李菁菁' (32.6k subscribers):
‘Hey, China Balloon, you are arrested!’
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‘Alexandre Guerreiro’ (6.44k subscribers):
Jornalista dos EUA revela quem destruiu o Nord Stream.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 8th February 2023:
Kiev inching closer to conceding defeat – ex-Russian president.
Dmitry Medvedev cited talks about a ‘Korean scenario’ in Ukraine as evidence of a growing acceptance of “reality”.
Discussions of a “Korean scenario” in Ukraine are a sign that Kiev is on the way to recognizing the reality on the ground and accepting its losses, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. The idea of a Korean-style division of Ukraine has been discussed by current and former officials in Kiev, who claim that this is what Russia is pursuing.
The idea that Ukraine could be divided up the way Korea was after the war in the 1950s is “for domestic consumption” and constitutes “wishful thinking,” Medvedev added, citing unnamed “propagandists” as peddling the notion.
What is notable is that “they coyly tested the statement that there can be no victory” and that “being split is the best-case scenario,” the former president said. The ‘Korean scenario’ means that a smaller, US-backed Ukraine could eventually develop to the level of South Korea while maintaining its claims over lost territories, Medvedev explained.
“In essence, this is the first step towards accepting the realities on the ground,” he said.
Korea was split into two parts after a three-year civil war, in which the opposing factions in the north and south were backed by the USSR and China, and the US respectively. Both Pyongyang and Seoul claim sovereignty over the entire Korean Peninsula, and each considers the other government to be unlawful.
Unlike South Korea, Donbass voted in a referendum to become part of Russia rather than forming a sovereign state, Medvedev said, arguing that a ‘Korean scenario’ is not feasible for Ukraine. The former president currently serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian National Security Council.
The idea was floated to the Ukrainian public last month by Medvedev’s counterpart in Kiev, Aleksey Danilov, who claimed that Russia is lobbying EU nations to accept a Korean-style split of his nation, and stated that Kiev would reject it. The Kremlin dismissed the report as a “hoax.”
This week, the Korean scenario was also brought up by Aleksey Arestovich, the former aide to the office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Speaking at an expert panel discussion on Monday, he stated that Ukraine does not have enough manpower to beat Russia on the battlefield anytime soon, and claimed that a Korean scenario may become an acceptable off-ramp for the parties involved.
Like Danilov before him, Arestovich claimed that Russia is seeking this type of outcome, while noting that the Western nations which Kiev depends upon “think the same way.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (84.6k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.08
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.41k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (53.2k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (21.1k subscribers):
[ Bakhmut Front ] Ukraine line collapsed entirely N of Bakhmut / W of Soledar; road to Slovyansk cut.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (19.4k subscribers):
WAR UPDATE: Vuhledar and Bakhmut Sitreps.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
Ukraine [8 Feb 2023] 'Today' - eastern front update.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Cry Havoc and Let slip the Dogs of War.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: February 7, 2023
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LATEST REPORT FROM GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (195k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
Ukraine:Day 349 [ 8 Febraury ] ''Today'' New Map.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (55.5k subscribers):
Bakhmut Front Update 08/02/23 | Paraskoviivka & Krasna Hora Operationally Encircled.
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Bakhmut Front Update 08/02/23 | Paraskoviivka & Krasna Hora Operationally Encircled.
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Full Front Update 08/02/23 | Heavy Fighting.
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LATEST REPORT FROM 'DJUKI SAN’ (38.5k 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.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS
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WESTERN LEADERS ARE DETERMINED TO SPLIT OUR WORLD IN TWO
The following commentary was written and first posted on the 17th of October 2020. Within it the prediction is made that we would again begin to hear the phrase 'The Free World'. We are now hearing this said in both the USA and Poland in particular and we can expect it to become a mantra repeated ever more frequently in future months and years. The political leadership of the West have once again pronounced themselves the supreme judges of the rest of us and will clearly not be content until they are our permanent warders wielding their power on what will have become a virtual prison planet enforce their will to insist upon our obedience to their rule or risk being destroyed if and when we resist.
BIDEN HIS TIME
It is beginning to look like the predictions of a Biden landslide in November will be fulfilled.
So, what will an ‘Uncle Joe’ presidency look like? Hard or soft power?
There will be undoubted relief among millions of North Americans if the Trump era is finally seen to be over and the ‘anyone but Trump’ man enters the White House. That being accomplished what are we likely to see from a Biden administration, what will its agenda be?
‘Uncle Joe’ has always been a political bruiser and very often in his career within the Democratic Party he has been atypical when compared to his colleagues, often veering to the far right in his ‘hang ‘em high’ rhetoric on law and order and his gung-ho attitude toward regime change wars including that against Iraq.
Biden has already telegraphed that his targets will include so-called ‘authoritarian’ regimes. He has already singled out Russia and Cuba as targets and we can safely include many more within this category as defined by himself, the liberal fraternity and the majority of Democratic Party supporters. China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua... in fact the same list as Mike Pompeo outlines at every opportunity. So what will be the main difference between Biden’s time and Trump’s?
It is clear to me that the main difference will be in circling the wagons of what are always referred to as the USA’s allies in “The Free World”. We will hear no more criticisms of those allies, no more criticisms at all. NATO and those allies will be sacrosanct, as is the scared creed of western goodness, rightness and honour, of never knowingly doing wrong and being the eternal bastion of freedom, democracy and the 'right’ values as opposed to all others who are inherently bad by comparison.
This will be the dualist Bush doctrine re-imagined and strengthened. If you are not good you are bad. If you are not with us you are against us. We are the standard, the ideal, that which you must be compared to in all things.
And if you deign to contradict any of this you are a traitor to freedom, democracy and a danger to all right-thinking people.
You may have seen that I use the word 'right’ a lot. Though the Democrats are still to some degree associated with the left, this has hardly been more than a convenient facade to engender some mirage of difference from the Republicans. The Democrats are not of the left and have not truly ever been of the left. They are of the elite. They are, as Noam Chomsky has said many times, merely one of the two factions of 'The Business Party’. And the business world needs war.
Division, conflict and war are supremely good for business. Not only in terms of corporate profits, also for political business. How many times have wars boosted flagging political fortunes? Maggie Thatcher for instance, well down in the polls and looking at almost certain defeat at the polls was saved by the Falklands War. Bill Clinton found destroying a milk warehouse in Libya reportedly killing one of Gaddafi’s nieces was very good for his approval rating. George W. Bush gained his two terms mostly due to the illegal attack upon and invasion of Iraq post 9/11.
The Democrats have moved to the right and well past the Republicans when it comes to representing the hawks and neocons of the far right. No one remotely interested in American politics could have missed the parade of Bush-era warmongers at the recent Democratic fanfare event. Or their boast regarding how many security state officials have pledged their support for them. They are not even trying to hide the fact of their shift to the far right on foreign policy. They WANT Americans to hear it. They seem to believe (wrongly) that Americans find such breast-beating aggression toward foreign “foes” seductive. Despite this being contrary to what polling suggests they are likely to be rewarded with a big win in November anyway.
War, a world war, becomes much more likely with a win by Biden in November. His bellicose attitudes of the past are being kept somewhat in check while his benign persona is kept to the fore currently... but just wait a few months and we will see the real Joe.
The real Joe is an extremely hard and hardened political strongman. His attitudes are belligerent and adversarial. He will create an even more wicked series of adversaries than Trump has. They will be irredeemably bad. He will echo people like the harridan Nicky Haley who railed against the evil Russian officers in Syria who woke each morning wondering how many school children and hospital patients they could kill that day. The Nazi technique of generalised demonisation of a people will be seen to continue under Biden I predict. His solution will be a resolute no to any suggestion of dialogue, diplomacy or detente. He will argue that only the submission of these 'authoritarian’ regimes to the demands of the West and nothing else, will do.
Are you ready for a permanent division of our world into absolutist right and wrong, the always good and always evil, the sincere and the devious, the always to be trusted and never to be trusted?
If you are indeed ready then you will welcome Biden’s time.
If not, be ready to be silent, or to be condemned.
Meanwhile... he's just 'Biden His Time'.
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