RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.02.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.02.2023
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.
*** UKRAINE IS ONLY ONE OF AMERICA’S CRIMES ***
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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 newsworthy in western mainstream news.
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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’. (203k subscribers):
Russia in Paraskovievka, Bakhmut; Few NATO Tanks, Nord Stream Questions for Stoltenberg, Sullivan.
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'The Duran' (335k subscribers):
Q & A: Nord Stream pipeline & sabotaging peace.
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'The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
U.S. Media Refuses To Cover Bombshell Nord Stream Story!
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NATO Chief ADMITS Ukraine War Began In 2014!
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (95.4k subscribers):
The Russian Offensive in Ukraine - Scott Ritter
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (214k subscribers):
Ukraine is out of AMMO - NATO.
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'ANDREWNEF' (4.76k subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs | USA More AGGRESSIVE Than China?
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'Levan Gudadze' (4.61k subscribers):
Ukrainian attack - Crimea, Bakhmut encirclement, US ammo stockpiles, Lukashenko, Georgia - Moldova...
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (159k subscribers):
Sturgeon resigns. Less ammo wins wars. Blinken, Crimea is red line. 6 balloons over Kiev. U/1
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'Djuki San' (38.9k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (February 16, 2023).
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'George Galloway' (246k subscribers):
INTERVIEW: Former CIA man LARRY JOHNSON.
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'The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong' (43k subscribers):
US Hegemony Faces COLLAPSE in Ukraine and Syria w/ Brian Berletic.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (130k subscribers):
LAVROV lashes out at Western media's silence over Hersh's Nord Stream explosions report.
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Russia: new foreign policy to ending Western'monopoly', while EU proposes 10th sanctions package.
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'TFIGlobal' (430k subscribers):
The Dark Side of NATO: Manipulation and Betrayal.
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'Sean Foo' (71.8k subscribers):
Europe's Industry Collapse Is Here, Starting With Germany.
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'Breaking Points' (875k subscribers):
Nikki Haley HUMILIATES Herself On Fox News | Breaking Points.
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‘Garland Nixon’ (45.3k subscribers):
THE POLITICS OF THE NORD STREAM ATTACK.
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'Gerald Celente' (197k subscribers):
AMERICA: PRIVATE ARMIES, WAR CRIMES, COVER UPS.
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'Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp' (2.08k subscribers):
Russia Wants UN Security Council Meeting on Nord Stream, US Wants Ukraine to Use Less Ammo, and More.
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'John Mearsheimer' (5.29k subscribers):
United States is the most violent country in the world.
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'Scott Ritter - Again' (85.3k subscribers):
Russia is on the right side of history.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.91k subscribers):
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine/Russia Tanks & Offensive.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.91k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Former Chief United Nation Weapons Inspector.
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‘Info Defense’ (208 subscribers):
Journalist asks John Kirby why he is blaming Russia while it's NATO that expands towards Russia?
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‘The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
Corporate Media Smears Reporter Who Revealed U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline!
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'The Convo Couch' (47.2k subscribers):
Ohio’s Disaster, Media & Government Silence, Whats Really Behind UFO/Balloon Hysteria, & More.
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (213k subscribers):
Putin Forces Ukraine to RETREAT From Bakhmut Suburbs.
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Berlusconi DEFENDS Putin, EXPOSES Zelensky.
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Russia Today (RT) - The Whistleblowers'
Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan Revealed.
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'VRevelations' (652 subscribers):
Russia Accuses West Of Never Ending Hybrid War: U.S. General Mark Milley Says Russia Has Lost War.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.17 million subscribers):
‘Biden wanted to freeze NATO ally’: U.S. journalist’s explosive claim on Nord Stream ‘sabotage’.
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Russian Army strikes Bakhmut, Lviv overnight | Watch 'unstoppable' TOR in action in Vuhledar:
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Putin exposes Ukraine's nuclear ploy; Kyiv 'plotting' Chernobyl provocation with West amid war.
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Russia praises Putin-Modi ‘Dosti’ | 'Western sanctions brought us closer to India'.
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Putin govt fires 'Pokemons' barb at Biden after U.S admits UFO encounter blunder | Details:
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Russian Army pierces Ukraine's defence in Luhansk; Zelensky's men retreat 3 KMS | Watch:
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Putin offers India Russia's modern 'Armata' tank technology for Indian Army I Report:
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‘Parrot TV’ (1.65k subscribers):
FOREIGN POLICY REVIEW: THE U.S. AND THE WAR CRIME PLOT IN CRIMEA.
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'George Galloway' (246k subscribers):
SWEET SORROW - MOATS Episode 213 with George Galloway.
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'Chris Hedges Fan Club' (54.4k subscribers):
John Mearsheimer | UKRAINE war WILL END IN HORROR.
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'Redacted' (1.71 million subscribers):
Elon Musk SLAMS Globalists agenda, as WHO announces next virus outbreak | Redacted w Clayton Morris.
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'Confused Prepper' (477 subscribers):
Scott Ritter Iran & Russia Alliance.
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'Li Jingjing 李菁菁' (32.8k subscribers):
The TRUTH about Syria they don't want you to know!
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'Info Defense' (208 subscribers):
Brave Ukrainian lady asks Zelensky Why he's destroying Ukrainian nation?
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German politician asks German government not to prevent investigation of US attack on NS2? 🤔
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'FINANCE MAIL' (32k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Russia's Gonna Win Decisively. No Nuclear Armed Power Has Ever Lost A War.
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Kim Iversen' (510k subscribers):
Central Banks And WEF Are Seeking To Control Us.
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'SINO SPHERE' (2.8k subscribers):
U.S in Real Trouble! Argentina & Iran Join BRICS+, Becoming 17+ Country Alliance | Petrodollar.
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‘Geopolitical Economy Report’ with Ben Norton. (47.5k subscribers):
Inside Latin America's new currency plan, with Ecuador's presidential candidate Andrés Arauz.
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Alexandre Guerreiro' (6.51k subscribers):
Ainda existe Ucrânia no terreno?
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‘Master B editor’ (465 subscribers):
⚡️🇸🇾🇷🇺 A Syrian girl Iman thanked the Russian military for humanitarian aid.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (130k subscribers):
Nikki Haley swipes at those 'past their prime' US politicians in bid for Republican 2024 nomination.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.91k subscribers):
Russian ₩agner: Jamming Out On Tank.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 16th February 2023:
Leopard tanks will burn – Wagner head to RT.
Evgeny Prigozhin says Kiev’s Western military equipment will inevitably be destroyed.
Russian forces could capture Artyomovsk, referred to as Bakhmut in Ukraine, sometime in March or April, Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner private military group, said in an interview with RT on Wednesday.
Prigozhin noted, however, that the timing is difficult to predict because Kiev continues to receive military aid from Western countries. He added that deliveries of Western military equipment, such as German-made Leopard main battle tanks, could be an important factor in the operation.
Nevertheless, the Wagner Group chief said they will “100% learn how to destroy these Leopards and will 100% learn how to burn them.”
Prigozhin also spoke about why Kiev is so insistent on holding on to Artyomovsk; he told RT there are three main reasons.
The first reason, Prigozhin says, is political, because the battle for Artyomovsk has now essentially become a new Stalingrad – the city in which the most brutal battle between Soviet and Nazi forces took place during WWII, and which proved to be a turning point in the war.
Artyomovsk is now seeing a huge amount of artillery fire, he said. “In Popasnaya, if you put out your hand, in just 30-40 seconds, you will be hit with shrapnel.” He added that in Artyomovsk, the intensity of artillery fire is 2 to 3 times higher. “The enemy is sparing no ammunition, and we should be doing the same,” he said.
The second reason for Ukraine is strategic, as the city, which is part of a 70km Ukrainian defensive line created after Kiev initiated the fighting in Donbass in 2014, is a “good transport and logistics hub for military operations,” the Wagner chief says.
The third reason, according to Prigozhin, has to do with morale. As long as Artyomovsk stands, the Ukrainian army’s morale will remain high, he said. He added that Kiev’s forces generally maintain good morale, and that it’s not the case that they are demoralized and on the run.
The Wagner Group has been at the forefront of Russian efforts to capture Artyomovsk – a key Donbass crossroads city which has seen intense fighting for months and is now close to being encircled by Russian forces.
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 16th February 2023 : Leopard tanks will burn – Wagner head to RT
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (85.4k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.16
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.51k subscribers):
Keep It Secret: Ukraine Russian War, Rybar Map, Analysis and Events for February 15, 2023.
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30.2k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (55.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (22.7k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 357 (15/2): Vuhledar offensive again! Russian expand salient west of Soledar.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (21.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
Ukraine: military situation Feb 15, 2023.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.1k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on February 15.
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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’ (4.41k subscribers):
Ukraine:Day 357 [16 Febraury] Ukranian forces counterattack around Bakhmut.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (59k subscribers):
Full Front Update 16/02/23 | Russian Offensive Further Intensifies | Front Analysis.
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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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THE WESTERN POLITICAL DRIVE FOR HEGEMONY MAY KILL US ALL
The western political elites are in a state of apoplexy due to the knowledge that unless they do something truly drastic they will lose all the power over the rest of the world that they have enjoyed for so long. Due to this rabidly panic-driven state of mind they are now capable of the most instance acts possible. We truly have come to the point where they appear to be ready to destroy the world if they cannot continue to control it.
All limitations appear to have been dispensed with by those who lead the USA and UK now. Admittedly their European allies are less sanguine about the possible atrocities these two are willing to unleash to maintain their position as global top dogs (as they see it). Nothing is off the table from the use of ISIS/al Qaeda terrorists trained, financed and armed smuggled into Russia to perpetrate acts of sabotage and murder to create chaos to the use of tactical nuclear weapons anywhere as these insane megalomaniacs see fit.
Currently they are ready to do almost anything to distract the sheep at home from the reality of the caving in of western economies along with the ways of life they support. It’s all coming down on their heads just at the time when they thought their clever wheeze against Russia would be putting them back up where they think they belong, on top able to maximize benefit to their own interest by manipulating the rest of us. It wasn’t meant to be like this. Russia was meant to be in chaos, not their own nations. This makes them even more dangerous.
Desperation makes people do desperate things sometimes and the cretinous egomaniacs at the top of the political tree in North America and so-called Great Britain are approaching their most desperate state yet. This because the second part of their plan to destroy Russia looks likely to also blow back on them and may well blow them all out of office to be replaced, hopefully, by others with much more sense. Russia is within months of totally defeating the ambitions of the western powers in Ukraine. The humiliation to the entire panoply of these piss-poor politicians will then be complete.
So watch out. This may be when the fireworks truly start. Distractions will be many and quite likely, spectacular. They won’t just be about farcical furores concerning balloons and flying saucers, the next distractions could well lose thousands, if not millions, their lives. That is how much the demise of western power and the losing of the fix these power junkies have enjoyed for generations, means to them. It’s the absolute end for them, anathema, unbelievable… they, the self-appointed, God-anoited wardens, shepherds, guardians, judges, jurors and executioners of our world face their redundancy. Those who give themselves exceptional status, they who pronounce themselves superior to all others, granting themselves the posts of communal dictator over the rest of us who they consider primitives to be herded into pens or abattoir at their choice.
These demagogues in designer suits are ready to contemplate mass murder to save their scrawny political necks. Can you feel the pulse of the zeitgeist currently? The fevered atmosphere is coming down from on high this time. It’s no terrorist plot as on 9/11 coming from insane zealots below. It’s coming from on high, from those ivory towers where the western elites squat who think they are the most ultimately entitled, entitled through some inherent and inalienable right that no one but themselves granted to them.
They want global hegemony and permanently and without any more risks to it this time. In past times they only had it by means of the threat they could use as a weapon to wield if some individual or nation got uppity. They had avenues they could use via submissive and compliant allies to strike just about anywhere they chose and everyone knew it. Now, in these recent days those who were weak and unable to refuse to assist are now finally standing up to the twin bullies of our world, the USA and UK. They are refusing to cooperate. In recent times they said, no, fuck that for a game of soldiers, we are NOT supporting you against Russia and we won’t support you later against China either!
So, how desperate do you think this makes these overweening cowards who beat their breasts in safety while others die, these egomaniacs, psychopaths and wannabe world dictators? Very desperate indeed. And willing to do just about anything at this point and I do mean anything. The world has never been in a more dangerous time than now. I see world but of course the world will do just fine no matter what, it is we humans who must worry… it is we who may well die in our millions at the hands of these insane and extremely evil men and women. Isn’t it time we rose from our torpor and dragged them out kicking and screaming from their lairs before they demonstrate just how mind-burningly insane they are?
THE WESTERN POLITICAL DRIVE FOR HEGEMONY MAY KILL US ALL
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