RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 04.08.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in Poland for the next five days, then Belarus for the following fifteen. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
*** WHAT ELSE CAN UKRAINE BRING TO ITS FAILING OFFENSIVE? ***
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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:
THE GRAYZONE
John Mearsheimer: Ukraine war is a long-term danger.
PASCAL LOTTAZ - ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Forget NATO, Do Your Own Thing. Alliances Make The World Unsafe.
THE DURAN
US-Saudi-Ukraine peace summit, doomed to fail.
DMITRY ORLOV
Putin isn't a Fool - The Mother of all Miscalculations.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER
Kissinger's China Visit DESTROYS Fake U.S. Diplomacy.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Russia Just SHOCKED the World!
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - ALASTAIR CROOKE
Russian Sanctions - What do You Think?... Did They Work?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Ukraine turning into a Grave Yard.
GLENN DIESEN - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
This War Is Over, Russia Has Won | Ukraine collapsing - will NATO intervene?
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO - GARLAND NIXON
A talk with... Garland Nixon (on Biden, Russia and Ukraine).
STEPHEN GARDNER - SCOTT RITTER
UKRAINE IS BEING BLOWN APART BY RUSSIA!
GARLAND NIXON - SCOTT RITTER
RUSSIAN TANK'S DEFEAT OF UKRAINIAN ARMOURED COLUMN.
JACKSON HINKLE
The West Is DOOMED.
SEYMOUR HERSH
CIA Covers Up Nord Stream Bombing & Corruption Continues in Ukraine.
DEEP WEAPONS
One of the most capable Russian attack submarines will conduct the test-launches of cruise missiles.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russia thwarts new Ukrainian attack on Kaluga region.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'French Army Leave Now!': Angry Nigeriens Wave Russian Flags At Anti-France Protest | Watch:
Shoigu Presented With Captured Western Armoured Vehicle; Calls For More Preemptive Strikes | Watch:
NATO Nation UK's 'Weed Growth' Excuse As Russia Army Weakens Ukraine's Counteroffensive | Details:
NATO Nation Firm Rejects Anti-Putin 'Propaganda'; German Company Seals Biz With Russia | Details:
Niger Coup: Moscow, Washington In Battle For Influence: What's At Stake For Biden | Details:
Xi Behind Modi's BRICS Decision? PM To Travel To South Africa For Summit Despite No Putin.
BORZZIKMAN
The END is Closer Than You Think┃The U.S. accused the 150,000-Strong Ukrainian Army of Weakness.
GLENN GREENWALD
Blinken Affronts Australia—Rejects Appeals to #FreeAssange.
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Hell No! U.S. considers a military DRAFT to build up failing forces.
GERALD CELENTE
DEBT DOWNGRADES, WORST IS YET TO COME.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Chinese Company Opens $300M Lithium Processing Plant in Zimbabwe.
LIU SIVIYA
INDEPENDENCIA AFRICANA 2.0
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
NEUTRALITY STUDIES w/ CHAS FREEMAN
The World Doesn’t Buy The West's Stupid Narrative. Ukraine Will Be Neutral.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 4th August 2023:
Number of Russians who joined army in 2023 revealed.
Russian Defense Ministry records show over 230,000 men have enlisted so far.
Almost a quarter million Russians have signed contracts to enlist in the military so far this year, Deputy Head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev stated on Thursday.
“According to Defense Ministry records, more than 231,000 people have signed enlistment contracts between January 1 and today, August 3,” Medvedev noted at the council meeting in Moscow.
“First and foremost, we succeeded in adapting the contract enlistment system to the conditions of the special military operation, and this has yielded results,” Medvedev said, adding that a series of government measures intended to provide for both the soldiers and their families has contributed to making the contract service highly regarded.
Those who enlist receive a one-time bonus, get a credit holiday, and are guaranteed their old jobs once their service is over, although there is still work to be done on monitoring this in practice, Medvedev pointed out. Discrepancies in compensation between those who enlisted on contract and reservists who have been called up have also been eliminated, while every region of Russia has established its own program of incentives and bonuses as well.
In late June, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that the enlistment rate was enough to raise an entire regiment per day. At the time, the number of contracts signed stood at 150,000.
Moscow called up some 300,000 reservists in September 2022. Putin has said on several occasions this year that there is no need for another mobilization yet. In a meeting with military correspondents in mid-June, the Russian president quipped that a call up would be required if Moscow decided to “march on Kiev.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine has issued blanket mobilization orders in several regions. Last week, the national police and security service raided over 100 recruitment stations and medical commissions in 12 jurisdictions, alleging the existence of a fraud scheme to sell medical exemptions from the draft for $6,000 apiece.
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WEEB UNION UPDATE
No Silence On The Eastern Front | Heavy Fighting Reported.
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.
THE WEST'S PLAN FOR RUSSIA HAS GONE CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG
The scenario you see rapidly unfolding now was not at all what was planned. Russia was, by this point in time, supposed to be in complete turmoil with its president ousted, chaos on its city streets and what was left of its military limping home after a resounding defeat by the NATO proxy army in Ukraine. Its economy was to have been fundamentally undermined and its political elite run out of office then replaced by west-oriented figures who would break Russia up into easily manageable parts. The world was to be turned against Russia after it being constantly pushed toward war with the Ukrainian authorities.
None of this was achieved. No significant weakening of Russia has taken place. The anticipated collapse in the Russian economy and banking sector failed to emerge and subsequently no mass revolt on Russian streets by suffering Russians took place. The popularity of the Russian president rose to new levels and the attitude of the Russian people toward the West soured significantly. Russia, rather than being isolated by the world community, found herself more in demand by major nations than she had ever been, these being some of the most powerful economies in the world. Russia's economy, after a period of adjustment, began to rise, not fall. And of course, the conflict in Ukraine that was supposed to finish Russia off, was steadily seen to move in Russia's favour.
There is hardly a single aspect of the West's plan for Russia that can be said to have worked out as envisaged. The very opposite result has been achieved in regard to weakening and isolating Russia. She is stronger today than ever and growing stronger by the day. This while western economies reel from increasing prices caused by the lack of inexpensive Russian gas which helped fuel them over recent decades. Inflation has taken root and recession awaits almost every one of the nations that signed on to the western plan for Russia. Russia has assigned then unfriendly status and, until they change their policies regarding Russia they look likely to continue on their downward trajectory.
To say this is a major defeat for the western war planners who believed they had the key to Russia's downfall is arguably the biggest understatement of all time. All the negative effects planned for Russia have rebounded on the nations of the planners and the likelihood is that the western political elites who signed up to the plan will fall, one after the other until not a single one of them is left standing. Some call this 'The Zelensky Curse' but more accurately it should be referred to as 'The Curse of Western Hubris', for it has been the dangerous overconfidence of the planners that has brought this disaster down upon their nations. A mix of out of date and completely erroneous assumptions about Russia, permanent arrogance, exceptionalism and false optimism has delivered a result of overwhelming disaster that will affect western nations for years to come.
The position of the West has been brought to its lowest levels ever seen just as the global south and major nations such as India, Saudi Arabia and many others across Eurasia, Asia and Latin America seek to draw closer to Russia. The BRICS group, of which Russia is a founding member, now has some forty nations seeking to join it and form economic alliances with the nations within it. In the most recent development a number of nations within the African continent have expressed a wish to drive out western colonialist powers and seek ties specifically with Russia. These eventualities along with dedollarisation where local currencies are used rather than the dollar must be causing increasing nightmares in the West.
The regime change wars of choice that the western political elites of the West have indulged in, in recent times are compounding the desire to exit from the western orbit many have reluctantly been in for a generation. With the rising power and influence of both Russia and China an increasing number of nations have realised that now is their moment of opportunity and by various means they are acting with alacrity to escape the long-held domination of the West over their affairs. Western demands that they censure Russia for the situation in Ukraine has fallen on deaf ears where the hypocrisy involved was recognised immediately. This is another factor that has added to the exodus of nations from their previous virtual imprisonment by the USA and its allies.
These trends show no sign of losing steam, in fact, as more nations openly express their antipathy toward the way the USA and those in its orbit have sought to rule the world ever more nations are displaying their increasing confidence and ability to break free from what they see as the oppressive and suppressive influence of the West. A tectonic shift in geopolitical terms is taking place before our very eyes. The balance of power, held by the West for generations, is shifting eastward and southward. A multipolar world is fast taking shape where the western powers will no longer hold sway, no longer being able to manipulate, strong-arm or use violence at will to mould the rest of the world to its wishes.
In the Donbass region of what used to be Ukraine but which is now an integral part of the Russian Federation Russia is within months of being able to dictate terms to the western powers now rendered impotent against it. Russia will achieve every one of her goals. A war Russia never once wanted but which it was finally pressured and provoked into initiating will have been won. The world community will then recognise the magnitude of Russia's victory, a recognition that cannot help but boost Russia's reputation and acceptability in its wake. A recognition too will arise of just how utterly humiliated the western leaders are who planned the debacle just ended.
In the death of influence in the West we will see the birth of a new world power relationship among all those geographical locations not aligned with it and a migration of others that were marginally aligned with the West toward those who were responsible for the major realignment that has taken place. Chief of these to whom nations will now increasingly align will be China, a China deeply committed to reciprocally beneficial trade, investment and agreement to align interested in the name of the increased well being of all. The waning of the western threat will further emphasise the potential that all others have reached a watershed moment in which this new world of political tolerance, mutual trust and international trade can thrive.
So we see just what the politicians of the West have done in their desperation to maintain their domination over the world. In trying to eliminate those nations it conceived of as enemies it has delivered what must surely be the most devastating of blows to their already declining power. Through myopic blindness and devotion to certain unquestioned dogmas, it has, through its self-created ignorance, brought economic and reputational ruin down upon itself. A ruination from which it will not recover unless under the benevolence and ultimate forgiveness of those who now create a truly civilised and governance-tolerant world permanently focused on building relationships in peace rather than seeking to destroy others through war.
The final straw that brought about the fall of the West was its plan to destroy Russia. Through this cataclysmic error of judgement based on an entire range of factors stemming from both ignorance and arrogance it has thrown away its chance to integrate itself smoothly with the powers it saw rising and that it sought instead to destroy. This fatal mistake is having its inevitable consequences. Nations that couldn't earlier see a way to escape the West's grasp now do so. This factor as much as any has done for the West and those fossilised and intractable minds that run it. And the greatest mistake of all, that finally settled the matter, was the West's plan for Russia, a plan that can plainly be seen to have gone catastrophically wrong.