RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.02.2023
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.
☮️🕊️RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE SPECIAL EDITION 🕊️☮️
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Video coverage of Rage Against The War Machine Rally:
(Please note: Commentary, updates and mapping on events in Ukraine and video presentations on other issues can be found at the foot of the page. )
Rage Against The War Machine - Nick Braña (The nuclear abyss).
Rage Against the War Machine at the Lincoln Memorial.
Speakers
Demands
Rage Against The War Machine - David Swanson.
The Rage Against The War Machine Rally in D.C. could bring back the anti-war movement in America.
Scott Ritter Uncanceled: Rage Against the War Machine Speech.
The Principle of Nemesis, and the Unstoppable Power of Truth.
Chris Hedges DEFENDS Anti-War Rally, SMEARED by Socialist Web Site - w/ Misty Winston & Tusker.
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 19th February 2023:
Anti-war rally announced in Washington.
The protest will call for peace negotiations in Ukraine and the end of military aid.
A large rally dubbed ‘Rage Against The War Machine’ has been announced for Washington DC on Sunday, with thousands set to march to the White House to demand peace in Ukraine and an end to US military funding for Kiev.
The march, organized by the Libertarian and People’s Parties, promises to be the largest US anti-war rally since the protests against the Iraq War in 2003. It is set to feature speakers from across the political spectrum, including former US Senator Ron Paul, former presidential nominee Tulsi Gabbard, and comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore.
On their website, organizers have laid out the demands they intend to deliver to “warmonger-in-chief Joe Biden.” The points include “not one more penny for war in Ukraine,” the disbandment of NATO, slashing the Pentagon budget, abolishing the CIA, and freeing Julian Assange.
Speaking to FOX News host Tucker Carlson, Tara Reade – one of the speakers due to appear at the rally – argued that Americans are fed up with seeing their government spend almost $100 billion in aid to Ukraine while problems at home are being ignored. “Our infrastructure is falling apart. America is becoming a failed state,” she explained.
Reade also insisted that the US and NATO were responsible for the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which she said started back in 2014 during the Western-sponsored Maidan coup.
“The speakers are all gathering to ask to abolish NATO, because it’s not a peacekeeping force, it’s an aggressive force that’s been pushing up against the borders of Russia, and now we’re getting closer to the brink of WWIII,” Reade added.
According to the Rage Against War website, the rally is set to start at the Lincoln Memorial at 12:30pm on Sunday, marking almost one year since the start of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, as well as Presidents’ Day Weekend.
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 19th February 2023 : Anti-war rally announced in Washington
NO TO NATO, NO TO WAR! | Rally in London February 25! #NO2NATO
A ROGUE, VENGEFUL & INSANE BEAST WAS BORN ON UKRAINE’S MAIDAN
Ukraine must surely qualify not only as the world’s most corrupt nation but also its most dangerous.
Many would point to other countries who are more likely to start trouble for the human community on this planet, those such as Iran, but I am here to argue otherwise.
Modern Iran however, has some salient points in common with Ukraine in the matter of their birth. The most modern versions of both nations were born in violence, insurrection and revolution.
Violence, fear and grotesque levels of threat permeate the upper echelons of the Ukrainian power-structure since its fracturing in 2014. With the ultra-violent insurrection which took place over the winter months of 2013-14 and the destruction of its democratic norms a savage chaos permeated all areas of Ukrainian society where the most ambitious laid their plans for taking power.
Those with wealth in Ukraine saw their chance to establish their own personal security while fearing the ability of their peers to grab it first and disadvantage them. Each one of them began financing the most violent cadres that has successfully brought down the democratically elected president and government through acts of mass violence in 2014. Thus arose the so-called ‘volunteer battalions’ the most infamous of which is ‘AZOV’. Without the vast financing available to the super-rich oligarchs of Ukraine they could never have risen to their present status.
AZOV and those like them wield immense power through their unbridled willingness to use the most extreme forms of violence against anyone they consider stands in their way. This is irrespective of whether at any particular time they are conceived of as friend or foe. If the combined leadership of the European Union or members of the administration of the United States think of them as ‘on their side’, they could not be more wrong.
AZOV and those like them have no side other than that of those who believe like them that all power should reside within Ukraine and that any individual or entity seeks to or appears to minimise the power of Ukrainian nationalism then that individual entity deserves no better than death, and not necessarily a speedy one.
This is the genie that was unleashed on the world after the Maidan insurrection, one clothed in black, bearing a gun, wearing emblems of the SS and usually sporting a swastika tattoo. And as with the mythical genies of the past this one will do everything possible to resist being put back in the bottle. Just as al Qaeda or ISIS members go willingly to their deaths for their ‘cause’ so the rabid fanatics of AZOV and their ilk are minded within a fierce devotion to their cause to do likewise.
The above statement is true however, only in battle. As was seen at the denouement of the confrontation with AZOV & Co in Mariupol where such forces existed in the “catacombs” of the Azovstal Steel Works, in other situations where they are not given the opportunity to fight, they will, eventually, surrender. Only of course to be eventually targeted by others of their kind, or just possibly by the regular Ukrainian army. Like the fanatics of the Japanese army during the second world war, surrender brings dishonour.
The Nazi “ideals” are at times eschewed in favour of the Nordic mythologies surrounding the Vikings. This is another violent underpinning for such people and subsequently their reading matter and favoured tattoos other than ‘Mein Kampf’ and swastikas have been Nordic myths and symbolic runes. These are the men who travelled to eastern Ukraine when the regular troops of the Ukrainian army proved squeamish when ordered to kill their fellow Ukrainians. The AZOV men and their militia friends were only too willing to oblige.
It is no accident or result of flawed GPS coordinates that residential tower blocks, hospitals, polyclinics, schools and other multi-storied buildings were hit by incessant mortar shells during the years 2014 and 2015. For the AZOV mentality- imbued recruits fresh from the Maidan doing their utmost to kill or injure lightly-armed young policemen, those they were targeting were ALL Russians. You must understand the depth of the simplistic thinking involved. These were men of western Ukraine, brought up to deliver the well known Sieg Heil salute, brought up with the belief that the Nazis had offered freedom from the yoke of Stalin’s Soviet Union. They had swallowed this entire bookended reality where nuance was completely driven out by the absolute of ultra-nationalism.
For them therefore the people of the Donbass, the region of eastern Ukraine that had risen up immediately after their own rising and who spoke Russia, who had inter-married for generations with Russians just across their border and who therefore had been “infested” with the alien, Russian gene, WERE Russians. Every last one of them. Every unborn baby, every child, every teenager, father, mother or grandfather. All, for them, had no right to be in THEIR Ukraine, they were an infestation deserving only to die. They were RUSSIANS.
Didn’t they chant together in their tens of thousands in Lviv while brandishing their torches “Russians on Knives!”? Weren’t these ‘Moskals’ as they called them the lowest sucking subhumans possible, traitors and abominations? Naturally it is very difficult for the average westerner to conceive of such a savage and unmitigated hate that these black-clad, swastika-bearing, demons of ultra-nationalism bore always and unswervingly in their hearts. Do you perhaps understand a little better now why the pro-Russian, Russian-speaking majority in eastern Ukraine rose as they did to save themselves after the events on Kiev’s Maidan?
For you such people as those imbued with such sadistic longings to kill, not the infidel, as is the case with ISIS fanatics, but in this case ‘Russians’. Any Russians… Ukrainian Russians, though that term would be anathema to these people such is the absolute hatred with which they perceive them. That an estimated 15,000 died in the years between 2014 and now should no longer surprise you considering that these militants were empowered through providing them with every weapon available.
As I have said above, the Ukrainian army at the time of the largely peaceful uprising by the Russian-speaking majority in 2014 was weak, underfunded and virtually untrained for decades. They lacked the skills or the will to kill effectively. The first president of the new regime therefore stiffened that army with the highly motivated young men who had honed their skills using every form of weapon available to them on the Maidan. And they proved highly effective at killing civilians. When the Donbass began forming a self-defence force things changed radically.
The self-defence forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics assisted by help from Russian advisers and volunteers from across the border eventually roundly defeated the Ukrainian forces and from 2015 onward maintained some semblance of peace for the residents there, intermittently broken by mortar, missile and sniper fire by the Ukrainian forces including the militants surrounding them. This relative stalemate requiring constant vigilance was maintained from then until now. Even now however those same Ukrainian forces fire multiple shells and mines into the civilian heart of Donetsk City. The mentality of hate has remained unchanged all these eight years long.
The Minsk Agreements were meant to bring peace and reconciliation but in fact were only a ruse by successive Ukrainian regimes to buy time with which to re-arm, massively enlarge and professionally train their troops. And to build the most in-depth series of defensive lines including the most extensive trench systems seen since world war one. Also to re-equip and be provided with the most high-tech weapons available from NATO, to drill with NATO and to be trained in all ways including tactics by NATO with Ukraine becoming a de facto NATO state.
Watch any interview with AZOV troops you can find and if they are asked why they chose AZOV rather than the regular Ukrainian army you will hear a variety of answers. One of those is that they have a chance to be far more radical, another is that they cannot be ordered to obey people they do not respect or trust. Only the chosen few are worthy. Those within the exclusive Nazi-riddled mentality, with the Viking spirit and desire to kill all Russians, Moskals included, and above all the holy dedication to Ukraine and only Ukraine, a Ukraine above all others.
These are the men (and women) who believe it is their mission and duty to expunge all that does not conform to their precepts of the truly Ukrainian, a white race of remorseless warriors dedicated to wiping out all else and all that might obstruct their rise to what they consider to be their destiny, to save and rule with the iron fist of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism. These men in composite are the vengeful and ultra-violent beast that was born on Maidan and who make Ukraine the most dangerous nation on the planet.
Rage Against War Pre Rally w/ Courtney, Clint, Wyatt, Reed and Pasta.
Rage Against The War Machine - Wyatt Reed.
Rage Against The War Machine - Jimmy Dore.
Rage Against The War Machine - Max Blumenthal
Rage Against The War Machine - Chris Hedges.
Rage Against The War Machine - Scott Ritter.
Rage Against The War Machine - Jeffrey Sachs.
Rage Against The War Machine - Col. Douglas MacGregor.
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 2023.02.19
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.51k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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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 (55.5k subscribers):
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (22.8k subscribers):
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (21.5k subscribers):
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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 [19 Feb 2023] 'Today'.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.1k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Shock and Awe.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
Rybar military highlights of special military operation in Ukraine 17.02.2023.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.42k subscribers):
Ukraine:Day 360 [19 Febraury]Russian forces captured Paraskoviivka.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (59.2k subscribers):
Bakhmut Endgame | 3.8km From Complete Encirclement 19/02/23.
Full Front Update 19/02/23 | Further Russian Advances North of Bakhmut.
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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