RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 15.09.2024
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.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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.
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Georgia to apologize for starting 2008 war – media
A former prime minister has described the conflict as a deliberate provocation aimed at dividing Georgians and Ossetians
Former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili gives a speech at a campaign event on September 14, 2024, in Gori, Georgia © Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images
Georgia’s former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has accused the National Movement party, founded by ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili, of inciting the 2008 war in South Ossetia.
He stated that the country will find the strength to apologize to the Ossetians for the “bloody conflict” and strive to restore trust and unity between the two brotherly nations.
Saakashvili, who served as president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, formed his pro-Western party in 2001. In August 2008, he sent troops into Georgia’s breakaway region of Ossetia, shelling a Russian base which had been used by peacekeepers since 1990 – the time of the first conflict on the territory.
Moscow responded with a “peace enforcement” operation, defeating Georgian forces and recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia, as a result.
Saakashvili was voted out of office in 2013 and is now serving a six-year prison sentence on charges related to abuse of power, among other offenses.
Georgia names person responsible for 2008 war with Russia
Speaking at an election campaign event in the city of Gori on Saturday, Ivanishvili, who leads the ruling Georgian Dream party, reflected on the 2008 tragedy, saying a 12-year investigation concluded that “it was “provoked by Saakashvili’s criminal regime” with “outside” assistance, and was aimed at disrupting national unity and dividing the two brotherly nations.
He claimed that numerous pieces of evidence compiled by the Georgian government have implicated the National Movement party in starting the war and committing “the worst crime.”
“We were well aware that all this was a well-planned provocation from the outside against the Georgian and Ossetian people, the purpose of which was to split our unity, destroy relations, and make us exist in conditions of endless, artificial confrontation,” Ivanishvili said.
He stressed the importance of recognizing past mistakes and restoring territorial integrity, as well as “the centuries-old brotherhood and friendship between Georgians and Ossetians.”
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He also condemned the “instigator of the war” and vowed to bring those responsible for destroying relations between Georgia and Ossetia to justice.
“We will definitely find the strength to apologize for the flames which enveloped our Ossetian brothers and sisters in 2008 on the orders of the traitorous National Movement,” he continued, pledging that United National Movement officials will face a Georgian “Nuremberg process,” referring to the post-WWII trials of Nazi German war criminals.
Last month, the Georgian government said it would set up a parliamentary commission to assess the events of 2008, claiming that Saakashvili acted on instructions “from the outside,” which constitutes “a well-planned betrayal.”
The former president could face additional charges of treason, potentially leading to a life sentence.
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US officials leveled fresh charges against 's RT on Friday, claiming the broadcaster has ties to Russian intelligence and is running a global influence operation. But the real reason for the attack on Russian media is more sinister, an observer told Sputnik.
Washington’s crackdown on RT is “connected with the desire to preserve the already virtually non-existent unipolar world order of Western dominance, which of course also means dominance in the information space, the media space, in order to preserve one point of view for everyone and suppress and destroy all others,” political analyst Alexander Asafov told Sputnik.
“The ramping up of efforts in this direction is tied to the fact that the average Western citizen, voter and taxpayer paying for everything no longer understands why they should fund the desire of their political elites to help some distant dictatorial regime like the one in Ukraine, and is starting to ask questions, and finding answers quite easily. In order to prevent them from doing so, measures like these are taken, factually constituting total censorship,” Asafov explained.
The US war on journalism – not just with the crackdown on RT, but the blocking of social media, the harassment of independent journalists, etc. constitutes the practical implementation of the “horror stories British writer George Orwell once used to terrify the entire world. In essence, the persecution of journalists is an attempt to punish them for ‘thought crime’, for a person thinking differently and being willing to tell the truth,” according to the observer.
As for the new restrictions and charges against RT, these are just another attempt to silence Russia and rob it of its right to present an alternative perspective on world events, Asafov said, noting that the US will continue to raise the stakes in its attempt to reach this “impossible” goal.
US actions are “based on a pretext,” not facts, “and there are certainly no legal grounds for such actions,” the political analyst stressed, pointing out Washington’s behavior is not just a violation of international law and lofty ideas about freedom of speech and media, but America’s own legislation. Instead, they constitute the practical “application of the so-called ‘international rules-based order’,” which in its essence “can be compared to a pirate’s code” that the US is trying to force on everyone.
‘Orwellian’ Attack on Russian Media Sign of US Desperation to Save Crumbling Unipolar World Order.
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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.
UKRAINE: AN ENDLESS CONFLICT? HOW IT BEGAN & HOW IT MAY FINALLY END.
Neither side can afford to lose. But every war ends somehow. Either by agreement to end it through negotiations. Or by the outright victory of one side. What's most likely in Ukraine?
The western powers along with their allies are authors of their own misfortune.
It is they who constantly push forward, interfering wherever they wish, determined to assert their will over others. How many other nations do this or anywhere near this scale? I would say none on both counts, not even on some extremely small scale. It is almost unknown. Much might be made of China's activities in its coastal waters and perhaps reference Russia and Chechnya... but these instances pale to insignificance when compared to the multi-pronged incessant interference of the USA, UK and France in particular, both in the recent and far past.
These nations (USA, UK, France et al) should be the ones correctly grouped as an 'Axis of Evil', not China, Russia, Iran and others. This is plain for all to see that wish to look straight at geopolitical realities. However, using the fig leaf of 'democratic' for themselves, and the pejorative term, 'authoritarian' for the rest, they successfully obscured, muddies and distorted the obvious reality for their populations. The reality, that their myriad bloody regime change operations have perpetrated evils of enormous magnitude down the years from hundreds of years ago to the present day.
The greatest evil that exists upon this planet is the U.s. concept of 'manifest destiny'. The U.S. political elites, along with their similarly-minded British colleagues use an asserted 'superiority' as justification for all their many abuses. The democracy they talk of is of course a sham. What they are referencing is in fact a dictatorship of the 0.1% and if we are being totally honest with ourselves we know this implicitly. This western 0.1% may not be evil by any dictionary definition of the word, but their combined effort to perpetually undermine the sovereignty of other nations is. As we can plainly see if we look without our usual parochial eyes. This combined elitist aggression of the western powers produces without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest in terms of evil consequences that exist on our planet.
Some talk of an ‘if only’ circumstance regarding the western powers, that they are not using all the lethal force they could potentially wield, and that this is the answer if they find their will hard to enforce. The notion by some runs along these lines regarding the conflict in Ukraine: if only the western powers-that-be had supplied the Kiev regime with absolutely everything they needed in the past they wouldn't be being beaten so badly now, or be quite so clearly losing the war. On this subject of 'too little too late', I would like to point out that neither side believed that it would be necessary to go to full scale war for very different reasons. On the Ukraine side it would certainly have been the case in the early months of 2022 that the western powers would have been very confident regarding two things in particular.
1) That Russia would be massively damaged and weakened by what they thought were devastating financial and economic sanctions they were ready to hit Russia with. Plus demanding all western companies leave Russia. and secondly,
2) That they could count on the support of the vast majority of nations to ostracize Russia and cease their trading and cultural connections with it. Then, in addition, there was the military and financial support package which they could deliver to Zelnsky. All this combined, I am sure made them believe that there was no way Russia could prevail as it has. This thought I am sure never entered their minds.
Add to the above the initial successes of the Ukrainians in hitting the sitting duck convoys of Russians put there in the initial phase of Russia’s campaign, their purpose being to intimidate Zelensky and co. into coming to their senses and agreeing talks with the view to a speedy end to this situation and most important to the Russians agreeing that Ukraine would stay neutral.
On the Russian side it was clearly expected that Zelensky would swiftly come to his senses seeing the Russian troop formations so close to Kiev and in many other strategic places around Ukraine.
Quite clearly Putin and the Russian high command did not foresee the intervention by the West in the way that occurred just as the peace negotiations had progressed so far, first in Belarus then in Turkey. Putin appears to have placed far, far too much trust in the western leadership. Of course he had still to hear how he was betrayed during the entirety of the Minsk peace process.
In any case, thinking that the Istanbul negotiations were going well, and without doubt shocked at the number of casualties the Ukrainians were inflicting upon the sitting ducks around Kiev, he withdrew these latter forces., saying it was a goodwill gesture. And so we then have Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev and all that follows. So, I think it’s clear that neither side saw the need to go all in the earlier stages of this conflict. Of course this depends to some degree on how far back we mean by that.
Perhaps 6 months to a year ago piling everything possible into Ukraine by the West would have made a big difference. But there would have been a Russian response to this. What we do not know, but there certainly would have been one. Would it have been nuclear as Russia had not geared up sufficiently to make an adequate response at that time? Maybe. But it is not safe to discount any consequential outcome in this respect. If Russia was to get significantly desperate at any point... watch out. Piling all in a year ago may have had catastrophic results for Ukraine, perhaps Russia would have formally declared war upon the regime. We will never know. But giving the Ukrainian regime EVERYTHING would have been no universal panacea at any point, of that I am certain.
The spokespersons of western elites reduce everything to a single sound byte from time to time. This is that if Russia simply withdraws all its troops over the original borders between Ukraine and Russia the conflict will be over. However, there is absolutely no question of Russia exiting from the bulk of the territory it has liberated so far. The end to the conflict will be arrived at, by all the signs we see now, by military means. This is recognised by both sides. Any talk of peace negotiations or peace conferences is about appearances, so much theatrical froth designed to keep allies on side as well as their populations if at all possible. No one at this juncture believes any such sideshows for press, media and surface benefits will bring any kind of peace, not even a temporary peace, never mind a lasting one..
Perhaps ultimately, having won its campaign of grinding attrition, Russia will negotiate to leave certain areas once this operation is at its maximum extent, i.e. most probably at the banks of the Dnieper (or just across in Dnipro and Kiev). Russia might certainly give Dnipro and Kiev back to the Ukrainian regime at the negotiating table. But if anyone thinks Russia came all this way just to retreat and go back to the original borders they are kidding themselves.
If an effort is made to bludgeon Russia into doing this by going all-in and supplying Kiev with the long-range missiles and permission to hit deep inside Russia currently being mulled over, and if the West has any significant success in doing this I am certain (as Prof. Mearsheimer has said) Russia will drop at least one if not several big ones somewhere in response.
This conflict, war or whatever you want to call it, is (again as Prof. Mearsheimer says) existential for Russia. There is no way that Russia will allow itself to be forced back over the original borders to then be faced with NATO right there before it within eyeshot. That is simply never going to happen. Russia will wreak even greater havoc upon the Ukrainian regime first. The potential declaration of war by Russia at that point rather than conducting its present operation would mean the range of targets within Ukraine would be massively expanded and would certainly include every single government office. Is that where we are headed? If the western powers are determined to take this all the way and start programming and launching missiles deep inside Russia I’d say it’s quite likely.
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Conclusion:
Vladimir Putin, the Russian military and the Russian people never for a moment wanted this war. For the best part of a decade Vladimir Putin walked every extra mile available in the search for peace and reconciliation. The western powers placed stumbling blocks before every one of his steps. In Minsk he thought all was being done in good faith with the same outcome in mind, peace. Only after all the years of thinking this did Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko boast of how they tricked him. The outcome they wanted was more war, not peace. Finally, Putin saw there was no other way out of the impasse laid before him by the West. At last he saw that war was inevitable. Though even then he sought peace both in the negotiations in Belarus, then in Turkey. But again he was tricked… but for the final time. Pursuing the conflict to the necessary outcome for the Russian nation was the only path left open to him. So undoubtedly with huge regret and sorrow in his heart he saw finally that this situation had to be brought to a conclusion as the only way, in the fullness of time, for peace to return again.
