RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.07.2023
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.
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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:
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
LINK: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE UKRAINE WAR. A LECTURE BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Ukraine MSM Admits Heavy Losses, Demoralised; Offensive "Failed"; Putin Warning Warsaw, Warns of War.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
NATO light in Ukraine, invade Belarus. Putin warns Poland. Erdogan, turn on SWIFT. Biden Barbie. U/1
THE DURAN
Syria's move to push US out of occupied territory.
GLENN GREENWALD - PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
Why Ukraine Can NEVER Join NATO, w/ John Mearsheimer.
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Ukraine is Hollowing out .
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
Vladimir Putin warns Poland.
SCOTT RITTER
Talks Ukraine-Russia Conflict & Much More.
Terrorist Attack On The Bridge In Crimea.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Latin America and Caribbean Reject EU Demands on Russia & Ukraine.
TELESUR ENGLISH
BRICS group seeks to create alternative currency to the dollar.
VALUETAINMENT
LEAKED FOOTAGE: General McChrystal Claims USA Was Behind Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing.
CLARE DALY
NATO is a 'Pimp'.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin Proven Right? Germany Says Turkey's 'EU Dream In Deep Freeze' After Erdogan's Sweden Snub.
Big Admission By U.S. NSA On Russia's Battlefield Roar; 'Kyiv Losing Significant...' | Watch:
Ukraine Turns Into Tinderbox? 'Cluster Bombs Sown Across One Third Of...' | Key Details:
Zelensky's 'Risky' Promise For Arms As Counteroffensive Lags; Russian Blitz Makes Kyiv 'Desperate'.
Turkey Picks Putin Over NATO? Erdogan Takes U-Turn On 'Sweden Deal'; Puts Condition | Watch:
Putin Mocks 'Inferior' Western Weapons; Deems Ukraine's Counteroffensive 'Futile' | Watch:
Western Arms 'Stolen' In Kyiv; How U.S. Failed To Track Weapons Sent To Ukraine Amid Putin's War.
EMIL COSMAN
Putin hurts Poland's feelings: "Eastern territories of Poland are a gift from Stalin."
This is how the MEDIA label someone according to their own agenda.
JACKSON HINKLE
PUTIN Issues BIG WARNING To Poland Over Ukraine.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Can Trump Stop the War in Ukraine?
Ukraine War Is Turning Into a WW1 Stalemate.
CONFUSED PREPPER
Kill all the Russians - Best money ever spent. Senator Lindsey Graham.
FIRSTPOST
Wagner Troops Train with Belarusian Army near Poland’s Border.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
100 mercenaries demilitarized after Russian bombing on a hotel in Nikolaev.
SEYMOUR HERSH
Mapping the Path: Exploring the Factors That Led to Biden's Nord Stream Bombing Order.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Chinese ‘Foreign Agents’ and the New Era of McCarthyism, w/ Amanda Yee.
CGTN
Special Hangzhou Asian Games bullet train rolls off production line.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
China-Russia Maneuvers in the Sea of Japan: Message to Japan & US?
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Algerian President Calls for More Friendly Exchanges, Cooperation with China.
TARA READE
Lee Camp - The Politics of Censored Comedians | The Politics of Survival with Tara Reade @LeeCamp.
STANSBERRY RESEARCH
It's Not Just the U.S. Dollar...It's the Death of Everything Warns Lynette Zang.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
JOE ATKINS
Ukraine LOST. The Endgame in Ukraine?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 22nd July 2023:
Kiev has had no success with counteroffensive – Putin.
The Ukrainian military has lost “tens of thousands” of troops in its push against Moscow’s forces, the Russian president has said.
The West is evidently disappointed that Kiev’s much-lauded counteroffensive has failed to produce any results and has led to high levels of Ukrainian casualties, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Kiev has received “colossal amounts of resources,” including all kinds of Western weapons and “thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers,” but has still failed in its campaign, Putin stated during a government meeting on Friday.
The leader praised the bravery, resolve, and professionalism of Russian soldiers and officers. He also argued that Western military equipment had proven to be inferior in some ways even to Soviet-era weapons.
Western nations may supply more weapons to Ukraine, causing more damage to Russia and prolonging the conflict, but “NATO arsenals and stockpiles of old Soviet weapons in certain states are depleted to a certain degree,” Putin added. He claimed that Western military production cannot keep up with demand, while increasing it would require considerable time and investment.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has lost “tens of thousands of troops” in “suicidal attacks” against Russian defensive positions, Putin claimed. Kiev is running out of manpower despite “total mobilisation raids on Ukrainian cities and villages,” he added, insisting that the Ukrainian people are increasingly asking themselves whose “selfish interests their family members are dying for.”
According to Putin, the US is interested in weakening Europe by fanning the conflict. The president suggested that European public opinion and even European elites are turning against the “endless waste of money and effort” on behalf of the interests of “the global hegemon across the ocean.”
The only parties interested in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine are US elites and some Eastern European leaders who believe they can profit from it, Putin asserted. In Kiev, lawmakers see it as a chance “to save their skins” and are ready “to sell out everything, their people and their land,” the Russian leader argued.
Putin made the remarks as he chaired a meeting of the Russian Security Council.
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MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
Summer Operations | The Battles Of Orehov, Vremevka, Bakhmut, Kupyansk. Military Summary 2023.7.22
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NEW WORLD ECONOMICS UPDATE
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DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
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DPA WAR UPDATE
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
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BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Summer offensive update [22 July 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
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PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
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MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
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HS MAPPING UPDATE
Senkivka Was Under Attack l Russians Captures Senkivka Rail Station.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, July 21st.
M MAPPING UPDATE
Movchanove Rail Station Has Fallen l Surprise Russian Advance Near Senkivka.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
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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.
A MODERN FAIRY TALE FOR WESTERN MINDS AND TIMES
We live in an age when we have access to more information than previous generations by an enormous margin. Yet we remain vulnerable to the spinning of fairy tales when you might think we had all grown far too cynical to believe in such things.
The particular fairy tale I would like to relate concerns a land that most of us were hardly aware of until recently. A land shrouded in a mystery few of us were interested in investigating, let alone revealing in all its reality.
Most of us remain of this frame of mind except for a few exceptional areas of revelation that have become the subject of great interest. The fairy tale concerning this non-fabled land lost to our communal attention has been related to us by the most influential storyteller of our time.
Interrupting a common ignorance regarding this land and events there the storyteller I talk of has painted a tale in glowing colours with the usual backdrop of every fairy tale that went before it, that of good and evil, of a monstrous devil and a virtuous female.
The virtuous, long-lost daughter requires little analysis. That she is pure, virtuous and without a single stain on her character is all we need know. She did nothing wrong that would merit the foul attentions of the monster that now inflicts her young person with such sorrow.
The monster however is provided to us in every possible detail. His characteristics are utterly negative and reprehensible with no redeeming qualities about them. He has a sick and terrifyingly violent mentality. His breath stinks and everywhere he goes there is pestilence, death and destruction.
In all previous fairy tales the reader must associate completely with the fair maiden and loath with every iota of mind and heart the villain. This is essential for the story to work its magic and deliver the most profound experience possible in order to deliver the message and moral of the story.
We must feel zero sympathy for the villain. He must be seen as completely lost to reason and heaven forfend, compassion. He is a brute with a mind cold as ice and a heart that feels nothing for anyone but himself. His motives are vile, his actions brutal and his intentions totally evil. The emotion the storyteller wishes to engender within us toward this brute is an overwhelming desire to see him hurt, crippled and eliminated at the soonest possible moment to save the poor, helpless maiden.
The monster has no backstory you see. There are no previous incidents that might explain the events with which the story begins. In such tales creating some sympathy for the villainous creature is completely out of the question. There can be no possible excuse for what he does. No attempt to find any ameliorating circumstance is sought, indeed it would be detrimental to the required stirring up of disgust, hatred and revulsion for the brute.
At each twist and turn of the story we are told of the hapless plight of our innocent, we can almost hear her cries and screams as those people and things she loves are killed and destroyed. “How can such evil exist!” we ask ourselves, gripped as we are by the horrendous actions of this vile creature who seems to have been born in Hell and destined to return there if we can help effect this outcome.
As readers now thoroughly gripped by the repeated barbarism of the fiend we are now totally committed to the outcome. Every sinew of our being strains to see the thing slain or at least badly beaten and driven off. We hear how this lovely victim, frail and naive has been sorely abused time and time again by this abominable monster. We grip tight onto imagined weapons and cry tears of both anguish and rage.
We wish to help. We would do anything to help, even risk our own lives to battle the giant ogre of a hellhound beast we conceive the abominable monster to be. But the storyteller hasn’t quite arrived at the point in the story where a happy ending comes into view. Instead, the motifs are simply repeated in scenario after scenario to reinforce the building of tension within us leading up to that final joyous climax.
But wait. What is this?
The monster has begun to break through the narrative being woven by the storyteller. A few of us have ears to hear what he is saying even when the majority, lost in their belief in the story as told, cannot bear to hear it. Slowly, very slowly, we begin to realise that the monster does indeed have a backstory. Bit by bit we hear him relate how the maiden’s father used a vicious whip upon him when he was young, how he was abused again and again after the virtuous one’s father used every aggressive act against his own father wishing to take and divide up his land.
Those who understand the backstory as told by the monster who seems not to be quite the monster we were told, begin to look in suspicion toward the storyteller with new eyes. There was more to this tale than we were being told! Our emotions were being played with. We were being manipulated. The story we were being told is false. There is another side to this story entirely.
Finally, reluctantly in some cases, eyes turn to the virtuous young lady who has suffered all these apparently unprovoked attacks. Suddenly we become aware of a hardness in her eyes we hadn’t seen before. Those white raiments that looked so pristine before now presented a more stained appearance and, most shockingly of all here and there upon them could be seen spots of blood. We had been unaware of these things that now seemed to emerge like a photographic negative developing before us.
And no, was that a snarl she now had on her previously beautiful untainted lips?
And what was that in her right hand, clenched so hard the knuckles are white? A whip???
