RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 03.05.2023
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 Türkiye (Turkey) for the next two days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to our daily updates.
*** THE ILLUSIVE UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE… ANY SIGN YET? ***
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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:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Ukr Hit Oil Tanker, Few Buildings Russia to Take Bakhmut; West Furious India, Russia Rescues Cuba.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Drones hit Kremlin, targeting Putin. Russia warns retaliation. Elensky hiding out in Helsinki. U/2
THE DURAN
Macron's troubles continue. France rating downgrade.
iEARLGREY
Ukraine Denies Strike on Kremlin. Counter Offensive HAS ALREADY BEGUN. U.S. Default is a 'Trick'.
GLENN DIESEN
Kremlin attacked by drones - Russia claims the right to retaliate.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - JUDGING FREEDOM
Kremlin Attack/ Zelenskyy on Leaks/ US Troops to Southern Border.
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (May 3, 2023).
RUSSIAN NEWS
In April 2023, Ukrainian troops lost more than 15.000 military personnel. Shoigu, Russia, Ukraine, RU.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukraine lost 15,000 troops in April, Bakhmut, Ukrainian terrorism, Militarization of Europe...
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHILIP GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
Anthony Blinken - what's his role in Ukraine?
DISMANTLING the Deep State.
GARLAND NIXON
INTERVIEW WITH GERALD CELENTE - UKRAINE - CHINA - US ECONOMY.
MORNING NEWS - BLINKEN IN HOT WATER - UKRAINE OFFENSIVE - POLAND HATES GERMANY & RUSSIA.
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia LIBERATES 95% Of Bakhmut, Putin's MASSIVE Airstrike.
FIRSTPOST
LIVE: Russian Foreign Ministry Weekly Briefing.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT
US makes up 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China.
REDACTED
Here we go! Putin launches PRE-EMPTIVE attack, protests erupt in Ukraine against Zelensky.
SCOTT RITTER
Bringing An End To the War.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
US in Talks on Building Bases in Finland, McCaul Says Ukraine Support Hinges on Offensive, and More...
TRUE INFO
Russian FM Lavrov Destroys BBC MI6 Agent.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - JUDGING FREEDOM
Blinken Lying?/ Murdoch & Zelenskyy/ US Troops to southern border.
DUE DISSIDENCE
War Profiteers GUSH Over Ukraine Investment Opportunities.
SCOTT RITTER IN RUSSIA
While Scott Ritter is in Russia, check out ‘Strange Bedfellows’.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Nature puts a break on Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia. Here is how:
Russia breathes fire after 'Ukrainian bid to kill Putin'; Kremlin vows to 'strike anywhere, anytime'.
Russian onslaught makes Zelensky 'hide' offensive plan from U.S.; Pentagon leaks trigger divide.
Zelensky fumes at Biden Admin after U.S. secret files leak; 'Unprofitable For Ukraine'.
Russia destroys Ukrainian units as Kyiv blames 'bad weather' for 'humiliation' | Details:
IMF warns U.S. 'Dollar is being abandoned' | How Biden's anti-Putin sanctions are backfiring.
MEA blasts U.S. panel for 'Blacklist India' report | 'Biased, Misrepresentation Of Facts'.
Putin's 'Bad News' for Ukraine and Zelensky; Orders boost in missile production amid war.
Germany, U.S. ditch Zelensky again? NATO nations refuse membership to Ukraine | Report:
Russian missile strikes rock Kyiv; Attacks kilometres away from Zelensky's house | Watch:
Wagner, Russian Army gain more ground in Bakhmut; 'Ukraine Left With Only 2.7 Sq Kms' | Watch:
Putin fumes as second Russian train attacked in two days; Blasts part of Ukraine's offensive plot?
Wagner artillery strike 'kills' top Ukrainian commander Ihor Tantsyura in Bakhmut | Who Said What:
Putin's deadly attack on Ukrainian Army on Cam; Missiles blow up Pavlohrad rocket storage facility.
Russian Army's big reveal; '15,000 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated in 30 days' | Details:
Germany warns Ukraine against attack on Russian soil; U-turn after calling strikes 'fully normal'.
UNHERD
Robert F Kennedy Jr: "We need a peaceful revolution".
RUSSELL BRAND
“THEY ARE AFRAID!” Tucker Just Revealed THIS.
FIRSTPOST
Ukraine’s “Hinduphobic” Cartoon on Goddess Kali Triggers Outrage.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russia to double production of high precision missiles.
TELE TRUTH
Russian glide bombs wipe out Ukrainian ammunition depot in Belozerka of Kherson.
BORZZIKMAN
US Army General Cavoli: 'Ukraine is not Winning this War, and the Russian Army is Getting Stronger'.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China, Myanmar Agree to Promote Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation.
DANNY HAIPHONG
The US is FAILING in Taiwan Yet Neocons Continue to Provoke China.
NEIL OLIVER
Neil Oliver: Sometime in the last century, government and business got into bed with organised crime.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Another Woke Media Outlet Goes Bankrupt.
BREAKING POINTS
Vice News WEEKS From BANKRUPTCY.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says US Could Hit Debt Ceiling.
2023 Bank FAILURES BIGGER Than 2008.
KITCO NEWS
Banking crisis has just begun, could lead to 100% inflation, This is what may force Fed to print.
LENA PETROVA
Banking Crisis: What Does FDIC Do When a Bank Fails? Explained Simply In 3 Minutes.
GERALD CELENTE
BANKING CRISIS HEATS UP, NOW IS THE TIME GET ON-TREND.
FIRSTPOST
First Republic: How the US Government Allowed Banking Crisis to Worsen.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Syria and Iraq consolidate bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
JOHN MARK DOUGAN
Some of Moscow's NEWER Metro stations on the light blue line.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MICHAEL PARENTI: THE U.S. WAR ON YUGOSLAVIA
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 3rd May 2023:
Support for Ukraine depends on counteroffensive – top US Republican.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee chair has outlined Washington’s plan for ending the conflict.
The success or failure of the upcoming Ukrainian attack will decide the future of Western aid to Kiev, US Congressman Michael McCaul has told Bloomberg. The Texas Republican also offered a scenario for what might happen afterward.
“You’re going to see a counteroffensive very soon now,” McCaul, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Bloomberg TV on Monday. “I think there’s going to be a lot riding on the line with this counteroffensive. If Ukraine is successful in the eyes of the American people and the world, I think it will be a game-changer for continued support. If they are not, that will also have an impact, in a negative way, though.”
Republicans currently have a small majority in the House of Representatives, while Democrats hold the Senate and the White House. While some members of the party have criticized the amount of weapons, ammunition and money sent to Kiev, McCaul is part of the group that favors sending even more, and faster.
Ukraine has been trumpeting the start of a major attack for weeks, though multiple officials have complained about a lack of ammunition, weapons, and even the weather.
Speaking to Bloomberg’s ‘Balance of Power’ show, McCaul ventured a guess as to where the fighting might happen.
“My prediction is they will try to go down and hit the land bridge in Crimea and have a very dramatic bold strategy that then would push back Russian aggression,” he said, adding that afterward Kiev could possibly “call for a ceasefire, after which we can then maybe have negotiations, to finally resolve this.”
Such a scenario was outlined last month by Politico, in a story alleging the US government was skeptical of Kiev’s chances in battle and pushing for an open-ended truce that would enable Ukraine to catch a break.
Last week, the US general commanding NATO forces in Europe told Congress that Kiev’s forces had already received 98% of the promised armored vehicles from the West. President Vladimir Zelensky’s top adviser, Mikhail Podoliak, disagreed on Ukrainian TV, calling the estimate “much too large.”
The Russian Defense Ministry estimated that the US and its allies had delivered more than $100 billion worth of weapons, equipment and ammunition to Ukraine as of December 2022. Multiple Western governments have pointed out that their stockpiles are now running low and gearing up production to meet Kiev’s needs would take years.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
The Kremlin Has Been Attacked. The Bear Has Awaken. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.05.03
Another Derailed Train. Attack Of Drones. Hunting For Fuel. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.05.03
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Avdiivka Front ] RUSSIA CAPTURED ENTRENCHMENT SOUTH OF KAMYANKA - Ukraine to attack Vodyane again.
SHAOLINS EVERYWHERE IN UKRAINE - Bakhmut climaxing; Russia cleared Avdiivka's Kamyanka's below.
UKRAINE LAUNCH BAKHMUT OFFENSIVE - Huge amount of arty at Kherson; Zaporizhzhia offensive imminent.
[ Bakhmut ] UKRAINE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE - in the NWW part of city; Ukraine counter offensive begun.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Bakhmut Front Update [3 May 2023].
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Zaporizhzhia Front Proping Attacks | Bakhmut Late Night Fireworks | Quick Update 03/05/23.
Bakhmut Endgame | Wagner Reaches Ukraine's FINAL Defensive Line | Bakhmut Front Update 03/05/23.
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
WHY THE WEST CANNOT BE SOLE GOVERNOR OF HUMANITY'S DESTINY
The power and therefore influence of the West and its elites has become institutionalised. Successive ranks of these elite individuals have taken this and the precepts that go with it as a given. After so many generations their status has been taken for granted, at least by them. The power they have wielded decade after decade is not a matter of debate or question, it is an obvious fact. Alongside the evidence of the wielding of this power come the mythologies which justify it, or are seen to by those who wield the power and hand it on to subsequent generations of officials.
That the origins of this unquestioned power are questionable does not trouble the western elite mind. That they sprang from such dubious roots as privilege, slavery, occupation, colonialism, violence and oppression is not a subject for discussion n polite, or indeed in any, company. The power became theirs to wield as they saw fit and the mythologies of their goodness, civilised values, probity and good judgement overlaid all else. This position of benevolent dominance is held as a sacrosanct principle from which all else flows.
Western elites conceive that they are incapable of selfish or harmful intent. They consider their motives and actions to be self-evidently correct and above reproach and can see no earthly reason why this should be questioned. Even when hundreds of thousands die based on flawed intelligence and exaggerated claims made by their most prominent leaders they conceive of no requirement to atone or be subject to judgement. All was done with the very best of intentions even if some mistakes were made, mistakes which do not require fundamental changes in approach to either thinking, analysis or action.
The view from the upper echelons of western power is that the entire world is their domain to do with as they see fit, justified by the fact that they are the just, the righteous, the civilised, democratic, freedom-loving judges and arbiters of all that is good and appropriate and all that is bad and requiring elimination. This group-thought view is vital to hold the matrix of western power intact and any weakening of it among the rank and file members of its officialdom is seen as tantamount to treason. No quarter is given to any member questioning this status or impugning its right to exist in perpetuity.
Given all of the above we can see how those nations who do now kowtow to the power invested in the serried ranks of western elite officialdom would become objects of western anxiety and potential targets for West-generated change. We can see also how the protests arising from such nations regarding western influence/interference in their affairs would be dismissed. When an elite considers it has universal right on its side and believes invested in it are the inalienable rights of all populations everywhere then we can see that only submission to these facts will serve. All resistance to the required submission to the western righteous in such cases will be ignored as distractions.
But we are now on the cusp of momentous changes which will sweep away all such beliefs and considerations held for so many generations by western elites. And those elites are well aware of this fact and are now fighting a rearguard action to stave off the day when almost all their influence has gone. The rise of powers which the West was formally able to contain, manipulate and dominate is progressively upsetting the status quo that has been for so long beneficial to the West and which western elites have sought to portray as essential and beneficial. This threatens the entire structure of western power and the national interests of every nation allied to the West.
China is the main nation rising to challenge the power of the West. Russia also is providing the second bulwark that is inhibiting the reinforcement, increase and perpetual nature of the West's status as ultimate arbiter of right and wrong. This has never happened before to the western world, so long the proven major world power capable of exerting its influence worldwide and according to those within it, to the benefit of all. This situation is considered to be an absolutely existential threat to "good order" as seen by these elites, a threat so great that 'western liberal values' and a 'rules-based international order' could be erased and replaced. That the rising powers could bring benefits to the world cannot be contemplated or even admitted as a possibility.
Only by continuing to rise can the alternate geopolitical paradigm be assessed in terms of benefits and drawbacks, however, to the elites of the western world the possibility of positive outcomes is anathema. Just as questioning the sacrosanct goodness of the West is outlawed so too is consideration of the potential benefits arising from an alternate form of global influence. But this attitude cannot win out in the long-term as the power of the Eurasian nations rises inexorably to a point where certain realities demand to be confronted.
Russia, in its demand to have its national security requirements acknowledged, has been confronted with the western elite belief system that only its requirements and its alone have any validity. China too is confronted with the selfsame attitude from western elites determined to be proactive in making changes within any and all spheres of influence worldwide. Western elites are being confronted with the fact however that their vision of the world which they believe they have a duty to enforce on all centres of power is unsustainable in the context of the rising national powers of China and Russia.
The old unquestioned superiority held by all western elites is being challenged as never before. Yet they continue to assert their right to wield their waning power, to judge others and punish them when they contravene the precepts held as sacrosanct by themselves and their allies. They find this intolerable and this is why we have arrived at the most dangerous moments for the developed world since the height of the Cold War, arguably since the conclusion of World War II. The danger will only be over once one side or the other achieves victory.
This is why we can see that World War III has been in progress for at least a decade and a half when it became clear to western elites that their time as patrician shepherds of the world was ending. The facade of that power will be maintained to the last and will only fall when the reality of Eurasian power (primarily exhibited by China and Russia) becomes too great to ignore. At that point a significant and obvious change of tone will emerge where the rising powers begin to gain respect, their views on their national sovereignty heard and acted upon and a level of mutually beneficial dialogue and agreement is finally reached.
The elites of the western world will continue to maintain their facade of total righteousness, goodness and beneficial dominance right to the bitter end. Only after fully disabusing them of the group-thought concepts holding their matrix of obedience and myopic view of themselves and their "rights" will they begin to acknowledge that they are not the sole governors of humanity's global destiny.