RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.06.2023
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.
*** IS THE WORLD TURNING AGAINST ZELENSKY & HIS NAZIS? ***
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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
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THE DURAN
Decision making centers will be destroyed. Russia warns US & UK.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
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VOTUM TV: HERETICS - SCOTT RITTER
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BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
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GLENN GREENWALD
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GLENN DIESEN - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Col Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine/Russia War Economic Impact.
SCOTT RITTER
Скотт Риттер Украинцы портят натовское вооружение.
Scott Ritter on Ukraine sabotaging NATO equipment.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Ukraine strikes vital bridge linking to Crimea; Russia retaliates with high-precision weapons.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Western allies of Ukraine really decided to fight with Russia to the last Ukrainian.
SCOTT RITTER
The Ukrainian counter offensive has failed.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine's NOT reached Russia's 1st Line of Defense/Ukraine Soldiers Inadequate Training SCOTT RITTER.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DANIEL DAVIS
Any Chance of Ukraine Victory is Vanishing.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Spying that Occurs Round the World.
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THE GRAYZONE
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Don't believe this nonsense.
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Biggest Story of the Year and the Media Ignored It.
SCOTT RITTER
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DUE DISSIDENCE
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TRIBUN TIMUR OFFICIAL
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THE HILL
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ROBERT KIYOSAKI
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THE GRAYZONE
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 23rd June 2023:
Russia responds to Israeli envoy defending Nazis in Ukraine.
No country has the right to such “heroes,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova has said.
Israel’s ambassador to Kiev, Michael Brodsky, glorified Nazism by saying that Ukraine has the right to consider Stepan Bandera and other WWII collaborators as national heroes, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
“Not a single organization defending the memory of the Holocaust victims has so much as raised an eyebrow” at Brodsky’s comments, Zakharova noted, despite raking in billions in donations to keep the topic alive. “Haven’t you missed something? The Holocaust must be remembered not just because it happened, but so it doesn’t happen ever again. And not just to one nationality or religion, but to any.”
In an interview with the Israeli Russian-language outlet Iton TV earlier this week, Brodsky said that Ukraine glorifying the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) leaders as national heroes is a process that “cannot realistically be stopped.”
“Of course, we don’t like those heroes, but for the majority of Ukrainians, these are heroes who fought for independence,” added Brodsky, arguing that Israel should not condition its support for Ukraine on Kiev denouncing Bandera and others.
Zakharova saw it as especially appalling that Brodsky spoke in fluent Russian, as a relative of someone who survived the blockade of Leningrad in WWII. She referenced several historical documents showing the virulently anti-Semitic position of the OUN, and its endorsement of the Nazi mass murder of some 1.4 million Jews in occupied Ukraine.
Germany was also in search of its own heroes and national identity in the 1920s and 1930s, eventually choosing the idea of “blood and soil” that led to the Holocaust, concentration camps and mass murder – something the Germans have not managed to wash off after 90 years, Zakharova maintained.
“If Mikhail Brodsky thinks Kiev has the right to such heroes and such an identity, that’s a problem for the Israeli Foreign Ministry,” she said. “No one has the right to such ‘heroes’, for they are not heroes but fiends from hell. That’s not an identity, but a shame on the people of Ukraine. It’s a glorification of Nazism.”
Zakharova pointed out that Brodsky himself is only alive because the Soviet Union disagreed with the “logic” he now embraces. It took the Soviet soldier to “return humanity to its true form” by defeating Nazism, she concluded. “As it turned out, only for a while. Well, here we go again.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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RYBAR UPDATE
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M MAPPING 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.
TALKS LIKE A NAZI, KILLS, MAIMS & TORTURES LIKE A NAZI. IT’S A NAZI.
The Nazi mentality based as it is on a legacy of a semi-mythological belief that the Nazis were good for Ukraine make a nonsense of semantic niceties.
The Nazi mentality in question is about as simplistic and as hateful as it comes. To those who have this mentality every man, woman and child in the Donbass region of Ukraine is a de facto Russian, a ‘Moskal’ and therefore a traitor deserving death.
This is the view of the most radical terrorist forces outside of the Middle East and provide a direct parallel in this kind of terminally skewed mental process to those within ISIS who conceive all those not adhering to their Wahhabi form of Islam to be equally disposable as human beings.
I hope you see the direct parallel between these two modes of unquestioned mental corruption. It negates all concepts such as compassion. A few years ago I watched a video where ISIS terrorists had stopped a large truck and made the driver get out and face questioning. They then demanded he answer a question regarding some part of the Koran. This would tell them if he was on the right side regarding their religious dogma or otherwise. In this case it proved otherwise and he was immediately shot.
The above is the exact same mentality with which the Ukrainian radicals set up their mortars near Donbass villages, towns and cities in the Spring of 2014 and began firing mortar shells at random into them killing indiscriminately. All were traitors to the Ukrainian nation, dirty ‘Moskals’ and Russians, Russians who these radicals utterly despised and blamed for events which took place before they were born, in Stalin’s era.
Such is the blind hatred which our world has seen so much of in recent years, group thought constructs that permit the most awful acts against fellow human beings without any compassion for others intervening. Done coldly at best, with glee and enthusiasm in I am sure many respects.
It is this mentality that Russia is fighting and winning against in the Donbass today. Having lost upwards of 27 million fellow Russians in world war two it was simply unconscionable to watch as the mentality that saw them die rose again in their neighbour, the country and region which had seen the birth of Russia by the original Rus settlers.
Russia, pushed ever further into a corner by primarily the USA and UK via NATO had reached a point of no return. The radical political atmosphere after the western-promoted coup in 2014 on the Maidan Square in Kiev had built steadily over the intervening years and now, in 2022, Russia had reached breaking point. The Nazi-legacy battalions were now firmly embedded in the Ukrainian army and National Guard, Ukraine had become a de facto NATO state and its president was calling for the regaining of Ukraine’s nuclear status. On top of all this the Ukrainian army was being trained by the West and provided hi-tech weaponry. Then, in recent times Russian intelligence discovered that, as Zelensky had stated, Ukraine intended to take back both Crimea and the autonomy-seeking republics of the Donbass by force and a major assault on the latter was planned.
Was Russia to allow the Nazi-legacy terror forces who hated all those within the republics to wipe out every one of the civilian population there? To stand idly by as the saying goes. And if you think Putin’s words about a planned genocide were mere hyperbole you are wrong. To those invading the republics or at least for a large percentage of them there were no good Ukrainians in the Donbass, all were traitors and deserved to die. Can you imagine the bloodbath that was contemplated for a second? It would have come very close to genocide, I have no doubt at all about that.
This is where we are. Russia is moving forward with its operation to eliminate the very real threat that has existed for eight years now both to it and primarily to the civilian population of the Donbass. It is currently clearing the major port city of Mariupol of those who look to their “heroes” who collaborated and fought alongside the Nazis against Russia in WWII. Russia cannot have such people near it and threatening it, a threat which could only become ever-greater if allowed to continue. The trends were all negative with Kiev abandoning the only road to peace and reconciliation available, the Minsk Accords, with Ukraine arming steadily with the West’s help, its troops training with NATO troops and Zelensky seeking ever more weapons including nuclear weapons. Putin and Russia had no good choices left and acted in the only way left that could stand any chance of a secure outcome for the nation.
That outcome was intended to be and will be the elimination of the intolerable threat that was growing ever more deadly just a short distance from the Russian border, encroaching steadily ever nearer.
