RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 29.12.2023
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.
*** RUSSIA BEGINS FINAL ELIMINATION OF THE KIEV REGIME ***
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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
Biggest Ever Rus Missile Strike Rocks Ukr; Medvedev, Lavrov: No Ceasefire, US Looking For Way Out.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Graham, blow it off the map. Russian asset steal Feb 2024. Netherlands, prepare for war with Russia.
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Russia winter missile strike. Medvedev hints regime change. Tymoshenko makes move.
EMIL COSMAN
Russia unleashes BIGGEST Air-Attack (158) on Ukraine since start of War. Launched almost everything.
SCOTT RITTER
2-Minute Topic: Bad Year for Ukraine.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukraine under a large-scale missile strike, Middle East, Russian-Indian partnership, Sanctions War...
DANIEL DAVIS - DEEP DIVE
1/2 Million More Ukraine Soldiers Won t Help against Russia w/ Tony Shaffer.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
Ukraine War Primer.
THE HILL
Tucker Carlson Takes ZELENSKY TO TASK, Prez DISAPPEARS Before Meeting With Senators.
RUSSIAN NEWS
If the U.S. called Russia an enemy, then we are ready for any development of events! Lavrov, Ukraine.
SERGEY LAVROV
Interview with RIA Novosti and Rossiya 24 - English Subtitles - Dec 28 2023.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Lavrov rejects Zelensky's formula, calls the West's attempt of strategic defeat on Russia a failure.
EMIL COSMAN
Russia's Invincible Weapon. The Perfect Missile X-22/32 never shot down. Ukraine has no answer to it.
Russia and India agree to joint weapons production. Al Capone+Plantation get more and more ISOLATED.
Russia deploys 3 missile carriers, 2 submarines and 1 frigate in the Black Sea. Imminent attack?
AXX MILITARY NEWS
Next Level. New Mass-Produced of Russia Su-57 will be with Stealth Engines.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Ukraine suffers largest Russian air attack since start of war.
DEFENSE TV
Russia Replaces a Tank Engine in 48 hours.
DEEP WEAPONS
Russian ATGMs penetrate the Leopard of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from any side.
Ukraine Patriot SAM can’t take down Russian Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile; Ukraine never did.
BORZZIKMAN
NATO Fell Into HYSTERIA┃Ukrainian Soldiers Sided With Russia & Engaged In Battle With Ukrainian Army.
SEAN FOO
Russia Threatens The Unthinkable As U.S. Plans $300B Asset Confiscation.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - RUSSIA / THE COLLECTIVE WEST
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THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
PROF. MICHAEL HUDSON, WORLD PREDICTIONS FOR 2024 (USA, UN, PALESTINE, RUSSIA AND BRICS).
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN )EX-CIA) & LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
INTEL-Roundtable with Ray McGovern & Larry Johnson: Should the CIA be Dismantled?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - MAX BLUMENTHAL
What the IDF Did on Christmas.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
US Foreign Policy is a Corrupt Scam.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Israel is trying to escalate the war - Dr. Mohammad Marandi.
GARLAND NIXON
ISRAEL - THE NEOCON SUICIDE PILL.
TFIGLOBAL
Biden and Co. are now trying a weird little trick to somehow trounce Russia.
GERALD CELENTE
DOLLAR DYING AND WORLD WAR III RAMPING UP.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - SCOTT HORTON
Why Do Presidents Kill?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL KAREN KWIATKOWSKI
Why Government is Indifferent to Evil.
KATIE HALPER
Palestinian Prisoner’s SHOCKING Transformation From Healthy To Skin And Bones.
USEFUL IDIOTS
Gideon Levy on Israel’s Nazi Proposals – Full interview unpaywalled.
DANIEL DAVIS - DEEP DIVE w/ COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Israeli's Two Critical Advantages.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
Not Again: What’s Behind Rising China-Philippines Tensions in SCS?
DANIEL DAVIS - DEEP DIVE
To Strike or Not to Strike Iran, that is the Question Self destructive v Wise Effective Answers.
KIM IVERSEN
Exposing Obama's BIG MISTAKE: His Failed Middle East Strategy.
THE HILL
ROCK BOTTOM? Biden Hits Record Low In Polls.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
Russia Reopens Embassy In Burkina Faso After Over 31 Year Hiatus.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Africans Push Back Against White Savior Mentality After Western Mainstream Media Article.
BRENT PELLA
If Lockheed-Martin made a Christmas commercial.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR RICHARD D. WOLFF
Neocon Debacle and Declining Empire.
Articles from RT (Russia Today) & Sputnik International - 29th December 2023:
Fyodor Lukyanov: 2024 could be the year when the West's liberal elites lose control of the world order.
With elections across the world, a lot could be about to change and the position of the minority has never looked so perilous.
This year began with one fierce military confrontation of global significance and ends with two. And there is no guarantee that they will not continue until the end of 2024. The chain of conflicts, seemingly territorial but essentially existential (at least in the perception of those involved), may prove to be quite long.
In the 20th century – with its wars, revolutions, colonial possessions and national liberations – the world was cut up bizarrely and illogically. The military-ideological confrontation of the second half of the century was gradually transformed into a global framework. With its help, all collisions should, in theory, have been resolved. But they were not. On the contrary, as soon as the foundations began to wobble, they recurred with renewed vigor.
The current proliferation of conflicts is a symptom of the weakening of the modern international power structure. This was exercised in the form of a "liberal world order" (more recently called a "rules-based order"). The basis of it was the confidence of a group of countries in their righteousness and the truth of their ideology, gained through victory in the Cold War. Liberal democracy and the market economy defeated the Soviet regime and its planned economy. But soon democracy as the power of the majority, taking into account the opinion of the minority, was transformed into a liberal scheme in which the minority is given more moral and political rights than the majority.
Case in point: in almost all G7 countries the ratings of ruling parties/coalitions are now extremely low, i.e. governments represent the interests of a smaller part of the population. Alternative forces that challenge the current government are labelled as populist. This term (which, incidentally, comes from the word populus - "people") has become almost a swear word, and the mainstream is instructed to fight those who are tarred by this brush. The idea is that the current elites do not need to be changed.
Read more: ‘The scales have tipped’: What can we expect from the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2024?
As a result, the establishment now presents almost every vote as a battle for democracy. The implication is that democracy is the victory of the forces that maintain the "correct" continuity. Accordingly, those who want to change course are declared enemies of democracy, even if they have a majority on their side.
The concept of the "world majority" (i.e. countries outside the Western community), which has entered the Russian political lexicon this year, fits with the delineation between processes in individual countries and at the global level. The role of the global establishment is played by the West. There is no single "populist" force opposing it. But there is a huge space (the very "world majority") which believes that the minority (the West) is abusing its power. What is emerging is not a rigid opposition, but rather a coagulated – albeit growing – resistance that is reducing the effectiveness of the policies of the US and its allies. Within the Western community itself, we seeincreasing demand from "populists" to reduce involvement in world affairs because the costs outweigh the benefits. This does not have a direct and immediate effect, but rather a lasting indirect one. But as history moves faster and faster, the meaning of "lasting" is changing.
2022 was a turning point, because for the first time the ruling minority was directly challenged. Not by the majority, of course, because Russia has been in a kind of "neither here nor there" position. But a precedent has been set. This year was a time of getting used to the fact that the old restrictions, the very “rules" on which the order is based, are disappearing and the space of possibilities is expanding for everyone. 2024 will be "the year of the great decisions". Literally, the majority of the world will vote (just add up the populations of India, the US, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Indonesia, Russia, Egypt, and the European Union (there will be a vote for its European Parliament), etc. In the leading countries of the West, a serious battle is being fought between the "populists" and the establishment, the main arena being, of course, America itself.
In this, the world majority and the majorities in minority countries can find some common ground. And this is where the further transformation of the global space will receive a powerful impetus.
Scott Ritter: Maryinka’s Liberation ‘Major Victory' for Russia.
Russian forces freeing Maryinka adds significantly to their drive to push on, Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector, told Sputnik.
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Russian Armed Forces had liberated the town of Maryinka on Monday. Maryinka is a heavily fortified settlement situated on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.
"In the course of offensive operations, assault detachments from the Southern Group of Forces completely liberated Maryinka southwest of Donetsk," Shoigu told Russian President Vladimir Putin during Monday’s briefing.
Speaking to Sputnik, Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector recalled that from Maryinka, a town of around 9,000 people, Ukrainian forces carried out "merciless shelling of the civilian population of Donetsk and the surrounding area."
"Capturing Maryinka and eliminating the source of this artillery and mortar fire represents a major moral victory for the Russian forces," Ritter pointed out.
He dubbed Maryinka’s liberation "part of the concerted effort being undertaken by the Russian military to create a situation for the civilians of Donetsk, where they can live in peace without the fear of daily bombardment that has killed so many innocent civilians, including children."
According to Ritter, Maryinka is just "one of the battles for the Russian forces" who are pushing the Ukrainians out of previously heavily defended cities, towns, and villages, which he said means that strategic initiative is in Russia’s hands.
He recounted that the Russian defense industry "is in full gear" producing new military equipment in significant quantities for the Russian forces that are deployed in the Donbass and the new Russian territories of Kherson and Zaporozhye. "Right now, it looks like Russia will sustain and maintain the strategic advantage," per Ritter.
The ex-US Marine Corps intelligence officer underlined that it remains to be seen whether Maryinka represents "the beginning of a new phase of aggressive offensive operations or whether Russia will continue to pick away at these heavily fortified Ukrainian defenses before going on the full-blown offensive."
In any case, he reiterated, "one thing is for certain: the fall of Maryinka is a major victory for Russia."
“Morally, it stops the source of the daily shelling of the innocent civilians of Donetsk. And two, it represents yet another victory of the Russian Armed Forces over not just the forces of Ukraine, but the collective West and NATO,” Ritter concluded.
Scott Ritter: Maryinka’s Liberation ‘Major Victory' for Russia.
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* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
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WEEB UNION MAPPING UPDATE
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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.
WATCH THIS FLAG DISAPPEAR FROM EVERYWHERE
Russia's campaign in Ukraine will end in a Russian victory. Western elites know it. But a narrative of "victory for Ukraine" will be asserted. Thereafter... western elite silence & issue avoidance.
It may be hard to believe but soon you will hear nothing at all about Ukraine through mainstream media outlets.
Just as you used to hear, almost by the hour about Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria then nothing, soon there will be complete radio silence on Ukraine.
This has happened every time western nations engage in a bout of violence and propaganda, fail miserably, then crawl away from whatever nation they have been beating remorselessly and go silent.
The half million children that died needlessly through the sanctions on Iraq even before the West began its orgy of violence… forgotten.
Abu Ghraib and all the sordid images that arose from that misbegotten site of torture, sexual abuse and rampant sadism… forgotten.
The weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that somehow just couldn’t be found after Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and the rest of those vile liars said they had proof they were there… forgotten.
And soon too, the 20,000 plus dead Palestinian civilians and upward of 8,000 dead Palestinian children… forgotten (at least by mainstream media).
The next in line is Ukraine. Russia is readying herself to win big there and do what she determined to do at the outset.
There will be no modern-day Nazis able to find support in Ukraine. Those that thought it was a cool idea to be Nazis by wearing swastika tattoos, developing sadistic mindsets, anti-Russian, racist views and a hunger to kill people will find that shaved heads and bloodlust is unwelcome and sneered at in the new Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military will shrink to ceremonial, state-occasion only size with very few wishing to join its ranks.
Once the present abhorrent regime is gone along with its psychopathic president a new Ukraine will arise (if there is anything left of Ukraine at all).
Western mainstream editors and commentators will lose interest.
Western politicians will think better of mentioning Ukraine and avoid difficult questions on it wherever possible.
This above however, will come after the fig-leaf lies designed to make it appear that the West and the Kiev regime won a resounding victory by denying Russia the entirety of Ukraine. The entirety of Ukraine that never wanted. The entirety of Ukrainian-speaking Ukraine that Russia wouldn’t touch with a barge pole (as they say in the UK).
But once that bullshit stage to cover asses in Washington, Whitehall and Brussels is all delivered in one big stinky mess and the idea of anyone being responsible for the half a million Ukrainian deaths has been put to one side… then will come the silence, the unbroken silence. And the disappearance of every single Ukrainian flag everywhere.