RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 02.12.2023
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.
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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
Rus Capturing Marinka, Avdeyevka Supply Routes, Rumours Zaluzhny Talking to Russia; Gaza War Resumes.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Putin, 2M Russian army. Elensky breakdance. Russia-Ukraine secret NATO deal. Netanyahu long war. U/1
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
NATO/EU leaders fear US-Russia negotiations.
GEOFFREY ROBERTS
Putin wants Peace.
REDACTED
"We need 20,000 men per month to survive!" Ukraine's top General admits DEFEAT.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER
Russia is Ready to FINISH NATO as Putin Rejects Neocon Agenda for China.
GAZA TRUCE ENDS IN NEOCON COLLAPSE | SCOTT RITTER ON WHY RUSSIA WON'T LOSE | CHINA STILL RISING.
LEVAN GUDADZE
News update from Moscow - Battlefield Ukraine, Middle East, Wall Street...
ALEXEI MARTYANOV
Strategic Relic.
RUSSIAN NEWS
I don't care what happens next with the OSCE! Lavrov, Russia.
EMIL COSMAN - UKRAINE/RUSSIA
Soros secures deal with Ukraine. Burying Chemical Waste at no charge in Ukraine. US Investment?
Russian breakthrough. Russian army "advancing on all fronts" in Ukraine.
Video-Russian Kamikaze drone destroys German-made Leopard 2A4 tank. Cheap Drone vs expensive Tank.
CGTN
Russia-Ukraine conflict: A peace deal in sight?
BORZZIKMAN
'We Lost The WAR': Slovakia Recognized West's Defeat┃General Zaluzhny Entered Negotiations With RF.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - UKRAINE/RUSSIA
'Don't Have Enough Power': Zelensky Admits Ukrainian Army Cannot Defeat Russia Without West's Help.
'Russian Army Killed 125,000 Ukrainian Troops': Moscow's Big Claim As Ukraine's Fightback Fails.
'NATO Threat': Russia To Go For War With West? Putin Orders Military To Increase Number Of Troops.
DEEP WEAPONS
Russia Upgrades Software For FAB Bomb Release.
Russian Helicopter Decimate Ukrainian Vehicles in Special Op Zone use New Anti Tank Missiles.
DEFENSE TV
Russia Escalates Winged Bomb Use in Ukraine.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Ukrainian armor formation in Rabotino warmly welcomed by Russian troops.
EMIL COSMAN - ISRAEL/GAZA
So much care for civilians. US supplied Israel with 100 Bunker Buster Bombs (2000 lb. warheads).
Tony Blair, the WORST person to give advice on Middle East, advises Sunak. Why is he not in PRISON?
SCOTT RITTER
"Right now my sympathies are with H@mas Russia not w/ Israel Ukraine because of peace."
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
The Israeli view dominates our media and Congress.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
US, EU Avoid Talks With Russia: Russian FM Segrey Lavrov.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Resistance Axis: Israel Can’t Fight All Fronts at Same Time, w/ Al-Jazeera Correspondent.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Israel BURYING Burned Cars They Attacked On October 7.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal and World’s Biggest A**hole Dies.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
BRICS Condemns Israel War on Gaza! Sanctions Next?
NOVARA MEDIA
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MSNBC Cancels Mehdi Hasan’s Show After Palestine Coverage.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Tucker UNLOADS on Mike Pompeo for Plotting Against Assange.Mehdi Hasan Show CANCELLED by MSNBC.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Brazilian President Lula Says Biden Did Not Stop Israeli Massacre In Gaza.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Israel Knew About Hamas Oct 7 Attack Plan Over a Year Ago!
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza: Former ICC Chief Prosecutor.
Israel Killing Over 16,000 Palestinians Can’t Be Justified.
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Israeli warplanes wiped out 50 buildings in the Shujaiya neighbourhood in Gaza.
Dr Gabor Maté on Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Layla Moran slams Esther McVey’s offensive comments on Palestine.
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH
People being forced to move to Rafah from Khan Younis: Human rights group.
Evacuated from the north, being bombed in the south.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - ISRAEL/GAZA
Al-Qassam Brigades Releases Video Of Drone Strike On Israeli Military Vehicles In Gaza | Watch:
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FIRSTPOST
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ASIAN QUICKTAKE
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TECH REVOLUTION
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GLENN GREENWALD
Round 2: Taibbi/Shellenberger *Clash* w/ Censorship Regime.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
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CGTN
China's visa-free policy for six countries comes into effect.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
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CGTN
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AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
How Ibrahim Traore Stunned The West By Sending Top Army Generals On Official Visit To Rwanda.
PAN AFRICAN TELEVISION
China Now - Episode 36 | Israeli occupation of Palestine | U.S General Elections | Multipolar World.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Blood Money: Why the West Wants Crisis in the Congo.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Tucker PREDICTS Election INSANITY!!!
LIU SIVAYA
TERRIBLE NUMBERS: Ukraine's losses far exceed a million people | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MATTHEW HOH
Genocide Doesn't Make Security.
Articles by Russia Today (RT) - 2nd December 2023:
Ivan Timofeev: Western sanctions against Russia have failed. What's next?
The measures were supposed to bring Moscow to its knees, but all they've really achieved is make everyone in Europe poorer.
Foreign media and analysts are increasingly accepting that sanctions against Russia have failed to produce the results that were expected.
But much depends on how we view the effectiveness of sanctions, and on how we determine the concept. There is a classical definition, which implies that it’s determined by the political result, i.e. the impact on the policy course of the target country – be it foreign or domestic. We can see that the penalties have not led to an outcome that would be favorable to the West. On the contrary, Moscow is pursuing its ambitions even more resolutely.
We can also look at the strength of the measures in terms of damage to the target economy, and there has been pain. The sanctions have had a negative impact on trade with our traditional partners in the European Union and other Western countries. But these states also suffer harm, so it’s mutual.
That said, in reality, the damage was not as critical as expected. In March 2022, it was estimated that the Russian economy would shrink by 8-10%, but it registered a decline of about 2%. There were also expectations of rising unemployment due to the departure of Western companies. Today, to the contrary, Russia essentially has full employment and there is even a shortage of labor, for various reasons.
Normal market relations are undoubtedly undermined by sanctions, but the market finds other ways. Business is also shifting to China, India and other countries.
As far as the oil-price threshold is concerned, it is difficult to call these measures effective against Russia. The Americans are trying to monitor the movements of tankers more closely and even block some of them, but this is unlikely to have much effect.
Russia has realized that it needs to rely on its own resources and is building up a sovereign tanker fleet. Obviously, officials are taking into account the experience of Iran and a number of other countries. So I do not think that the oil-price cap will have a fundamental impact. Of course, it increases costs that would not be there if market relations were normal and not politicized, but it’s not fatal.
There will, of course, be new measures – not only because the current ones are ineffective but also because this is now a runaway train that cannot be stopped. Western sanctions against Russia will be expanded both for domestic political reasons and more generally as a foreign-policy measure to symbolize that the collective effort of trying to contain Russia is ongoing. The most important of these will be the extension of the lists of blocked persons, and export-control lists.
The impact of such measures on the Russian economy has already become routine: the market has gotten used to sanctions and the perception of the punitive actions has even atrophied. Undoubtedly, they will continue to hurt individuals and certain companies, but the country has adapted to a new algorithm. There is an understanding that sanctions are here to stay, and no one has any illusions that they will be lifted or eased. So we are living and working in this new reality.
Ivan Timofeev: Western sanctions against Russia have failed. What's next?
US-centric world ending – Kremlin.
China and other growing economies are catching up, Dmitry Peskov says.
The American-centric world is coming to an end, giving way to a new period of diversity in economics and other areas of international relations, Kremlin Press-Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.
Peskov made the remarks on Friday, in response to an article in the Financial Times, in which US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt revealed that Washington was aiming to cut Russia’s oil and gas revenues in half by 2030. Pyatt, who served as the US ambassador in Kiev during the 2014 Maidan coup, also said that American sanctions against Moscow would stay in place “for years to come” – as long as it continues its military operation in Ukraine.
The Kremlin spokesman insisted that the restrictions by the US and its Western allies are not critical for Russia, as it has many other trading partners on the international stage. He told journalists that “the US might be the largest, but it’s not the only economy in the world. China is on the heels of US. There are also growing economies with their own needs for energy resources.”
“The world is much more diverse than the US. And therefore, the American-centric world is coming to an end and a period of diversity begins, including in international economic relations,” Peskov stressed.
According to the spokesman, the Russian authorities did not doubt that the American sanctions would remain “for years to come,” even before Pyatt’s statement. Moscow is taking this reality into account while planning its policies, he said, adding that there is “also no doubt that the US will continue to try pressuring on Russia.”
The spokesman suggested that as a result of those “illegal” efforts, the Americans will be putting the whole system of world trade and economic relations under strain, “essentially destroying the existing format of those relations.”
Russia’s President Putin Vladimir Putin said that last month that “the development of a new and fairer world order based on the primacy of international law has been a prevailing trend” in recent years.
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Earlier, Putin accused the West of “destroying the system of financial, trade, and economic relations with their own hands” through their sanctions policies. However, he stressed that “real business cooperation” by other countries is leading to the emergence of a new international model “shaped not by Western standards [and] catering to the selected ‘golden billion,’ but all of humanity... and the developing multipolar world.”
US-centric world ending – Kremlin.
Ukraine peace ‘takes two to tango’ – Lavrov.
Kiev and its backers are all “dancing solo,” the Russian foreign minister has said.
Kiev and its Western partners are showing no interest in peacefully resolving the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The diplomat argued that it “takes two to tango” in diplomacy, but accused Ukraine and the West of “solo breakdancing.”
Speaking on the sidelines of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) summit in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Friday, Lavrov said he sees no sign that the conflict will be settled diplomatically any time soon, blaming the situation on Kiev and the West.
“It takes two to start a political process, like in the tango. But the guys on the other side are not dancing tango, they are breakdancing. There, you all have to go solo.”
Lavrov recalled that Moscow and Kiev had essentially reached a peace agreement during talks in Istanbul in March 2022, noting that senior Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia, who led his country’s delegation, had recently confirmed this.
However, hopes for peace were shut down by then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who suggested that Kiev should “make more war,” Lavrov said. “Everyone knows that. We’ve said it many times, but now it’s the Ukrainians who admit this,” he added.
Moscow currently sees no sign from either Kiev or its “masters” that they are ready to negotiate, Lavrov stated, recalling that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had signed a decree last autumn banning any talks with the current Kremlin leadership. That move came after four former Ukrainian regions overwhelmingly voted to join Russia. Moscow, however, has always insisted that it is open to talks with Ukraine.
Lavrov also noted that Western officials have repeatedly claimed that they must support Ukraine because defeat would pave the way for a Russian incursion into the Baltic states and Poland. Moscow has consistently denied having any plans to attack NATO countries.
The revelations about a potential Ukraine peace deal were made last week by Arakhamia, a key political ally of Zelensky. He stated that Russia’s primary goal had been to pressure Ukraine to accept neutrality and abandon plans to join NATO. Kiev did not trust Moscow to keep its word and wanted “security guarantees” from third parties, Arakhamia said, while also pointing to Johnson’s role in thwarting the talks.
Ukraine peace ‘takes two to tango’ – Lavrov.
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
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HS MAPPING UPDATE
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RYBAR MAPPING UPDATE
Israel-Palestine War Map, November 30th-December 1st.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Multiple Russian OFFENSIVES Across The Front.
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.