RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.04.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.04.2024
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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Updates will be sporadic and perhaps absent during much of this time.
Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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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$500 Russian drones destroying $10,000,000 American tanks – NYT.
Moscow’s forces have destroyed five US-made Abrams in Ukraine and damaged another three, the newspaper has claimed.
Expensive American M1 Abrams tanks delivered to Ukraine are increasingly falling prey to Russian drones that cost only a fraction as much, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Even “one of the most powerful symbols of American military might” is not invulnerable to such attacks, it said.
At least five US-supplied tanks out of the 31 provided by Washington have already been destroyed by Russia, the American media outlet said, adding that three others had been “moderately damaged.”
In most cases, the tanks have been destroyed by first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze drones, also known as loitering munitions. Such drones are capable of actively maneuvering before hitting their target.
In at least one instance, though, an Abrams tank was taken out in a duel against a Russian T-72B3 main battle tank. The Russian military has published upwards of a dozen clips, mostly taken from drones, showing the destruction of US-supplied equipment.
Read more: WATCH Russian kamikaze drone hit US-made Abrams tank
According to the NYT, the tanks turned out to be “more easily taken out by exploding drones than some officials and experts had initially assumed.” The media outlet cited an Austrian historian and military expert, Colonel Markus Reisner, who described such a situation as “unbelievable.” The paper also described the Russian UAVs as “highly-accurate, low-cost tank killers.”
The drones’ accuracy exceeds 90%, the NYT said, adding that they are also capable of hitting heavy armor in its weakest spots. The UAVs “can cost as little as $500,” the paper reported, are capable of “taking out a $10 million Abrams tank.” The paper also admitted that there was no “easy, or single” way to defend a tank against a drone attack.
US-made Abrams tanks made their long-expected appearance on the front line in late February amid the Ukrainian effort to halt advancing Russian troops after the capture of the Donbass town of Avdeevka. A batch of 31 M1 Abrams tanks was pledged to Kiev early last year, ahead of the ultimately disastrous Ukrainian counteroffensive. The delivery was made in full only by mid-October, when the ill-fated push had already largely been exhausted.
$500 Russian drones destroying $10,000,000 American tanks – NYT.
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Russian airstrike targeted a hotel in Chernigov where Ukrainian formations were based.
US Wants To FOCUS on BETTER Things NOW.
US to pay for confiscating Russia’s assets – Kremlin.
Moscow will take measures that serve its interests, Dmitry Peskov has said.
Moscow will not leave the potential US decision to hand over its frozen assets to Ukraine unanswered, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Saturday. His words came after the US Congress greenlighted a potential transfer.
“America will have to pay for this, if it is indeed so,” the Russian official said, referring to the potential confiscation. Moscow set no time limits for responding to Washington’s actions, he stated, adding that Russia will tailor its response to “serve our interests in the best possible way.”
The US would hurt itself if it proceeds with such a plan, the Kremlin spokesman warned. Confiscating Russian assets undermine the principle of “inviolability of private… and state property,” he said. Such a move would prompt many investors to withdraw their money from the US and cause “irreparable damage to the US image,” Peskov believes.
Peskov did not elaborate on what specific measures Moscow could take in response to the seizure of its assets.
READ MORE: US House approves gifting seized Russian assets to Ukraine
Earlier on Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) for Ukrainians Act, which essentially opened the way for the US government to liquidate frozen Russian assets and transfer the funds obtained to Ukraine.
The bill was adopted as part of a legislative package that also included authorizing $61 billion in additional spending on aid to Kiev. The emergency spending bill had been stalled in Congress since last fall as lawmakers were concerned that Washington lacked a strategy for victory or a peace settlement in the Ukraine conflict.
The EU and other G7 nations have blocked an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian central bank since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Of that amount, €196.6 billion ($211 billion) is being held by the Belgium-based clearinghouse Euroclear. Since last year, those funds accumulated nearly €4.4 billion in interest.
The US, which holds only $6 billion out of the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, had long been pushing its allies to seize the money outright. However, this approach has faced opposition from the European Central Bank (ECB) and criticism from the IMF and caused a rift among the G7 and EU political leadership.
Earlier in April, ECB President Christine Lagarde warned that seizing the assets would essentially amount to “a violation of the legal international order.”
Russia has repeatedly said that any actions taken against its assets would amount to “theft.” The Russian agency RIA Novosti also estimated in January that Moscow could respond to such an action by seizing assets belonging to the EU, G7, Australia, and Switzerland, all of which have investments in the Russian economy. The total volume of such holdings amounted to $288 billion at the end of 2022, according to RIA.
US to pay for confiscating Russia’s assets – Kremlin.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK-TAIWAN
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‘Pariah’ Israel Dragging US ‘Into Garbage Bin of History’.
On Friday, the US vetoed granting Palestine full membership in the UN, which was promised to the Palestinians in 1948 when the state of Israel was created. The US has been Israel’s strongest supporter in the UN, previously vetoing three ceasefire resolutions before finally allowing a fourth to pass through abstention last month.
Earlier, Israel struck Iran in response to Iran’s attack last week, which was itself a response to Israel attacking Iran’s consulate in Damascus earlier this month. The attack, which was described by both sides as minor, came after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not respond until after Passover, which runs from April 22 to April 30.
Israel’s apparent insistence on launching a regional war in the Middle East is dragging the United States with it “Into the garbage bin of history,” and US lawmakers seem willing to watch it happen, journalist Esteban Carrillo, the head of news at The Cradle, told Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Friday.
While discussing the recent US vote against Palestinian statehood in the UN, Carrillo explained that it is working against US interests.
“It’s completely a case of the tail wagging the dog. And US politicians just seem so content to just go along with it,” he explained. “What does Netanyahu have over the heads of these people? Because it doesn’t seem like they are even willing to consider at this point stepping away from this pariah that is just dragging them down into the garbage bin of history.”
Tensions between Iran and Israel seem to have cooled somewhat after Israel’s attack was so minor. Explosions were heard near an Iranian base outside of Isfahan, but Iran claimed there was no damage or injuries. A second attack against the city of Tabriz was likewise thwarted.
The attack, which Iran claims came from within its own territory, seemed designed to make Israel not appear “as weak as they are,” Carrillo explained. “After six months of flattening Gaza and killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, they have failed to achieve a single strategic objective against Hamas.”
However, the small scope of the attack also seemed designed to allow Israel to “play tough guy” without igniting a larger conflict.
“Iran’s response over [Friday morning’s] attack is essentially summed up in ‘what strike? What happened? Our air defenses took everything down,’” said Carrillo.
But that doesn’t mean Israel is finished. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still determined to keep the war going to ward off political and legal challenges facing him. “I don’t think that we’re out of the water yet in terms of [Israel] dragging the United States into a regional war,” Carrillo explained, adding earlier that it isn’t hard to convince US lawmakers to join fights. “The United States government for so long now, hasn’t seen a war they didn’t want to be a part of.”
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“The Israeli government currently, I don’t see them having an exit. They retaliated in such a small way overnight against Iran. That doesn’t mean they’re not going to try to do something in Lebanon, and that doesn’t mean at all that they’re not going to try to do something in Gaza,” Carrillo said, noting reports that the US is now on board with an Israeli plan to invade the southern Gazan city of Rafa, where roughly 1.5 million Palestinians fled to after being forcibly displaced by Israel.
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
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AFRICA
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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.
THE WEST’S QUADRUPLE WHAMMY: DEMILITARISED, INDEBTED, DEINDUSTRIALISED & SIMPLY *PLAIN DUMB*
Could the West get any worse? You bet. All it will take is for nothing to change at the top, for the dumbest mofos ever, who clawed their way up the greasy pole of power, to remain dumbly in place.
Arsenals across the western world have been drained of weapons. Supplying the Ukrainian regime with a vast assortment of weapons has been an abiding priority for over two years now. None of the weapons supplied so far, including the so-called gamechangers, have changed the course of the war. The Russian military has continued to incrementally grind down the cannon-fodder sent to oppose it along with decimating every piece of military equipment soon after its arrival. This attrition of weaponry that parallels the attrition of Ukraine’s manpower has left the USA and its proxies woefully short of military supplies.
There has been a lot of specious talk in recent months about the non-existent plan that Russia has to conquer all Europe. Perhaps it isn’t such a good idea to suggest this to Russia when you have drained your warehouses of most of the weaponry and ammunition you would need to fight the Russian’s off? The already significant demilitarising of the USA and Europe however has not brought about a call for its halt in high places. New tranches of spending for both Ukraine and Israel are now in the process of being agreed both in the USA and EU. This is just plain dumb.
The size of the North American national debt is fast approaching thirty four trillion dollars. Yet the spending spree by western warmongers shows no sign of letting up. Billions are being spent apparently gleefully as if we are approaching the end of the world and nothing much matters any more. What’s a few more billions among friends? Mere chicken feed. It’s all going to end in a few puffs of smoke soon anyway. More plain dumb behaviour as these warhawks are bringing it all on. Don’t they have something far better to do than invite Armageddon?
Deindustrialisation of the USA must surely be taking its toll just as the weapons industry reaches peak profits. The average North American is shouting louder with each day that passes about how the ‘American Dream’ has turned into a nightmare. As infrastructure falls increasingly apart money is siphoned off to nations far, far from the USA’s borders. And talking of those borders scant funds appear to be flowing toward the southern U.S. border where illegal immigrants do flow constantly northward. More dumb behaviour here.
The deindustrialisation of the USA’s proxies in Europe has reached a stage that North America will only approach over the next year or two. Germany, once the unchallenged economic and industrial powerhouse of Europe is descending rapidly with one dumb decision after another being enthusiastically made. The Germans are aghast at the sheer stupidity of their current woeful crop of political elites. They see the hard work of generations being thrown away in just two short years due to the unwarranted decisions being made in what were meant to be attacks upon Russia. All have backfired bringing every greater pain at their source. Dumb, very dumb and even dumber.
Back in the good old USA, a very old blunderer by the name of Biden is making sure that the debt mountain there is virtually impossible to climb. Throwing good money after bad as his son Hunter was wont to do seems to indicate the worst possible trait in that family. As the saying goes, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And has there been anything quite as corrupt in recent years as Hunter Biden’s well-heeled sinecure in Ukraine courtesy of his father. The Burisma affair was about as blatantly dumb as it gets, corruption, nepotism and influence-peddling in plain sight.
What next for the woefully dumbed down West? Could it possibly get even dumber? How so? With the re-election of Joe “Where the hell am I” Biden and his gruesome cast of neocon zombie warmongers. That would outdumb all those other dumbnesses now wouldn’t it?
THE WEST’S QUADRUPLE WHAMMY: DEMILITARISED, INDEBTED, DEINDUSTRIALISED & SIMPLY *PLAIN DUMB*
