RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.09.2023
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.
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*** UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE GAINS ALMOST NOTHING: LOSSES 70,000+ ***
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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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ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
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THE DURAN
Armenia pushed towards disaster scenario.
REDACTED
"Americans will need to FIGHT in Ukraine!" says Mike Pence as Zelensky arrives in U.S.
DANNY HAIPHONG
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JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
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JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
Ukraine corruption? Zelensky Explains his Plans.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Who would believe the CIA? w/Ray McGovern fmr CIA.
WORLD'S APART - LARRY JOHNSON
⚡️ Larry Johnson former CIA: Talks Ukraine-Russia.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Andreevka - Kleshcheevka in the Gray Zone, NYT accuses Kyiv, Canada vs India, Georgian crisis...
THE GRAYZONE
Max Blumenthal: Ukraine to become 'Big Israel'?
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
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GARLAND NIXON
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RUSSIAN NEWS
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GEORGE GALLOWAY
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ALEXEI MARTYANOV
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KIM IVERSEN
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EMIL COSMAN
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THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Democrats Have ALL Become Pro-War Pigs!
STEPHEN GARDNER
Ukraine DESPERATELY Tries To DRAG UNITED STATES Into War.
STEPHEN GARDNER - MICHAEL SAYLOR
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
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GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
China Ignores the US & Deepens its Ties with Russia.
TECH REVOLUTION
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ASIAN QUICKTAKE
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REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Ro Khanna Goes on Breaking Points to Spew Pro-War Propaganda.
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SYRIANA ANALYSIS
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THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
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LIU SIVAYA
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 19th September 2023:
Gamed by Zelensky: How Ukraine uses toxic pick-up tactics in disrespecting its Western backers to get what it wants.
Kiev has become adept at manipulating its supporters to bend to its whims.
How many times have Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage dissed their Western friends for not meeting Kiev's expectations?
In just the latest example, Zelensky adviser Mikhail Podoliak called Western institutions like the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Red Cross, and Amnesty International “fictitious organizations that pollute our consciousness with absolutely rubbish assessments.” He also attacked the United Nations as a “rather absent organization” and a “public relations office or a lobby office to earn money for a happy old age for people occupying certain leadership positions.”
He’s starting to sound like your average anti-globalist, which isn’t exactly the team that’s sponsoring him.
There’s a pretty easy explanation, though. It’s like when a dude who’s a solid two out of ten on the attractiveness scale wants to get with someone whom he considers to be a solid ten. So in an attempt to cut his object of interest down to his level, he starts making snide little insults suggesting that she isn’t that hot, like, “Hey, did you break your nose, or was it always like that?” It’s a notorious pick-up technique known as ‘negging’.
Ukraine is famously corrupt, and that corruption is routinely evoked as a reason why the EU can’t currently commit to making it a member. Kiev does say, though, that it’ll be ready to join the EU in two years – which is like an arsonist saying they’ll be ready to join the fire department in two years because they’re confident that their fire-starting habit will be squared away by then – even though they just burned down a building last week.
On top of being friend-zoned by the EU, there’s also the fact that NATO won’t make a firm commitment to Ukraine either, beyond using it to get the attention of the true object of its obsessions: Russia. So Zelensky’s entourage has started negging all of these major Western-led institutions, effectively saying, “We’re not corrupt… YOU’RE corrupt! All this talk about dating down and not being able to commit to Ukraine because of your lofty standards, but you’re not exactly great catches yourselves.” That’s the message.
On top of the negging, there’s also been the guilt-tripping. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wouldn’t cough up the Taurus long-range missiles that Zelensky wanted during a visit to Kiev this week, resulting in Ukraine’s top diplomat accusing Berlin of “wasting time,” and saying Kiev would get the weapons eventually anyway. Baerbock ended up offering €20 million ($21.5 million) as a consolation prize, which should buy Berlin about ten minutes of silence in the same way that parents pay off their mouthy kids with candy so they can watch their favorite TV show in peace and quiet. The root cause of the kid being a demanding, pretentious, spoiled brat is never actually addressed if you just keep appeasing him. And the root cause here is Ukraine’s total unwillingness to negotiate with Russia, with Zelensky saying he is “not interested” in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead, Zelensky talks about the problem being “Russia remaining on Ukrainian territory” while totally ignoring the fact that he allowed his country to become a flop house for Washington’s aggressive regime-change interests.
And beyond the negging and guilt-tripping, there have also been the not-so-subtle threats.
Zelensky hasn’t hesitated to threaten the EU while simultaneously demanding entry into it. One reason is that Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have imposed bans on dumping Ukrainian grain into their territory, after a similar EU-level measure expired last week. A glut of grain, which would flood the market and drive down the price of their own farmers’ supply, is particularly an issue for Poland ahead of its national elections this autumn.
“Ukraine is strongly against any further restrictions on the export of our grain,” Zelensky said in response to the continued ban. “Ukraine is fighting for life and for our common European values on the battlefield... if we have to fight for Ukraine and the foundations of our common Europe in arbitration, we will fight... If we need to fight on the platforms of international organizations, we will fight there as well.” Who knew that a guy getting showered with taxpayer cash from the entire Western world would turn out to be such a big defender of free markets? It’s kind of like when Team Zelensky effectively vowed to clean up Wall Street last year by threatening big Western financial institutions, like JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and HSBC, and their managers, with war crimes prosecution for engaging with companies that sell and trade Russian oil or gas or in Russian energy shares, like Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, and Vitol.
And just this week, Zelensky explained in an interview to The Economist that there’s a real danger to the EU from Ukrainians. He told the publication that if he doesn’t get what he wants in terms of aid, Ukrainian refugees might feel abandoned and if they feel “driven into a corner”, they could react unpredictability. No doubt Ukrainian refugees would appreciate Zelensky describing his own people as some kind of sleeper agents who could activate against the EU if he doesn’t get what he wants.
Ukraine and the West are starting to look like a couple that persists in a toxic relationship strictly for appearances, worried about what all the neighbors would say if they ever split, and using each other as much as they can until it all ends in tears – or in World War III.
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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.
WESTERN LEADERS CONTINUE TO TURN THE HANDLE OF THE UKRAINIAN MEATGRINDER
The figures don’t bear thinking about. At least 400 Ukrainians die or are wounded each day that dawns. No one wants to imagine the carnage, least of all those who keep cranking the handle of the Ukrainian meatgrinder that results in it.
Boris Johnson it was who in late March, early April 2022 twisted the arm of Zelensky after a breakthrough was made in peace talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul. Johnson insisted that there should be no peace, that the western powers would support the Ukrainian regime to the hilt, ONLY if the peace talks were abandoned.
Arguably the first casualty related to those peace talks in Istanbul was a member of the Ukrainian delegation who took his mission to establish the groundwork for peace too eagerly for some tastes. He ended up in a Ukrainian mortuary at the hands of the Ukrainian secret police. Things would not get any better from that point onward.
Zelensky was convinced by Johnson that the very best path forward for Ukraine (and for the western powers more than anyone) was war. What he said exactly to Zelensky is not known in detail, however, what is quite clear is that for the western powers there was nothing very much to be gained by allowing peace to break out. After less than two months of fighting both sides had been ready to come to a compromise position. Johnson put an end to those hopes with whatever convincing argument he brought to Kiev that persuaded Zelensky.
Now, over 16 months later the toll of death and injury hovers around the half million mark. Half a million fathers, sons, husbands, brothers and friends who ought to be alive and well and enjoying a normal life with their loved ones. Snuffed out or disabled for life or at the very least traumatised, unlikely ever to recover from the absolute hell that is war. Yet we continue to hear the same old refrain from the western powers we have heard for many long months now. It is not time for negotiations. Ukraine must succeed in winning enough territory so that its bargaining position is improved. While the waiting goes on by those western powers the dying and injury goes on also, at least to the level of 400 per day and often significantly more.
How you may ask can there be any hope of a significant Ukrainian win when every day Russia strengthens its defences in the Donbass region against attack, when every day the Ukrainian army fails to make any progress that could be accounted as significant. Each day it batters its communal head against a Russian defence force better trained, better armed, with higher motivation and located in and around the strongest defence line ever constructed. Russian munition-creation is running at an all-time high while across the nations of the collective west armories have largely been emptied and military potential cannot come anywhere near to matching that of Russia.
The even more vital question than that asked above however is why there is this unrelenting pressure by the West on the Ukrainian regime to throw ever more men and machines into this meatgrinder? The goal cannot possibly be this wholly illusory concept of victory. No one with any sense and true insight into what’s going on can visualise anything that could possibly be called a ‘Ukrainian victory’. Russia will never allow it even if by a fantastic stretch of the imagination it were possible. It’s a pipedream at best, a cynical political ploy of the most callous kind imaginable at worst. Is it possible? Are the western powers throwing away ever more Ukrainian lives in an attempt to stave off their political humiliation having misjudged almost everything possible regarding both Russia and Ukraine?
In addition to the above we see Joe Biden dead set on winning in 2024, unable to countenance anything that comes anywhere close to being recognised as a defeat in Ukraine. He and those around him at the highest level clearly think they can ignore reality and simply repeat again and again that Russia has lost and that Ukraine is making steady (if incremental) progress. This is political corruption of the most criminal nature. Thinking that U.S. populations are totally conditioned by a mass media totally subservient to the Biden administration’s need for a positive narrative on Ukraine hundreds die daily for this sordid purpose. Was there ever such vile and heartless corruption in the world of politics and war. It is extremely doubtful.
In truth both Biden and Johnson are the most egregious mass murderers on the planet in our time. Political and geopolitical expediency overruled all else, their humanity not excluded. Half a million are either dead or wounded… for what? So that these two men could promote a plan whereby Ukraine was used as a tool to absolute destruction in order to weaken and potentially destroy and break up Russia. As everyone can see, that plan failed within the first six months of the West having pressured Russia into taking the action it did in Ukraine. After eight years of exhaustively trying to win the peace by Putin the duplicity and tactical maneuvering of the West won out. Minsk died as it was meant to. It was only a vehicle to build Ukraine’s army to NATO standards and present the greatest threat possible to Russia.
We are in the midst of arguably the greatest avoidable tragedy the world has ever seen. An ongoing tragedy promoted constantly by means of a wicked intent to escape responsibility among the western political and media elites. An unholy sacrifice of men dragged from their families and sent to the front as cannon-fodder all to save the face of the incompetent, cynical, reckless and inhuman men and women who thought they were so clever and now cannot bear the thought that they will be found out.
