RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 09.11.2024
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.
*** CAN TRUMP BEAT THE DEEP STATE THIS TIME ROUND? ***
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
VLADIMIR PUTIN: What does Putin think about Trump?
Harvest Time, Unacceptable Proposal, Russians Slice Through Kurakhove. Military Summary For 2024.11.09
UK-Ukraine relations worsening – Guardian.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reportedly held off on providing long-range missiles to Kiev.
Ukrainian officials believe the relationship between London and Kiev has deteriorated, as the new Labour government has so far failed to deliver long-range missiles, The Guardian reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources.
Kiev is growing increasingly “unhappy” as Russian forces gain ground in Donbass at a rate not seen since 2022, the newspaper said. Additionally, the election of Donald Trump in the US has raised concerns about long-term military support from Kiev’s biggest sponsor.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has not yet visited Ukraine four months after assuming office. A senior official in Kiev indicated that a trip would be meaningless unless Starmer committed to providing more Storm Shadow missiles, according to The Guardian.
“There’s no point in his coming as a tourist,” the senior official reportedly said.
READ MORE: British military believes Kiev ‘on the verge of losing’ – media
“It isn’t happening. Starmer isn’t giving us long-range weapons. The situation is not the same as when Rishi Sunak was prime minister. The relationship has worsened,” The Guardian cited the official as saying.
Long-range weapons and permission to use them to strike deep into Russian territory were key points in Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’, which he presented to Ukraine’s Western sponsors last month. Moscow has denounced the document as “schizophrenic,” stressing that its goal is “to drag the West into a direct military confrontation with Russia.”
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine. The amendments allow Moscow to treat an attack by a non-nuclear nation backed by a nuclear state as a joint attack on Russia when deciding on a retaliatory response. A long-range Ukrainian strike with weapons such as ATACMS or Storm Shadow could potentially be viewed as a joint attack.
READ MORE: Biden allows deployment of US military ‘contractors’ to Ukraine – media
NATO officers are already directly involved in the use of high-tech weapons such as British Storm Shadow or US-supplied ATACMS missiles by Kiev, Putin said last month. He later expressed hope that Kiev’s Western backers heard the warning.
The US has also limited the supply of ATACMS to Kiev, with the Pentagon noting that further deliveries of the missiles hold little strategic value for Ukraine, as few Russian targets are within their range.
UK-Ukraine relations worsening – Guardian.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: West Panics As Ukraine Collapses; UK Military: War Lost; Kiev Furious With Starmer.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: FBI claims Iran plot eliminate Trump. Axios reveals Elensky despair. Ursula fears Trump trade war.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS: President-Elect Trump, the War in Ukraine, & Continuity of Agenda.
GARLAND NIXON - MARK SLEBODA: CAN TRUMP FIX THE UKRAINE CRISIS?
RACHEL BLEVINS: Trump, Putin Say Ready to Talk + Trump’s Reported Neocon Cabinet Picks w/ Michael Tracey.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA: "UKRAINE HAS LOST THE WAR", THE LEADER OF NATO MEMBER STATE. BIDEN'S LAST MOVE IN UKRAINE.
DANIEL DAVIS - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Trump Must Send Advance Team to Russia Before Meeting.
SEBASTIAN SAS: Zelensky's Regime Will Soon Collapse. The Writing Is On The Wall.
KIM IVERSEN: Trump’s Return Sparks PANIC In The EU As He Prepares To End The War In Ukraine.
BORZZIKMAN: Russian Marines Offered the Trapped US Army Officers To Surrender or DIE amid New Offensive in KURSK.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA INTEL ANALYST): Hezbollah Wipes Out Israeli Forces—IDF Facing Massive Defeats Across All Fronts.
DANNY HAIPHONG: Israel CRUSHED: Hezbollah's New Iranian Missiles DECIMATE IDF | Ghadi Francis & Elijah Magnier.
SCOTT RITTER - COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON: Israel's Devastating Defeat as IDF COLLAPSING on ALL FRONTS.
LAITH MAROUF: Massive Clashes Erupt: Can Israel Hold the Line Against Hezbollah?
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
Fyodor Lukyanov: Trump is back, and this time it’s different.
The era of Washington’s belief in the need to manage global affairs is coming to an end, and the president-elect will help shape the world.
Let’s be clear, the outcome of the US election won’t change the world. Processes that didn’t begin yesterday won’t tomorrow. But the American vote has become an important indicator of long-term change.
The columnists of the liberal New York Times, which actively supported Kamala Harris, declared on the morning after the election: It is time to recognize that Trump and the Trumpists aren’t an accidental aberration and they don’t represent a temporary deviation from the course of history. They reflect the mood of most Americans. And we have to proceed on that basis.
Indeed, Trump’s current victory differs from his first success eight years ago. Firstly, he won convincingly not only the electoral college but also the popular vote, i.e. the majority of the country as a whole. Second, the outcome was largely a foregone conclusion.
In 2016, nobody knew what kind of president Trump might be. Now we do – all his traits and foibles are out in the open. And, to put it mildly, the ambiguous and not entirely effective nature of his presidential style. Democrats expected that the shambles of the first term would turn many away from the Republican. But that didn’t happen.
To be fair, the initial nomination of the not-so-capable Biden and his sudden replacement by a frankly unfit candidate did make the Republicans’ task easier. The hope that it would be possible to fill an empty shell with celebrity endorsements and thereby create the impression of a political choice has not materialized. This in itself shows that American voters are more aware of what is going on than political technologists have long believed.
US citizens are concerned with issues that directly affect their lives. Foreign policy has never been a priority. But influencing the international behavior of the United States certainly is. The era in which Washington was convinced of the need (and, of course, its right) to manage world affairs is coming to an end. The desire for leadership has been embedded in American political culture since its inception three hundred years ago, but the forms it has taken have varied. After the successful conclusion of the Cold War in favor of the US in the second half of the last century, expansionist sentiments took over completely.
The reasons are clear – the obstacles to external dissemination had disappeared. A more realistic part of the establishment believed that this was a favorable – but temporary – opportunity and it should be seized quickly. The other part fell into an anti-historical illusion about the finality of American domination. That Washington now could remake the world in its own image and then rest on its laurels.
The golden age of the ‘American world’ lasted from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. The second term of Republican President George W. Bush. brought the first signs of a retrenchment. In reality, all subsequent presidents have continued this process, in various formulations. The inconsistency, however, was that while the framework of what was possible shifted, the ideational basis of the policy didn’t adapt. Rhetoric is not just words, it leads you into a rut. And this brings you to places that may not have been intended.
The situation in Ukraine is a vivid manifestation of this phenomenon. The US fell into this acute and very dangerous crisis through inertia, guided not by a well-thought-out strategy but by ideological slogans and specific lobbying interests. As a result, the conflict turned into a decisive battle for the principles of world order, which no one back at “headquarters” had planned or expected. In addition, the battle became a test of the real combat potential of all sides, including the West under American leadership.
Trump tried to make a conceptual turnaround during his first term, but at the time he himself was very ill-prepared to run the country, and his associates could not consolidate power. The situation is different now. The Republican Party is almost entirely on Trump’s side, and the Trumpist core intends to go after the ‘deep state’ in its first months in power in order to clean it up. In other words, to install like-minded people in the apparatus, including at mid-level, to prevent the systematic sabotage of the president’s policies that was done during his first term.
God knows whether it will work or not, especially since Trump himself has not changed: instincts and spontaneous reactions prevail over consistency and restraint. What’s important, however, is that the intentions of Trump and his allies – a turn towards America’s rigidly understood mercantile interests and away from ideology – are in line with the general direction of the world. This does not make the US a comfortable, let alone pleasant, partner for other countries, but it does offer hope for a more rational approach.
Trump keeps talking about ‘deals’, which he understands in a generally simplistic way. The Republicans around him believe in the strength and power of America, not to rule the whole world, but to impose its terms where it’s of benefit. What will come of all this is anyone’s guess. But there is a sense of turning the page and opening a new chapter. Firstly, because of the bankruptcy of those who wrote the previous one.
Fyodor Lukyanov: Trump is back, and this time it’s different.
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USA
DANNY HAIPHONG: Why Trump Won the US Election: Israel & Ukraine SUNK Kamala Harris.
GEORGE GALLOWAY: You gave it to them, right up their jacksie.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: Why The Democrats Failed, How Trump Won, What Is To Be Done?
NOVARA MEDIA : Mehdi Hasan On Why Trump Won.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
Xi to Travel to Peru, Brazil for APEC, G20 Summits.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Peru and Brazil from November 12 to 21 to participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and G20 summits, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday.
"At the invitation of President of the Republic of Peru Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra, President Xi Jinping will travel to Lima from November 13 to 17 to attend the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to Peru," she said in a statement.
The week-long economic ministerial forum of the APEC will be held in Lima starting November 11. The leaders' summit is scheduled to take place from November 15 to 16.
"At the invitation of President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President Xi Jinping will travel to Rio de Janeiro from November 17 to 21 to attend the 19th G20 Summit and pay a state visit to Brazil," the statement read.
Xi to Travel to Peru, Brazil for APEC, G20 Summits.
EUROPE / UK
Scholz acknowledges EU split over Ukraine.
The German chancellor says he and many other bloc leaders have strong disagreements with Hungary’s Viktor Orban.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has acknowledged a stark rift with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over Ukraine. He also stressed that any talks on settling the conflict should include Kiev.
Scholz made the remarks while speaking after an informal meeting of EU leaders in Budapest on Friday. He noted that the deliberations – which also revolved around Ukraine – were “detailed and, incidentally, very passionate.”
The German chancellor noted that not all EU members were on the same page when it came to handling the crisis. “I don’t want to hide the fact that there are different positions. You can see that publicly. The views expressed by the Hungarian prime minister here on this issue are not the same as those I represent or those of many other friends in Europe who are very committed to saying that it is a high priority to guarantee Ukraine the necessary support,” he said.
Scholz stressed that Ukraine is the country which “has been attacked” and ultimately “belongs to the European Union and its values of democracy and the rule of law.”
Read more: EU leaders fear Trump will make them pay for Ukraine – Bloomberg
The chancellor noted that there is “one principle on which almost everyone agrees… nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”. “It must continue to be this way. Negotiations cannot be conducted over Ukraine’s head,” he stressed.
Orban has consistently criticized the EU’s support for Ukraine, calling for an immediate ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev, while denouncing Western sanctions against Russia as self-defeating. Following the US election, the Hungarian prime minister also suggested that President-elect Donald Trump, with whom he has established a close rapport, will pull Washington out of the Ukraine conflict.
“[Ukraine’s] situation on the front line is obvious. It’s a military defeat. The Americans will get out of this war,” he suggested, adding that “Europe alone cannot finance this war.”
Trump’s expected return to the White House has caused much anxiety in EU capitals, as the Republican has reportedly made no promises regarding continued US support for Kiev. According to a Bloomberg report, many EU leaders fear they won’t be able to foot the bill for arms deliveries without the US.
Ahead of the November vote, Trump vowed to resolve the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours if elected. According to media reports, possible plans could include the Trump administration pressuring Kiev to suspend its ambitions to join NATO and agreeing to the creation of a demilitarized zone.
Moscow has repeatedly rejected the option of freezing the conflict but has said it is “open to contact and dialogue,” including with Trump, over settling the crisis.
Scholz acknowledges EU split over Ukraine.
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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.
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THE CHALLENGE TRUMP WILL FACE FROM THE DEEP STATE
The view of most people is that a U.S. president has immense power. However, there are others who are more powerful still and they are never required to face election or reelection. They are chosen.
For all the PR, hype, spin, blood, sweat, tears and vast amounts of cash that a presidential campaign requires you might think that whoever gains that position at such expense would wield immense power. Yet unelected officials, those who are chosen rather than voted for, are more powerful still. These ever-present individuals, in one form or another comprise what in the USA is often referred to as ‘The Blob’, the foreign policy establishment. Otherwise known as #The Deep State’.
‘The Blob, slang for a largely interventionist policy stance that dominates the foreign policy of the United States'.’
- Wikipedia
It is impossible to overestimate the power of ‘The Blob’/’Deep State’. It’s influence was seen throughout Donald Trump’s first term of office as president and it will most certainly be seen in his second. You will recall how apparently all seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies clubbed together to lie about Trump’s connections to Russia. This is a prime example of the power of ‘The Blob#/’Deep State’.
Can Trump beat ‘The Blob’ this time? Did he learn all the lessons required this time around from his last, extremely painful, four years in which his foreign policy intentions were stymied time after time and during which he was harried from pillar to post in an effort to nullify everything he stood for in the field of foreign policy? What odds would a bookmaker give on him being able to achieve that? Without doubt they would be extremely long odds indeed. These people have been playing this “game” consistently for a VERY long time and have it sewn up to a remarkable extent. Donald Trump is going to have his work cut out for him in any attempt to stand up to them successfully to any degree.
At least last time he started no new wars. Will he manage this trick once again? The neocons who have been FULLY in charge of ‘The Blob’/’Deep State’ since 9/11 and had partial charge of it since the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The people who comprise ‘The Blob’/’Deep State’ believe in their foreign policy goals as if they were religious commands from God Himself.. They would no sooner abandon them, or let anyone interfere with them, than they would allow their children to be murdered. They believe these goals are unquestionably existential and no one and nothing will be allowed by them to weaken them in any way. Not if they can help it. And most of the time they can.
What are these goals? Why are they so important to these people, and why will they act without any moral or ethical scruples, to protect them at all costs? For them this is war, a war they wage with every fibre of their being, a war they are convinced they MUST win.
First posted in 2016. Revised and updated 30th April 2020:
WORLD WAR III: THE END GAME WAR
What are U.S. and UK elites seeking to gain through a diplomacy-free policy toward China, Russia and their allies?
What is the ultimate goal?
Where is their constant bellicosity leading?
What is the end game we are facing?
For just over two decades now a war has been waged in full view but totally unannounced.
It was never once declared but it is real enough. Many have been surprised at its ferocity & the fact that no diplomacy took place or was ever called for by the side waging it.
This unannounced, undeclared war has been fought not only by the US & European politicians. It has been fought also by the entirety of western mass media. These three powerful elites have fought side by side for twenty years against their primary targets, China and all her allies including Russia.
Western elites are in a relentless pursuit of multiple regime change targets to avoid their global patrician dominance being eclipsed by China and her allies.
The goal of the war far exceeds damaging/destroying China and Russia however. It has a far more ambitious goal than even this.
The goal is global U.S. and western elite control.
The USA won't stand alone at the apex of a new, controlled world. Its primary ally Britain will be there also, bowing low & taking commands as usual. The USA’s other allies will take somewhat lesser positions.
The rest of us?
We will be supervised VERY closely.
In the end game war there are to be no loose ends. No unaccounted for communications. All MUST be visible, known, supervised & certified safe within a milieu of full spectrum dominance by the USA and its allies.
If there is any gap in this dominance over all others it will be flagged for attention. The level of response will be applied rigorously.
9/11 bored deep into the traumatized skulls of all those who would enslave us, increasing an already existing demand that the world bow before U.S. elites.
The war against those not in full compliance with U.S. wishes has been ongoing since the events of 9/11 took place.
However, it was only in 2007 that the present level of urgency was felt & first seen via the initiation of persistent & ever-growing attacks by mass media on Vladimir Putin.
Ultimately the plan is to have everyone monitored 24/7. GPS positioning of the entire human race by satellite.
The USA has had a messianic desire to teach the world how good it is & urge its systems upon it almost since it was founded. A sense of superiority prevailed for various reasons & as time passed the sense of being exceptional rose to its present peak.
The western world is already monitored to a high degree.
It began with CCTV, continued with personal detail collection. It surged forward via the internet and the mobile phone. Now with seamless systems collecting each call, text, email with location visited, purchase made & so much more. Big data grows bigger daily.
Before 9/11 it appeared that the majority in the USA had more or less accepted the world as it was. The feeling of superiority continued, though the desire to transform the world in its image abated somewhat, assuaged by the "successful" conclusion of the Cold War.
9/11 changed EVERYTHING.
It's true Neocons existed before 9/11 along with their concept of overall US superiority & their goal & determination to ensure ultimate US control in perpetuity. However, it took 9/11 to make the crucial difference between a plan & action.
In the days after 9/11 it was agreed at the highest possible level that there could be no more ignoring potential threats.
Each statement indicating a less than positive view of the USA & US foreign policy was to be noted for present & ongoing future attention.
In those meetings after 9/11 it was decided that every single negative factor seen anywhere worldwide, any individual in authority & any government deigning to express negativity toward the U.S.A. was to be a target for undermining & eventual elimination.
There were to be no exceptions.
No targets too small, or too large. Meticulously detailed files were to be scrupulously kept. Programs of demonization & destabilization were to be carefully planned & executed. The 9/11 security project was to have highest priority.
Trump is a willing and highly amoral agent of the permanent U.S. state that holds these policies to be sacrosanct. He is Machiavellian to put it mildly. He knows little about geopolitics, it’s true. But what he knows a LOT about is survival. Trump is cunning. He knows from experience which people can protect him & help him and which he must attack and undermine. As a socialized psychopath/sociopath he is utterly ruthless on both counts. It is no accident he is surrounded by religious freaks and Neocons.
In any case Trump has no choice. The 9/11 protocols are set in stone till the day full spectrum dominance dawns. No president can alter them. They are sacrosanct, untouchable, immutable, inviolate. The backdrop to his slogan, ‘America First’ is the ultimate end game, the determination to make the USA the permanent global hegemon in an equally permanent unipolar world.
The phrase 'Full Spectrum Dominance' provides the key to the ultimate goal being pursued.
9/11 showed US elites they MUST have this level of control to ever feel secure again. It was imperative that not one single entity voicing negativity toward the U.S. remained.
Full Spectrum Dominance demands that ALL sources of power anywhere across the world be subject to US preeminence.
Every area of potential risk for the U.S. is required to be under its full control via deep & broad levels of surveillance & the ability to nullify all adverse entities quickly.
One of the first areas to come under the Full Spectrum Dominance umbrella was western mass media.
Its power to influence a majority of Americans & Europeans was & is enormous. It is a vital asset to smooth the path of the many regime change targets planned for. ‘Operation Mockingbird’, the CIA op to control U.S. and international media and to make it reflect U.S. state narratives is more active now than ever.
Manufacturing consent for U.S. aggression toward the rest of the world has become an industry.
The closest parallels are with public relations & propaganda. To achieve global domination with all it entails the masses have to be well groomed to demonstrate compliance.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya & Syria were only the first few of a longer list of nations. Iran, Lebanon, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Somalia still await their full preliminary weakening and ultimate regime change fate.
All operations are ongoing simultaneously at different levels and stages. These operations are progressing consecutively in tandem as circumstances allow. The ultimate target is China however as it, far more than any other nation, presents the greatest challenge to U.S. and western elite hegemony.
Trump’s signaling that space is to be incorporated into global U.S. dominance will not have originated with him. He can hardly tie his geopolitical bootlaces. This has been part of the plan from day one.
The dominance planned for will be TOTAL if it is accomplished.
And for the U.S. and western elites this is a necessity which brooks no compromise. There will be no diplomacy, nothing which hinders the process. No barrier is to be countenanced, not even a worldwide pandemic. Sanctions and other means of financial terrorism are to be ongoing, even increased.
There is to be no mercy. For these elites are too high for any such considerations. In fact any pain suffered by China, Russia or any of their allies is to be enhanced by every means possible.
You see the power junkies are losing their fix. Western patrician dominance is centuries old. They can’t live without it.
The cold turkey involved would utterly destroy them. They know this.
Therefore they are determined to destroy whoever they need to, to avoid it.
