RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 15.07.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in Italy for the next eleven days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
*** U.S. DEBT SOARS AS UKRAINE GOES DOWN TOWARD TOTAL DEFEAT ***
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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
US Intel Ukr Standstill; US Pulls Back F16s; Zaluzhny Demands Weapons, Doesn't Give a Damn on Risks.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Tucker exposes neocon GOP candidates. UK air force ready to fight Russia. Macron booed. U/1
THE DURAN
Fighter jet deal in jeopardy. Biden angers Erdogan.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
Ukrainian vs. Russian Artillery + US Buying Taiwan's Hawk Missiles for Ukrainian Air Defense.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Zelensky SCOLDED by the US & the UK After OUTBURST at NATO Summit.
DANNY HAIPHONG
Zelensky LASHES OUT at NATO After Ukraine Denied Membership at Summit.
SCOTT RITTER
A 300,000-Strong Rapid Deployment Force.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Vilnius NATO Summit Is an Utter Clown Show.
Zelensky Put In His Place by UK and US.
GAME CHANGER: BRICS Gold-Backed Currency Is Coming.
REDACTED
NATO Refusing Ukraine.
Ukraine soldiers being FORCED to do this!
Hypocrisy over Evan Gershkovich while Pablo González remains in prison.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Ukraine Cannot Win This War: It's Time To Negotiate With Putin.
NATO Risking World War III with Russia.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
America Is Falling Apart - Racism, Expensive Healthcare & Homelessness Are Plaguing The Nation.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Artillery and vehicles destroyed in another Ukrainian defeat in Orekhov.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Kyiv Cries Foul As Bulgarian Pres Blames Zelensky For Putin's War; 'Ukraine Insists On Fighting...'
NATO Partner Rips U.S. For Funding Kyiv Despite 'Flop Show'; Hungary Says 'World War III Is...'
'Don't Need Your Permission': Ukrainian Army Chief's Biggest Attack On USA & Biden | Watch:
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
US Ruling Class United Against China But Split on How to Counter Empire’s Decline, w/ Ben Norton.
EMIL COSMAN
THEY lie. They wreck this country. US budget deficit nearly triples in 9 months.
How Arms Industry profits with politicians' help, by using Ukraine war's tragedy as a pretext.
Watch Biden stumble trying to board plane + verbal mishaps at NATO. Biden not fit for office.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Nato brushes off Zelensky.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
LIVE W/ ANDREI MARTYANOV AND LARRY JOHNSON; WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER THE NATO SUMMIT.
TARA READE
Fiorella Isabel: The Politics of Survival with Tara Reade.
RACHEL BLEVINS
Biden Signs Off on More Troops for Europe, Sends Cluster Bombs to Ukraine.
JIM RICKARDS
The Rise of BRICS: Will a New Currency Challenge the Existing World Order?
BORZZIKMAN
Turkey Has Once Again Betrayed Russia and Putin Personally! What Insidious Sultan Is Up To?
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Russian Air Force received Su-35S that soon fly to Ukrainian theatre.
LINE FLUX
Russia Africa Summit: Africa sends joint warning to the US and NATO.
TFIGlobal
The Code behind “Ukraine’s NATO Rejection’ is Finally Cracked.
CGTN
China slams U.S. military leader for 'aspiring regional power' accusation.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
U.S. Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 15th July 2023:
US budget deficit nearly triples – Treasury.
The gap from October through June came in at around $1.4 trillion, according to the department.
The US federal government’s budget deficit widened sharply in the first nine months of the fiscal year to hit $1.39 trillion in June, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The figure was up from $515.1 billion in the same period last year.
The federal government operates under a fiscal year that begins October 1.
According to the report, the budget gap widened by $227.76 billion in June, up from $88.8 billion in the same month last year.
The Treasury data showed that a sharp increase in government spending and a significant drop in tax revenues were the key reasons behind the widening deficit.
Overall, tax revenues between October and June were 11% lower than the same period a year ago due to a slump in stocks, bonds and other assets. Data showed that in June government receipts declined by $42 billion to $418 billion from a year ago. At the same time, spending increased, with outlays rising $96 billion to $646 billion. Soaring inflation has also added to federal spending.
US Federal Reserve officials have been warning that the government’s finances were on a path that in the long-term would be unsustainable. According to Phillip Swagel, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, the federal deficit will average around $2 trillion per year, adding to the $32.5 trillion national debt.
READ MORE: US recession not ‘off the table’ – Treasury chief
“We are projected to spend more on interest payments in the next decade than we will on the entire defense budget,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “How can anyone possibly think this trend is sustainable?”
“We’re running off the rails at an alarming rate,” MacGuineas stated, adding “We need to do better.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
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MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
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NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
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DPA WAR UPDATE
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
FULL FRONT UPDATE: Russia COUNTERATTCKS From Berkhivka.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front Update | Ukrainian Advances [ 15 Jul 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
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PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
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MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian 90th Guards Tank Division Counter Attack.
RYBAR UPDATE
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M MAPPING UPDATE
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WEEB UNION UPDATE
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Detailed situation reports can be found on a daily basis concerning events in Ukraine over the past 24 hours at the ‘A SKEPTIC’ Substack account:
Link to 'A SKEPTIC' Substack channel.
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SUPPORTING SCOTT RITTER
I've been listening to Scott Ritter describe how things are for him and I suspect have been for him for quite some time now.
He has been doing a LOT of unpaid work with a great many interview requests coming in that he has been ready and willing to agree to. But the work where receives some pay for have suffered due to this, being left until the wee small hours of the night to complete work on.
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
I was moved by Scott's words to take an annual subscription to his Substack account that he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances with which to upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine, via a better microphone etc. and perhaps the creation of a recording studio in his basement to create a more professional and impressive look. To invest in these things he would like to be sure that this has a viable financial future.
Would you also like to help by subscribing at one of the various levels to Scott's Substack account? I hope so. If so the link is here:
Below you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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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 UKRAINE THEATRE OF WAR IS A MIX OF FARCE & BLACK COMEDY
The audience watching the playacting of its media regarding what’s going on in Ukraine is perplexed. They hear that Ukraine is winning hands down, that Russia is dismayed with dissension in the ranks, collapsing morale in its army and a commander in chief racking his brain for some way out of a mess that’s only getting worse.
This is what they’ve been promised and if this audience don’t get what was promised there’ll be trouble.
This audience has been hearing about this play and its central devil of a character for decades now and they expect the same happy ending they are used to. They expect to see it acted out up there on that stage. This is how it’s meant to be down here on God’s little planet. Isn’t it? He’s up there watching and will surely make those evil Russkies turn round with their tails curled between their legs and beat a retreat into the backwoods.
What other outcome could there possibly be?
Surely this is the script being followed here. The usual happy ending. No?
“Well no.”
What??!!
“Sorry, this is the author of the play here. I need to tell you a few little lies so you suspend any disbelief you might have. Besides, we would be seen as traitors if we told you the bare facts. You surely don’t want a play like those Scandinavians put on depicting depressing gloomy reality? Do You?”
This is met by something between a quizzical confusion, a scowl and a sigh of relief across the audience.
“You want fantasy, don’t you?”
“That’s what keeps you happily entertained, isn’t it?”
“You wouldn’t come to a play that makes you miserable, would you? Not if you’re a middle-American theatre-goer without pretensions to being an intellectual, I’m right, aren’t I?”
“Just be happy with what we’re telling you… because believe me the raw facts are not gonna make you happy.”
There’s a rustling of discontent as the play continues with saintly Ukrainians winning in every scene. Somehow certain disquieting noises off stage are spoiling the show. There’s whispering going on here and there that’s not part of the script as certain elements demonstrate their intent on disturbing the audience’s enjoyment.
Why, the audience begins to ask itself, are we not hearing of Ukraine taking back specific towns… or cities? All we’re hearing is opinion, and hearsay. And where are the backdrops showing the images of massive Russian casualties we were promised?
We paid good tax dollars for all the guns and missiles that were sent, billions of dollars worth. We want to see what was promised. Where’s the collapse of the rouble scene and the demise of the entire Russian economy we were told to expect that would make us clap out hands in joy to see?
And how come WE the ones suffering instead of them???!
What kind of fake publicity have you guys been spreading to get us to pay our hard earned dollars for this here shambolic production?
And who are these people in the wings, in the balconies and at the back of the hall calling out about the Russians winning for f**k sake???
You keep frog-marching them out… but they keep getting back in!
What’s going on?
“Yeah… they’re evil Russian agents, Putin puppets, troublemakers and traitors that get off on spreading disinformation. Ignore ‘em. We’re in the process of creating laws to silence these lowlifes. We’ll soon put a stop to them getting in here.”
“Please, don’t worry about any of that, okay?”
“Just keep watching the clever videos beamed up there on stage that our genius writers have created for you. Keep listening to the celebrity narrators up on stage between them. They’re giving their honest opinions about what’s happening in Ukraine and you KNOW you can trust them because they are so well groomed and their faces are familiar. Look how sincere they are… and SO well dressed and manicured. They are giving superb performances, don’y tou think so?”
THESE are the things that are important, can’t you see that?
“We are the big star names. Those other nobodies are talking rubbish. They’re nothing but cranks who can’t even get on TV.
Ignore their reality and their facts. You’ll enjoy the fantasy much better.
Get with the ambience right here in the theatre of war we’ve created specially for you.
Don’t you like our wraparound performance? Sure you do.
Get with the programme and all will be well.”
“Hey, as the song goes, don’t worry… be happy. Everything is completely under control. The management of this theatre absolutely guarantees your total satisfaction.”
Well….. if you say so I guess. But bring on that happy ending soon, won’t you?
THE UKRAINE THEATRE OF WAR AS CURRENTLY PLAYED ON BROADWAY IS A MIX OF FARCE & BLACK COMEDY