RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.03.2023
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:
Latest update on events within Ukraine by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’.
Russia Controls Bakhmut Roads Closes on Avdeevka; Ukraine HQ Destroyed, China Appoints Defence Chief.
THE DURAN
Betting it all on Bakhmut breakthrough.
Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’.
SVB collapse. sanctions boomerang. Kinzhal bunker strike. Protests in FR, CZ, BG, CH. U/1
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
What led to the WAR in UKRAINE?
LEVAN GUDADZE
Update on Ukraine, Protests in Moldova, Chinese defense policy, Switzerland-credibility, France...
HISTORYLEGENDS
EAST BAKHMUT HAS FALLEN.
PATRICK LANCASTER
7 year old boy & father killed by Ukraine shelling in Donetsk.
SCOTT RITTER
Russia’s “Spring Offensive.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Odessa and Kharkov: The Next Targets in Russia's Offensive.
Ukrainians Have Already Lost Much More Than....
It’s Over For Ukraine 🇺🇦
KIM IVERSEN
China: It’s Life Or Death With U.S As An "Attacking Wolf”.
GARLAND NIXON
NEOCON GRAND DEBACLE - CHINA STABILIZES MIDDLE EAST - RUSSIAN FLAGS IN AFRICA.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Iran & Saudi Arabia Resume Ties – Richard Medhurst LIVE,
CGTN
Iranian insider reveals how Iran-Saudi Arabia rapprochement happened.
CGTN
World praises China's contribution to Saudi Iranian agreement.
SEAN FOO
Sanctioning China Will Destroy The Dollar | America's Ultimate Mistake.
NWE WAR REPORTS
GEOPOLITICS ROUNDTABLE | 1 Year After the Invasion of Ukraine.
Post Ukraine War Geopolitics & Economics (Part 2) | DPA Panels.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Brazil’s President Shares Plan To End Ukraine War.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin's firepower burns down Ukrainian defence; Fight for last few kilometers of Bakhmut on.
Russia wants 'Nazi Name' for Ukraine after Zelensky sparked renaming row amid war | Details:
Ukraine's defence on the edge? Kyiv 'running short' of troops to counter Russia along Dnieper.
BORZZIKMAN
Foreign Mercenaries who tried to Escape from Bakhmut were Totally Destroyed by Russian Artillery.
DANNY HAIPHONG
CHINA WINS BIG | THE DURAN ON SAUDI ARABIA-IRAN DEAL | COL. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR ON CHINA'S BRI.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT
How US dollar hegemony continued off the gold standard, with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson.
CGTN
Saudi Arabia, Iran resume diplomatic relations after 7 years.
Seymour Hersh slams U.S. foreign policy as 'complete idiocy'.
Knorr-Bremse: German enterprises confident in China's economic recovery.
How China's tech shines in the new era.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
India Became the Most Successful Country in DE-DOLLARIZATION, to Avoid Sanctions.
TFIGlobal
Iran and Saudi Arabia leave the U.S. in the lurch.
THROUGH THE EYES OF...
What do I think about Russia ( and Russians) before I say goodbye?
V-N Rangeloni
Donbass, fronte di Avdeevka.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 12th March 2023:
MEP blasts West’s ‘criminal’ approach to Ukraine.
The EU lawmaker slammed Brussels’ continued military aid to Kiev.
Irish MEP Mick Wallace has condemned the EU’s continued military support for Kiev, saying Brussels is not taking the option of peace talks seriously and arguing that Ukraine is being "sacrificed" for the geopolitical "obsessions" of the US.
During a speech in the European Parliament, a clip from which Wallace posted to Twitter, he insisted that the EU, led by Washington, was refusing to “take the option of Peace seriously” amid the ongoing conflict with Russia.
Instead, Wallace said, the EU was standing by and watching "the slaughter and devastation" continue.
"The Global South is not on board with helping this proxy war persist, because it makes no sense," Wallace said, adding that it is "increasingly clear that Ukraine is being sacrificed for the obsessions of the US establishment."
The Irish MEP said the only people benefiting from the conflict were "weapons manufacturers and Western corporations," which he claimed were “buying up Ukraine now for a pittance.”
"The Russian invasion is criminal, but the manner in which the West has been dealing with this has also been criminal," he concluded.
Russia has repeatedly said it is open to talks with Ukraine if its leaders accept what the Kremlin calls the "reality on the ground," referring to the status of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, which voted to join Russia in public referendums last autumn.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has floated a ten-point "peace formula" that would require Moscow to withdraw all of its troops from the territory Kiev claims as its own. However, Russia has rejected that proposal as unrealistic.
A 12-point peace plan put forward by China was met with a cool response from the West, with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg saying Beijing does not have "much credibility" in the issue. US State Secretary Antony Blinken, however, admitted that the plan included some "positive elements."
Last week, Wallace also called the September 2022 sabotage of the Russian-German Nord Stream pipelines "a premeditated terrorist attack on critical European infrastructure."
Fellow Irish MEP Clare Daly said it was “jaw-dropping” that the EU was not investigating potential US and Norwegian links to the attack after a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh alleged Washington was behind the sabotage.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Is a Multipolar World the Answer to U.S. Imperialism? w/ Vijay Prashad.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL:
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.12
LATEST UPDATE FROM KEEP IT SECRET NEWS:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM NWE WAR REPORTS:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM DPA War:
RUSSIA BREAKTHRU N. OF AVDIIVKA: Krasnohorivka on verge of capture [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 381 (11/3).
LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING:
WAR UPDATE: Russia ADVANCES Along E-40 Highway.
LATEST UPDATE FROM WAR IN UKRAINE:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE BY BALKAN MAPPING:
Ukraine [12 March 2023] 'Today'.
LATEST UPDATE FROM THE MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM RYBAR:
Rybar military highlights of special military operation in Ukraine 10.03.2023.
LATEST UPDATE FROM M MAPPING:
Ukraine [12 March] Ukrainians trying to stop Russians east of Bakhmutivka river.
LATEST UPDATES FROM WEEB UNION:
Possible Russian Breakthrough North of Bakhmut | Avdiivka Front Update 12/03/23.
Russian Forces Capture Krasnohorivka | Full Front Update 12/03/23
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 SEE-SAW OF WORLD EVENTS IS BRINGING A NEW DAWN FOR ALL OF US
We are living through a time of momentous change.
The world as we have known it is transforming.
From now onward the east will rise and rise while the west continually falls.
What has led to this is a series of both enormous errors and egregious crimes by the collective west by which I mean the USA, UK and their allies/proxies and puppet nations.
The desire to obtain hegemonic global rule and oversight by those above have brought them to venture over the brink of disaster and we find them now plunging helpless into the abyss, their own self-created abyss.
The hubris of the USA has been a continual feature of its totally arrogant and misplaced pride as it has proceeded to bully all those who presented a challenge to its demanded authority. A mix of fantastical self-promoting mythologies that denied it genocidal and racist past in its formative years, its myriad abuses of power which have seen millions die agonising deaths, it’s creation of some of the most evil weapons humanity has ever seen and its overweening willingness to interfere, attack, invade, undermine, subvert and destroy others is rightfully bringing it at long last the pariah status it has long deserved.
Two powers are now rising fast as the USA and the noxious elites of its allies begin an unstoppable descent to ignominy and rejection. China and Russia together will now begin form the foundation of a world with an entirely different geopolitical underpinning in the wake of the fast descending collective west.
The spearpoint of the collective west (CW) now being totally blunted is NATO. Using this entity which had no place in the modern world at the end of the Cold War has proven the main instigator of the downfall now descending upon western elite manipulative control.
Russia called the collective bluff of the West via its intervention in Ukraine. Then, using the West’s sanctions against itself it is now exercising the economic muscle it has to deliver the fatal blow.
Nothing can stop the western world going into free fall as the effects of this new situation hit home one after another. Inflation will soar. Employment will fall. Trade will stagnate. Factories will close. Homes will grow cold as bank accounts are emptied and bankruptcies rise. Gross Domestic Products across the USA and Europe will plummet as a dark spiral of negativity grips the entire West.
Meanwhile both China and Russia will experience increasing economic success and their strength of influence will rise exponentially and unstoppably, first near at hand and in cooperation one with another but soon spreading out across Eurasia and later, naturally expanding into eastern Europe and beyond.
A new geopolitical paradigm will gradually assert itself, one where agreement trumps aggression, diplomacy trumps division, friends are created, not foes and a determined and constant goal of peace, not war imbues international relations with an overarching atmosphere of tolerance and respect for national sovereignty.
Gone will be the mentality of exceptionalism and superiority aggressively demonstrated by the USA and UK. Europe will be first to see and embrace the new reality and eschew the old. Progressively and due to their inescapable quarantining in the new circumstances and reality both the USA and UK will inevitably do so also.
These vicious two, the USA and UK will have been hung on their own petard as the saying goes. Their determination to maintain and enlarge their manipulative control of the world through threats, violence and subversion will be finally acknowledged to have totally collapsed and they too will come to terms with the new ethos of cooperation rather than casino capitalism confrontation.
Those idealists among us who have long hoped to see peace across our planet will now have their day. The hawks, warmongers and “defence” contractors of the various military industrial complexes will find themselves seeking alternative employment.
It will soon be time to feel the heavy weight of these many years of war stretching back centuries but experienced in their most deadly form only decades ago, lifted from every last one of us (except the Lords of War). We will experience a sense of almost universe well being that cannot quite be imagined in this present moment. It will be quite unique.
John Lennon would certainly have loved to be here as this new reality dawns.
‘WAR IS OVER. IF YOU WANT IT.’
And his question below will be answered:
“What if they held a war and nobody came?”
Hopefully we will all live to see it. Certainly most under sixty certainly will. Those who longed for the potential world to come such as John Lennon, Bill Hicks and George Carlin and all with an idealistic soul will be vindicated. It is tantalisingly close, it is now almost within grasp… Eurasia and the Global South are uniting to ensure it with China and Russia at the forefront. We now live with this hope in all our hearts…
I really appreciate your posts Aearnur. You provide so much useful info and videos. You are much appreciated.
Re The west. I feel like I’m watching King Kong fall off the Empire State Building and frantically grasping for a hand hold on the way down. Will be glad when King Kong’s (western foreign policy) is finally dead. Unfortunately I’m at ground level looking up and that damn ape’s going to land on me. But so be it; I’m up for the challenge and the World will be a much better place with the ape laid to rest.
It’s.amazing how rotten the ape’s gotten. I had to see it to believe it. And here I used to be proud to be an American. That feeling faded away over the years.