RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.08.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.08.2023
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.
We will be in Belarus for the following 6 days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
*** HOW LONG WILL UKRAINIANS SUFFER ZELENSKY’S BETRAYAL? ***
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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
Rus Storming Kupiansk; Ukr Last Ditch Attack Save Offensive, US Intel Doubts Success; China Economy.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Lukashenko; 250K reserves, Russia south, Poland west. WaPo, grim UKR results. Blinken Pakistan. U/1
THE DURAN
The darkening mood surrounding Ukraine's offensive.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER
BRICS is DESTROYING Dollar Hegemony as Russia and China Lead Multipolar World.
STEPHEN GARDNER
What JUST Leaked Out of Congress Is HORRIFYING!
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
NATO Desperately Seeks OFF RAMP for Ukraine DISASTER!
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia $600B RICHER After Sanctions.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Battlefield Ukraine-Update, Drone strike on Moscow, Poland prepares for War, Lunar program of India.
KEEP IT SECRET MEDIA
Ukraine War, Frontline Situation and Report for August 18th Azov are Back to Fail Again.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Biden, Putin, Xi On One Stage? Delhi Cops On High Alert, Firm Up Security For G20 Summit | Details:
Bad News For Kyiv’s Tanks; Russia To Flood Battlefield With Krasnopol-M2 Laser-Guided Sniper Shells.
Putin's Strategy To Hunt Kyiv's Western Missile Arsenal Works; Ukrainian Pilots 'Forced To Run'.
Putin's Men 'Wipe Out' Nearly 900 Ukrainians | Watch Kyiv's Military Train Go Up In Flames:
Moscow Slams U.S 'Propaganda' On Prisoner Swaps; 'Stop Hunting Russians Abroad' | Details:
Russian Army's Dramatic Footage Shows Exact Moment Of Attack On Ukrainian Base In Dnipro | Watch:
Putin's Men Neutralise Ukrainians Infiltrating Russia; FSB Seizes Western Weapons | Watch:
EMIL COSMAN
Hypocritical US has no power to threaten Russia anymore. Russia+N. Korea to sign arms deal. US fumes.
Russian Patrol Ship and Frigate destroy attacking Ukrainian Sea Drone in the Black Sea.
NATO top generals in charge of Ukraine's military? Why NATO general shows up in Ukraine?
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Calculates the destruction of AFU vehicles after recapturing Urozhaine.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Burkina Faso Leader to Africa's Youth: We Must Reclaim Our Gold & Be Our Own ‘El Dorado’.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
“You Won’t Turn Niger Into Another Libya!” – African Leaders.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
The West Trying To Scare Leaders & Dismantle BRICS By Pressuring Them To Arrest Putin.
French WS Conduct Parade With Four Black Boys Pushing the Float.
President Paul Kagame Calls Out America On Double Standards Regarding Africa.
EU Warns Africa Over Putin Grain Promises And Accuses Russia Of Purposefully Creating Dependency.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
France Accuses U.S. Of Betrayal Over Niger; 'Don't Need Enemies With Allies Like These...'
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
China Dumps $481.3B in U.S. Bonds, Invests in 6,927 Tons of Gold.
SEAN FOO
China Won’t Save The World Economy - What You MUST Know.
LIU SIVAYA
UKRAINE TAKES UROZHAYNOYE? Are Ukraine's advances in the counteroffensive true? | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine Offensive's NEW Strategy - HOPE?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 18th August 2023:
Main Russian objective in Ukraine already achieved – Lukashenko.
Moscow has ensured Kiev will never again be a threat, the Belarusian president has said.
Russia has already reached the principal aim of its military operation in Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed in an interview aired on Thursday.
“As of today, the goals of the special military operation have been met,” Lukashenko told Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko, during a two-hour interview posted on YouTube.
“Ukraine will never be so aggressive towards Russia after this war ends, as it was before. Ukraine will be different. People in power [there] will be more cautious, smart, more cunning if you will,” Lukashenko said.
His comments came in response to a question by Panchenko whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had ever revealed the conditions under which Moscow would consider that the operation had achieved its objectives.
“We never discussed that topic in that spirit,” Lukashenko replied, “but I can tell you what my position is.”
Belarus is part of the Union State with Russia, and has been sanctioned by the US and its allies over the Ukraine conflict. While Belarusian troops have not taken part in the hostilities, Russian forces had used the country’s territory for their initial deployment near Kiev.
In a speech in early June, Lukashenko noted that the conflict did not begin in February 2022, or even with the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev, pointing instead to the 2004 “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine.
“Everything was leading up to this. Probably the only mistake we made was that we did not resolve this issue in 2014-2015, when Ukraine had neither an army nor resolve,” he said.
Instead, Russia chose the path of diplomacy with the Minsk Agreements, brokered by Germany and France. Former leaders of the two countries, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, admitted last fall that the purported roadmap for peace was a ploy to buy Kiev time for building up Ukrainian armed forces.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
Summer Operations | Defensive Lines Work While Air Power Dominates. Military Summary For 2023.08.18
Russian Troops Are Firmly Entrenched In The South Of Ukraine. Military Summary For 2023.08.18
The Fall. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.08.18
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING UPDATE
Huge Russian Gains Near Synkivka l Trouble Building For Ukraine In Synkivka.
Fall Of Northern Robotyne l Russian Advance Near Synkivka.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Defensive Offense.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Wagner's New Meatgrinder | Operation Trident Siege | Russia's Plan To End The War.
Russia OFFICIALLY Announces Start Of Offensive | Ukraine Initiates Phase III Of The Offensive.
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, until this week, you could have found the video where Scott talks of his commitment to get the facts out on events in Ukraine. However, this week YouTube deplatformed two of the channels Scott appears on using the completely false charge of him using ‘hate speech’.
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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.
WHERE WE STAND NOW. ON THE BRINK OF GLOBAL DESTRUCTION.
We can see that the situation which has developed is in the make or break, do or die category. Since 9/11 the USA and those in its orbit made a decision that they cannot tolerate a world that is not safe for them, i.e. a world where there are individuals, governments and systems of governance that are not compliant and even antagonistic.
The decisions made immediately following 9/11 require the elimination (at all costs) of these entities. This is why we are where we are now. I am extremely surprised and on a daily basis that 9/11 is never mentioned. No other event could possibly account for the determination we see now to take the situation regarding Ukraine to this extent and beyond.
The U.S. political elites and those allied with them wish to increase their position to one of 'full spectrum dominance' and will tolerate nothing less. A virtual prison planet will result of course. A prison planet where Russia, China and all like them have been completely undermined and their leaders and systems of governance replaced. We will then all be monitored from near space and whipped into line wherever and whenever it is considered necessary by the agents of the then supremely dominant powers, the USA primarily, then the UK and thirdly, by the EU elites.
This is certainly (in my mind) what awaits us if Russia and then China are undermined, weakened and destroyed and their systems of governance replaced. This is the grand scheme... all to ensure that there is a possibility as close to zero as possible that any such event as 9/11 could ever occur again.
That the 9/11 events are not an integral part of the discussion generally is incredibly surprising. It is these events that lie at the heart of the determination of the USA and its allies to carry the present conflict in Ukraine on and far beyond it. Those who are fuelling the war are doing so in full knowledge of the risks. However, for them these risks are far outweighed by the risks they see in the status quo where more 9/11 type events could eventually occur. That belief powers all we see happening now and any expectation that we will see some reduction in the determination to offset and eliminate that risk is totally misguided.
We are on course for one of three futures.
In the first and by far the only hopeful the rising union of Eurasian, Asian and Global South states will reach such a peak of economic, military and financial cooperation and successful outcomes that the ability of the USA and its allies to wield power and destructive force are reduced to such a degree that their virtual quarantining takes place. This of course is the promise contained within the concept of a multipolar world.
The second eventuality is the prison planet described above whereby the USA and its proxies permanently hold sway and work constantly to identify and eliminate any and all nascent threats against them.
The third and in many ways the most likely outcome if a multipolar world is too slow in rising to its most effective and power-changing extent globally is a nuclear conflict between east and west where the world is thrown back in vast areas to dystopian existence never before known. The world that rises from those ashes can hardly be hoped to develop in any sense that could be recognised as normal. Without doubt the conflict would continue even beyond the nuclear stage which in itself could last some weeks. Any semblance of normality is unlikely EVER to be resumed. Not, at least, for generations.
