RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 05.07.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 05.07.2024
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.
*** RUSSIA REINFORCES COHESION OF ALLIES AS WEST FALLS APART ***
“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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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The Russian defense industry is ready to start producing intermediate and shorter-range missiles that had been banned under a now-defunct treaty with the US, President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday.
The Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) had prohibited these systems, but the US withdrew from it in 2019. Moscow chose to maintain the ban so long as Washington abided by it as well.
“As I’ve said, in connection with the US withdrawal from this treaty and the announcement that they are starting production, we also consider ourselves entitled to start research, development, and in the future, production,” Putin said on Thursday at a press conference following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
“We are conducting this R&D, and we are ready to start production. We have already, in principle, given the relevant instructions to our industry,” he added.
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Putin mentioned during a meeting of the National Security Council in Moscow last week the possibility that Russia might resume production of previously banned missile systems, citing the “hostile actions” of the US.
“We now know that the US is not only producing these missile systems, but has also brought them to Europe, Denmark, to use in exercises. Not long ago, it was reported that they were in the Philippines,” Putin explained at the time.
Washington’s moves left Moscow with no choice but to revive its intermediate-range and short-range programs, he said, adding that they would be deployed “based on the actual situation, if necessary.”
The 1987 INF treaty had banned both the US and Soviet Union from producing and fielding ground-based ballistic and cruise missiles – as well as their respective launchers – with ranges of 500 to 5,500 km (310 to 3,420 miles). The treaty did not affect air- or sea-based systems with the same range. This helped lower the tensions over the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.
Russia as the successor to the USSR continued to adhere to the treaty, while raising concerns that US installations in Eastern Europe – ostensibly designed as missile defenses – violated the treaty because their launchers were capable of deploying ground-attack munitions as well. In 2019, Washington pulled out of the treaty, accusing Moscow of having violated it without offering evidence to back up that claim.
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Fyodor Lukyanov: Is Eurasia about to get its own NATO?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization could play an important role in a nascent security system that emphasizes total development.
By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) plus format meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan. © Sputnik / Sputnik
Both of the world’s current major conflicts – Ukraine and Palestine – are continuing with no end in sight. In the leading countries of the West, there are internal cataclysms that may significantly influence future behavior. Across the world, from Latin America and Africa to the Pacific, we see very lively processes signaling major shifts. No one doubts that the world is undergoing systemic restructuring. The question is whether the contours of a future order that will ensure a sufficient level of international sustainability are already emerging. In this context, this week’s meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders is of particular interest.
In particular, talk of an Eurasian security system, so to speak, is in the air.
The SCO is unique. It is a full-fledged institution, i.e. a fairly formalized structure with its own bodies and rules (unlike, for example, the BRICS, the nature of which has not yet been clearly clarified). However, it is an institution that has emerged in an era when such associations have generally either not been formed or have proved to be opportunistic and short-lived (it is enough to recall the mass of acronyms that appeared and disappeared in the former USSR). The system of governance based on international organizations is a feature of the second half of the twentieth century, when a solid international framework was built. It was preserved after the Cold War, but its internal content changed. It quickly became apparent that the established institutions were not working in the same (relatively effective) way as before, because the global situation had changed.
Does this mean that old organizations need to be replaced by new ones, or has this type of ordering of the international system simply lost its relevance? At the beginning of this century, many people tended to think the former. Yes, the old institutions had served their time, and new ones would emerge to perform different tasks, but organized in a similar way to the old ones. Over time, however, the approach began to shift towards the second. The world is so complex and diverse that it is simply impossible to fit it into stable and fixed forms. The interests of states are not necessarily contradictory but are rather very different, and their fulfillment requires flexible approaches. And flexibility does not mix well with the rigidity of classical institutions, especially when it comes to bloc structures bound by commitments and discipline. At some point, the optimal form of interstate organization began to appear as ad hoc groups of states that needed to solve a specific problem together.
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This was the beginning of the SCO. After the collapse of the USSR, the new Central Asian states and Russia had to resolve border issues with China. Thus was born the Shanghai Five. The problem was solved so successfully that it was decided to preserve and develop this successful format. Over the years, the forum has grown to include India, Pakistan and Iran, while Belarus will be attending this year’s event. The summits are usually attended by the leaders of other powers important to the Eurasian region, such as Turkey and the Persian Gulf monarchies.
Enlargement adds solidity to an organization, but whether it increases efficiency is debatable. And not just because, for example, relations between China and India and between India and Pakistan are, to put it mildly, complicated. This is an obstacle, of course, but not the only one: the main thing is to find an agenda that requires a real joint effort and is of interest to all participants in an applied sense. This is difficult, given the diversity of SCO members.
We should probably start by understanding Eurasia’s role in the world. The major Eurasian powers are now emerging as leaders in international economics and politics. But the natural summation of potential that is often made when talking about the SCO or BRICS is of little use. What is more important is that this vast area cannot be bypassed or ignored; all the processes taking place around the globe depend on it or are linked to it. It is not by chance that Eurasia is traditionally called ‘the core’. And belonging to it unites all the states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which determines both the opportunities and the risks. They are linked to the increased attention paid to Eurasia by powerful extra-regional players, which is not always for the good, to say the least.
The idea of a Eurasian security system is in the air. China, the Central Asian countries, and India have approached it from different sides. Recently, the Russian president launched such an initiative. Eurasian security, unlike European security, is not a military-political phenomenon, but a model for the comprehensive development of the space and the realization of its enormous potential. The SCO has its shortcomings, but it is an ideal platform for formulating the principles of this great project.
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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.
WHAT WILL THE END OF THE KIEV REGIME LOOK LIKE?
Though many have predicted the end of the conflict in Ukraine at several points in the past it has finally become clear that it always had to end this way. So, what are we about to see?
Ever since the first few months of his presidency, Zelensky has essentially been a man trapped with only one possible and seemingly interminable road in front of him. Elected as a peace-bringer he was soon made to reverse course with the threat of being hung on the main boulevard in Kiev by fanatical militants we are all by now very well aware of. Unless he was prepared to die he was left with only one choice, press on with the military conflict in eastern Ukraine. And this, after only a month or two of protesting the case for peace, he did.
The Minsk process continued while the shelling of the people of the Donbass went on remorselessly. Zelensky attended, but the die was cast long before, it was no longer a peace process, it had become a sham. Had it ever been a peace process? It appears not. The statements of Merkel and Poroshenko signify that it was only ever a holding operation while the Ukrainians built up their forces to NATO standard. With a view then of course to retake control of the Donbass republics by force.
Zelensky, clearly in the know concerning the above was even seen to smirk now and then on the panel where Vladimir Putin still continued to talk earnestly, believing he was taking part in a genuine process with the integrity to come up with a solution that could bring the peace and reconciliation that would suit all parties. By late 2021 however, he could see quite clearly that the process was going nowhere and may, at that point, even had an inkling that Minsk was NEVER intended to be implemented by the Kiev regime. The statements of Merkel and Poroshenkel would confirm this for him soon after.
Zelensky, treated as a rather ridiculously untutored puppet by the western powers, was now about as far from an honest broker as it was possible for any human being to be. Elected to bring peace he massively ramped up the war effort instead. By the first two months of 2022 the shelling of the Russian-speaking civilians of the Donbass began to reach new heights. He began talking of regaining Ukraine’s nuclear status. It was clear that peace had not figured in his mind for a long, long time. The grip of AZOV on him had been unrelenting ever since they delivered their baleful threat to him all the way back in 2019.
The western powers without doubt told Zelensky that they would back him to the hilt and that the Ukrainian army was now ready. The attack on the republics was imminent. Everything was prepared. Unfortunately for their plans a Russian special forces unit found documents detailing the imminent military campaign against the Donbass. Things moved quickly then with the republics submitting a request to join in an agreement with the Russian Federation whereby they could be afforded protection against attack. It was this agreement that allowed Russia to legally initiate its special military operation on February 24th 2022.
Now, virtually two and a half years, after fighting through an eight-year construction of layered defenses over 1,500 kilometers, Russia is just now making the crucial breakthrough that will bring the end of the West’s plans for its pawn, the Kiev regime with the eventual collapse of its exhausted, demoralised and now largely untrained army. We see the glaring cracks in its defenses now being ever more speedily widened. Once the military tsunami long prepared by Russia hits they cannot possibly hold. The entire edifice of the West’s malignant plan will collapse in front of everyone’s eyes.
It appears absolutely inevitable that at the point above Zelensky will flee. To which country is uncertain, most probably Israel, but who knows? Switzerland where many of his cohorts have been buying multi-million dollar mansions? Also a strong possibility. But he will suddenly be gone, taken on some U.S. military flight to an initially unknown destination. A fly by night “president” fleeing not only the Russians but also those AZOV Nazis who will wish for nothing better at that stage than to string him up.
The so-called government of Zelensky’s entertainment business friends may not be so lucky. I wouldn’t be surprised if quite a number of them meet the fate intended for Zelensky and perhaps it won’t even require the “skills” of the AZOV thugs to do it, the general population will likely be more than willing and able. Anarchy will reign for quite some time. Almost certainly forces of some kind will arrive and attempt to restore order. It may take missions of several varieties before this is achieved. And afterward elections will be arranged, another process taking several months.
Will what’s left of Ukraine be partitioned into several protectorates under the control of Poland, Hungary and Romania, supposedly under a purely temporary arrangement? This is very possible. Breaking the country up into manageable pieces (somewhat similar to what the western powers intended for Russia) will make good sense to the USA, UK and EU where no single one of them wants the entire cost laid at their door. Each will make their contribution at the subsequent funding conferences.
Ultimately, whatever is left of Ukraine will vote for a new president and government. Those elected will certainly not only campaign on a peace ticket but will also implement the policies espoused. It is not possible that there will be any further appetite for war. Pragmatism will reign unchallenged, guarded and protected against AZOV and their kind by the forces of the EU states closest by. (With U.S. officials directing from a discrete distance without the shadow of a doubt.) Russia will enforce the demarcation line agreed with the de facto capitulation of the regime and army. The final settlement will be thrashed out by Russia with the Americans where every requirement by Russia is met.
It could all happen very suddenly once the collapse of the eight-year construction of the defense line is totally and irrevocably breached. There will be no meaningful resistance once this occurs. All land right the way to the eastern bank of the Dnieper River will then lie open and undefended before a victorious Russian military. The scheme of the West to weaken Russia will have instead massively strengthened her and the Kiev regime and all its malignant effects will be wiped completely from the face of the earth.
