RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.06.2024
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.
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“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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SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
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THE DURAN: Ceasefire failure. Armenia shift w/ Kevork Almassian.
Arming Ukrainian neo-Nazis a sign of US desperation – ex-Pentagon official.
Washington is just trying to “prick” Moscow by allowing the infamous Azov Brigade to use American weapons, Michael Maloof has told RT.
Washington’s decision to greenlight the use of US-supplied weapons by Kiev’s notorious Azov Brigade is a desperate move that only reinforces Russia’s claim that it is fighting neo-Nazism in Ukraine, Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst at the US Department of Defense, has told RT.
On Monday, the US State Department scrapped a ban on deliveries of arms to the Azov Brigade, which had been imposed by Congress in 2018 over the unit’s ties to neo-Nazism. According to the agency, a recent review has found “no evidence” of the military formation being in violation of the Leahy Law, which prohibits Washington from aiding foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.
“Clearly, the Azov group didn’t go from sinners to saints overnight,” Maloof said in an interview on Tuesday. “There still is a list of atrocities that they had committed, human rights abuses… you still see them marching around as a group with their symbols, with their camaraderie and their discipline in support of fascism.”
READ MORE: US changes rules on Ukrainian neo-Nazis using its weapons
This change of stance on the Azov Brigade by Washington means “you no longer can really believe anything the State Department says, let alone the intelligence community,” he stressed.
According to the former Pentagon official, the US move is “a sign of desperation” and a belated attempt to “bolster morale” among Ukrainians amid Russian gains on the front line this year.
“I question the rationale of wanting to continue to support a Nazi outfit like this because the war is basically lost already. To support the Azov just adds fuel to the fire… and reinforces and bolsters Russia’s point of view that this is about fighting Nazism in Ukraine,” he said.
READ MORE: US ‘flirting with neo-Nazis’ – Kremlin
Maloof noted that the Azov fighters “haven’t really performed” in combat; they were defeated by Russian forces in the battle for Mariupol early in the conflict. It is unlikely that they would do any better if they are armed with American weapons, he believes.
The lifting of the ban by the US is “an effort to just prick the Russians because of their adamant opposition to Nazism,” which wouldn’t lead to any changes on the battlefield, the former Pentagon official stressed.
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Moscow’s attitude towards Washington giving weapons to “ultra-nationalist armed units” like the Azov Brigade was “extremely negative.” The US wants to “suppress” Russia so much that it is ready to go as far as to begin “flirting with neo-Nazis,” he said.
Arming Ukrainian neo-Nazis a sign of US desperation – ex-Pentagon official.
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BEN NORTON: US senator says Ukraine is 'gold mine' with $12 trillion of minerals West 'can't afford to lose'.
ANYA PARAMPIL: Where Are the Nazis Today?
CALEB MAUPIN: Biden Risking Nuclear War - Scott Ritter warns the world.
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BORZZIKMAN: KINZHAL Hypersonic Missiles Wiped Out Dozens Of NATO Officers In ODESA┃AFU Lost The 13th ABRAMS Tank.
PEPE ESCOBAR: Russia Readies War With NATO.
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Big Embarrassment For Zelensky At German Parliament; MPs Boycott Speech | 'President Of War'.
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Several Ukrainian Sukhoi fighter jets knocked out at airfield.
Moscow exchange suspends trading in dollars and euro.
The move has been prompted by a new round of sanctions imposed by the US, the group has claimed.
The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) suspended trading in dollars and euros on Wednesday, the move having been prompted by a new sanctions package unveiled by the US Treasury earlier in the day.
The suspension affects foreign and precious metals trade as well as stock and money trading on Russia’s largest public trading markets, MOEX noted in a statement. Except for dollars and euros, all other financial instruments remain operational. The derivatives market has also been unaffected by the changes, with trade going on as usual, MOEX noted.
Russia’s Central Bank elaborated on the matter in a separate statement, explaining that “transactions in the US dollar and euro will continue on the over-the-counter market.” To establish exchange rates, the Bank of Russia will be using “bank records and information from digital over-the-counter trading platforms,” the regulator added.
Earlier on Wednesday, the US Treasury Department rolled out a new package of restrictions against Russia, targeting the country’s “foundational financial infrastructure.” Announcing the package, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claimed Russia has fully transitioned into a “war economy” and is now “deeply isolated” from the international financial system.
“Today’s actions strike at their remaining avenues for international materials and equipment, including their reliance on critical supplies from third countries,” Yellen asserted.
Apart from the MOEX, the sanctions package targeted its two subsidiaries, namely the National Clearing Center (NCC) and the National Settlement Depository (NSD).
The suspension of dollar and euro trade on the platform, which has been booming lately, comes into effect on Thursday. The MOEX reported registering all-time high private investor activity back in February, with a total of 4.1 million individuals conducting transactions on the platform. Last month, the total trade volumes across the platform’s markets measured at 126.7 trillion rubles ($1.4 trillion) compared to 94.2 trillion ($1 trillion) during the same period a year ago.
Moscow exchange suspends trading in dollars and euro.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: Israel Unmasked: A Serial Killer Society High On Hate, w/ Abby Martin & Rania Khalek.
KATIE HALPER - PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: The Biden Admin Is LYING About The Cease Fire Deal & Hamas.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER: Israel is being HUMILIATED and the IDF’s Defeat is Coming Fast.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: Netanyahu In Trouble.
Hamas Rejects Biden-proposed Deal on Freeing Hostages - Reports.
The Palestinian movement Hamas has rejected a proposal on freeing hostages, which was presented by US President Joe Biden, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing an Israeli official.
The official also said that Israel has received a response from Hamas via the mediators, adding that the movement changed the main parameters of Biden’s proposal.
Earlier, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said the US received Hamas’ response to the proposal on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal and were evaluating it.
"We were in receipt of this reply that Hamas delivered to Qatar and to Egypt, and we are evaluating it right now," Kirby said during a press briefing, declining to provide any more details, except it was "certainly helpful" for US to receive any response from Hamas.
Earlier in the day, Basem Naim, a member of the political office of Hamas, told Sputnik that the movement has responded to mediators regarding the ceasefire proposal.
"The Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Qatar announce that they have received the response of Hamas and Palestinian factions to the latest proposal for a ceasefire deal and exchange of prisoners and detainees on June 11," the ministry said, adding that the response will be evaluated in coordination with the US.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources, that Hamas’ response includes full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, including Rafah and the border area with Egypt.
Hamas Rejects Biden-proposed Deal on Freeing Hostages - Reports.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: The US is complicit in a genocide.
COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON: The Worst Mistake the US Had Made and It is Destroying Everything.
Hezbollah Carries Out Biggest Rocket Strike On Israel.
US Playing Games With Palestinian Lives Again.
Putin On Gaza Hostages: Amid USA's Failure To Broker Truce, Russian Official Makes Big Move | Israel.
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
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Russian and Cuban Foreign Ministers meet in Moscow.
USA
GLENN GREENWALD: Biden's Approval Ratings Reach Record Low After Trump Verdict; Media Denies Election Year Realities.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
LENA PETROVA: BREAKING: BRICS Says 59 Nations Plan to Join, New Financial System, Dedollarization Priorities.
EUROPE / UK
SEAN FOO: France Panic: Economy Downgraded, Macron Desperate Ultimatum, Russia Sanctions Backfired.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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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.
POPULISM: WHAT IS SO WRONG ABOUT CARING DEEPLY FOR YOUR OWN NATION?
Who likes to be made to comply with actions that we feel are detrimental to us or those around us? Is it so odd that we revolt against this harm to us and those we love?
Most of us grew up with some affection for the nations we were born and raised in. In our youth we saw much we wished to change no doubt. The young tend to believe that radical changes are required so that the ideal we visualise can be reached with minimum delay. It is only with time that we discern the reality that for the adults and for us who become adults there are benefits to stability that tend to be overlooked by the young. However, by and large the vast majority of us identify with the country of our birth. And why not?
So we come to the subjects of populism, patriotism and nationalism. And of course in analysing these we must also look at those in the centre ground, the mainstream if you will, who tend to sit in judgement as the entitled elites to whom all but their ideas, activities, thoughts, narratives, talking points and policies are suspect.
The recent elections in Europe brought success for many who those who tend to hold the central ground (as they like to think of it) call far this, far that, populist or nationalist. If particularly strident some of these might also be given the epithet authoritarian, another term from the comfortable, entitled centre to designate those beyond the pale. These are looked upon with disapproval. The voters got it wrong in voting for them. Only those in the centre are worthy of a vote. Perhaps Russian propaganda, misinformation or fake news got to them. It couldn’t be that they simply have another way of looking at things. There WAS only one way of looking at things.
The term populist tends to be spoken with a sneer embedded within it, an attitude of disdain, almost spoken with a sigh that uneducated primitives have acted in an uneducated, primitive way one again and they have to somehow deal with these idiots by blackening their name until they learn better. The liberal centre loves itself. As seen in the USA for a great many years now there are abiding attitudes of exceptionalism, of being at the pinnacle of human organisation and capacity, supreme and incapable of being challenged. The ultimately successful winners at the end of history, now willing and able to do whatever is necessary to the lower life forms across the rest of the world who act in variously degenerate fashion compared to us.
A populist is basically the scum of the earth to such people, a no-nothing, an idiot, scoundrel, tawdry troublemaker who will mess up the project to make everything perfect in the enlightened liberal image. You see how all the pejorative terms used across the central political spectrum and their fellow elites across the mainstream media world are generated and the use made of them. Who are they to call people populists? And what are populists really anyway?
A populist tends to be someone who wants the best for his or her country and is focused upon this goal rather than being focused on a wider project that inevitably emerges from those in what we could call central control. A populist wishes to safeguard his or her nation from negative influences many of which stem from outside influencers or influences. To the central controllers this presents a problem. These, who are often called globalists need to be able to manipulate entire swathes of nations to bend them to their own goals, and these goals can often be boiled down to buzzwords such as human rights, freedom, democracy, values and free trade. Those who have ambitions to unify and homogenise areas connected to these buzzwords have an overwhelming need to undermine those who wish to protect their own nations in respect of their sovereignty, traditions, culture and independence. Therefore their names must be blackened.
Take recently elected Robert Fico as an example. He has sworn to do what’s best for Slovakia. This is a mortal sin the the central controllers within the EU, an institution beholden in turn to the central controllers of the USA. It is absolutely not okay in their eyes for premier minister Robert Fico to be focused on his beloved Slovakia. He must be made to fall back in line with the mores of the EU superstate as demanded by Brussels and the policies that it mandates. Mr Fico does not agree (along with Viktor Orban of Hungary) that fomenting further war in Ukraine is a good thing, not for Ukraine and not either for Slovakia, nor the world in general. But this is not okay, looking after your own country or having a different way of looking at things from the mandated Brussels policy is simply unacceptable.
Mr Fico and the man who will become president of Slovakia very soon, Mr Pelligrini both see their job as protecting the sovereign nation of Slovakia. They are adamant that Slovakia remains a nation capable of expressing the will of the people who vote governments and presidents into power based on the clearly expressed views and intentions of the candidates for those positions. All else, the normal conditions and agreements made in signing contracts to join the European Union remain in place. Nothing in that contract demands total obedience however. That is why the veto exists within the EU rules so that nations are not required to obey by demand from the centre. Note that there are powerful force which wish to eliminate this veto and allow policy change by majority instead.
Mr Fico and Mr Pelligrini were elected by popular vote. They are obviously therefore popular. They are popular, it can be assumed because the Slovak people by a voting majority liked the policies they espoused, one of the main and most prominent being that humanitarian aid to Ukraine was fine but that no further military aid should be given and that there should be an early start to peace negotiations. For the EU central controllers this is an unacceptable point of view. Despite diplomacy being seen in the past as the most optimum route to resolve conflicts those controllers, controlled in their turn by those in the USA, have decided all possible military means must be used instead. Fico and Pelligrini are expected to go against their principles and against the clear wish of a majority of Slovak voters for them to carry out the mandate for peace as campaigned upon and simply submit to those who would completely deny they are being authoritarian. Irony and hypocrisy much?
