RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.09.2024
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.
*** FAR FROM ISOLATED, RUSSIA IS ATTRACTING EVER MORE TO BRICS ***
“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.
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Nuland confirms West told Zelensky to abandon peace deal.
Ukraine-Russia talks fell apart after Kiev asked foreign backers for advice, the former US deputy secretary of state has said.
The US, UK and other backers of Ukraine told Kiev to reject the deal reached at the 2022 Istanbul peace talks with Russia, former US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland has said.
In an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor-in-chief of the liberal news channel Dozhd, which aired on Thursday, Nuland was asked to comment on reports that the peace process between Moscow and Kiev in late March and early April 2022 collapsed after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Ukraine and told Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting.
“Relatively late in the game the Ukrainians began asking for advice on where this thing was going and it became clear to us, clear to the Brits, clear to others that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's main condition was buried in an annex to this document that they were working on,” she said of the deal being discussed by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Türkiye’s largest city.
The proposed agreement included limits on the kinds of weapons that Kiev could possess, as a result of which Ukraine “would basically be neutered as a military force,” while there were no similar constraints on Russia, the former diplomat explained.
“People inside Ukraine and people outside Ukraine started asking questions about whether this was a good deal and it was at that point that it fell apart,” Nuland said.
The veteran diplomatic hawk, who during her time in the State Department was renowned for her hostility towards Russia, quit the post of under secretary of state for political affairs in March this year. Nuland played a key role in the violent Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, which toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovich.
During the escalation between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, she called for deeper US involvement in the conflict and advocated for Ukraine to be armed with increasingly sophisticated weapons. However, in February, the 63-year-old essentially acknowledged the failure of her longstanding policy of containing Moscow, telling the CNN that modern Russia had turned out to be “not the Russia we wanted.”
During her conversation with Zygar, Nuland confirmed that both Moscow and Kiev were eager to seek a diplomatic solution a month after the outbreak of the fighting.
“Russia had an interest at that time in at least seeing what it could get. Ukraine, obviously, had an interest if they could stop the war and get and get Russia out,” she said.
US officials “were not in the room” during the talks in Istanbul, only offering Kiev “support” in case it were needed, she claimed.
Putin said last week that the only reason the Istanbul deal failed was because of “the wish of the elites in the US and some European nations to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia,” adding that Boris Johnson served as the messenger to quash the peace process.
The negotiations in Türkiye yielded a draft agreement, which would have ended the hostilities, Putin recalled. Kiev was willing to declare military neutrality, limit its armed forces, and vow not to discriminate against ethnic Russians. In return, Moscow would have joined other leading powers in offering Ukraine security guarantees, he stressed.
According to the Russian leader, talks with Kiev are still possible, but can only happen “not on the basis of some ephemeral demands but on the basis of the documents that were agreed and actually initialized in Istanbul.”
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MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
Pepe Escobar: Russia, China, ASEAN Weave Their Eastern Magic.
Something quite extraordinary happened at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week – very much in tune with the forum’s main theme: “Far Eastern 2030. Combining Strengths to Create New Potential.”
The stage was shared by President Putin; Vice-President of China Han Zheng; and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.
That translates as Russia-China-ASEAN: a key interlocking partnership, constantly being strengthened, on the road to explore all the potential towards a new, equitable, fair, multi-nodal (italics mine) world.
In his address, President Putin focused on what is arguably the most ambitious national development project of the 21st century: the Russian Conquest of the East – a mirror image of the Chinese Conquest of the West that started in earnest in 1999, via the “Go West” campaign.
Putin detailed how the Russian Far East is fast developing, with more than 3,500 techno-industrial projects. He expanded on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) – the Chinese call it the Arctic Silk Road – with building of new nuclear icebreakers and the development of the port of Murmansk included. The NSR’s turnover, Putin remarked, is already a record five times bigger, and counting, when compared to the USSR times.
All the numbers concerning the Far East and the Arctic are staggering. The Far East is a strategic macro-region occupying no less than 41% of the territory of the Russian Federation. The Arctic, an immense natural resource treasure, linked to the NSR potential, occupies 28% - accounting for 17% of Russian oil production, 83% of gas production and holding immense deposits of gold, coal, nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum group metals and diamonds.
So it’s no wonder the recurrent Western colonialist dream of attacking, dismembering and plundering Russia – whose latest iteration is the obsession on inflicting a “strategic defeat” of Russia in Ukraine - is directly linked to grabbing and exploiting the infinite wealth of the Far East/Arctic.
Putin once again described how the two regions are “the future of Russia” – and a federal priority for the entire 21st century: in fact, a matter of national security. Investment growth in starting capital is already up by 20% - twice the Russian average; and each ruble of state funding is matched by 34 rubles of private investment. Key industries include energy, petrochemicals, mining, timber, logistics, aircraft/machinery/shipbuilding, agriculture and fisheries.
Vice President Han Zheng stressed recent high-level meetings in Beijing and Astana strengthening the Russia-China strategic partnership; the increasing trade turnover; China’s status as the leading trade partner and investor in the Russian Far East; the drive to modernize trans-border structures; and President Xi’s Global Security Initiative – which is like a sort of more ambitious version of the Russian concept of Greater Eurasian Partnership.
Han Zheng made it quite clear how China takes a new comprehensive security format seriously, to “combat the mentality of the Cold War”. And it all comes back to the overarching Chinese concept for the whole 21st century: the attempt to build a “community of shared future for mankind.”
Asia-Pacific: All About Technology and Science
In practical terms, the forum – attended by 7,000 guests from 75 nations clinched 258 deals worth a significant 5.4 trillion rubles (over $59.7 billion).
Indonesian military/security analyst Connie Bakrie, summed it all up: “The most important thing for Asia-Pacific is technology and science (…) President Putin underlined that Russia will play a very big part in building science and technology together [across Asia], especially in the nuclear aspect of energy security.”
On the Russian-ASEAN session , including a minister from the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU), much was elaborated on the five years since the start of the Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership, and how Moscow regards the Asia-Pacific, and particularly ASEAN, as a top priority.
A counterpart session examined cooperation across Greater Eurasia - centered on the development of production chains integrating EAEU, SCO and BRICS.
Karin Kneissl, head of the GORKI Center (Geopolitical Observatory on Key Issues of Russia) at the St. Petersburg State University and former Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, represented once again the (few) remaining voices of sanity in Europe: she stressed how “the rule of law is disappearing in Europe” and how “trust in the traditional system is gone.”
Hence the importance of the BRICS forum: “What is needed is a new normative foundation.”
Cool, Calm, Collected Civilizational-States
The multipolar debate was one of the highlights of the forum.
The consensus was that the unilateral international “order” based on “rules” that the collective West changes at will should be on the way out. That is directly connected to the geopolitical center of gravity moving to the Asia-Pacific.
The Eastern Economic Forum once again showed how Russia and Asian civilizational-states remain cool, calm and collected, resolutely moving forward, even as a hybrid Totalen Krieg which can escalate in a flash to nuclear war is being waged by the Hegemon and its vassals against Russia and ultimately, against the BRICS.
Even as US ThinkTankland ceaselessly comes up with warmongering schemes - the latest is the advent of a NATO “Arctic Sparta” to try to contain “the end of American Exceptionalism” in the High North – the new socioeconomic connections explored at the forum,and the consequential new stability and resilience, are even more significant game-changers than the military-moral debacles in Gaza and in the black soil of Novorossiya.
It's no wonder that the Hegemon plutocracy and its lowly vassals froth in unmitigated hate at being totally outclassed and outwitted by Russia, China, Asia and Eurasia, eventually destined to wallow in the gutters of irrelevancy.
Pepe Escobar: Russia, China, ASEAN Weave Their Eastern Magic.
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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.
UKRAINE: THE WAR IS NOT MEANT TO BE WON, IT IS MEANT TO BE CONTINUOUS
The projection of power & influence plus so much more is at stake for the elites of the western world for them to ever contemplate ending their war against Russia. Ukraine therefore, must be sacrificed.
Just because everything is going wrong for the USA and its allies currently no one should ever believe they have run out of options. This will never happen… until the ultimate quarantining of them through the rise of all others. This point is still (by my estimation) several decades in the future. Until the point is reached where a combination of a gargantuan national debt, social implosion and economic ruin hit the collective west will continue to hit out in an effort to, in any way it can, subvert those rising powers.
Looking at the situation in Ukraine currently more and more are saying the obvious, that Ukraine cannot win. The latecomers to this realization are tardy indeed, this much became obvious when Russia’s ability to continue its military campaign was assured by, one, effectively neutering and reversing the effect of sanctions on Russia and company withdrawal from Russia, and two through Russia’s longtime trading partners remaining in place and added to by others. Russia was then able to ramp up its military industrial complex, innovate and afford an ever more massive military force complete with all necessary training and weaponry.
Yet the above does not mean that Russia will conclusively win in Ukraine. This could only come about if both the Ukrainians and their sponsors come to terms and cease fighting. The Ukrainians of course cannot suffer their ever-accumulating losses into the indefinite future. This is not sustainable. However, western strategic planners will certainly devise a means whereby no permanent peace is ever established that yet preserves an adequate number of Ukrainian forces to continue to be a very expensive thorn in Russia’s side.
The tactic most likely to be used will come into operation sometime over the next six months. It is clear to all sides that Russia is an unstoppable force yet this will not cause the dismay that you may think. The object of the Kiev regime’s sponsors is not and never was to retain all territories claimed by Ukraine. It was simply to keep the conflict going indefinitely. Yes, there will have been a large number of diverse goals from the potential of sanctions to weaken Russia significantly, the turning of world opinion against Putin and Russia was certainly another goal. But as the time window when these events could potentially have occurred passed other goals, primarily keeping Russia fighting, came into greater focus.
It does not matter one whit if Russia takes all the territory all the way to the eastern bank of the Dnieper river, at least in the southern regions of Ukraine. What matters is that Russia continues to be bled to the greatest degree possible. There will be no peace negotiations except in some sham form used by the Kiev regime for yet another public relations and/or strategy of betrayal exercise where its forces are built up in order to better hit Russia hard when the little bit of theater indulged in by the regime is over. The puppet masters will of course have everything stage managed to a t. Whether Russia will engage with this theatrical performance is doubtful however on the basis of twice bitten thrice shy.
With Russia holding and having to expend large amounts on all the territory from the Russian border to the Dnieper and with the regime’s guerrilla forces wreaking havoc through both west-Ukraine based and eastern sleeper cell operatives, merry hell can quite easily be created among the vast number of desolate locations which Russia will be continually encouraged to take on more highly-paid troops to guard. Being careful not to act too openly the USA and its allies will ensure the regime receives whatever appropriate means it requires to do Russia the greatest damage in all forms from material to reputational. The war being waged by the puppet masters and their puppet will certainly be continuous.
If however the above tactics are seen as insufficient or too slow in having the desired deleterious effect on Russia and Putin’s reputation it is possible that yet another, and far more radical option may be countenanced. This could entail a strike at Russia’s general relationship with its major trading partners. The aim would be to goad Russia into deploying a low-yield nuclear device, perhaps of one kiloton or so. The reputational damage of Russia using such a device would be severe and the goading mechanism would therefore have to be equally severe. This quite obviously would involve major strikes on Russian high value targets far within Russia’s borders. Always remember that the Ukrainian regime has a media fig leaf all across the eastern mainstream. It is almost impossible to get Ukrainian war crimes, crimes against humanity or in fact any negative factor of even moderate severity into western mainstream news of any kind.
Of course Kiev would hit military targets at first, airports, fuel dumps and barracks, but as has been seen lately, non-military targets would also be hit with impunity, oil refineries and such like. Hitting these would naturally hurt the Russian high command, at least reputationally within Russia if they continued long enough and were devastating enough. But these would not be enough in themselves to have the goading effect necessary to make Russia unleash the power and contaminating effect of a nuclear device, even a small one of one kiloton. A series of direct strikes on central locations within Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major Russian cities would be required to stimulate this.
Later this month the Ukrainian regime is due to receive missiles which will be able to reach at least Moscow and St Petersburg. These are the JASSM cruise missiles which come in variants with ranges of 350 and 850 kilometers.
Wikipedia:
‘The AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (AGM-158 JASSM) is a low detection standoff air-launched cruise missile developed by Lockheed Martin for the United States Armed Forces. It is a large, stealthy long-range weapon with a 1,000-pound (450 kg) armor piercing warhead. There is an extended range version of the missile, the AGM-158B JASSM-ER (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range) as well as an anti-ship derivative, the AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile).
In August 2024 the US was reportedly considering supplying JASSM missiles to Ukraine.
Though such attacks on Russian cities as envisaged above would clearly be a major escalation the mainstream media, guided as it is by attention to western state requirements at all times could be relied upon to apply a soft touch and even to infer subtle approval in regard to such attacks. To assist in this endeavor a certain amount of care would be taken by those within the West providing targeting coordinates (and in reality having hands-on control of these devices) to kill only up to something like twenty to fifty Russian civilians with nighttime strikes on targets planned for such outcomes. With enough such strikes there is a reasonably good chance that their ultimate object would be achieved.
With the Ukrainian authorities now in Lvov rather than in Kiev, or, more likely located outside the territory of Ukraine altogether, the campaign against the Russians could be continued with relative impunity. Russian retaliatory strikes would be largely impotent in effect as the people Russia most wanted to effect would most likely no longer be in-country. All the while the nations of the collective west would naturally be denying that they were in control and therefore responsible for these strikes. The Russians of course even now know otherwise and that the Ukrainians don’t have oversight of satellite targeting coordinates nor the technical know how to hit the targets concerned. However, the Russians would remain extremely averse to hitting targets within the West due to the potentially catastrophic consequences involved. As Professor John J. Mearsheimer has stated on occasion however, a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine would not generate any risk on this score from Ukraine and, for the same reasons Russia will not attack a NATO nation, no NATO nation would respond to a Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine by launching a nuclear strike against Russia.
