RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.01.2024
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.
*** RUSSIAN VICTORY CERTAIN - UKRAINE… NOT A CHANCE IN HELL ***
“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.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
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Ukraine conflict began in 2008 – Putin.
NATO laid the groundwork for the current standoff by “opening the door” for Kiev, the president said.
The West provoked the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine by luring Kiev with the prospect of NATO membership. This move drastically changed the security situation on the continent, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. The current standoff began not in 2022 but in 2008, he added, speaking to local community leaders from across Russia.
Putin then cited a former Czech president, who, according to Putin, has “recently” admitted that the “war” between Kiev and Moscow started in summer 2008 when the US-led bloc decided to “open its doors to Ukraine and Georgia.” It is unclear whether Putin was speaking about Milos Zeman, who had enjoyed close relations with Moscow for many years but sharply condemned Russia in February 2022 following the start of its military campaign against Kiev. It is also unclear which exact statement the Russian president was referring to.
Speaking to local community heads, the president stated that the 2008 NATO decision “drastically changed the situation in Eastern Europe.” Putin also noted that when Ukraine became an independent state in the early 1990s, it proclaimed its neutrality.
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, adopted in July 1990, announced that the then-Soviet Socialist Republic declared “its intention to become … a permanently neutral state that does not take part in any military blocs and sticks to the non-nuclear principles: not to accept, produce or acquire nuclear weapons.”
The situation started to change rapidly after the Western-backed 2014 Maidan coup in Kiev. Later the same year, the Ukrainian parliament – the Verkhovnaya Rada – adopted amendments to its laws, in which its neutral status was abandoned. The amendments were introduced by then-president Petr Poroshenko.
In 2017, accession to NATO was declared Ukraine’s foreign policy priority under new legislation. Two years later, Ukrainian lawmakers amended the nation’s constitution to declare “the strategic course on acquiring full membership in the EU and NATO” the “basis of internal and foreign policy.”
Russia has repeatedly expressed its concerns over NATO encroachment towards its borders and called it a national security threat. Prior to the outbreak of the current conflict, Moscow came forward with a comprehensive plan for security guarantees in Europe.
Submitted in December 2021, the proposal included demands that NATO officially bar Ukraine from ever becoming a member of the military bloc and for NATO to withdraw its forces to where they were before the alliance expanded eastward in 1997. The plan, aimed at defusing tensions in Europe, also called on the US-led bloc to pledge not to expand further East.
Moscow also demanded that the US withdraw nuclear weapons it had deployed to the territory of its non-nuclear allies in Europe, as well as all the relevant rapid deployment infrastructure. The overture was largely rejected by the US and its allies.
Ukraine conflict began in 2008 – Putin.
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Zelensky threatens Putin’s grandchildren.
The Ukrainian leader got personal in his speech at the Davos World Economic Forum.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entire family with “criminal trials” and long prison sentences, during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.
Zelensky’s address to the gathering of aspiring global leaders focused on asking for more weapons, money, and ammunition so he could continue to fight Russia. At one point, however, he made a reference to the Russian leader’s family.
Putin will not “rest in peace, both in this world and in the next,” said Zelensky. "Neither his children, nor his grandchildren.”
The Russian leader is “the sole reason why various wars and conflicts persist” and he must be held accountable so his “aggression” doesn’t embolden other “autocracies,” Zelensky insisted.
“Yes, we are not terrorists, and therefore these will be criminal trials,” after which Putin and his entire family would spend “a long, multi-year vacation” behind bars, he added.
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Zelensky has repeatedly insisted that Ukraine does not engage in terrorism, while admitting he would have Putin assassinated if the opportunity arose. The Ukrainian security service, the SBU, has operated a dedicated assassination unit since 2015, according to its former chief.
The Washington Post recently highlighted the SBU’s campaign of assassinations while attempting to deflect any blame from the CIA, which is deeply embedded in Ukrainian intelligence.
Ukraine has targeted local Russian officials, as well as journalists such as Darya Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky. Writer Zakhar Prilepin survived an assassination attempt, while Russian security services thwarted a SBU hit on RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan in November.
Zelensky’s mention of Putin’s grandchildren came just a day after Anne Applebaum – an American journalist and wife of Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski – claimed that the Russian president “has a grandson with Dutch citizenship.” Her source was an associate of Alexey Navalny, a Russian blogger imprisoned for embezzlement.
The Russian president was married from 1983 to 2013 and has two daughters, who have stayed out of the media spotlight. His ex-wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, was sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
Zelensky threatens Putin’s grandchildren.
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
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KYLE ANZALONE: Is the US complicit In Gaza?
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Irish MEP Clare Daly criticises Biden's Israel support.
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Iran - Israel and the struggle for the narrative.
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Israeli Spokesperson Gets Torn Apart In Interview.
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USA
Two US presidential candidates to support.
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EUROPE
DR. STEVE TURLEY
WEF Admits DEFEAT as German Farmers REVOLT.
KIM IVERSEN: WEF Klaus Schwab Blames Libertarians For Dissent Against Great Reset Agenda.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
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AFRICA
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NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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MAPPING CHANNELS
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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 DICTATORSHIP OF “DEMOCRACY” - WAR AS A BLOOD-STAINED TICKET TO ELECTORAL SUCCESS
It is well known that the vast majority of politicians are both ultra-ambitious and cynical in the extreme. They are despised for these and a great many other characteristics which they display regularly. But just how ambitious and cynical are they? How far do these vices extend, to what lengths will such people go to retain their power or win more of it?
Currently there are a number of western politicians who are seeking re-election. The most prominent, and arguably the most vilified and despised are in the USA, Britain, France and Germany. Is it a complete coincidence that all of these men are currently promoting either the extension of wars or the initiation of new ones?
In the USA Joe Biden refuses to contemplate ceasefires in either Gaza or Ukraine. He continues to send as much financial support and weapons as he can to assist in the wars his allies, the Israelis and Ukrainians, are waging. In recent days he has initiated a new war, against Yemen and soon, who knows the USA may also be at war with Iran. A proxy war is also well under way with his allies against Russia.
In Britain all the talk in the top echelons of the government is of lending ever more support for the regime in Kiev and increasingly about taking the war directly to Russia. Britain has, in recent times, shown itself to be an even more aggressive supporter of the murderous regime in Kiev than the USA. Its rhetoric is becoming ever more belligerent as the USA has begun to see its ability to supply munitions to Ukraine diminish.
In France Macron has become extremely unpopular over the years and his exit from power and perhaps from politics altogether will likely occur very soon. In an effort to prevent Marie le Pen from winning in the upcoming election he is grooming a Macron lookalike to take over. In addition he has just announced that France will send more ‘Scalp’ missiles and other munitions to Ukraine as Russia “cannot be allowed to win in Ukraine”.
In Germany Olaf Scholz, beleaguered by the effects that have rebounded on the country through installing sanctions on Russian energy is facing a meltdown in support. So, whereas Germany was loathe to send weapons to Ukraine at first, it is now the most enthusiastic nation in Europe in doing so.
With elections nearing in all three of these nations is it really just a coincidence that their leaders are now taking stances that generate the kind of fear in wartime that in the past has been an effective route to electoral success?
The most clear case of this is that of Margaret Thatcher, who toward the end of her first term in office was facing defeat with her poll ratings disastrously low. It is acknowledged by most pundits that her engagement in what came to be known as ‘The Falklands War’ transformed her prospects and was instrumental in her winning a resounding victory in the next general election. Every stop was pulled out to generate the kind of patriotic response in the British people that was sure to carry all before it.
George W. Bush used the Iraq war that followed his daddy's war on that same nation to take advantage of the surge in popularity he was accorded due to his rhetoric after the 9/11 atrocity. Naturally he won the next presidential election easily. “Mission Accomplished’ he infamously crowed. Events have proved otherwise, just as they have in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Libya.
Do western politicians get what they want out of these wars and then let everyone suffer the consequences… then start all over again to reap the gains they know are there for them next time around? Is it quite possible that apart from learning nothing they don’t have the slightest incentive to learn anything except you should ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ but only milk it for your self-interest and to the maximum?
And what of the seemingly endless contributions made to the campaign funds of U.S. politicians by the so-called defence industries? What too, of the revolving door syndrome whereby western politicians find themselves lucrative boardroom seats within these same defence conglomerates when they leave office. What also of the incestuous relationship between western politicians and the lobby groups (such as AIPAC in the USA) where one hand washes the other endlessly?
The political elites of the West talk continuously about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ but truly, how much freedom of movement regarding foreign policy do these people have when the factors above lock them into ever more war? And how much democracy is involved when the main parties have all the money and clout and all agree on the need for ever more war?
Our world is descending ever further into a chaos which would have been unimaginable a generation ago even when the Cold War was in progress. The USA, the UK and their allies see their erstwhile combined domination of the world steadily collapsing. As an entire group they risk being ousted from power and not only the current crop of self-seekers, they see all the power and status of the western world fading and dying in front of them and forever.
The effort to pull themselves up from the position outlined above has necessitated certain measures involving the abandonment of moral and ethical principles and in addition, of the initiation of a war against international law itself. They need to be able to promote and enact their illegal acts of war without encountering resistance from those who might present barriers to their actions. They need to undermine the United Nations and its adherence to international law and install themselves as ultimate arbiters of what is right and what is wrong and they intend to do this by substituting their creation, ‘The International Rules-Based Order’.
War and more war will keep western populations and others across the planet cowed enough and controlled enough, they think, to keep them in power. That power they will use if successful to blanket the globe within a surveillance system beyond anything seen previously. It will be used to initiate the project that has been behind almost everything we have seen so far, the rabid desire of western political elites to have ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’. In this, the last world war, the end game war, the western elites see their chance to win permanent power over all of us. This is what they are fighting for and through these wars they seek to win the final election of their coalition to attain a full and all-encompassing dictatorship of “democracy”.