RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.03.2023
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.
Please note: We will be on the African continent rather than the European for approximately the next five days. Updates will occur at different times than in recent weeks, they will perhaps be less comprehensive than usual and may be completely absent on certain days.
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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:
Latest update on events within Ukraine by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’.
Russia Captures East Bakhmut, Zelensky Admits Importance: Intel: Nord Stream Attack 6 Guys & A Boat.
THE DURAN
Stagflation, Russian sanctions success.
Latest updates from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’.
NYT, ZEIT; Pro-Ukraine group blew up Nord Stream. Tbilisi Euromaidan. CNN, Bakhmut open road. U/1
The Times, west quiet about Nord Stream. Lukashenko calls out Elensky. Boris and Belarus Guaido. U/2
SCOTT RITTER
⚡ Roots of Ukrainian nationalism | How West provoked biggest war in Europe since WWII.
LARRY JOHNSON - EX-CIA
Bakhmut Narrative Flip, China Cold War.
acTVism Munich
New Findings on Nord Stream Sabotage & US Obstruction of Diplomacy in Ukraine | Fabian Scheidler.
BREAKING POINTS
Seymour Hersh EXCLUSIVE: SHREDS NYT's Nord Stream Report.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Russian Oil Price Cap: Has It Failed? Paul Sankey and Richard Medhurst.
SCOTT RITTER
Russia's Massive Move On Ukraine.
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NYTimes CONFIRMS Nord Stream attack carried out by pro-Ukraine NATO deep state | Redacted.
U.K. pushes DIRECT war with Putin's Russia as Ukraine nears collapse | Redacted News.
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia ( March 7, 2023)
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: March 7, 2023
VRevelations
Zelensky Can’t Let Go Of Bakhmut: Chooses To Leave Forces In The Meat Grinder.
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia is winning two wars...
SCOTT RITTER
Discusses Bakhmut, Nord Stream & Ukraine F-16's.
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
From Minsk to Lasting Peace in Ukraine.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Sergey Lavrov DESTROYS Biden’s Argument On Ukraine.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
India-Russia oil deals 'dent' dollar dominance; Rupee-Rouble deals bypass sanctions - report.
Russia tears into NYT report on Nord Stream; 'Coordinated effort to divert...' | Details:
Russia’s Wagner 'takes control' of East Bakhmut | Putin’s men shoot down Ukrainian bomber.
Zelensky's ‘biggest fear’ if Putin captures Bakhmut in Donetsk | ‘Open Road For…’
U.S. intel 'exposes' Ukraine; Rules out Putin's role in Nord Stream attacks | Report.
Putin’s T-90 tank unleashes powerful attack on Ukraine troops | Watch the battle from inside:
Putin's hurricane strikes cripple Ukraine; Kyiv's key arms depots gutted in back-to-back bombings.
India puts Rupee above Dollar; Eight nations open 49 accounts in 6 months to trade in INR.
The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong
CHINA'S WARNING TO THE US AND THE RUSSIAN CAULDRON IN UKRAINE W/ GARLAND NIXON AND CARL ZHA.
MALCOLM BURN - RAY MCGOVERN
From CIA to Sanity.
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (March 7, 2023)
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
The Next Few Weeks Will Be DEVASTATING For Ukraine!
BORZZIKMAN
Russia and China scored a Strategic Victory. NATO and the U.S. lost more than half of their Weapons.
CHRIS THRALL
Rishi Sunak Sends Almost ALL Of Britain's Ammo To Ukraine.
Ukrainian Nazi Artem Bonov claims he's finally got his medal for the defense of Kiev.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
US & West Sanctions HAVEN'T CRIPPLED the Russian Economy, The Rich Get Richer｜Billionaires Index.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MICHAEL PARENTI - The U.S. Has a HISTORY of TERRORISM.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 8th March 2023:
Support for aid to Ukraine in decline across West – media.
Backing further assistance to Kiev is less popular both in the US and Europe, the Economist has reported.
A year into the Russia-Ukraine conflict, public support for military and financial assistance to Kiev is in decline in the West, a joint survey by the Economist magazine and the pollster YouGov has shown.
Even the most ardent backers of Ukraine are now less enthusiastic about supporting the country, the Economist added, while revealing the poll results on Monday.
Among US Democrats, support for financial aid to Kiev fell from 82% to 75% between April 2022 and February 2023, the poll revealed. Republican support for similar measures almost halved over the same period, from 67% to 39%, it added.
Sending battle tanks to Kiev still appeared to be a popular option, as their delivery to Ukraine was supported by 70% of Democrats and just under 50% of Republicans between late January and mid-February 2023. A poll conducted by the Associated Press in mid-February showed, however, that less than a half of Americans support military aid to Kiev.
Public backing for further restrictions against Moscow that could increase the cost of living in Europe has sharply declined in major European nations over the past year, according to the poll.
In February 2022, 45% of Britons said they would favour such sanctions, but in December 2022 the level of support for the measures dropped to 35% in the UK. In Germany, it fell from almost 40% to less than 30% over the same period, while Spain, Italy and France followed a similar trend.
Another poll published by YouGov on February 24, showed that people in some European nations, including France and Italy, tend to favor a negotiated solution to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, over supporting Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”
In Italy, 47% of respondents said they would like to see a negotiated end to the fighting, even if it means Kiev having to cede control over some territories to Russia. In France, 38% of people supported this option. Only 29% of Italians and 37% of the French believed Kiev should be supported further, even if it means the conflict will last longer.
Major European nations also saw a decline in support for almost all types of aid to Kiev over the second half of 2022. Most Europeans also believed that conflict had reached a stalemate, with Spanish citizens believing Russia was gaining the upper hand in it. The idea that Kiev is winning the conflict was shared by only a small minority in the European nations covered by the poll.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (89k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.08
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS (1.81k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
'NWE WAR REPORTS' (31.6k subscribers):
UKRAINE BAKHMUT COUNTER ATTACK | Zelensky doubles down | New Nord Stream Bombing Theory.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (60.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (25.1k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (23.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
Ukraine: military situation Mar 6-7, 2023.
LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (136k subscribers):
Ukraine [8 March 2023] 'Today'.
LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.3k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Trapped in Bakhmut.
LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.81k subscribers):
Ukraine: Day 377 [8 March]Russians captured areas North and East of Bakhmut.
LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (74.5k subscribers):
Full Front Update 08/03/23
Bakhmut In Depth Analysis | 4 Possible Scenarios | Quick Quick Front Update 08/03/23.
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 you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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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
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IT’S ALL GOING HORRIBLY WRONG FOR WESTERN POLITICAL ELITES IN THE GEOPOLITICAL CASINO
Is it kismet… fate or geopolitical karma?
Whatever it is, the western powers are, stated at best, not having much luck in the global casino that constitutes the way nations or groups of nations rise and fall.
Ukraine has turned into a very bad bet. Instead of folding, the USA and UK in particular and some of the EU nations just kept doubling up hoping to have a winning hand.
This has not delivered the hoped for 'big win' but has only delayed the moment when all is lost.
If it was only their shirts that are now going to be lost, though in terms of national pride this would be costly, this is going down to their national underpants and bobby socks.
If the catastrophic bet that was Ukraine, with all those billions poured into a massive black hole was not enough there are all the high-tech weapons that are now dispersing to various noxious cells via the dark web. These are toxic future disasters for the so-called ‘war on terror’ that the USA sets so much store by.
Then there is the strong and growing tendency in the global south to turn up sensitive noses to the western gamblers who have destabilised so much for so little gain. Even Saudi Arabia is apparently turning away in disgust seeking to join Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa within BRICS, along with Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Argentina.
These trends bode very ill for all desires still held close to western elite breasts to extend their influence to the absolute maximum, gaining total hegemony over the entire planet via one means or another. They STILL conceive themselves as our universal guardians and ‘overmasters’ without peer, utterly and exclusively necessary to ensure everything moves in the ‘right direction’.
Except under their tutelage and still significant level of control its is very clearly going in anything BUT the right direction.
The USA is riven with discord, even more now than ever. Each section of its commingled groups of vested interests appear to be at war with the other. This is not exactly helped with inflation breaking new records (June’s stat over 9%). Could things possibly be going more wrong?
Well yes. And I suspect we will not have long to wait.
In Europe political parties and leaders are being shaken as never before. Already certain nations have found their leadership in flux and in a few cases there have been significant departures from the political scene.
Who's to blame?
It is difficult to find anyone to blame except the central figures in the current debacle over Ukraine. Those at the heart of the campaign to bring the Russian economy and its leader down have created a boomerang economic missile (or rather whole series of them) that is devastating themselves, their economies and their citizens.
And where is all this leading?
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that it is leading to the permanent demise of the unipolar world controlled by the current coalition of powers centred upon and controlled by the USA. Their fortunes in the global casino are depleting fast, as is that of course of their ‘glorious leader’.
It wasn’t meant to be like this.
The economic attacks upon Russia were meant to create the downswing in its powers required to then do something similar in regard to China. With both these rivals who had to one degree or another been on an upward trajectory diminished the western powers could then begin an upward push along with those who could potentially be made proxies elsewhere in the world and thus halt the inevitable western decline in universal power that analysts had been warning them of for decades.
But it has all gone so horribly wrong. Not only has the position of western power sources been weakened , it has been devastatingly undermined to the point where their obvious decline and the rise of others has been hugely exacerbated. Those rivals are now set for a starward economic course where every new level of cooperation and coordination delivers yet another blow to the ever more desperate West.
They say the house always wins in the end and indeed the USA and its allies once believed they had ownership of the global casino. But no more. In recent decades the ‘For Sale’ sign on its walls came more and more into focus and now, after Ukraine, it has been replaced.
It now reads, ‘Under New Management’’.
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