RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.04.2024
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.
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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.
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Mobilizing for defeat: The Zelensky regime insists more Ukrainians must die before it’s all over.
Kiev’s new effort to scoop up more bodies for the front is a response to looming catastrophe – and a catastrophe in itself.
Ukraine’s situation is extremely precarious, if you want to put it optimistically. A more realistic term is “catastrophic.” The country faces steady, accelerating advances of Russian forces that are well-motivated and trained and superior in quantity and equipment. Even Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has admitted that “the situation on the eastern front has significantly worsened in recent days.” A massive understatement but still proof that things are even worse.
We also know – from Ukrainian polls – that ever more Ukrainians are open to ending the war by making concessions. Yet the Zelensky regime is doubling down. Instead of entering serious negotiations – the kind where you adjust your aims to your losses so as to avoid even greater ones – it is seeking to throw more lives into a war that has become a meatgrinder for Ukrainian troops.
That is the main purpose of a new mobilization law that has just passed the Ukrainian parliament. (In addition, President Zelensky has already signed off on additional measures that will be integrated into the new law once he signs that as well. In essence, though, this is one integrated bundle, which many Ukrainians and outside observers refer to as one and the same law, as will be done here.)
The new mobilization law is complex, consisting of a long list of measures, including, for instance, new rules on confiscating private cars for defense purposes. Its core, however, is simple: The minimum age for mobilization is lowered from 27 to 25 years of age. All Ukrainian men between age 18 and 60 will have to register, including those abroad. Failure to do so will count as evading military service. To make sure that compliance can be policed easily, all registered men must have their registration papers on them at all times.
The law, which has been under contentious consideration for months, is not being well-received in Ukrainian society. On a TV show run by Ukrainska Pravda, a very anti-Russian outlet, Maria Berlinska, a Ukrainian activist of equally sterling credentials, called it a fiasco. And she is by no means alone. It is true that some Ukrainian commentators have – once again – tried to dismiss all and any popular discontent as nothing but Russian interference. But this time, that tired old trick from the NATO-Zelensky playbook is not working well. Even Western mainstream media acknowledge the law is “unpopular.”
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It is not hard to understand why many Ukrainians are angry. Perhaps the single worst disappointment is that the law does not include a hard rule for demobilization, which is what everyone expected. Think of it as a tacit deal: The government gets to hoover up more young men for cannon fodder, but, at least, it also promises to let go those exhausted soldiers who have already served (and survived) for years (36 months was under discussion). Even the New York Times has noticed that Ukraine’s current soldiers are “battered and exhausted.” Yet opening a way out for at least some of them is what did not happen. Instead, the Zelensky regime has dared come out with a law that only takes but gives nothing back.
To take how much, or to be precise, how many exactly? That is the second major sore spot: The law is meant to refill the ranks, which are clearly very badly depleted (massively contradicting the regime’s few and absurdly low – and thus mendacious – statements on casualty figures). High-ranking Ukrainian officers have gone public warning that “some” front sections that need to be held by eight to ten soldiers are, in reality, manned by two to four. That means that where 100 meters need to be defended, in effect, only 20 can be. Sure, such statements are also spin to drum up political support for the mobilization law. But from everything we know about the war, this spin is based on reality.
Yet what no one has done – either President Zelensky or anyone among his top brass – is to say exactly how many more Ukrainians they want. The former commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny had bluntly asked for half a million. That is one reason why he lost his job. His successor, Aleksandr Syrsky has got the memo and is keeping mum, only letting it slip that it will not be 500,000. How reassuring.
Clearly, the Kiev regime prefers to go on the prowl for more meatgrinder fodder without too much public scrutiny. Put yourself in their shoes for a moment: If you had to drag, let’s say 300,000 mostly very reluctant and potentially rebellious men off to a war without a chance, would you like them, their families, and friends to know just how many they are? And by the way, 300,000 is a number Zelensky has mentioned, if in a very roundabout way, namely as his estimate (it’s no more than that, of course) of additional troops soon to be fielded by Russia.
Mobilization law is ‘point of no return’ for Zelensky – Ukrainian MP
The third main cause of public discontent about the new mobilization law is that it is unjust. Ordinary Ukrainians have a keen and absolutely realistic sense that their “elites” – in politics and business, and usually both in one and the same people – are not sharing the risks and sacrifices of war. This fact, too, the regime and its media try to propagandize away as “Russian manipulation.”
Yet the fact is that no such outside interference is needed. Take, for instance, Berlinska on Ukrainska Pravda again. She is all for continuing the war for years (and has entirely unrealistic ideas about how to do so). And yet she also asks why “should the child of a mother from a forlorn village….turn into a flag in the ground [that is end up on one of those massively expanding military cemeteries], while someone [else] can ride around Kiev in expensive cars, go on expensive holidays abroad, simply get rich and do business during wartime?”
Now add to all of the above, the following: Those who were eager to fight have already volunteered. When they volunteered, moreover, misguided optimism was widespread. Those illusions have evaporated by now. Whoever is forced to fight now knows two things: The war is not going well (which is the reason why he is being drafted, actually) and family members, friends, or work acquaintances have already fallen or, if “lucky,” been taken prisoner or come back with severe, possibly lifelong injuries and psychological trauma. Finally, sending even more of the young to fight the proxy war for the West also makes Ukraine’s severe demographic problem even worse, wasting not just one generation but the fathers (and some mothers, too) of the next one, too.
This mobilization law is a hapless response to the catastrophe of looming defeat. It is a catastrophe in and of itself. Ideally, it would be the last straw, finally provoking Ukrainians to rebel against a regime that has sold them out to US and EU geopolitics. Ideally.
Mobilizing for defeat: The Zelensky regime insists more Ukrainians must die before it’s all over.
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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.
WITH THE WEST, ISRAEL AND UKRAINE ARE AUTHORS OF THEIR OWN MISFORTUNE
There is a reality that cannot be spoken of in the West. It cannot be accepted and must be totally denied. Every effort will be made to deny this reality and the guilt of those who brought it about.
The days when the USA and its allies could come to the rescue of their compliant proxy states when they overreach their capacity to defend themselves during wars of choice, are clearly over. The declining ability of every one of the western powers to even sustain themselves without massive, ever increasing unsustainable debts means that they have come to the end of their immunity for any further crimes against humanity they commit.
From this point onward malignant regimes such as those in Israel and Ukraine must stand alone and pay the appropriate price for any further activities mixing the previously deadly mix of supreme arrogance and mindless hubris. The criminal entities of the West can no longer act as their bodyguards or wield muscle at the United Nations to strong arm the world’s nations to comply with their wishes.
Time is up for the mafia-like West and its murderous pursuit of sustained dominance. The future for its political elites is going to be increasingly bleak as they realise the full extent of their fall, not only from power but just as importantly, from grace. Nations such as Saudi Arabia, which were close allies of the USA and the West in general at one time are now reacting to them as one would to a very bad smell. As the West falls so do others continue to rise and those rising are far more likely to be real and perpetual friends than the western powers who have turned out to be no friends at all.
The western powers have acted as global bullies, coercing nations to do their will and obey their commands, virtually always against their own interests. The West has acted until very recently as a wholly exploitative force using its military and geopolitical force to threaten other states with economic, financial or military destruction. Can anyone wonder why these nations now turn away from their torturers and exploiters with a sneer of disdain and instead seek to join those making plain their opposition to the western crimes against humanity committed with impunity until now?
The obvious cases for the continuing and deepening malaise within the West as it exposes its increasing weakness to the world are Israel and Ukraine. Israel has lost its genocidal attack upon the Palestinians in Gaza. The USA, its patron is now indelibly linked to the mass murder being perpetrated by its wicked child Israel. Each day sees an ever greater humiliation building for the entire bastard nation that the West forced on Palestine and for those who continually attempt to minimise its unconscionable wickedness.
Netanyahu’s criminal regime, by slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians and thousands of children in Gaza will fully deserve its pariah status and the coming economic collapse of Israel as a viable state. They can blame no one but themselves, aided and abetted by the equally criminal nations of the West who are now fully exposed as the sponsors and avid supporters of genocide. We should hear no more sanctimonious words from them regarding specious claims regarding their moral and ethical superiority and their upholding of global human rights and so-called exceptional western values.
After the ultraviolet insurrection and coup in Kiev in 2014 against the democratically-elected president and government of Ukraine the seal was set on the second geopolitical disaster now providing a secondary gaping wound in the edifice of western superiority. The Ukrainian regime is yet another abortion brought into being by the West and the second abomination to expose the increasing weakness of the western coalition of nations. The desire of the western powers to bring down and break up the Russian Federation has delivered yet another self-inflicted significant blow to themselves.
The downfall of both Israel and Ukraine became inevitable as the strength of those opposing the long-term brutal malignancy of the West grew to a point that allowed others to express their independence. India is one case among many where appeals by the collective west to show unity against Russia failed completely and links to Russia were instead maintained and indeed strengthened. Nations queuing up to join the BRICS has grown and grown providing the most potent expression of abandonment of the western bullies. The global majority is now firmly on the side of Russia and China in defiant rejection of those nations in the west who held them by dint of military and economic threat and covert subversion until now.
There will be no going back. The future belongs to wiser heads who seek a world where a balance of power is the goal and never again the fiefdom of any single nation or group of nations. Within that world where trade is the priority, not terror, where agreement, not aggression is the order of the day and bridges are built rather than burnt, it may be that there is room for a much reduced Israel and Ukraine, however, this remains to be seen. This after it is fully recognised that they are both clearly authors of their own misfortune.