RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.02.2023
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.
*** UKRAINE IS FALLING EVER FURTHER TO ITS DESTRUCTION ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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.
UNREPORTED UKRAINIAN ATROCITY IN LUGANSK 02.06.2014
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 men & 3 women died, all civilians.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 23rd February 2023:
Nord Stream investigator recalls hidden history of US-Norway covert ops.
Decades before allegedly helping it bomb European gas lines, the Norwegian military aided the CIA’s undeclared war in Vietnam.
Six decades before Norway helped the CIA destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it gave the agency heavily-armed boats that it used to target North Vietnam, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote on Wednesday. Norway’s involvement in this secret war was deeper than previously reported, Hersh claimed.
Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, claimed earlier this month that the CIA sabotaged the Nord Stream lines on President Joe Biden’s orders. The Norwegian Secret Service and Navy reportedly helped CIA divers choose the correct spot to plant the explosives, and ferried the Americans out on a boat to the location, near Denmark’s Bornholm island in the Baltic Sea.
Explaining why the US chose Norway as its partner in destroying the Russia-to-Germany gas lines, Hersh said on Wednesday that the “Norwegian Navy has a long and murky history of cooperation with American intelligence.”
Historical reports show that Norway sold a number of fast attack boats to the US Navy, which were used by the CIA to conduct clandestine attacks along the North Vietnamese coast. By 1964, prior to the US’ official entry into the Vietnam war, at least two Norwegian sailors had confessed to taking part in these raids, while unconfirmed reports claimed that Norwegian officers and crew manned some of these boats.
However, according to Hersh’s source “within the intelligence community,” the CIA was given more boats than previously reported. Manned and captained by Norwegian sailors, these vessels carried US Navy SEALs to missions against “far more aggressive targets that included heavily defended North Vietnamese radar facilities.”
While the CIA’s previously reported clandestine attacks were controlled by the American command in Saigon, these more aggressive missions were commanded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington.
“It was a secret war within a secret war,” Hersh wrote, adding that at least two Navy SEALs were wounded on these missions, and received the Medal of Honor in secret.
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“This bit of top secret and heretofore unknown history raises, to this reporter, an obvious question: what else do we not know about the secret operation in Norway that led to the destruction of the pipelines?” Hersh concluded.
The Biden administration has described Hersh’s reporting on the Nord Stream explosions as “utterly false and complete fiction.” Moscow considers the destruction of Nord Stream an act of “terrorism,” and Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, argued this week that Hersh’s reporting was “more than a smoking gun” suggesting US involvement. Prior to Hersh’s initial article, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the explosions on the West, arguing that the US in particular benefited from the attack due to its position as a supplier of LNG to Europe.
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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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THE RECKLESS DESPERATION OF WESTERN LEADERS THREATENS US ALL
The western powers, especially the USA and UK are becoming reckless in their desperation as their rabidly desired goal of maintaining western patrician control and even raising its level back again to unipolar status is slipping ever faster from them.
Their goal of global hegemony, primarily having its most recent genesis in 9/11 drives them to distraction. They foresaw themselves in control of what would in fact be a prison planet under constant surveillance in order to feel safe again. For them they are the natural warders of our planet and no other status is acceptable to them. Hence their current state of reckless desperation.
The current 'war mode' of the leaders of what has been called 'The Collective West' regarding Russia and Ukraine has made them redouble the level of condition of western populations which they deem necessary. This has been assisted to an enormous extent through the alacrity with which the entirety of western media has complied with this need. The level of conditioning of western populations through a totally one-sided and therefore totally skewed reporting of the history of the Russo-Ukraine situation and the everyday reality of events on the ground in eastern Ukraine has delivered populations that are now conditioned to an extent not seen since World War Two.
Due to the factors above I see no hope for any change in the current extremely dangerous situation unless one of two things happen.
The first hope lies in those who are currently in power at the highest level of western politics are removed from power by some means. The first means is of course the ballot box. The second would require internal changes to the upper echelons of the political and intelligence spheres of influence within the standing administrative services of western nations.
The changes envisaged above are uncertain in a western world that since 9/11 has become propagandised to an extremely pervasive extent. It is far from certain that enough awareness of the true nature of the causes of the dangers faced is realised among the general public. Secondly, the most powerful administrative positions within the political and intelligence spheres since 9/11 have primarily been filled by those with hardline views on western foreign policy and they hold sway to this day. Those who are generally defined as neoconservatives have a virtual stranglehold on power across western nations and will be determined to maintain their hold at all costs.
The combination of extreme views and a conviction that they are absolutely right in their views and that it is absolutely vital (as they see it) for them to stay in place and complete their task means that both the political and administrative neoconservatives are hardly likely to allow themselves to be removed from their positions without an extremely hard fight. We can see their totalitarian responses now permeating down through all western nations currently.
The second hope is the one I believe stands the greater chance of eventually succeeding in removing the neoconservatives from power or at the very least quarantining them to the degree that their power to dominate the world is significantly lessened to the point where it becomes virtually negligible. This process is underway currently but still has quite far to run before its full effect will be felt. This is the process of a continuing shift in power form west to east, from semi-unipolarity to full multipolarity. We can see in this current moment how the nations of what is loosely called 'The Global South' and has previously been known as 'The Developing World' or 'The Third World' are demonstrating a new determination to stand on their own feet and not be coerced in any way by the western powers as was so often the case in the past.
The process of moving from the semi-unipolarity to full multipolarity has been described by Professor John J. Mearsheimer as the moving of global 'glaces plates' comparing these shits in political alliances and allegiances to the movement of tectonic plates and having as great an effect on the geopolitical world as they physical plates do on the geographical. Unfortunately for us the first process is of a much greater and slower duration than the second which is devastating in its power and brevity. The movement of power and influence from unipolarity to multipolarity is very gradual and has already been underway for several decades. However, we see in this moment that the process has at last begun to pick up speed.
The Eurasian axis is cohering to an ever greater degree and this process appears unstoppable at this point. The nations involved are cohering at significant speeds currently. We van see this in the extraordinary number of nations that are applying to join the BRICS economic grouping currently. This group, primarily led by China, Russia and India is clearly rising to become an every greater source of cohesion among nations that are clearly evidencing their unwillingness to be dominated by the western powers in all future years.
The current recklessness of the western powers due to their desperation regarding the above, primarily those of the USA and UK, is becoming more obvious by the day. The more they struggle to even maintain their current position let alone boost it to total global control in a reconstituted unipolar dictatorship the more the leaders across nations not within the collective West eye them with increasing anxiety, disapproval, fear and ultimately... disdain. I see no likelihood of these circumstances diminishing as the factors involved appear hard-wired to remain. The hard-liners now in power in the West are as religious zealots with a mission they feel they MUST deliver to the world. Their fixity of view appears to offer no hope of any light of awareness of the consequences of their disastrous policies in pursuit of that mission entering their minds to any significant degree. And currently to no degree at all if my perception of their mindsets is correct.
Considering the two possibilities for fundamental changes within western society that might defuse the present extreme danger of increasing and spreading conflict potentially leading to a wider and much more deadly war it seems clear to me that we cannot escape the fact that conditions will worsen without limit in the short term. The possibilities for more hope in the medium term are uncertain and depend on some currently unexpected change in the level of political and media recklessness across the western political and media elites.
In recent days a somewhat more realistic and objective trend has been seen in western mass media regarding Ukraine. Doubts are now being expressed about certain policies compared with on the ground realities and I would predict that such scepticism that exists now about the western state policies regarding Ukraine will only increase. I do not feel this factor will prove most crucial in diminishing the primal danger that faces us now however. Electoral defeats will help in the medium term if enough awareness concerning the disastrous policies of the present political incumbents in reference to Ukraine is realised broadly enough in time. But for the long term the glacial movement that is now quickening for power to migrate steadily from west to east will, I feel certain, prove the final route to an assurance that we will move to calmer waters and a safer world overall. Surviving the short and medium term storms is not certain however due to the remaining vast power and determined will of western elites to maintain their position and perceived mission.
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