RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.10.2023
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.
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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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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 10th October 2023:
Scott Ritter: Are Hamas fighters using American weapons meant for Ukraine?
When it comes to arms supplies, the US is its friends’ worst enemy.
Throughout recent history, the perceived weapon of choice for a terrorist (or freedom fighter, depending on one’s perspective) has been an AK-47 assault rifle. Today, in the aftermath of the so-called post-9/11 “global war on terror,” it’s not uncommon to see such fighters with a Glock 9mm pistol, or a Colt M4 carbine.
These are weapons paid-for by the US taxpayer and ostensibly provided to forces joined in the cause of defeating terrorists and/or freedom fighters (again, depending on the political beliefs of the observer), but that end up in the hands of the latter instead. Obviously, that is never the outcome Washington intends. And yet, somehow, these weapons end up arming the very forces the US and its allies are trying to defeat.
The most recent example of this phenomenon appears to involve Hamas and the attacks perpetrated by militants affiliated with that organization on military and civilian targets in southern Israel. A video, the authenticity of which has yet to be verified, purports to show a Hamas fighter thanking Ukraine for the provision of small arms, ammunition, and hand grenades. More videos, taken during the actual assaults, show the Hamas fighters armed with a plethora of US-made weapons.
These videos have alarmed some US lawmakers, such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia’s 14th District, who, in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack, Tweeted/Xeeted “We need to work with Israel to track serial numbers on any US weapons used by Hamas against Israel. Did they come from Afghanistan?” the Congresswoman asks. “Did they come from Ukraine? Highly likely the answer is both.”
Any attempt to answer Marjorie Taylor Greene’s questions will more than likely turn up information that should make the US government very uncomfortable. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been saying since June of this year that US-made anti-tank weapons intended for Ukraine were turning up on the Israeli border. Left unsaid by Netanyahu was how this had come to be – corruption is rampant inside Ukraine, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has reported on hundreds of millions of dollars of aid being diverted into the hands of parties it was not originally intended for. By my calculations based on conversations with numerous informed sources, the amount diverted could be as high as six out of every ten dollars of assistance sent to Ukraine. It’s one thing if this involves money; it’s another thing altogether if this involves weapons.
The wide availability of US-made weapons on the global black market used by terrorists/freedom fighters to arm themselves is reflective of the lax approach the US takes when it comes to providing military assistance to parties involved in active combat. The US appears to be more interested in reinforcing the political messaging attached to such deliveries–that the US is actively supporting friends in need. The actual security-related aspects of this effort, however, seem to escape most senior US policy makers.
This became evident in May 2022, when Rand Paul, a Republican Senator from Kentucky, tried to have an inspector general put in place to monitor and account for some $40 billion in military assistance to Ukraine requested by President Joe Biden. Senator Paul’s motion was overwhelmingly defeated by a Congress which appeared to be happy to assume a “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” posture when it came to the issue of Ukraine and corruption.
The issue of US weapons falling into the hands of persons not only for whom the weapons were not intended, but –more critically– into the hands of people the weapons were intended to fight against, who then use them against American allies, is not a new one. Back in 2007, Turkish police started recovering weapons from killed Kurdistan Workers Party (or PKK) fighters inside Türkiye containing serial numbers affiliated with weapons shipments made by the US to Iraqi forces. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department, while Türkiye is a member of NATO.
US weapons provided to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the purpose of fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels were being seized by the Houthi on the battlefield and being turned against the original owners. Moreover, some of these weapons found their way into the hands of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Weapons provided by the US to the former Afghan Army turned up in Kashmir, recovered from the bodies of pro-Pakistani Islamist terrorists/freedom fighters who had, prior to being killed in Kashmir, fought alongside the Afghan Taliban against the US and its Afghan allies. Other US weapons from Ukraine began showing up in Africa, in the Lake Chad region, in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents fighting against US-armed soldiers from Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
The reality is that the US has become one of the major sources of weapons for terrorists/freedom fighters around the world. While Marjorie Taylor Greene is correct to demand answers when it comes to the issue of the security of Israel, a long-time American ally, the same questions can be asked about virtually every security assistance program instituted by the US in the post-9/11 era. It appears that America’s approach to fighting the global war on terror has ended up making those whom it calls terrorists more capable of carrying out the acts of violence US policy portends to be trying to stop. The sad truth is that America, in its rush to arm the world, in many ways ends up being its friends' worst enemy.
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.' He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.
Scott Ritter: Are Hamas fighters using American weapons meant for Ukraine?
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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.
First posted on 12th October 2015
THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF EASTERN UKRAINE
Some months ago I attempted to provide a timeline on the events in Ukraine and most specifically in Eastern Ukraine which led up to the first Minsk agreement.
For anyone wishing to read this it is here:
UKRAINE : WAR (APRIL 2014 to MINSK)
Now I’d like to briefly cover my take on how things are now after Minsk 2 and present violations by Kiev forces to what appeared to have been a final settlement and peace via Minsk.
Just before I do I’d like to cover one additional point.
Before Minsk 1 the volunteer self-defence forces of Donetsk and Lugansk were having success after success. Kiev’s terrorist forces were being surrounded, pummelled and forced to flee for their lives into Russia or surrender.
Some of those rooting for the self-defence forces felt they ought to have taken advantage of this and pushed forward to take the whole of eastern Ukraine. Some even imagined Kiev itself being taken.
However, I believe those commanding the self-defence forces at the time made the right decision.
You not only have to take land (in many ways this would have been relatively easy at the time I’m talking about) but you then have to hold it. The self-defence forces were meant for just that. They are not primarily an offensive force and as Strelkov, the commander of those times, would know doubt have said, they really hardly had the number of troops to defend for a long duration never mind take the whole of Eastern Ukraine, let alone Kiev.
This is in addition to the point I made at the time of Minsk 1, that taking Mariupol and elsewhere in the Donbass would have cost many lives on both sides. And, as we know now, many in the Kiev side are forced conscripts faced with jail and/or threats to their families. The fight for other cities would have been bloody indeed and that’s not even counting the inevitable civilian casualties (Kiev’s forces would certainly not always fight out in the open).
So, where do we find ourselves now?
The new republics of Donetsk and Lugansk are well founded. Their administrative systems grow stronger day by day. A robust red line in Eastern Ukraine has been laid down and will remain. The situation that existed just after Maidan where the people of the Donbass were utterly vulnerable to the new coup government no longer prevails as the status quo. The Ukrainian people of Donetsk, Lugansk and elsewhere rose up in a pre-emptive but peaceful series of occupy protests. This was vital in the light of their democratic rights, and those of ALL Ukrainians having been subverted by the ultra-violent Maidan rioters.
The new republics and the people within them have stood firm in solidarity through an incredibly difficult period when the Kiev forces shelled their apartments and homes, schools, hospitals and town centres. They have proven that the ‘London Blitz’ spirit was not confined to Britain, it is alive and well in the Donbass.
Kiev controls other cities outside of the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk of course and this is lamentable but perhaps will not prove as catastrophic as some may feel.
The sentiments of the people of these places will not have changed. Odessa and Mariupol remain pro-Russian cities. No matter HOW much hate Kiev spews out toward Russia, Russians and those in Eastern Ukraine who feel a strong kindred spirit with Russia and Russians, they will not prevail.
I want to be clear. I do not see an inherent problem in the Donbass remaining an integral part of Ukraine. I know some do. Many would like it to be an independent state: Novorossiya. Some would like to see it join the Russian Federation.
I take the view that it is not the country that is wrong, nor the majority of the people in it. The ones deeply in the wrong are the minority of haters in Western Ukraine, those who have had their minds infected by a Nazi legacy passed on from father to son, a legacy of myth and distortion about Hitler having been good for Ukraine and those who collaborated with Hitler being heroes.
Ukraine will not ALWAYS be run by the monsters running it now.
The important fact is that the people of the new republics have fought hard and shed much blood to gain their freedom and right to control their region and have their rights to cleave closely to Russian culture, heritage and history and to celebrate those heroes who THEY see as heroes of WWII.
Now, after Minsk 2 there is a semi-peace. However reports in the last day or two of Kiev forces again shelling areas of the new republics are extremely worrying.
Total peace will not be achieved until Kiev’s terrorist forces leave never to return.
France and Germany appear to have put pressure on Poroshenko to cease attacks on the republics and it looks as if they will have to reiterate their demands. Whether Poroshenko is in full command of his forces in the field is highly dubious and this may well be the problem. The Neo-Nazi volunteer battalions have said in the past that they will not take orders from regular Ukraine military command. I understood this position had changed. But has it?
The next few weeks and months should see either a final end to Kiev’s terrorism or else a further breakdown of the Minsk agreements. For everyone’s sakes I hope against hope that it is the former.
However, with terrorists such as those in Kiev and within their forces you can never be sure. Especially when Western Ukraine itself looks certain to implode sooner or later.
These are some of my thoughts at this moment in time.
Let’s hope for peace. For the battle for the rights of the citizens of Donetsk and Lugansk regions has been won. The war, like all wars has not been a total victory for ANY side.
Let us nurture, preserve and grow what we have. So VERY much has been achieved. Just think of where we were only a short 18 months ago. Now the situation is incredibly stronger and Novorossiya, that dream in the minds of so many will surely become more and more of a physical reality as hearts and minds are won.
And the devils of Kiev descend into their own self-created hell.
