RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.09.2023
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) - 23rd September 2023:
West preparing to ‘dump’ Zelensky – Lukashenko.
The Belarusian president hinted at a US connection to Poland’s initiation of the grain dispute with Ukraine.
Washington has given the go-ahead to its partners to “dump” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky as he has become a nuisance, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed during a government meeting on Friday.
Lukashenko pointed to the ongoing grain dispute between Poland and Ukraine as an example of this new policy, noting that Warsaw had been one of Zelensky’s staunchest supporters but is now sharply critical of its partner.
This shift occurred after Poland, along with Hungary and Slovakia, unilaterally banned the import of Ukrainian grain despite the EU having chosen to lift its bloc-wide embargo. In turn, Kiev filed disputes against the three countries with the World Trade Organization.
“Do you think that Poland is putting pressure on poor Ukraine today for no reason? No, they have been given the go-ahead from overseas: We need to dump this Zelensky, we’re tired of him,” Lukashenko said.
He noted that the US has an upcoming presidential election and suggested that no one will care about Zelensky at that point.
At the same time, US President Joe Biden stressed on Friday that Washington would stick with Zelensky throughout the Russia-Ukraine conflict and announced that US-made Abrams tanks would start arriving in Ukraine next week.
Meanwhile, Zelensky, who is on his second wartime visit to Washington, insisted that Kiev’s continued fight against Russia relied on sustained US military assistance and reportedly said that if it doesn’t get the aid, it “will lose the war.”
So far, the Biden administration has spent $115 billion on military and financial aid to Kiev, recently asking for an additional $24 billion to be approved by the end of the month. However, a growing number of lawmakers, predominantly from the Republican Party, have started to oppose the financing of the Zelensky government with US taxpayers’ money.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri stressed on Wednesday that the US should stop endlessly pouring money into Ukraine, especially since Kiev has “nothing to show for it.” The senator was apparently referring to Kiev’s much-touted summer counteroffensive, which has failed to yield any significant territorial gains.
Hawley insisted that the US should not spend “a dime more on Ukraine” and should instead conduct an audit of the billions that have already been provided. He also suggested that Germany and other European allies should “step up to the plate” to aid Kiev.
West preparing to ‘dump’ Zelensky – Lukashenko.
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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.
UKRAINE & NATO: A MISTAKE OF COLOSSAL AND CATASTROPHIC PROPORTIONS
It is not as if those in the West who created the ongoing Ukrainian debacle were not informed of the dangers inherent in the exercise of bringing it into NATO. Prominent figures within both academic and governmental positions repeatedly warned against NATO expansion and specifically against the inclusion of Ukraine into NATO Ukraine.
The architect of the West’s containment policy regarding the Soviet Union during the Cold War, George Kennan, said this of NATO’s expansion eastward:
''I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves.''
The present CIA chief, William J. Burns said this in a cable in 2008 when he was U.S. ambassador to Russia:
“Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin).” “I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”
Then we have Angela Merkel, a key figure opposing Ukraine joining NATO:
‘German Chancellor Angela Merkel was one of the key opponents to giving Georgia and Ukraine a Membership Action Plan at the April 2008 NATO Bucharest Summit.’
These are only a few of the many who gave stern warnings concerning the folly of the approach of George W. Bush who pushed through a statement in 2008 against all opposition saying that both Georgia and Ukraine would join NATO at some point.
All expert opinion was ignored in a mix of hubris, unspeakable levels of ignorance and reckless unconcern. Now we see how the avoidance of sound advice regarding NATO expansion and Ukrainian inclusion in NATO is unravelling so many issues intimately connected to the conflict in Ukraine.
The USA and its allies are now on an unstoppable downward trajectory as they continue to lose influence, partly it must be assumed because of the recklessness that has been displayed over the issue of Ukraine and NATO. A figure approaching half a million are dead or injured. The power of the U.S. dollar to control markets and exert pressure via unilateral sanctions is declining by the direct actions of states that were once tightly bound into the U.S. global economic network. The reputation of figures such as Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken and the coterie of yes-men and women around them is at rock bottom and those such as neoconservative, Victoria Nuland have little better reputation than common criminals.
All came from those initial stages of self-deception and pure ignorance demonstrated by George W. Bush exacerbated by year after year of doubling down rather than backtracking through good, pragmatic common sense. Now there is no wriggle room left, by constantly doubling down rather than seeking a diplomatic compromise, the political and military elites of the USA cannot help but face total humiliation at the very least… and nuclear annihilation at worst.
The most devastating factor for the West that surmounts all others in the medium to long term however, is the global effect weakening the western position that has reached its peak during the Ukraine crisis. Multiple nations, previously restrained in their actions, are now quite clearly distancing themselves from the western powers and increasingly looking eastward for allies. The migration to the BRICS group demonstrates this with obvious geopolitical clarity and demonstrates if nothing else does that the mistakes of the western powers culminating in the disastrous Ukraine policy are having a disastrous effect that will endure. A fully-fledged multipolar world where western power is severely curtailed if not fully quarantined is now fast emerging.
None of this was unavoidable and in the case of Ukraine this is especially true. Contrary to the lies underpinning the absolutely flawed policy of doubling down of the western powers, Vladimir Putin sought peace all down the line in respect of Ukraine and right up to the end when it became clear to him that the western powers never did have any intention to agree a peaceful solution to the situation. Even as late as the winter months of 2021 Russia sought an agreement to pursue a new security architecture for the whole of Europe. Putin made his appeal directly to NATO and to the Biden administration. His appeals were rejected. Just as his earlier request that Russia should be allowed to join both the EU and NATO was rejected.
Now we stand at a crossroads for the West. Potentially one last chance to turn things around exists. But will the western powers pursue that last chance and convince the Zelensky regime to seek peace? The chances are slim. The greater likelihood is that the U.S. and its allies will attempt to double down yet again, hoping that their luck will change this time and their reputations, at the very last moment, will be saved.
Meanwhile, somewhere between 400 and 600 men die each day the conflict continues. Isn’t it time therefore for the leaders of the western world to recognise that the lives of these human beings is SO much more important than the dubious reputations they appear so much more concerned with? History cannot but have an extremely harsh judgement on these wilfully reckless and ignorant men and women, those that made these mistakes of such colossal and catastrophic proportions regarding Ukraine.