RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 24.01.2024
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.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** HOW FAR WILL WEST GO UNTIL IT ADMITS UKRAINE FAILURE? ***
“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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Il-76 Shootdown Signals Chaos Inside Ukraine’s Political and Military Establishment.
Six Russian crewmembers, three Russian servicemen and 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed on Wednesday after two Ukrainian SAMs launched from Kharkov region struck the Russian Il-76 strategic airlifter they were traveling in Belgorod region. Sputnik asked a pair of geopolitics and military observers about the attack’s broader implications.
The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that the Il-76 flying from Chkalovsky Airfield outside Moscow to Belgorod carrying Ukrainian servicemen for a planned prisoner of war exchange was shot down by Ukrainian air defense missiles.
According to the MoD’s information, two missiles were detected on radar being fired from an area near the village of Liptsy in Kharkov region, about 15 km north of the city of Kharkov, and just 5 km from the Russian border. The Il-76 went down in eastern Belgorod region near the village of Yablonovo, about 50 km northeast of the city of Belgorod.
The Defense Ministry stressed that Ukraine’s leadership “knew very well that, in accordance with established practice…Ukrainian military personnel” were to “be transported by military transport aircraft to the Belgorod airfield” for a prisoner exchange.
Ukrainian media initially reported that the Russian Il-76 had been shot down by Ukraine’s Air Defense Forces, but scrubbed the information after it emerged that the plane was carrying Ukrainian PoWs.
Officials in Kiev maintained dead silence on the incident throughout much of the day Wednesday, refraining even from Kiev and Washington’s traditional tactic of immediately blaming Russia.
Crew’s Actions Prevented Even Greater Disaster
“I must mention the heroic actions of the plane’s commander, who was able to swerve the already burning Il-76 away from the village of Yablonovo,” Andrei Koshkin, a retired Russian colonel and expert at the Association of Military-Political Scientists, told Sputnik, commenting on the deadly incident.
“The plane’s destruction occurred in a field. The heroism on the part of the crew of the military transport aircraft is obvious. Not only did they see and feel that their plane was falling apart – according to eyewitnesses it was falling apart in the air, but at that moment they were able to reduce the number of victims. The courage and professionalism of our crew is worthy of high praise,” Koshkin emphasized.
The village of Yablonovo has a population of about 400 people, meaning that if the 72 ton plane had fallen directly on top of the settlement, it have turned Wednesday’s tragedy into a disaster involving dozens if not hundreds of dead and injured civilians.
Chaos in Kiev Establishment
As far as the military and political ramifications of the shootdown are concerned, Koshkin echoed the Russian MoD’s comments that officials in Kiev had advance knowledge about the flight, and were aware of the fact that it was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war.
“It was not a particularly difficult task to attack a military transport aircraft. The motive, frankly, is a provocation – a provocation both within Ukraine’s Armed Forces and within the Ukrainian political establishment,” Koshkin believes.
“It won’t be an easy task for Zelensky to get out of this situation, because he will have to explain on what basis the plane was destroyed, and by whom. There is of course the possibility that they will suddenly claim that Russia shot the plane down. But this is something Kiev’s Western curators are losing interest in. This is a serious provocation...If it turns out that it was organized by the decision of some internal forces seeking to complicate the situation or complicate the internal dispute between, say, the political establishment and military leadership, we will soon see to what extent this provocation will be used in that confrontation,” the observer said.
Dmitry Kornev, founder of the Military Russia analytical portal, told Sputnik that the Ukrainian side certainly has the means to target the Russian Il-76, which is a “large plane, without any stealth, which can be targeted and shot down at large distances, unfortunately,” ranging from the S-300 to the Patriot and IRIS-T air defense systems.
Kornev echoed Koshkin’s sentiments that Wednesday’s provocation may be part of a larger plot, possibly relating to Kiev’s dependence on ever-dwindling amounts of military and economic assistance from the West.
“Let’s consider several possibilities. Zelensky is facing a difficult situation, a plane full of prisoners is shot down, this could be twisted in various directions,” the analyst said, suggesting that the news could be used as evidence that “everything is bad for Zelensky, that everything is lost,” and that he requires urgent Western assistance.
Pointing out that lawmakers in Washington are preparing to review a $61 billion aid package to Kiev this week, Kornev suggested that “in this situation, many events can be triggered artificially to somehow affect decisions in favor of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, or conversely, against them. It’s clear that different parties can play on this situation, including the United States, where different perspectives [on the Ukraine proxy war, ed.] intersect. More likely than not, this situation is not in Zelensky’s favor,” Kornev summed up.
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Zelensky wants to be like Putin – Kremlin.
Dmitry Peskov has revealed what might be behind the Ukrainian leader’s rhetoric.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could only dream of the levels of popular support Russian President Vladimir Putin has, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporter Pavel Zarubin, Peskov commented on Monday’s announcement by Zelensky that Ukraine had “historical” claims to six regions of Russia. According to Peskov, the statement was not merely “stupid” but rather an attempt to distract everyone from the problems that are piling up in Kiev.
”He is trying to get back the overwhelming [popular] support – he really wants to be like, for example, President Putin, so that the entire nation will support him – but it isn’t working out that way,” Peskov told Zarubin. “More and more people in Ukraine are starting to think that maybe the Kiev regime is doing something wrong.”
Zelensky is also trying to go back to where he was nearly two years ago, when the West was sending him practically unlimited amounts of money and ammunition, but “that won’t happen” either, Peskov added.
Instead of dealing with all of the problems that have accumulated, Zelensky is determined to continue the “completely pointless bloodshed” and is taking “absurd steps” such as laying claim to Russian territory, the Kremlin spokesman explained.
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Zelensky claimed on Monday that the regions of Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov, and Krasnodar have been “historically inhabited by Ukrainians.” His deputy defense minister also told German media that the conflict will end on Kiev’s terms and include Russia surrendering its nuclear arsenal.
Putin is running for re-election in March as an independent candidate. Russia conducted parliamentary elections last September, including in the formerly Ukrainian regions admitted in 2022 following a popular vote.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has postponed its parliamentary and presidential elections indefinitely, citing the ongoing state of martial law. Zelensky has also banned a dozen political parties on grounds that they were “pro-Russian” and placed all TV networks under state authority.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko has recently criticized Zelensky’s policies as having the “smell of authoritarianism,” singling out the “monopoly on information” as being bad for Ukrainian society. Many Ukrainians don’t understand the situation on the battlefield, as the state media only talks about successes and ignores setbacks, Klitschko told the Canadian outlet Globe and Mail.
According to Peskov, things will only keep getting worse for Kiev, while Moscow intends to continue its military operation until all of its objectives have been achieved.
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Trump won’t change anything – Lavrov.
US-Russia relations have deteriorated beyond the point of repair, even if the Republican frontrunner reaches the White House, the top diplomat has said.
Ties between Moscow and Washington are unlikely to improve, even if Donald Trump wins the upcoming 2024 US presidential election, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told CBS in an interview that aired on Tuesday. The former US president had previously repeatedly boasted about his good relations with Vladimir Putin.
America’s general approach towards Russia has not changed over the past decades, Lavrov said, adding that Washington itself had ruined its relations with Moscow by dismantling all the “confidence-building” mechanisms and eroding mutual trust.
The minister pointed in particular to the decision by former US President George W. Bush to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) in 2002. The key arms control agreement signed by the US and the USSR in 1972 limited the number of ballistic missile defense systems each side could have and was designed to de-pressurize the arms race between the two Cold War rivals.
Washington has since shattered the “foundations” of bilateral relations with Russia by terminating “all agreements on strategic stability, parity, mutual trust, inspections and transparency,” Lavrov said. Trump himself was instrumental in dismantling one of the few remaining arms control treaties – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Agreement, which banned the two nations from having any ground-launched missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
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The US first unilaterally suspended the INF Treaty in February 2019, during Trump’s presidency, and then withdrew from it in August of the same year. Russia suspended the agreement in February in response to the initial American move.
According to Lavrov, Washington is still too obsessed with its own perceived “superiority” and “impunity” to change its approach to relations with Moscow. The US leaders had “ignored [the] huge amount of goodwill shown by Putin during his first two terms,” the Russian minister said, adding that American politicians apparently sought to keep the Russian president “in their pocket.”
They had “miscalculated everything,” Moscow’s top diplomat said, adding that the current generation of US politicians had not learned a “single lesson” from the mistakes of their predecessors.
In recent months, Trump has on several occasions vowed to put an end to the conflicts both between Moscow and Kiev and Israel and Hamas. He particularly claimed that he would be able to quickly convince both Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to sit down at the negotiating table since he allegedly knew both leaders “well.”
Moscow denied it had held any talks with the former US president and the current GOP frontrunner on reaching peace with Kiev. “There have been no contacts on this issue,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
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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.
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HOW TO SELL NAZIS, INSURRECTIONISTS & A MURDEROUS COUP TO THE WORLD
At first sight you might think this is a difficult task. Perhaps impossible. Yet it was done. It was achieved because every tool necessary was available in our modern world to do it.
The advent of public relations, using the tools provided by an approach incorporating human psychology, began the process that would lead to the selling of almost anything.
It is Edward Louis Bernays who is credited with being the father of modern public relations. Using what he knew of his uncle Sigmund Freud’s studies he crafted a very successful business model helping U.S. companies to sell more of their products.
‘ Edward Louis Bernays was an American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations, including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and nonprofit organizations.’ (Wikipedia)
The period when this newly acquired art of public relations arrived most significantly in the political world was in the early Eighties in both the UK and USA. Margaret Thatcher was newly elected and installed as prime minister in Britain. Ronald Reagan became U.S. president in 1981. The election of these two brought an entirely new approach to the selling of politicians to the general public into being. Prior to Thatcher and Reagan substance counted. It was vital to deliver a good speech that communicated your future plans and such speeches were normally delivered live. Television played a much lesser role and in general people read their news rather than watched it. Television was a relatively simple point and shoot medium with a minimum of commentary.
All this was to change radically through the Eighties. Production values rose and the presentation of politicians grew slicker. Attention to appearance became a high priority. A groomed appearance and especially, a well-tended/coiffured hair was essential. Steadily, appearance began to far outweigh substance. Politicians were cosmetically tended to in similar style to film stars, every aspect of their look was honed to appeal to whatever sector of the population garnered most votes. Focus groups began to be run to see what people most wanted to hear. The most pressing concerns, prejudices, areas of interest and desires were then fed back to the populace at large. Public relations began to take over from anything approaching in-depth political issues. Facts began to become malleable, adjusted to whatever reality was convenient and/or helpful for the occasion and desired narrative.
As Thatcher approached the end of her first term in office she was languishing badly in the polls. It appeared certain that she would fail in the upcoming general election. However, the day was saved for Margaret Thatcher by a certain General Leopoldo Galtieri, then acting president of Argentina. He had decided that the British had occupied the Falkland Islands (The Malvinas) off the Argentine coast long enough and decided to take them back for Argentina by force. The subsequent short war by Britain against the Argentine forces which Britain won boosted Thatcher’s ratings and easily won an election she was otherwise looking likely to have lost.
While Thatcher was raising the patriotic blood of the British, Reagan was using death squads by the name of the Contra Guerrillas in Nicaragua to spread a campaign of fear and intimidation to oust the Sandinista government there. A scheme was devised to secretly fund the Contras through the then prohibited selling of arms to Iran. Concurrently Reagan was assisting the government in El Salvador in its fight with rebel groups in the country.
‘Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, who was subjected to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by legislative appropriations was prohibited by Congress, but the Reagan administration figured out a loophole by secretly using non-appropriated funds instead.’ (Wikipedia)
‘Reagan's policy has been criticized due to the human rights abuses proven repeatedly to be perpetrated by El Salvadoran security force with Amnesty International reporting that it had received: "regular, often daily, reports identifying El Salvador's regular security and military units as responsible for the torture, "disappearance" and killing of civilians. Types of torture reported by those who have survived arrest and interrogation included beatings, sexual abuse, use of chemicals to disorient, mock executions, and the burning of flesh with sulphuric acid."’
The point about the three instances of war at a distance above is the degree to which home audiences were mostly kept quite ignorant, undisturbed and unconcerned concerning the abuses that were taking place in these wars assisted and often financed by the U.S. taxpayer. Thatcher and Reagan of course went on to ever greater electoral success in subsequent years totally unblemished by the death and destruction they had wrought overseas.
The next steps in making war acceptable came after 9/11. The regime change wars that followed would be said to be about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’. This gave sanction to the death and displacement of millions. Unlike in earlier wars engaged in by the United States journalists would no longer be permitted free reign to investigate and report as they had done during the Vietnam War. Now they would be embedded with the coalition troops and be given nightly briefings, the material from which could be passed on to “inform” the waiting public back home. Another layer in the santizing of war had been laid down.
Now we arrive at the main topic of this commentary, the events which have taken place in Ukraine between the years 2013 and the present day.
In the last few months of 2013 protesters arrived on Maidan Square in the centre of Kiev. These protesters engaged in largely peaceful demonstrations to signal their wish to draw closer to the European Union, a process being pursued by the then president and government who sought to obtain much needed funds. For the protesters this movement toward the EU was moving too slowly and they had doubts that it would result in the outcome they hoped would transform their lives.
At some point in late November/December 2013 an influx of radical elements joined the protest and began using violence both against those protesters they regarded as unable to effect the kind of change they sought. Many had been receiving military training in Poland. Others had received training in subversion techniques in the U.S. embassy in Kiev. Together they began accumulating a wide array of weapons from hand guns to hunting rifles to medieval-type clubs to Molotov Cocktails and the use of heavy cobbles and bricks from surrounding streets. These radical elements, many of whom bore swastika tattoos and emblazoned police shields they had taken from the security forces with Nazi symbology, began attacking the lightly-armed police and torching government buildings. Barack Obama, U.S. president at the time, called them “peaceful protesters” and warned the then Ukrainian authorities to leave them alone.
Maidan Square became a scene from hell as the early months of 2014 wore on. Some seventeen young policemen lost their lives at the hands of the “peaceful protesters”. The square was a warzone day after day. All manner of attacks were made on the security forces armed with only a baton and shield. Heavy chains, toxic sprays and even a fork-lift truck was used against their static line of shields. Kiev’s chief of police requested that his men be given firearms but the Ukrainian president of the time, Yanukovych turned down the request stating that he wished to maintain “a dialogue” with those on the square.
In the western world there was a little disquiet regarding what was going on in the square however, the primary emphasis was on sympathy for those protesting. This was seen by the appearance of U.S. senators such as John McCain next to Ukrainian members of parliament who cheered on the crowd. The then Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland along with the then U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt also arrived on the square to lend their encouragement. You will perhaps be able to imagine the response to these events if they were to occur in the USA, UK or Europe in a situation where those you are cheering on have murdered seventeen police officers.
Yet despite the daily increase in violence, despite the obvious Nazi cult elements, despite the arson and general disruption to normal life that was occurring, as far as western political and media elites were concerned the president and his government were the ‘bad guys’.That western interests were invested in the potential result of the mayhem, murder and mass destruction involved and that this skewed the coverage, narratives and support is quite obvious. The entire weight of western mainstream media eventually got behind their political elites in lending their ever increasing support for the insurrection that was taking place. An insurrection that was taking place mind you against a democratically-elected president and government where the elections had been supervised by large teams of electoral observers.
The combined effect of political talking heads of every mainstream political party in the West plus their compliant media elites provided a wall-to-wall veil of decency to these entire murderous and quite clearly criminal events. That the president had to flee for his life, the government fall and U.S. approved quislings take over raised hardly an eyebrow. Even when the two characters mentioned above, Nuland and Pyatt could be heard in a leaked phone call discussing who should take over.
From the fall of the Yanukovych presidency and the then Ukrainian government until today a similar veil of decency has been drawn over events in Ukraine, once again for the benefit of western self-interest. Some 15,000 died in the years after the coup in 2014, the vast majority at the hands of the Ukrainian military and the Nazi-mentality radicals and ultranationalists who were taken into the Ukrainian National Guard. By indiscriminate mortar shelling of villages, towns and cities in the Russian-speaking east the death count inexorably rose over the years. These deaths appear to have counted as little to western news editors and politicians as they did for the ethnic Ukrainians who perpetrated them. Both appear to have regarded those who died, men, women and children of all ages, as sub-human. Western audiences were kept in the dark with only vague inferences that pointed to “The Russians” being at fault.
The facade of western decency and eastern dirtiness continues unabated to this day. Edward Bernays who used the word ‘propaganda’ proudly as a positive thing and a beneficial tool, would surely stand in awe of the emotional and news blackout perpetrated by western political and media elites regarding the killing zone of eastern Ukraine which they assisted in holding in a vacuum. The dying screams would not be heard. The funerals for young boys who had been playing soccer in a school yard or that of a young teacher who lay decapitated by the school house door, or the lady out shopping in her village centre… all as nothing. Not newsworthy at all to western “journalists”, editors of politicians. Because their deaths were not useful and indeed, were counter-productive to the ‘Evil Russia - Innocent Ukraine’ narrative they so fervently and consistently wished to promote.
It continues to this very day. In every speech or statement by a western political figure or official. In every article approved by western editors across the western world. It’s by now a deeply embedded and ingrained policy, with memes that reinforce themselves constantly with no one within the mainstream brave enough or interested enough to contradict them. And a public who, in the main, continue to believe what they are told by their politicians and mainstream news outlets. Too busy or too little interested to look any deeper they meekly accept as true what those who hid so much and lied about so much in the past, tell them. A blanket of lies using all the psychological tricks Bernays used plus so much more learnt from the West’s wars over the years.
HOW TO SELL NAZIS, INSURRECTIONISTS & A MURDEROUS COUP TO THE WORLD