RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 24.09.2023
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) - 24th September 2023:
‘New world order’ vs ‘empire of lies’: key takeaways from Lavrov’s UN speech.
The US and its allies instigate new conflicts to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world, Russia’s foreign minister believes.
The world has a chance to achieve “authentic democratization” in international relations by establishing a multipolar world order, marking the first such opportunity since the end of World War II, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday.
The US and its Western allies seek to prevent such a development by stirring up new conflicts to divide humanity and keep their “hegemony of the global minority” in place, he added.
West is the ‘empire of lies’
The US and its allies still reject the principle of equality in international relations, Lavrov said. Americans and Europeans keep looking down on the rest of the world and that leads to their “total intractability” in any negotiations. Washington and its allies “keep making promises left and right” that end up being reneged-on, the Russian minister added.
“As Russian President Vladimir Putin put it, the West is now the real ‘empire of lies’,” he said.
‘Reckless’ Western politicians have forgotten about self-preservation
NATO activities have reached “unprecedented” levels since the end of the Cold War, the top Russian diplomat believes. The US-led forces of the bloc have conducted drills that involved simulating nuclear strikes against Russia, he claimed, adding that Washington is also actively seeking to project its military might in the Asia-Pacific through establishing military-political “alliances” with nations like Australia, South Korea or Japan and pushing them towards closer cooperation with NATO.
Such actions “risk creating a new explosive geopolitical hotspot in addition to the … European one,” Lavrov warned, adding that Western politicians have been so blinded by a feeling of impunity that they’ve lost “the sense of self-preservation.”
True democracy in international relations is within reach
For the first time since 1945, when the United Nations was established, the world has a chance to establish a truly democratic world order, the Russian foreign minister said. The “global majority” – ie the nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America – are increasingly seeking independence and equality, as well as respect for their sovereignty in international relations.
“It is obvious for Russia that there is no other way,” Lavrov told the UNGA, adding that this fact “encourages optimism in those believing in the rule of international law and wishing to see the UN restored to its role of a central coordinating body of world politics.”
West stands in the way of a just world order
The US and its allies seek to stall the onset of a multipolar world order, in particular by “stirring up conflicts that artificially divide humanity into hostile blocs and prevent it from achieving common goals,” the Russian minister pointed out. The West wants the world to “play by its infamous and self-serving rules,” he said, adding that the international community should instead strive for a world where everyone “agrees on how to solve issues together, on the basis of a fair balance of interests.”
Western sanctions hurt the world
Russia is calling for “an immediate and full” lifting of sanctions imposed against such nations as Cuba, Venezuela and Syria, Lavrov said, adding that such unilateral punitive measures “blatantly violate the principle of sovereign equality of nations” and interfere with these countries’ rights to development.
“One should put an end to any coercive measures imposed in circumvention of the UN Security Council as well as to the West’s … practice of manipulating its sanctions policies to exert pressure on those deemed undesirable,” he added.
Russia’s top diplomat also blasted the US over what he called threats against nations willing to work with Moscow.
“It is shameful for a great power to run around like this and threaten everyone and only demonstrating its obsession with domination,” he told journalists after the UNGA session.
Russia’s stance on conflict in Ukraine
Moscow is ready for talks on its ongoing conflict with Kiev at any time, Lavrov told a press conference on the sidelines of the UN assembly. However, Russia will not consider any deals involving a ceasefire, he said, adding that Moscow and Kiev had supposedly almost reached an agreement in the first months of the conflict following a series of talks in Belarus and Türkiye only for this process to be disrupted, supposedly by Ukraine’s Western backers.
“Putin said it very clearly: yes, we are ready for talks but we will not consider any ceasefire proposals because we did so once and were deceived.”
Russia also respects Ukraine’s sovereignty in accordance with the Ukrainian declaration of independence and its constitution, Lavrov said, adding that both documents also declare the non-aligned status of Ukraine and respect for the Russian language and Russian-speaking minorities.
Ukraine’s sovereignty “was destroyed by those who staged and supported a coup, the leaders of which then declared a war on their own people,” Lavrov said, referring to the 2014 Maidan coup.
West is ‘de-facto’ waging war on Russia
The US and its allies are de-facto engaged in a conflict with Russia, Lavrov told the press conference. “We call it a hybrid war but it does not change things,” he said. Western nations are sending arms to Kiev and training its troops, he explained, so “They are de-facto fighting against us with the hands and bodies of Ukrainians.”
Western nations also openly say that “Russia should be defeated on the battlefield,” Moscow’s top diplomat said, adding that Moscow is ready for such a development. “Under such circumstances, [if they want it] to be on the battlefield, let it be on the battlefield,” he said.
‘New world order’ vs ‘empire of lies’: key takeaways from Lavrov’s UN speech.
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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.
WHY DOES VLADIMIR PUTIN USE THE EXPRESSION ‘EMPIRE OF LIES’ TO DESCRIBE THE WEST?
Since February 2007 when Vladimir Putin addressed a security conference in Munich which the entire political elite of the western world attended he has been a marked man. Prior to this speech where Putin explained Russia would not be a slave to western domination he was wined and dined in the West. Up to this time the western leaders clearly considered him to be a malleable who would not stand in the way of western agencies dominating in Russia. His speech in Munich disabused them of this idea.
Since Putin’s Munich speech until the present day Putin has been vilified by western politicians and pundits alike, accused of almost every crime imaginable. The character assassination attempts have poured out, arriving from every political and media quarter in the West and have been very successful. The reputation of Vladimir Putin in the West has been driven well into the negative to such an extent that many believe Putin even outranks the reputation for evil of even Adolf Hitler.
The fact is that Vladimir Putin is an eminently capable and intelligent man who, as regards most people and particularly politicians, is extremely law-abiding, even when there would be advantage to him in deviating from that stance. If you wince and even laugh at this description it only goes to show just how effective the perpetual character-assassination attacks against him have been since 2007. Putin studied law and there are innumerable reports, even among U.S. state department officials, that his reputation for honesty as a bureaucrat working in St Petersburg long before Yeltsin saw him as presidential material, was as the most honest to be found.
Of course Putin is not talking of himself when he calls the collective west the ‘Empire of Lies’. He is talking of the entire approach to Russia and the myriad fabrications and downright lies, deceptions and examples of devious behaviour that Russia has met with over the last several decades. It can be argued with merit that virtually nothing said about Russia over these decades has been truthful. If we take the Minsk Agreements as an example, both Angela Merkel and ex-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko have both said in recent times that Russia’s attempt through Minsk to find a peaceful path to the Ukrainian problem was set up as a sham, a charade with which to dupe Russia, giving Ukraine time to re-arm.
Minsk in 2015 was followed by the political and media circus surrounding Donald Trump in 2016 and beyond whereby Russia was used as a weapon with which to attack and potentially oust him from office. Ultimately, ‘Russiagate’ as it came to be called, proved to be what the Americans call a ‘Nothingburger’. Every device possible was used to make the fabricated charges stick. The name of Russia was dragged through the mud while that of Vladimir Putin was emphasised and re-emphasised time and time again as a Machiavellian evil influence on almost every aspect of North American life.
More recently, when every attempt by Putin and Russia to find a way to avoid conflict over NATO expansion and Ukrainian attacks on the Russian-speaking civilian population of eastern Ukraine which had been continuous since 2014, a military operation was begun to achieve the goals set by Minsk and further to make NATO give up its ambition to include Ukraine in its alliance. As was the case previously when almost no reporting of Ukrainian shelling of civilians, a daily and nightly occurrence from 2014 to February 2022, western media continued in its 100% bias against Russia. Russia was daily accused of every negative aspect possible regarding an action it has been relentlessly provoked into taking.
One of the most egregious lies told and repeatedly told is that Russia’s action was ‘unprovoked’. Arguably there has never in living memory been a more proved action than Russia’s on February 24th 2022. Putin and Russia had gone every possible extra mile to avoid taking the step it did that day. However, every suggestion made by Putin and Russia was rejected out of hand while western leaders did everything possible to pull the wool over Russian eyes and deny Putin and the Russians any way out but the one that was so reluctantly taken on that day.
Whether the truth first became the first casualty of ‘The War on Terror’ enabling the USA to do things it had rejected as unethical and immoral such as engaging in torture, kidnapping (rendition) and imprisonment without trial (Guantanamo incarceration) and this led inevitably to the broad use of propaganda, psychological and black operations (PsyOps/BlackOps) is a matter only of conjecture. However, when standards of integrity begin to slip there is inevitably a descent into the telling of lies, via semantic camouflaging (torture became ‘enhanced interrogation techniques, kidnapping became rendition and treatment of prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention was ruled out by redefining prisoners as ‘Enemy Combatants’). The slippery slope to ever more lies became unavoidable by this point.
For all the reasons above and the continuing totally one-sided and utterly biased portrayal of the situation in Ukraine perhaps you see now why Putin has used the phrase ‘The Empire of Lies’ to describe the political degeneracy that runs and drives the West down to ever-lower levels of trustworthiness, deception and the kind of distortion of the facts commonly only seen in the most totalitarian of states.