RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.07.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.07.2024
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.
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*** UKRAINE & ITS SPONSORS MUST COME TO TERMS W/ DEFEAT ***
“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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By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK General Valery Zaluzhny.
Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, has given his first public speech in his new role as his country’s ambassador to Britain. The occasion – surely carefully chosen – was the annual Land Warfare Conference at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the UK’s oldest and still premier military and geopolitical think tank.
It was a high-level setting; other speakers included General Roland Walker, Chief of Britain’s General Staff and Admiral Tony Radakin, Chief of the Defence Staff. Zaluzhny of course, was a high-level guest too: De facto exiled to Britain after losing a power struggle against Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, rumors about a future return to Ukraine and a powerful position there have never died down.
According to a Telegraph correspondent who was in the audience, Zaluzhny’s address was mostly delivered in Ukrainian, as the ambassador’s English is, to put it bluntly, unusually weak for a diplomat, especially one sent to London. But Zaluzhny published the speech on his Telegram channel under the somewhat awkward title: “The Russian-Ukrainian War as a War of Transitional period. New patterns of the war.” This version’s also less than perfect English does make you wonder about the staff resources at the Ukrainian embassy (not a single person capable of some basic editing?), but Zaluzhny’s meaning comes through loud and clear.
Zaluzhny started on a note of corny philosophizing and gauche confusion: After being treated to the hackneyed phrase “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you want peace, prepare for war), his listeners must have been intrigued to hear Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief equate killing in war with murder. Usually, that is a position associated with radical pacifism. Some may have been surprised to hear that the total number of casualties of World War I and II taken together was 60 million. Unfortunately, it was significantly higher. (Also “Carl,” not “Karl,” von Clausewitz; if you want to boast using authors you clearly have not read, at least check the spelling.)
But World War III was Zaluzhny’s real theme at RUSI, in two respects. Ostensibly, the ambassador who used to be a general was talking about how to avoid it, but in reality the general inside the ambassador was really giving advice on how to wage it. In Zaluzhny’s defense, his idea of preserving the peace is so crude that the two aims easily converge. In his single-track mind, the only key to peace is deterrence by military power. But this total neglect of any role for diplomacy and compromise is, of course, what his Western audiences like to hear because it flatters them by mirroring their own tunnel vision.
Casting himself in what is by now a timeworn role for Ukrainian representatives in the West, Zaluzhny spoke as a sage and warner delivering a wake-up call to – why be modest? – all of humanity and in particular, “free and democratic nations.” In this context, Ukraine, for its former commander-in-chief, is a resource of a very peculiar kind. It is Ukraine’s experience in the war with Russia – or at least his interpretation of that experience – that Zaluzhny uses to claim special authority when speaking to his Western listeners and coming to conclusions that he must know are certain to be welcome.
Thus, generously offering “to share all our knowledge, experience and thoughts,” his first lesson is that “society must agree to temporarily give up a range of freedoms for the sake of survival,” because, the former general argues, modern wars are “total,” requiring “the efforts not only of the army, but also of society as a whole.” “Politicians,” Zaluzhny elaborated, “can and should mobilize society."
This idea – often called the “whole-of-society approach” to security and defense – has, of course, been one of the main strands of NATO and EU propaganda for several years already. NATO, for instance, adopted a resolution on it in 2021; in the same year the EU’s Directorate-General for External Policies produced a policy paper on “Best Practices in the Whole-of-Society Approach in Countering Hybrid Threats.” In January 2024, the then UK Chief of the General Staff, General Patrick Sanders made the same point: a future war with Russia would require comprehensive mobilization of the whole nation. The head of NATO’s Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, has long preached the same mantra, occasionally mixed with pure scaremongering about how to prep best (have a flashlight, radio, and batteries ready…) for the day the big bad Russians come.
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All of the above is part of NATO’s escalating effort to make and keep itself important and very well financed. Having helped create – by its reckless expansion – the war that is now devastating Ukraine, NATO elites would not let a good crisis go to waste. There also is something slightly comical about the crude, 1950s-style manipulation of the Western public, and something sadly comical about how a former Ukrainian commander-in-chief serves to play back Western talking points, repackaged as Ukrainian experience, to Western audiences to receive their blessing.
Yet ultimately the issue is deadly serious for two reasons. Obviously in the worst case, the current attempts to get everyone psyched up not just for war but for World War III may feature in future history books, in chapters on a prewar period. Second, there is a peacetime agenda as well. The drive toward “societal resilience” serves to justify, at a minimum, the streamlining of public discourse, the narrowing of policy debates, and the demonization of those arguing for diplomacy instead of – or at least in addition to – military solutions.
In this respect, Zelensky’s Ukraine, as represented by his former rival and current ambassador Zaluzhny, is the wet dream of the West’s mobilizers: a personalistic, at best semi-authoritarian regime, with no free media or opposition. And the fact that they have no shame in calling that sort of state a “democracy,” complete with the usual “vibrant” civil society, proves that they would not hesitate to do the same at home.
If Zaluzhny’s ideas about what should be done to society are stunningly imitative, his take on the military meaning of the Ukraine War seems at least more original, if a little bombastic. He believes that the “changes which were invented on the battlefields of the Russian-Ukrainian war” are very likely to “determine the outlines of wars and the art of war in the 21st century” and to “become the foundation of the entire global security system of the future.”
Zaluzhny is probably wrong on the facts there. As I have long argued, the genocidal slaughter committed by Israel in Gaza is more likely to leave a deeper imprint on the future of “warfare” (for want of a better term). We are already seeing attempts to derive “lessons” (all the wrong ones, rest assured) from it by Western think tanks such as the RAND Corporation and, indeed, the very same RUSI where Zaluzhny gave his speech.
But let’s set that aside and focus on what the former commander-in-chief believes to be the main military lesson of the Ukraine War. Driven by the need to survive on the battlefield, Zaluzhny argues, Ukrainian forces have invented and applied new technologies while adapting their structure and tactics to them. For him, this war therefore marks a transition, starting and foreshadowing decisive future developments. In particular – and this is a key phrase in his sales pitch – these technologies are supposed to offer a way to “fight and win against stronger armies in the 21st century.” (By “stronger,” the general here clearly must mean “larger,” because if he literally meant “stronger” – as in also technologically stronger – his statement would be self-contradictory and absurd.)
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Now compare this with what the new chief of the UK General Staff, General Ronald Walker had to say at the same RUSI Land Warfare Conference. Walker also delivered a stern warning about a dangerous world out there, i.e. Russia and China, and promised to triple the effectiveness (“lethality”) of British forces within a few years, without asking for more men. His miracle fix to do so: new technology that, Walker says, will enable his army to defeat much larger forces. See a difference compared to Zaluzhny’s promises? No? Exactly. Once again, the obliging Ukrainian delivered exactly what his Western listeners wanted to hear. By now, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has publicly agreed with Walker. Congrats, General Zaluzhny: bullseye in crowd-pleasing.
Yet, once again, there is a less farcical side to Zaluzhny’s somewhat crude opportunism. In essence, he called on his audience to see Ukraine as a laboratory where the West can develop its future military technology. Ukraine, he admitted, cannot “scale up” its inventions and innovations made in the midst of battle. Yet its Western “partners” – “users” would be a better, more honest term – have the resources needed for such upscaling, “but there is no applied and practical field to test them.”
In other words, Ukrainians can keep dying, while the West can field-test new military technologies. And make no mistake: Zaluzhny does not believe that fewer Ukrainians will be needed because the new technologies will replace them. The whole meaning of his labelling the current war merely “transitional” and not yet one of “the future” is to strand Ukraine in the worst of both worlds where, as he admits, “the only way out may be to increase the number of human resources involved in hostilities.”
And there you have it. Ukraine’s real future, according to Zaluzhny, is one where more Ukrainians will be fed into the meatgrinder of a losing war, but on the upside, the meatgrinder will be constantly modernized and updated with the newest ways of killing and dying, compliments of the West. It is one thing that this fantasy of a forever war as a forever laboratory will not come to pass. It is another that it is the real message – if you pay attention – of Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief and current ambassador in London, and future who-knows-what, when speaking to an elite Western audience. One of Ukraine’s tragedies is being abused by the West; the other being betrayed by its own leaders.
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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.
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ZELENSKY & HIS WESTERN SPONSORS ARE UNABLE TO ABANDON THEIR LIES
Trapped within a 'war mode' mentality means telling the truth becomes an impossibility... until the absolute last hours of the war.
It appears that neither Zelensky nor the western political and media elites have even a remote interest in reality. They are so deeply committed to creating a theatrical facade about what is occurring in Ukraine that their statements are easily seen as misinformation far removed from the facts. This has been true (regarding all heads of state involved) since at least 2014.
In 2014 we saw the result of a long western campaign to destabilize the status quo in Ukraine. Whether the western elites involved had the best or worst motivations in the world it is clear that Ukraine was a constant and primary target of their global campaign to mold nations into reflections of their own states’ image. When these elites claim anything similar is being done to them it is called interference. When they do it it is done in a ‘good cause’ as they are ‘the good guys’. Whether you think they were and are wrong or right the consequences of their actions are clear.
Having begun this global molding project the western elites believe they cannot afford any degree of self-criticism or doubt. Their messaging, as they see it, must remain constant. They are engaged in a war as they see things, a war against authoritarianism and for global democracy. This ideology, again whether you believe it is justified or not, has the consequences we have seen from the Afghan war on up to the Ukraine war now. Hundreds of thousands if not millions have died, entire nations have been fragmented and impoverished with nothing to show for it in terms of the world of freedom and democracy western elites say they fight for.
The rhetoric fueled by the dogmatic ideology being pursued by the West is underpinned by a maximalist position, that there can be no turning back on this road, all nations worldwide that do not conform to western needs and interests must be made to conform. The phrases often heard about ‘protecting western national interests’ and forwarding ‘western values’ convey the underlying goals of the West. Having spread its influence worldwide over the last century western national interests span the entire globe. Installing western values everywhere is seen as a vital element in protecting them. Thus we have the West conceiving itself as the unquestioned and unquestionable paramount power entitled to global domination.
Having the attitude above and in addition having the compliant service of western mass media western elites have proceeded to push the goal of transforming the world into one that conforms to western values. 9/11 more than any other event has provided the compliance of western mass media getting it to fully back the absolute necessity (as seen by western political elites) to achieve the goal described above, to mold the world in the western image. This is seen as the necessary means required to make the West safe from even the remotest possibility of another 9/11-type event.
This is a war and in times of war ‘war mode’ prevails across all elites. War mode demands that nothing good is said about the enemy and nothing bad is said about yourselves or your allies. Lies are not lies but useful tools against the enemy whether they enhance your side or denigrate your enemy. All normal rules of ethical or moral behavior are suspended during any period where ‘war mode’ prevails. Anything that is considered likely to win the war for you can be used, any fabrication, any exaggeration and absolutely any barefaced lie. That it evidences some possibility of having a positive effect for you or a negative effect on your enemy can be used.
The above is why we see the rhetoric used by western media and political elites failing to correspond to the reality reported by those without the same dedication or linkage to the elite goals mentioned above. The internet has to a significant degree spoiled the game plan of western elites which was of course to be able to condition the entire population of the western world into accepting their narratives. We now have a means to compare the reports of those ‘without a dog in the race’ to those with a maximum degree of vested interest. The comparison is devastating. Every day we see the situation in Ukraine growing worse for the regime there and its western sponsors, those western sponsors who desire with maximum fervor to have the opposite be true. The reality of the situation cannot be acknowledged as the ‘war mode’ milieu they exist in cannot allow it.
ZELENSKY & HIS WESTERN SPONSORS ARE UNABLE TO ABANDON THEIR LIES
