RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.08.2024
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. 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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Ukrainian troops in Nazi helmets taunt Russian pensioner (VIDEO).
The incident, presumably filmed by troops themselves, appears to have occurred in Kursk Region where Kiev launched an incursion.
(Click on link at foot of article to wach video.)
Screenshot from video of Ukrainian soldiers harassing Russian villager in Kursk Region.
A video is circulating in social media showing Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers wearing Nazi-style helmets harass an elderly villager in what appears to be Russia’s Kursk Region, where Kiev has been conducting a cross-border assault over the past week. The clip is believed to have been filmed by the soldiers themselves.
The incident appears to have taken place several days ago, but footage of it began to spread online on Thursday. The Mash Telegram channel has suggested that the video was shot on August 11 in the village of Zaoleshenka in Sudhansky district.
In the clip, Ukrainian soldiers can be seen filming a road sign pointing to the city of Belgorod and Korenevo, a settlement in Kursk Region.
The camera then pans to what appears to be a camouflaged SUV equipped with a machine gun and a soldier wearing a helmet resembling those of the Schutzstaffel (SS) - responsible for the most brutal atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during World War II.
The video then shows several pieces of destroyed heavy equipment before panning to an elderly man. The soldiers then address the pensioner as “Russian Ivan” and start berating him in German, stating that “all Russians are pigs” and telling him to go “drink vodka”. The Russian man said he is 74 years old and complained that he has been lost for five days.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, the elderly man, who has reportedly been identified as Alexander Gusarov, has not been seen in ten days. His relatives said that the last time they spoke to him was on August 6. It’s suspected that Alexander may have been killed.
Meanwhile, the SHOT Telegram channel has claimed that it has identified the Ukrainian soldier wearing the Nazi helmet as 38-year-old Vasyl Danilyuk, a resident of the city of Horodenka in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankovsk Region.
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Russian State Duma member Leonid Slutsky, leader of the Liberal Democrat (LDPR) party, has since announced a five million ruble ($56,000) reward for the capture of the Ukrainian fighters who harassed the retiree. He stressed that Russians will not tolerate Nazis on their land and called on all doubters of Ukrainian Nazism to “open their eyes.”
“All those who speak about ‘imaginary’ Nazism in Ukraine should now choke on their own stupidity,” Slutsky said.
Kiev launched its incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region on August 6. Russia’s Defense Ministry has since stated that the Ukrainian advance has been halted but Kiev’s troops still hold a number of settlements.
Since the start of the operation, Kiev has lost some 2,640 servicemen and several hundred military hardware units, including 37 tanks and 32 APCs, according to Moscow’s estimates.
Ukrainian troops in Nazi helmets taunt Russian pensioner (VIDEO).
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US is legitimizing terrorism – Moscow.
Washington’s silence in the face of reports that Ukraine blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline is a ploy, Russia’s envoy to the US has said.
Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has accused the US of trying to shift the blame for the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines onto its “puppets” in Ukraine.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told journalists on Thursday that he is “not going to comment” on the Wall Street Journal report alleging Ukraine’s involvement in the Nord Stream attack.
Antonov said in a post on Telegram on Friday that Washington’s reluctance to address the issue is “indicative” and amounts to “latent legitimization of terrorism, even when it comes to the territory of their own allies," adding "in fact, the US is writing a ‘blank check’ for similar crimes in the future.”
The WSJ reported on Wednesday that the 2022 attack that ruptured the key energy infrastructure built to deliver Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Western Europe had been masterminded by a group of Ukrainian military commanders and businessmen.
According to the US outlet’s sources, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky had initially approved the operation. He reportedly later tried to call it off, following pressure from the CIA, but the country’s then-commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny told him that it was too late to do it, as the sabotage group had already been dispatched and there was no way to contact it.
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By staying silent, the administration of US President Joe Biden “is trying to take the favorable position of an outside observer. They want everyone to forget the inconvenient statements from the US leadership about the importance of destroying the gas pipelines,” Antonov said.
In February 2022, Biden openly warned that if Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine, “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
The officials in Washington “are trying to shift all responsibility [for the destruction of Nord Stream] onto their Ukrainian puppets. Although they understand perfectly well that Kiev will not take any step without the ‘go-ahead’ from Washington,” the ambassador stressed.
According to Antonov, Russia, for its part, will keep working towards identifying and holding accountable “the true culprits” of the Nord Stream blasts and making sure that such attacks will not be repeated in the future.
Top officials in Moscow, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, have previously pointed the finger at Washington, arguing that it stood to gain the most from the sabotage that disrupted Russian energy supplies to the EU, which forced the bloc to rely on more expensive US-supplied liquefied natural gas.
READ MORE: Zelensky gave initial order for Nord Stream attack – WSJ
In early 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported that explosives were planted on the Nord Stream pipelines by US Navy divers under the cover of a NATO exercise, and detonated later on orders from Biden. The White House had rejected Hersh’s findings as “utterly false and complete fiction.”
US is legitimizing terrorism – Moscow.
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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.
THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION THAT WE IN THE WEST ARE NOW UNABLE TO LIVE
There is a feeling going round that something has been lost. What can it be?
I have no doubt you look around the world we have come to now and shake your head. If you have lived any length of time you will have certainly seen better days than these. Much better. If you are as long in the tooth as I am you will feel you have entered some kind of twisted version of Hell in fact… that is compared with the wicked, but not so wicked as now world we once knew. Yet the solution to all these problems has been a catchphrase for at least as many decades as we have been alive. Yet it seems we can’t agree to settle our differences and abide by it.
It is of course, ‘LIVE AND LET LIVE’.
The thing is that one or two nations believe they have the right to take nations and nationalities that are not like their own and do whatever they like to them as if they were holy messengers sent down from above to police the world. They conceive themselves to be so superior that they have the right and even the duty to do this. And do it by force if they have to. They don’t see a few hundred thousand corpses as something to worry overmuch about. The end justifies the means, right?
The elites of these lands, the USA and the UK conceive themselves to be a superior group who sit on the board of directors of all they survey. Their wishes must come true. Their commands must be obeyed. Their interests must be satisfied. And all things must be arranged to suit them. And woe betide anyone who thinks they have a right to their culture or national sovereignty and who refuses to bow down to the wishes, commands and interests that these god-like figures require to be attended to at all times.
War and pestilence are not archaic terms as we know all too well from recent history. The USA and UK have delivered both. Both physical and mental. Their frame of mind where those who are not like them are fair game for them has been extremely obvious lately. They conceive themselves and their systems to be the composite crown of creation, the model which all others must aspire and adhere to. Or else…
In this modern materialist western world values count for little, that is any values you may have brought with you from the old, dead and gone world. Now you must agree to the new values, the woke values, the kind seen recently at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games. You will be coerced to accept those values or you risk being canceled. Either you stay silent, out of sight of the censors or you will find yourself in trouble for being too free with your opinions. Shut up or be shut up. Your choice.
We are being taught to emphasize our differences more and more. We have told to expect the best at all times and to get annoyed when things are not done as we demand. We feel far more entitled than ever before. Large numbers of our fellow beings, the affluent percentage, have been told to ‘expect more’ and to demand more. “Shop till you drop.” “Consume!” Want the best and get it. Beat the ‘others’ to it by whatever method that’s to hand. Those are not fellow humans, they are your competitors.
The advertisers and marketers told us to demand it all and have it all. But they didn’t tell us just how much we would have to pay for that. And pay and pay and pay… with all the psychological baggage and distortion that a shallow life of endless consumption and competing can bring. Who needs friends you can no longer trust? Except those you might be able to use to your advantage somehow, right?
Your neighbors became absent over the years or else they became annREALLY ANNOYING. Somehow we became obsessive about being safely alone, not touched by others except for them to ask us what we want from them. People became either competitors or potential slaves for us to order around. In the service culture that was sold us we were kings and these minions who delivered service to us were our slaves. And if they didn’t come up to scratch we would ditch them for new ones.
Other cultures were fine during brief holidays from making loads of money for all the glittering trinkets of a very modern life, trips to distant lands where we could feel superior and become interested in quaint customs for a while, slumming it and taking selfies to show the equally vain and shallow relatives back home.
This is the material that is the human specimen seen so widely now in the western world. A grotesque shadow of a human being. Hardly able to be loved or to give love, a calculating machine, a robot that digests mainstream headlines and believes them in total ignorance.
LIVE AND LET LIVE?
Yes, if only we had the essential materials in the human beings now existing in the western world to do it and not these distorted and distorting shadows that hardly even remind us of human beings. Lost in lies broadcast nightly, heads wasted with a tawdriness that lurks everywhere now. Frightened by the reality all this irresponsibility brings, daunted by the news of riot and mayhem, murder, rage, racism, war and hatred. But still seeking filthy lucre to garner it all to the self and keep it safe from those others ‘out there’.
This is the world the USA and UK and most of the EU want to foist on the rest of the world, to make all others just like them, caught in the self-loving trap of those who believe themselves superior but who have lost everything that was real about them and in so doing lost any trace of their humanity. Live like us or die. That is their motto. Live and let live? This is anathema to those who demand all others be like them. Their self-image is so deluded, their conception of themselves as the most exceptional, superior form of beings ever to grace this planet could not be further from the truth. And their awful and disgusting reality is now leading to them being now being rejected during the birth of a truly multipolar world.
In that world now being born the phrase that has become so unfashionable will once have meaning once more.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
