RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 24.04.2024
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.
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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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Ukr Front Collapse Continues, 2 Villages Fall; MSM Ukr 6 Months Collapse; Senate Approves Ukr Aid.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: Sunak, UK war footing. Szijjarto, EU war psychosis. Europe troops in Ukraine. 2026, EU defeats Putin.
The Bloom | Final Storm Of Krasnohorivka | Ocheretyne Flower Is Blooming. Military Summary 2024.4.24
RICHARD MEDHURST: Congress Spends $100b On War With Russia, China, Iran.
Senate Passes $95 Billion for Foreign Wars, Red Cross: Rafah Evacuation Not 'Possible,' and More.
LEVAN GUDADZE: Ukraine lost 500,000 troops, Crisis in Moldova, South Caucasus, USA vs China, Space.
SEVIM DAGDELEN: NATO Endangers Security Of The Whole World | German Parliamentarian Sevim Dagdelen.
Ukraine conflict ‘a bonanza’ for US military – NYT.
The conflict has become a “laboratory” for the US military, a senior American general told the newspaper.
The US military is reportedly using the Ukraine conflict to test a new artificial intelligence technology that helps detect targets on the battlefield using drone footage, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Dubbed Project Maven, research into the technology was initially picked up as a government contract by Google six years ago, according to the outlet. However, after pushback from engineers and employees, who did not want to take part in building an AI tool for military use, the tech giant stepped away from the project, which was picked up by other contractors.
Now, the technology is being tested on the front line in Ukraine, the NYT claims, as Western and Ukrainian officers, along with some of Silicon Valley’s top military contractors, are “exploring new ways of finding and exploiting Russian vulnerabilities.”
So far, the results of the testing have reportedly been “mixed.” While Project Maven allows commanders to identify the movements of Russian forces and use AI algorithms to predict their next steps, it has apparently been “difficult” to bring “21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.”
New US aid package will just kill more Ukrainians – Kremlin
One of the main barriers, the Times said, is that due to restrictions imposed by US President Joe Biden, the US military can only provide Ukrainians with a “picture of the battlefield” without giving precise targeting details.
It is also unclear if the new technology would even be able to change the course of the conflict, given Russia’s ability to quickly adapt to technologies being used by the Ukrainian side.
“When new technology meets the brutality of old-fashioned trench warfare, the results are rarely what Pentagon planners expected,” the outlet said.
Nevertheless, the Ukraine conflict remains “a bonanza for the US military” in the minds of American officials, and a testing ground for rapidly evolving technologies.
“At the end of the day this became our laboratory,” Lt. Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, who commands the US Army’s 18th Airborne Division, told the NYT.
Russia, meanwhile, has repeatedly decried increasing US involvement in the conflict. Moscow describes it as a proxy war being waged by Washington and its partners, using Ukrainians as “cannon fodder” to further Western interests.
Ukraine conflict ‘a bonanza’ for US military – NYT.
DANNY HAIPHONG - MARK SLEBODA: Russia has DESTROYED Ukraine's Army and Putin's Next Move has NATO Worried.
GARLAND NIXON: NATO TROOPS TO UKRAINE AFTER IRAN CHANGED THE GAME?
'NATO is Driving Us to WWIII’: German MP Slams the West’s Addiction to War.
LEVAN GUDADZE: Ukraine is retreating in the Donetsk - Avdeevka sectors, Ukrainian refugees, Russian LNG, BRICS.
DANIEL DAVIS - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: What Ukraine Aid Signals to the World.
LT. COL. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Performative War.
KYLE ANZALONE: US Troops to Ukraine?
REDACTED: Putin issues WARNING to Biden "We will destroy all of them."
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW: U.S. House Approves $95 Billion MORE In W@r Funding.
Russia is going after the US’ JUGULAR.
Putin honours journalist killed in Ukrainian drone attack.
Semyon Yeryomin was fatally injured while filming in Zaporozhye Region.
Russian journalist Semyon Yeryomin, who was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack last week, has been posthumously awarded the Order of Courage, one of the country’s top honours. The award for the late Izvestia war correspondent was announced in a presidential decree published on Monday.
Yeryomin died in a Ukrainian kamikaze drone attack in Zaporozhye Region, the outlet announced on Friday. His crew had been filming Russian troop positions near the village of Priyutnoye, and had also recently reported on attempts to divert Ukrainian UAV strikes.
The crew’s vehicle was attacked by a drone while returning from a filming location, eyewitnesses told Izvestia. Yeryomin later died of his injuries.
He had been reporting in the combat zone since the Ukraine conflict began in February 2022, and had already been awarded the Medal For Merit to the Fatherland II Degree for his work covering the fighting.
READ MORE: Kiev deliberately targeting journalists – Kremlin
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered his condolences on Saturday and accused Ukrainian forces of deliberately targeting members of the Russian press at the front lines. The tragedy highlights the dangers journalists face in combat zones, Peskov added.
Several Russian journalists have lost their lives since Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
In November 2023, Boris Maksudov, who worked for Russia 24 TV, died from shrapnel wounds he suffered during a Ukrainian drone attack in Zaporozhye Region. RIA Novosti’s Rostislav Zhuravlev, Tavria TV’s Oleg Klokov, and RuBaltic’s Aleksey Ilyashevich have also all been killed during the hostilities.
Putin honours journalist killed in Ukrainian drone attack.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK-TAIWAN
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Israel-Iran strikes; Out of danger, but risk very real.
RICHARD MEDHURST: Congress Spends $100b On War With Russia, China, Iran.
MATTHEW HOH: Can Israel Fight Iran Alone?
Hamas Calls For Escalation Across All Fronts.
RICHARD MEDHURST: Karma? Israeli Tears Down Palestinian Flag, Finds Surprise Underneath.
Palestine, more than 32 hospitals and clinics closed due to continued Israeli shelling.
Yemen defies 'America's failure' to stop blockade of Red Sea.
COLONEL LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Red Sea, China and Turkey's Erdogan.
Columbia U. Gaza Solidarity Camp Students Hold Press Conference at President's Mansion.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
The New McCarthyism: Columbia University & the Solidarity Encampments.
China MoFA LIVE: China Accuses the US of Supporting the Human Rights Violations in Gaza by Israel.
CYRUS JANSSEN: The Microchip War Just Changed Forever...
USA
Dr. STEVE TURLEY: Is THIS the END of BIDENOMICS?:
Dr. STEVE TURLEY: College Campuses Are EXPLODING.
Dozens ARRESTED on Campuses as Anti-War PROTESTS Erupt, Larry Nassar Victims $138.7M DOJ SETTLEMENT.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
PEPE ESCOBAR AND LARRY JOHNSON ABOUT THE WAR AGAINST THE BRICS.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: LOS ATAQUES MASIVOS DE RUSIA SE INTENSIFICAN (y desvelan los planes rusos sobre Ucrania).
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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.
ON THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON IN UKRAINE WITH NO PLAN B. WHY SO?
Why has the situation in Ukraine become the overwhelming, almost single focus, of western foreign policy with apparently no plan B but only a steady march toward ever more escalation?
SCENARIO 1: Russia Wants To Rule The World (Or At Least Europe)
In this scenario providing a reason for the ‘all or nothing’ western plan now in progress is that the western powers have data, covertly retrieved from Russia, that the Russians plan to take over the world, or at least invade and take over Europe. If this is the case, barring the risk of revealing sources and methods, wouldn’t you think they would tell western audiences what they have gleaned, at least in outline? Instead we have received only speculation from both western officials and commentators alike on this point.
If Russia was poised to invade and occupy Europe why, by common perception, is Russia taking such a long time on its takeover in Ukraine? Besides the fact that no Russian official has stated Russia wants to occupy Europe where would the Russians come from to not only accomplish the task but presumably to run and control everything afterwards? The days when armies of tens of millions could be put together, trained and paid for are over, especially for Russia with an economy that has been compared with that of South Korea.
Something else is clearly at stake regarding the West’s overwhelming desire to throw money at Ukraine with a view to defeating Russia there?
SCENARIO 2: The Good Guys Of The West Want Freedom & Democracy For All
You know this meme well from all the regime change wars of the recent past that the USA and its allies have engaged in, in the recent past. It is portrayed in similar terms as the Crusades mounted by Richard the lionheart and others against the Arabs of Jerusalem. The good guys have decided to engage the tyrants and slay all those metaphorical dragons rescuing the equally metaphorical princesses. It has nothing to do with maintaining influence, power and lucrative sources of energy or income.
I suspect most of those reading this will have long discounted these saintly reasons for the expenditure of vast amounts of blood and treasure involved in these regime change wars of choice. Power, influence, resources and hard cash are much more persuasive elements when it comes to political and geopolitical decision making. Besides, all done at the cost of half a million Ukrainian lives? What kind of gift to Ukraine is that?
So what does this leave? Why must we all be taken to the brink of Armageddon due to a dispute between two Slavic nations that despite eight long years of trying (by one side at least) could not be resolved?
SCENARIO 3: The West Is Losing Its Long-Held Global Dominance & Can’t Have That
The last few decades, other than see western regime change wars fail, has seen nations such as China and Russia rise to become a combined peer competitor of the West. No one should underestimate the positive features that come with global dominance. The ability to manipulate nations far from your shores, persuade them to listen to you and be swayed by you due to your power, and to therefore set the stage for wealth accumulation, guaranteed energy flows for you and your endless power accumulation, is quite an asset to lose.
These new kids on the block, Russia and China, are obstinately resistant to doing your bidding as you are used to. They want to go their own way rather than do things your way. What does this signify to the political elites of the West whose institutions are universally set up to take advantage of a situation where the West is in power… always? All the perks of power that have been accepted as guaranteed are now at risk. And, if the situation is not dealt with urgently, every last perk could disappear one after another till at last they are all gone? How would THAT feel?
This last scenario, in my view, is the one that most likely lies behind the seemingly endless risks the western powers are willing to take in Ukraine, risks that could put the rest of us, kept well outside the corridors of power, directly on the road to Armageddon.