RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.02.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.02.2023
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.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** END THE PRETENCE - THIS IS WORLD WAR THREE ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (202k subscribers):
Bakhmut Siege Tightens, Russia Captures Krasnaya Gora; NATO Backpedal Fighter, Zelensky Doubts Grow.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (93.3k subscribers):
What's the Difference between Biden & Putin?
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'Russell Brand' (6.2 million subscribers):
They Are Blocking PEACE!! | with Anti-War Journalist Dave DeCamp.
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'BORZZIKMAN' (124k subscribers):
This Video Unveils the 'Shocking Truth' about the WAR between the West and Russia.
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'Redacted' (1.7 million subscribers):
This is HORRIBLE and Putin says "no more" | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris.
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Latest update from Brian Berletic of 'The New Atlas' (214k subscribers):
West Admits Jets for Ukraine will Take Years + US Sanctions Blocking Syrian Earthquake Relief.
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'The Duran' (334k subscribers):
Q & A: Preventing a long war.
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Q & A: Neocon failures.
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'Geopolitical Economy Report' with Ben Norton. (47.1k subscribers):
Ukraine’s Zelensky sabotaged peace deal with Russia, West 'blocked' negotiations.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (158k subscribers):
Object over Canada. Serbia and Hungary, under pressure. Putin hungry dragon. U/1
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.89k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks Ukraine War Crimes & silence Is Complicit.
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'George Galloway' (246k subscribers):
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE - MOATS Episode 212 with George Galloway.
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'Chris Hedges Fan Club' (63.9k subscribers):
Michael Parenti | U.S. CAPITALISM OR DIE.
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'Through the eyes of' (73.1k subscribers):
24 H TO SHOW UP AT THE ARMY (POLAND/ NEWS). A WALK TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER (MOSCOW/ VIEWS).
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‘Jeffrey Sachs’ (9.07k subscribers):
How stupid is this!??
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'ANDREWNEF' (4.76k subscribers):
Jeffrey Sachs | United States is a DEATH MERCHANT.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (93.1k subscribers):
Nord Stream Pipeline Report - Where's the investigation?
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (129k subscribers):
Russia strikes, Ukraine trains as Russia shows willingness for peace talks based on existing reality.
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'Scott Ritter - Again' (83.7k subscribers):
Liars.
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'Levan Gudadze - Opinion' (4.24k subscribers):
Ukraine lost Krasnaya Gora, Zelensky's team crumbling, West provoking Georgia, Canada-UFO, China...
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (92.9k subscribers):
Tanks Not Arriving in Ukraine - NATO's Remorse, Col Doug Macgregor.
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'TeleTruth' (15.4k subscribers):
Russian forces retake positions of Kremennaya after demolishing Ukrainian troops.
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'Field Inspector with Scott Ritter' (61k subscribers):
It's not about Winning the War but causing Russia to Bleed Out.
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‘LBC’ (527k subscribers):
"We expected it:" Russian MP on UK fighter jets being potentially sent to Ukraine | LBC.
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'Richard Medhurst' (161k subscribers):
SCOTT RITTER: Russia Is the One Who Liberated Auschwitz.
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The US Is Losing Its Power to Weaponize the Dollar.
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Russia Today (RT) - Going Underground.
RT Going Underground: President Assad’s advisor on earthquakes 11 Feb, 2023.
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'TFIGlobal' (429k subscribers):
Russia is on a winning spree.
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'Chris Hedges Fan Club' (63.7k subscribers):
Michael Parenti | AMERICAN IMPERIALISM.
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'Opiniono' (1.29k subscribers):
‘You will never erase Russia from the world map, we are a major player’ – Vassily Nebenzia.
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‘Gonzalo Lira - Again’ (68.2k subscribers):
2023.02.12 A Message to Germans—Nord Stream Bombing.
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2023.02.09 Laying the Groundwork For the Loss of Ukraine.
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'The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong' (42k subscribers):
UKRAINE OUT OF AMMO? | BRIAN BERLETIC WEAPONS UPDATE | RUSSIA BOUNCES BACK VIA DE-DOLLARIZATION.
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Russia Today (RT) - News.
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‘Defense Politics Asia’ (55.3k subscribers):
Unhinged & Unsolicited Speculation Tank Talk (Part 1) | DPA Panels.
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'Djuki San' (38.7k subscribers):
Maria Zakharova - On the Ukrainian crisis.
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'True inFo' (79.2k subscribers):
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova about the fascist regime in Ukraine.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (32k subscribers):
Scott Ritter 2023 : We Cannot Win Conflict Against Russia. We Are Forced To Believe This...
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Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (February 12, 2023).
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.16 million subscribers):
Russia's Wagner Army captures strategic town near Bakhmut | Donetsk frontline on knife-edge.
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Russian drones hunt Ukraine troops, Army annihilates them with artillery fire in Donbas | Watch:
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Elon Musk’s strike on Zelensky; Ukrainian Army banned from using Starlink tech for drone war.
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'The Grayzone' (260k subscribers):
Norman Finkelstein on how the Left cancels itself.
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (212k subscribers):
Putin Launches LARGEST AIRSTRIKE On Ukraine Yet.
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'Sean Foo' (71.4k subscribers):
Putin’s Shadow Fleet Is Changing The Game (Sanctions Will Fail).
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'Hindustan Times' (5.16million subscribers):
NATO nation terrified by Putin; German FM concedes ‘War with Russia a mistake’ | Watch:
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'iChongqing' (12.4k subscribers):
LIVE STREAM | China's Surveillance | Let's Talk China Cyrus Janssen, iEarlgrey | Reporterfy.
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'John Mark Dougan' (46.7k subscribers):
John's InfoDefense Interview, Part 1 of 3.
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John's InfoDefense Interview, Part 2 of 3.
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John's InfoDefense Interview, Part 3 of 3.
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'Info Defense' (191 subscribers):
EXPOSED: US veterans saying NO to US/NATO imperialistic wars and apologizing for US/NATO crimes.
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Russia Today (RT) - Direct Impact: Dedollarisation 11 Feb, 2023.
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'Info Defense' (191 subscribers):
EXPOSED: Ukrainian citizen explains why he does NOT want to fight for Ukrainian government? 🤔
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‘George Galloway’ (245k subscribers):
Our fathers and grandfathers fought for free speech. They wouldn’t recognise its mutilated state.
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Russia Today (RT) - News.
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‘Chavez News’ (156 subscribers):
Video Proof Ukraine Using Chemical Weapons Against Russian Troops.
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'Liu Sivaya' (182k subscribers):
THE SABOTAGE OF NORD STREAM: US did the explosions according to a Pulitzer Prize | liusivaya.
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'Dialogue works' (12k subscribers):
What Yeltsin did to Russia | Ray McGovern.
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'Syriana Analysis' (43k subscribers):
Earthquake Update on CGTN - Syrian Lives Matter.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 12th February 2023:
West calls the shots in Ukraine –Russian ambassador.
Only NATO states can force Kiev into holding serious peace talks, Vassily Nebenzia has insisted.
Ukraine has shown no interest in finding a diplomatic solution to its ongoing conflict with Russia, Vassily Nebenzia, Moscow’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said on Friday. He claimed that, while the West could force Kiev to the negotiating table, it has failed to take such an initiative.
In an interview with RT’s Caleb Maupin, Nebenzia was asked about the prospects for a settlement of the Ukraine conflict given that Western leaders insist that the conflict can end only with Moscow’s defeat.
The envoy noted that the West is "now talking about dismembering... and destroying Russia," adding that some statements by Western officials on the matter "go beyond not just simply diplomacy but civilized communication."
He reiterated that Russia is still ready for serious negotiations, which were interrupted by Kiev "on the order of their masters and sponsors in April last year." Against such a backdrop, the high-ranking diplomat noted that Moscow did not see any Ukrainian attempts to conduct meaningful dialogue, pointing out that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky himself had signed a decree prohibiting talks with the current Russian leadership.
Nebenzia went on to blast Kiev’s diplomatic initiatives on the matter as a "joke," referring to a ten-point "peace formula" proposed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that, in particular, demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from all territories claimed by Kiev and that a tribunal to prosecute Moscow’s alleged war crimes be established.
Besides, Moscow knows for sure that Kiev is "not calling the shots," Nebenzia said. Those who can force Kiev to conduct serious negotiations, "they live in this country [the US], somewhere in Europe, on one of the islands across the English Channel," he added.
"If they are willing to do so, they will engage, but we don’t see any willingness on the part of the sponsors of Kiev to go to negotiations with Russia and do it seriously," the ambassador pointed out.
Russia believes that Western countries are waging a proxy war against it in Ukraine. On Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed that the US and its allies are trying to prolong the conflict between Moscow and Kiev by supporting Ukraine with heavy weaponry, warning that such policies could "lead to an unpredictable escalation."
In spring 2022, Russia and Ukraine held several rounds of talks, with Moscow initially voicing optimism about the peace process. However, Ukraine abruptly withdrew from the negotiations shortly after a visit by then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Kiev on April 9.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (84.7k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.12
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.41k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30.1k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (53.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (22.1k subscribers):
[ Bakhmut Front ] Russia captured Krasna Hora while Ukraine ponders reinforcement to Paraskoviivka.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (19.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
Ukraine [12 Feb 2023] 'Today' - Advances north of Bakhmut.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.1k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine The Battle of Vuhledar.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (195k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
Ukraine:Day 352 [ 12 Febraury ] ''Today'' Russian forces captured Krasna Hora.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (58k subscribers):
Ukrainian Forces Withdraw North of Bakhmut | Russian Operation Encirclement | 12/02/23.
Full Front Update 12/02/23.
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LATEST REPORT FROM 'DJUKI SAN’ (38.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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Detailed situation reports can be found on a daily basis concerning events in Ukraine over the past 24 hours at the ‘A SKEPTIC’ Substack account:
Link to 'A SKEPTIC' Substack channel.
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SUPPORTING SCOTT RITTER
I've been listening to Scott Ritter describe how things are for him and I suspect have been for him for quite some time now.
He has been doing a LOT of unpaid work with a great many interview requests coming in that he has been ready and willing to agree to. But the work where receives some pay for have suffered due to this, being left until the wee small hours of the night to complete work on.
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
I was moved by Scott's words to take an annual subscription to his Substack account that he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances with which to upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine, via a better microphone etc. and perhaps the creation of a recording studio in his basement to create a more professional and impressive look. To invest in these things he would like to be sure that this has a viable financial future.
Would you also like to help by subscribing at one of the various levels to Scott's Substack account? I hope so. If so the link is here:
Below you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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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
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DO YOU WANT TO LIVE ON A PRISON PLANET?
No matter which way you look at it, the active movement of almost every part of western foreign policy is engaged in an effort to bring down powers that oppose it and replace the systems of governance within those powers. Concurrently the USA has, for two decades and more, sought to create a global surveillance system effected through satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Have you considered what this will mean for your future and that of your offspring and their families as we move forward? Presumably you have also become aware of cancel culture whereby the previous norms of freedom of speech in the western world have become seriously curtailed. Speaking your mind these days can be a risky business. People are being warned to keep their mouths shut if what they wish to say does not fit the agreed narratives as supplied by state institutions and their compliant stenographers within mainstream media.
Match these factors with the current ‘war mode’ against both Russia and China and extrapolate these combined factors into the future being assured that once instigated certain modes of behaviour and technologies to effect the expansion of their remit tend only to grow more forceful and all-pervasive over time.
If the coalition of the USA, UK and EU defeat Russia and then China using whatever means they deem necessary and, in light of the protocols clearly agreed upon after 9/11 to take out any and all threats from whichever direction they emanate from I think you will begin to envision the prison planet of which I speak. The concept is not hard to delineate or understand. The goal post 9/11 was not only to eliminate all individuals, groups and modes of governance that in any way opposed the USA or the expansion of western power, it was also to establish a system of surveillance to enable the early spotting of any nascent threats globally.
You see where this is going, don’t you? The political elites of the USA decided that only a virtual prison planet over which they were warders would suit their future needs for total security in the post 9/11 world. Naturally enough, all nations considering themselves in need of the U.S. security umbrella were willing to give 100% support to this goal. Whether somewhat reluctantly (due to so many established human rights norms being undermined) or not, it is clear that all nations in a relationship with the U.S. decided to give this goal their full support until it was met.
The present situation in Ukraine is an integral part of the furtherance of this goal on many levels and displays the degree to which the European powers lend their full support to the USA despite any harm to their economies this may do. The genesis to the seeming madness of escalating toward a potential nuclear conflagration lies in the factors spoken of above. The goal being sought is of such overarching importance to the political elites of the USA and its allies that no Plan B is contemplated. This is an ‘all or nothing’ project. As seen from the western elite point of view if they fail in this endeavour there can be no coming back from such a failure, their level of influence will be catastrophically weakened.
Why is this important for them?
The western powers have held sway for generations, they’ve been top dogs and believe this is their rightful status. They have convinced themselves that only they have the ‘right stuff’, the supreme ability to guide and guard all the nations of our world, and to discipline them whenever necessary. These attitudes stem from many sources including mythologies of exceptionalism and superiority, sometimes expressed as ‘The White Man’s Burden’. These myths have been embedded so deeply and been believed in for so long within the U.S. and UK cultures particularly that they are no longer seriously questioned at an elite level.
In the USA the mythology underpinning exceptionalism is particularly strong emanating from the history of those oppressed pilgrims who arrived on North American shore and founded the “perfect” political and moral backdrop which many others in later years believed in so much they considered it was their ‘duty’ to bring their benefits to all others across the globe. In Britain the British Empire, was underpinned by a similar belief in the general superiority of the british over inferior cultures, nations and forms of governance.
With all targeted individual, nations, leaders and forms of government not conforming with western requirements there will remain one significant problem, the possibility that forms of behaviour and modes of thought will arise that could potentially threaten the “perfect” world they had fought so hard to create. It is certain that a vast number of the defeated would not agree at all that all was now perfect within a perfect world with all their previous leaders and institutions replaced, so the need to keep an eye on such people and seek to eliminate them to stop them gaining any vestige of power if left to their own devices would be strong.
A global police state ethos would inevitably emerge with propaganda used as a means of telegraphing the fear of the elites into populations and the assisting in the necessity of creating a citizen-reporting culture far outdoing the present cancel culture. Strict controls on speech and media would accompany such measures. And every channel of communication or action would be monitored at as great a depth as possible that would far outdo the considerable powers that the NSA now have.
You get the picture I am sure.
Currently the goal has its emphasis in weakening Russia with a view to undermining and replacing its present form of governance.Then China and concurrently all other nations that do not conform with western requirements. Those others you will already know something of concerning western attempts to undermine them: Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and a number of others. Each one of these, led by China and Russia represent incalcitrant nations requiring extreme modification and replacement of their systems of governance by whatever means are deemed most effective by the USA and its allies.
A multipolar world where there is a general tolerance for most if not all modes of government and where trade, cultural exchange, economic and financial agreement replace enmity and where sovereignty is sacrosanct free from outside attempts to undermine national modes of being protected by the tenets of the United Nations is unacceptable to the USA and its allies. They have anointed themselves as world’s managers, and since 9/11, its warders. They provide themselves with the ‘right’ to override the sovereignty of others, to flout international law as they see fit and to dominate each and every aspect of others’ lives in their interests, including the right to threaten, sanction, subvert and violently attack any nation as they see fit according to their needs.
These are the aspects that should inform every one of us regarding why it is so very vital that neither Russia nor China be undermined, defeated, weakened or otherwise limited in their ability to lead all nations wishing to retain their freedom and sovereignty. Should they fall then I am confident that you can clearly perceive what will then follow… the inevitable establishment of a virtual prison planet from which the western powers will then ensure there is no possible escape.
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