RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.12.2023
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.
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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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Lead feature:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Putin: No Ukraine NATO Ever, Lavrov: Not Talking to Kiev, US; Ukr Losing Krynky; US Yemen Strike.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Putin, no interest in West Ukraine. Elensky, US will not betray us. Colorado removes Trump.
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
German Chancellor Scholz struggles to keep coalition together.
DANNY HAIPHONG
Russia will FINISH Ukraine on Putin's Terms and NATO is Worried.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
'Putin didn't want the war.'
Ukraine Crumbling under Russia's Relentless Assaults. How Long can Kiev Survive?"
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
JEFFREY SACHS FULL INTERVIEW ABOUT GEOPOLITIC UKRAINE WAR, INDIA - CHINA RELATION WITH U.S POLICY.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
A river runs through it.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - RICHARD MEDHURST
NATO's Ancient ruins!
EMIL COSMAN
NATO's losing, they "have to FLIP the NARATIVE, say Putin's failed, Ukraine should declare victory."
Weasel Zelensky stabs Military in the back. Ukraine Military wants to mobilize 500,000 extra men.
Ukraine's restrictions on Orthodox Church of Ukraine violate Int'l Law. UN Human Rights Report.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
Extremely Ignorant and Dangerous Policies.
ANDREI MARTYANOV
This and That.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
President Xi Jinping meets with visiting Russian PM in Beijing.
BREAKING POINTS
Ukraine Aid 'DEAD ON ARRIVAL' Says Freedom Caucus Chair.
BORZZIKMAN
NATO's Jaw Dropped! Russia Has Deployed The Newest Version Of SAGW 'PANTSIR-SM' To UKRAINE.
DEEP WEAPONS
Ukrainian Infiltration Force in Bakhmut Destroyed By Russian Drone Units.
GLENN GREENWALD
SUPERCUT: Calling All Establishment Enemies “HITLER.”
Musk/X Officially Targeted by EU for Israel “Hate Speech”.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
American Professor John Mearshimer Exclusive Interview On Israel-Palestine Conflict.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER
Israel Will LOSE Its War on Gaza and the US is Powerless to Stop It.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Will Israel’s Gaza Genocide Reshuffle the Regional & Global Order?
KATIE HALPER
Palestinian Journalist DISMANTLES State Dept, American Jews Take On AIPAC.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
The History of Antisemitism, Zionism & Palestinian Resistance to Colonization, w/ As’ad Abukhalil.
KIM IVERSEN
Netanyahu Admits He Thwarted 2-State Solution.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
"Israel has lost in every possible way! There is no going back..."
RICHARD MEDHURST
GAZA WAR UPDATE: Israeli Trade Destroyed by Yemen Siege, Resistance Targets Officers & More.
NOVARA MEDIA
Brazen Lie From Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Caught On LBC.
Houthi Attacks on Shipping Risk Spread of Gaza War | #NovaraLIVE
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Danny Haiphong Joins | Yemen's Blockade & Operation Prosperity Guardian | Record Profits for MIC.
Conflating Zionists with Jews is Key to Israel's Colonial Project | Al Sharpton Tap Dances for Massa.
BREAKING POINTS
Pope ACCUSES Israel Of TERRORISM After Christians Shot At Church.
Biden Campaign DELUSIONAL As Trump Victory Looms.
SINO SPHERE
UAE Abandons U.S Hegemony, Runs to China For Yuan Investments.
ACTIVISM MUNICH
Selenskyj bittet die USA um Geld während der US-Journalist Gonzalo Lira gefoltert wird.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
U.S. Massive Support for Israel - Historical Account.
Article from Sputnik International - 20th December 2023:
Ukraine - Another Lost US/NATO War With No Regrets.
One of the enigmatic aspects of international politics is that big and militarily superior countries have systematically lost wars in smaller countries over the last 50 years, from Vietnam to Ukraine.
"Losing" here means military defeat, being forced out, losing the struggle for the hearts and minds of the people, and facing fiasco when it comes to achieving the professed noble motives like introducing human rights, democracy, freedom or liberating women. And given the tremendous human costs, particularly in the Middle East, the US' "Global War on Terror" since September 11, 2001 is also an intellectual and moral disaster.
The US - by far the world's largest military spender, interventionist, warrior, occupier, global base-builder with the most militarized foreign policy - is in a class of its own. In losing wars too.
It is now rapidly losing legitimacy, relevance and credibility in the eyes of most of the world outside US/NATO/EU/ANPO/AUKUS. Firstly, all these imperial militarist adventures have been woefully anti-intellectual and imbued with the arrogance of power, elements of racism and hubris. Secondly, after quite predictable fiascos and defeats - such as in Iraq - there comes a time when propaganda, psychological operations (PSYOPS), media influencing, and psycho-political projection no longer do the trick.
There comes a time, too, when even the biggest military spender and economy cannot finance its weapons addiction and its arsenals of weapons and ammunition dry up.
It's called over-extension and diminishing legitimacy in the eyes of others, it's called militarism to death and is transforming into imperial decline and eventual fall. No empires have lasted forever and that of the US/NATO world will be the last. No one is so foolish to believe that, in an incredibly diverse world, everybody else would accept one player to be the all-dominating system and shape others into its own image. Missionary times are a thing of the past.
Enter Ukraine. NATO set itself up in Kiev immediately after it became independent and declared in 2008 that it would become a member of the alliance. It was a gross violation of the promises indisputably given to the last Soviet President, Michael Gorbachev, but such was the unipolar we-can-do-whatever-we-want sentiment.
In an autistic manner, NATO refused to listen to Russia's legitimate security concerns and also did not bother about the fact that there was only a tiny minority among the Ukrainian people in favour of membership of NATO. Instead, a regime change in Kiev was all that was needed: installing a pro-Western leadership, paying it well and giving it an offer it could not refuse by wooing it step-by-step into the ever-expanding alliance.
Russia then put its foot down, and insult had to be added to injury: We will help you, Ukraine, for as long as it takes for you to win "our" war against Russia and "weaken" it; you'll be covered the whole way, just fight for us to the last Ukrainian.
Thus, Part One with the expansion and wooing, and Part Two with the militarization and proxy war - but no membership of NATO, which would commit NATO troops to Ukrainian soil and cost NATO lives. Now comes Part Three - the abandonment and Ukraine on desolation row to be fixed by a faltering EU.
Here, the Palestine-Israel conflict comes in handy. The political and media attention on Ukraine has diminished significantly, while Ukraine's counter-offensive has stalled, and internal conflicts in Kiev accelerate.
The NATO blame game is on: We gave you all the weapons, ammunition and training we could, but you did not manage the military struggle well; your leadership is falling apart, and you are not as grateful to us as we had expected, and so on. And do not expect NATO or EU membership in the near future (no matter what we say for the public).
Obviously, nobody wants to be associated with such a political, economic, military, legal and moral fiasco. Not the US and NATO's leaders, who, from a historical perspective, provoked it in Part One and, instead of admitting it, continued to Part Two and Three.
The EU has not been able to develop its own policies on the Ukraine conflict. It followed the US blindly, installed history's toughest sanctions and completely isolated the largest European state, Russia, from Europe. Sweden and Finland willingly let themselves be pushed into NATO for no serious reason. Then followed the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the largest ever infrastructure destruction (most likely carried out by the US because President Biden and other leaders said they would do just that and because of the silence and lack of official reports explaining who did what).
Weapons depots are becoming emptied, and now, to put it crudely, the Union looks increasingly wobbly politically while undergoing its deepest ever economic crisis. Germany's economic and political situation looks bleak. The EU area is likely to also be heavily hit by the long-term repercussions of the violence in the Middle East.
The EU's helter-skelter knee-jerk reaction to Russia's military operations in Ukraine prevented any analyses of likely consequences in the short-, mid- and long-term of these measures, which were as ill-considered and irrational as they were drastic. Russia, on the other hand, will get out of this quagmire much better than the EU.
While the US is comparatively well protected from the negative consequences of its policies, its European allies are not. The burdens on the civilian economy caused by warfare, militarism, tremendous re-armament, and refugee flows - and thereby, depletion of resources urgently needed for European infrastructure, climate change measures and welfare investments - paint a dark picture of the future.
It will likely become a guns-before-butter society, and future generations will have to pay the bills.
As time goes by, people will take to the street - for themselves and/or in support of, say, the Palestinians. Simultaneously, the far right will see its dawn as the economic crisis deepens.
While the West declines and implodes - more with a whimper than with a bang - one scenario for the next decade or so may well contain the fragmentation and possible dissolution of NATO.
Ukraine - Another Lost US/NATO War With No Regrets.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
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M MAPPING UPDATE
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RYBAR MAPPING UPDATE
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HS MAPPING UPDATE
Massive Russian Advance North Of Bakhmut In The Direction Of Chasiv Yar | Russia Enters Bohdanivka.
FREE RUSSIA MAPPING CHANNEL
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WEEB UNION MAPPING UPDATE
RUAF Enters Novomykhailivka | Bohdanivka | Shell Famine "Nothing Works" - Ukrianian Soldier.
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 NEW RUSSIAN CENTURY
The entire western world is in steep decline. The USA, its primary leader without democratic mandate, is in the process of decapitating itself through its Ukraine and Israel policies. Collateral damage is being felt across its allies in the UK and European Union.
Meanwhile, the nations of the global south are treating the West’s demand that they criticise and ostracise Russia with disdain. In fact they are drawing ever closer to Russia, cooperating ever more fully with her seeking to trade and take advantage of her bounteous resources.
The geopolitical world has clearly reached an extremely important watershed moment. The power to command, dominate, manipulate and threaten the entire world from Washington and Whitehall is dissipating steadily on a daily basis.
In Ukraine it has all gone wrong for the western powers. Ukraine was supposed to be a battering ram with which to crush the population of Russia and make them turn against and oust Vladimir Putin from power. The Ukraine-effect was supposed to destroy the Russian economy while terminally weakening its army.
Instead of the above Vladimir Putin is more popular than ever, the Russian economy is growing at a rate of 3.5% currently and the Russian army is larger, more competent and stronger than ever.
BRICS, of which Russia is a leading member along with China, is expanding and will reach forty members if all those applying are accepted into its ranks. Many of those applying were erstwhile allies of the USA and UK which must surely be a signally painful fact for those nations. It can now be said that the majority of nations on the planet now oppose continued western hegemony. This is a startling change to be remembered when western politicos talk of ‘The International Community’ as if it’s meant to convey the majority of nations. The West has lost the right to speak in this way.
As one power falls another rises.
China is by far the greatest power facing the USA and its proxies. China is the economic peer competitor to the USA and a constant expansion in its influence is being felt in areas the West has considered its own fiefdoms until now. We can see the U.S. and its proxies doing all they can to undermine the expansion of China’s win-win economic connections with other nations across Asia and beyond. Its war against China is still at the nascent stage with the main battles still ahead.
It is none other than Russia however that has taken upon itself to resist the desire of the USA and its allies to shore up its much sought after hegemony, global control through full spectrum dominance of air, land, sea and space with surveillance powers encompassing every last living soul worldwide.
Russia it is that reflects the shining spearhead against the waning, but still powerful, forces of the collective west. Russia was the power to stand firm and state, “Thus far and no more!” against the tide of U.S. belligerence moving steadily toward it. In Syria and now in Ukraine Russia has and is defending the East against the predatory ambitions of the West.
In Syria Russia stepped in after four years in which the USA, UK, France, Turkey and others sought to use proxies to bring down Bashar al Assad unleashing an unstoppable terrorist horde who would have undoubtedly installed a caliphate there if not defeated. Russia was their nemesis. Russia it was, through its powerful intervention, removed their threat along with the Syrian Arab Army and relegated the terrorists to the corner of Syria that is Idlib.
In Ukraine Russia is inexorably defeating the collective west even as the western powers do everything in their power to hinder Russia’s inevitable success in achieving the goals it set itself. The Donbass region will transfer in full to Russia within the next six months and quite possibly much more. Any attack upon this new Russian soil will be dealt with severely, sending a very definite message to those opposing Russia.
The Ukrainian regime will capitulate or cease to exist. There are no other options than these two. Its western backers will also be made to sign up to a new security architecture for Europe that includes the security in perpetuity of Russia. If it does not agree to this then Ukraine may well be made to fail completely as a viable state and mostly be subsumed into the Russian Federation and its sphere of influence. The war between Russia and the collective west will then continue with Russia united in opposition along with most of the rest of the world.
The message to the West is that Russia has fully regained its status as a sovereign world power capable of facing down any threat directed at it, that it has regained full confidence and competence across all important fields of endeavour, that it has assembled a coalition of many extremely powerful friends and now fears absolutely no one
Russia has gained the admiration and respect of the global south rather than its criticism through its robust military posture regarding the adventurism of the USA, its proxies and their tool, NATO. Nations are lining up to join Russia in the BRICS network, some of them long time allies of the USA and western world in general. In fact these nations were reluctant allies of an ever-aggressive western world that they feared. Now there is an alternative protective force that can shield them from any further attempts by the West to coerce them into servitude.
It is Russia that has been gaining all the while as the West, seen as an agent of chaos and instability across the global south and in Asia, has steadily lost influence. The disastrous regime change wars of choice instigated by the West post 9/11 have brought it into disrepute as an untrustworthy friend of ally, more a threat than friend in fact. The way the U.S. found it easy to break its word over the Iranian nuclear agreement showed just how untrustworthy it can be.
NATO, rather than not moving an inch further east as promised by multiple political elites of the West to Gorbachev, has desired to move right to Russia’s doorstep. We now see the response that Russia has given that betrayal. Now, with Iran and Turkey (a NATO member of course) we see a widening of the response against a western world requiring immediate quarantining.
As the West spirals down into debt, social discord and interminable disunity, economic disaster and unlimited disharmony the nations of Eurasia reflect the polar opposite where profitable interconnection and unity are the order of the day. Local currencies are being used ever more frequently in place of the dollar thus closing another route for western belligerence.
Much of the above is being led by Russia. And much of all else by China. Truly these two in mutual respect and heightening cooperation are leading a process that will eventuate in the creation of a new, multipolar world. In the background, China lends support and provides moral encouragement to the nation and leader who are at the forefront during the facing down of the West.
That nation is of course Russia, and her president, Vladimir Putin.
So, all of the above being taken into consideration, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that we have now entered THE NEW RUSSIAN CENTURY.
Thank you for your updates! I cannot even imagine how much time each of them would require!