NATO summit is over.

There was no false flag before the summit and Zelensky accepted his fate going to the summit empty-handed without any progress in the counteroffensive.

He really wanted to come to impress with big gains but Ukrainian army couldn't get beyond grey zone area.

Important analysis from Alexander Mercouris. This guy does a 1 hr vid daily and though is very insightful and contains inside info can be a bit slow so I don't post but this one is significant as he shows why the NATO summit was a turning point for the West's support for Zelensky. He reports on several private meetings by Biden and UK defence minister with Zelensky.






Frontline SitRep. Russia starting to move forward in east and south.






The real business done at the NATO summit.



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Update: The NATO war plan for its upcoming war with Russia was approved recently at the NATO Conference in Lithuania. The 4,000 page plan includes the following provisions:

- The commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe will be able to make some decisions without consulting with the alliance.

- The deployment of 300,000 troops to the Russian border in a high degree of readiness!

- Germany will become the main logistics hub for the alliance forces, and a second headquarters of NATO ground forces in Wiesbaden, Germany!

- Several countries will take over the support of the allies on the eastern flank, including Germany, in Lithuania, Great Britain n Estonia, Canada in Latvia!

- NATO will strengthen the protection of pipelines and other critical infrastructure across Europe!

- The Alliance will strengthen units with heavy weapons, increase stocks of long-range missiles and artillery systems (even with shortages of ammunition)!

NATO is still pushing for Ukraine to fight to degrade Russian forces! NATO may not be ready for war, but it’s planning for it anyway!

(based on this article (behind paywall))

https://www.economist.com/international ... end-europe




The reality seems to be that the west has only just woken up to the fact that they have run down their armed forces over the last 20 years because they were only ever fighting people living in tents and now they see their short comings trying to fight an equal adversary. To get back up to speed is going to take 2 years+ before they can even think of threatening Russia (or China) which is what they really want to do in order to save their world order hegemony.

Ogee wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:06 pm

Reminder that, as Zelensky said, young Ukrainians are queuing up to join the army.


Meanwhile, not so healthy being a civilian either,



True, the US could end it all tomorrow, but ... nah.

Ogee wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 8:37 pm

As per the interview in the first post this morning, the US and NATO are turning against Zelensky with Biden reputedly demanding Ukraine get to the coast cutting off Crimea by November or it's all over, an impossible task at this stage. Next year Biden will have the elections to worry about and does not want this debacle overhanging his campaign.

During the NATO summit in Vilnius, the United States discussed the possibility of withdrawing an invitation to Ukraine to become a member of the alliance, reports The Washington Post (WP) citing sources.

According to them, Washington’s displeasure was caused by a post on Twitter by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he criticized Western countries for indecision.

Zelensky said that the final communiqué would not include a time frame for inviting Kyiv to the alliance, nor for the country's membership itself. He called it "unprecedented and absurd", which, according to the WP, infuriated members of the US delegation who attended the summit


New 35 min interview with Ritter on the latest and he (and Orban, see above post) is completely correct. Ukraine no longer functions as a country and is totally dependent on the west for day to day survival. NATO has lost and Ukraine will be split up by Russia as a safe guard to their border. Zelensky should never have trusted the west to come and save him, they were never going to go to war with Russia over the Ukraine.

Ogee wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 8:37 pm

Hahahahaha

We don't need to create Mossad, we already have it - Kyrylo Budanov

these days, the head of intelligence cannot remain in the shadows: without it, it is no longer possible. All subsequent wars in any country in the world will look the same. We can say that we are setting a trend in this;

in 2014, we completely lost the information war. In 2022, we began to act differently, and now the Russians are losing the information battle;

we have our own sources: let's say, in the offices closest [to Putin]. So for the most part, we know what's going on;

the recent attempted mutiny of Prigozhin shook the Kremlin regime, added difficulties and instability to it;

speaking of the Mossad as a well-known organization that eliminates the enemies of its state, we have done it and will continue to do it. We don't need to create anything since it already exists;

regarding the attempt of the Russians to launch a rocket attack on the building of the department: this was not their first attempt. But, as you can see, we are here again - in the main rooms of this building. Everything works as it should.

Reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uk ... 023-07-14/)

https://babel.ua/en/news/96267-the-pres ... as-refused


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The President of South Africa requested that the Russian delegation to the BRICS summit be headed by Foreign Minister Lavrov instead of Putin but was refused
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa asked Russia to send Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the BRICS summit in August instead of Putin, who was issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for the deportation of Ukrainian children.

South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile said this in an interview with the Mail & Guardian newspaper; his words are quoted by the Bloomberg agency.

Mashatile said Ramaphosa had been rejected. He added that "discussions with Putin" regarding his visit to the summit are still "ongoing."

"We understand that we have obligations under the Rome Statute, but we cannot invite someone and then arrest them. You can understand our dilemma. We will be happy if he does not come,” said Mashatile.

Earlier, Ramaphosa publicly stated that he expects Putin to attend the BRICS summit in August, despite the fact that the country is obliged to arrest him and hand him over to the International Criminal Court.

On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Presidentʼs Commissioner for Childrenʼs Rights. They are accused of directing the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, which is a war crime. Children were taken out without the permission of relatives out of Ukraine, in Russia, they were granted citizenship. For this purpose, Putin passed a number of decrees that simplified these procedures, and Lvova-Belova carried out his instructions. Together with their parents, up to 150,000 children could be deported to Russia (just over 300 were returned). For the fifth time in its history, the International Court of Justice issues a warrant for the arrest of a sitting president. He can be arrested by a country that has ratified the Rome Statute.
South Africa is a signatory to the Rome Statute. In view of this, she is forced to arrest Putin. The authorities of South Africa have assured that they will comply with the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. However, it has in the past violated its agreement with the Rome Statute when it did not arrest former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
The media reported that South Africa is considering moving the BRICS summit to China to avoid Putinʼs arrest. On May 30, it became known that the South African Republic announced that it would grant diplomatic immunity to the participants of two meetings during the BRICS summit
Bloomberg: South Africa guaranteed diplomatic immunity to the participants of the BRICS summit, which Putin plans to attendBloomberg: South Africa guaranteed diplomatic immunity to the participants of the BRICS summit, which Putin plans to attend
, but these immunities do not cancel any warrants from international tribunals.

Reminder that the Minsk peace agreements were just a ruse by the west to fool Russia while they built up the Ukrainian armed forces for war, as admitted here by Ex-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and already admitted by Merkle and Marcon. To lure Russia into a war was always the objective. War and sanctions were supposed to degrade Russia to the point the US could then concentrate solely on China to prevent losing it's hegemony in the unipolar world it inherited after WW2.








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This only once again confirms the fact that Russia will have to destroy Ukraine as a state, no matter how much some Russian elites would like to negotiate a peace.

“In order to defeat Russia, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine insists on fighting on his terms”: Zaluzhny intends to kill “as much as necessary” on Russian territory and return Crimea at any cost.
Zaluzhny - in an interview with The Washington Post::
[Strikes on the territory of Russia] Why should I ask someone for permission what to do in enemy territory? For some reason I must think that I can't do anything there. Why? Because Putin will use nuclear weapons? Dying children don't care. This is our problem, and it is up to us to decide how to destroy this enemy. In war, you can and should kill on its territory. If our partners are afraid to use their weapons, we will kill with our own. But only as much as needed.
[About Crimea attack] As soon as I have funds, I will do something. I don't give a damn - no one can stop me.
[About the head of the General Staff Gerasimov] He is an enemy - an enemy who is very smart. Clever and therefore cunning. He is still strong. Therefore, he must be respected and find ways to kill him. Because that's the only way to win."



(who knows if this is the real Zaluzhny recovered after being injured or still the double with the wrong eye colour who replaced him a month or so ago?)


Frontline SitRep. No major change.

US war escalation timeline.




Meanwhile US intel admitting the counteroffensive is affectively over and was basically a total failure. Fails to mention the prospect of a Russian offensive against an exhausted Ukrainian army.


The representative of the intelligence department of the US Department of Defense, John Kirshhofer, told Bloomberg that the military conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine has entered a dead end.

Moreover, he believes that the provision of cluster bombs and long-range Storm Shadow missiles to the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not fundamentally change the course of hostilities:

“None of them, unfortunately, is the holy grail that the Ukrainians are looking for and that will allow them to break through.”

The “successful counteroffensive” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be considered over.


Short Ritter segment for news show, love the guy opposite shaking his head like all the western propaganda was actually true






Extended analysis with ex US Marine Brian Berletic and guests from just a couple of days ago. 1 hr 30 min on current situation of the 2 armies and equipment, the NATO summit, and where to next. Well researched and informative opinion.