Links — 23 Feb 2022 PM

Strategic Culture Foundation (German remilitarization — a red flag for Russia. Japan is remilitarizing again, too. Another red flag, since Russia and Japan have never signed a peace treaty owing to disputes.)
Germany Can No Longer Be Put Down
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/23/germany-can-no-longer-be-put-down/

Zero Hedge
JPMorgan Publishes Terrifying Take On What Ukraine Crisis Will Do To Commodity Prices
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpmorgan-publishes-terrifying-take-what-ukraine-crisis-will-do-commodity-prices

WTI Shrugs After Biden Admin Hints At (Another) SPR Release

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/wti-shrugs-after-biden-admin-hints-another-spr-release

Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpmorgan-publishes-terrifying-take-what-ukraine-crisis-will-do-commodity-prices

The Hill
White House preps public for sanctions sticker shock
Brett Samuels and Sylvan Lane

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/595581-white-house-aims-to-prepare-public-for-domestic-fallout-of-ukraine-crisis

Politico (no US troops. "That's WWIII." US public against war over Ukraine.)
The line Biden won’t cross on Ukraine
Nahal Toosi

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/biden-troops-russia-ukraine-00011049

Dissident Voice (like Michael Hudson has said.)
Why the Russian Federation Recognized the Independence Movements in the Donbas
Ajamu Baraka

https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/why-the-russian-federation-recognized-the-independence-movements-in-the-donbas/ 

Popular Resistance
Ukraine, Putin Turns The Tables
Fabrizio Casari, Tortilla Con Sal

https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-putin-turns-the-tables/

Turcopolier
The Wisdom of Dr. Stephen Cohen and Avoiding War With Russia
Larry Johnson

https://turcopolier.com/the-wisdom-of-dr-stephen-cohen-and-avoiding-war-with-russia/

AlterNet
'Malignant normality': Professor of religion explains how the US weaponized Christianity to sacralize war

Kelly Denton-Borhaug

 

and

https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/war-religion/

Originally published at Tom Dispatch

RT — Question More
UK could ban RT to keep ‘one narrative’ – former British ambassador
https://www.rt.com/russia/550381-rt-ban-uk-ofcom-license/

Moscow reacts to US sanctions (expect asymmetrical response)

https://www.rt.com/russia/550356-russia-comment-us-sanctions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS