Sunday, February 27, 2022

Links — 27 Feb 2022 Part 1

Reminiscence of the Future
About SWIFT and Russia's Central Bank.
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/about-swift-and-russias-central-bank.html

India Punchline
German military on the rebound
https://www.indianpunchline.com/german-military-on-the-rebound/

India shouldn’t miss world war pointer
https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-shouldnt-miss-world-war-pointer/
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

Strategic Culture Foundation (US-alleged Russian intel sponsored media)
The ‘Constructive Destruction’ of Russia’s Model of Relations with the West
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/27/constructive-destruction-of-russia-model-of-relations-with-west/

Moon of Alabama
Disarming Ukraine - Day 4
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-4.html

The MoA Week In Review - OT 2022-018 (NOT Ukraine)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2022-018-not-ukraine.html

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
How Western Press Has Kept Silent For Years on War in Donbass & Neo-Nazism in Ukraine (Control of the information space. The Western public knows nothing about this. The little that gets through is dismissed as conspiracy theory)

Putin Puts Russian Nuclear Deterrence Forces on High Alert Over Aggressive Statements by NATO
https://sputniknews.com/20220227/putin-slams-western-permissiveness-of-aggressive-speeches-in-russias-direction-by-nato-officials-1093422175.html

UK's Truss Claims Unless Russian Op in Ukraine is Stopped, It May Result in Conflict With NATO
https://sputniknews.com/20220227/uks-truss-claims-unless-russian-op-in-ukraine-is-stopped-it-may-result-in-conflict-with-nato-1093416235.html

Scholz: Germany to Build 2 LNG Terminals to Reduce Dependency on Some Energy Producers
https://sputniknews.com/20220227/scholz-germany-to-build-2-lng-terminals-to-reduce-dependency-on-some-energy-producers-1093421725.html

Putin Assures Israel's Bennett Russia Ready to Talk to Ukraine, Says Kiev Showing 'Inconsistency'
https://sputniknews.com/20220227/putin-assures-israels-bennett-russia-ready-to-talk-to-ukraine-says-kiev-showing-inconsistency-1093419609.html

Russia-Europe Gas Transit Through Ukraine to Remain at Near Maximum Capacity, Operator Says
https://sputniknews.com/20220227/russias-gazprom-continues-transit-of-gas-via-ukraine-in-regular-mode-1093418875.html

As West Slaps Another Package of Sanctions on Russia, Analyst [Dr. Raz Zimmt] Mulls Over Their Effectiveness (Iran)
Elizabeth Blade
https://sputniknews.com/20220227/as-west-slaps-another-package-of-sanctions-on-russia-analyst-mulls-over-their-effectiveness-1093412045.html

https://www.rt.com/news/550748-china-sanctions-dont-work
https://tass.com/economy/1412459

Zero Hedge
Standing Up To Putin Means Ditching Net-Zero
Rupert Darwall via RealClearEnergy.org,
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/standing-putin-means-ditching-net-zero

In "Unacceptable Escalation", Putin Orders "Nuclear Deterrence" Forces On Alert ("Brinksmanship" returns)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-orders-nuclear-deterrence-high-alert-nato-warns-unacceptable-escalation

Putin meets with Russian defense minister and chief of general staff (The Stavka is calling teh shots now)
https://tass.com/politics/1412577
https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/overextending-and-unbalancing-russia-rand-corporation 



 



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5 comments:

lastgreek said...

Greek news reporting that at least 10 Greek deaths in the border city of Mariupolis in Donetsk. The Greek foreign minister has called in the Russian ambassador to the Greek foreign ministry office for Greek coffee and biscuits.

Also, Erdogan trying to have it both ways. No, I don't mean sexually. He wants to mediate talks between the Russians and the Ukrainians.

Btw, while the Ukrainians were dumb enough to purchase last year useless Turkish drones, the Turks themselves with the proceeds were seeking to purchase sophisticated Russian anti-aircraft missiles.

Also, what you haven't seen here in the North American news. Zelensky asked the Turks to close the Bosphorus [a Greek word, I wonder why...] strait to Russian warships. The Turks told them can do. LOL... The strait is, and will remain, OPEN. Will the Ukrainians ever learn how nation-interests work?

February 27, 2022 at 10:01 AM
lastgreek said...

You know, am bad with names sometimes. I once said, "Operation Barbarella" instead of "Operation Barbarossa." Great movie Barbarella. Thought Jane Fonda was sexiest woman ever.

But seriously, we're always reminded of how the Russians defeated the Germans in WWII. Yeah, but have anyone here ever wondered what would have happened had the Germans not terminated the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after their invasion ("war of conquest?) of Poland?

I'll tell you:

Poland would have been sliced up between the Germans and Russians. Other countries would soon follow for "slicing."

Then the Soviet Union's Jews would have been handed over to the Germans.

I think we're lucky that Hitler never read War and Peace.

Me, two things I got from reading War and Peace.

1: Never, ever!, be dumb enough to invade a massive, damn cold land mass like Russia, especially when winter is only a month away.

2: Salty baked potato recipe. So humble, so simply delicious :)

February 27, 2022 at 11:14 AM
Peter Pan said...

Who was more beautiful - Barbarella or Pygar the blind angel?

February 27, 2022 at 11:27 AM
lastgreek said...

I saw that movie way back when America had a peanut farmer as president. Haven't watched it since. Maybe if TCM shows it i'll watch it All i remember is a young Jane Fonda That's it.

February 27, 2022 at 12:36 PM
lastgreek said...

Noticed the Mosler on his twitter page has the initials MMT under a square root symbol.

I always hated the look of that math symbol. I dunno, it just looks too pointy in a scary way to me. That's why I prefer the use of fractional exponents. Much more presentable and also easier for calculations. It's all in the look/presentation. And don't get me started on the calculus symbols...

Btw, in the "what they never told you in math class" department: You know, the y-axis and x-axis in the Cartesian plane are perpendicular to each other. Doesn't have to be that way, or necessary -- just tradition. but i guess it's easier on the eyes ;)

February 27, 2022 at 12:51 PM

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