Links — 4 Feb 2022 AM

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs (must-read)
Look at the map! Where are the Ukrainian military forces concentrated and where are they absent?
Gilbert Doctorow

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/02/04/look-at-the-map-where-are-the-ukrainian-military-forces-concentrated-and-where-are-they-absent/

Southfront (fomenting war in Europe will backfire big time)
U.S. And Its Allies At Final Stage Of Preparing Attack On Russia

https://southfront.org/u-s-and-its-allies-at-final-stage-of-preparing-attack-on-russian-federation/

The Vineyard of the Saker (backgrounder)
Erdogan in Kiev, Putin in Beijing: can neo-Ottomanism fit into Greater Eurasia?
Pepe Escobar
http://thesaker.is/erdogan-in-kiev-putin-in-beijing-can-neo-ottomanism-fit-into-greater-eurasia/

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development

http://thesaker.is/joint-statement-of-the-russian-federation-and-the-peoples-republic-of-china-on-the-international-relations-entering-a-new-era-and-the-global-sustainable-development/

Moon of Alabama (drawing the line)
The Great Russian Chinese Fireworks Of Beijing

MintPress News ("sources say")

MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine 

Alan Macleod

https://www.mintpressnews.com/279612-2/279612/

Zero Hedge

Putin & Xi In Lengthy Statement Blast US "Antagonism" From Europe To Asia
Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-xi-lengthy-statement-blame-us-antagonism-europe-asia

Russia Mocks US False Flag Video Accusation As "Delusional"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-mocks-us-false-flag-video-accusation-delusional

CaitlinJohnstone.com (evidence-free "facts")

Sources Say
Caitlin Johnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/02/04/sources-say/

US Again Tries To Pass Off Government Assertions As Evidence
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/02/04/us-again-tries-to-pass-off-government-assertions-as-evidence/

Turcopolier
The supposed Russian plot smells of baked beans on toast.
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)

TASS

Chinese leader characterizes relations with Russia as "more than allied" — Lavrov (US now facing two-front conflict with peer nuclear powers. Genius strategy, what?)
https://tass.com/politics/1398123

Moscow, Beijing declare Russian-Chinese friendship has no limits, no ‘forbidden areas’
https://tass.com/politics/1398071

China supports Russia’s proposals on security guarantees in Europe — statement
https://tass.com/world/1398001

US bioweapons activity poses threat to Russia, China — joint statement (bioweapons are classified as WMD)
https://tass.com/politics/1398115

Russia, China urge US to abandon plans to deploy missiles to Asia-Pacific region, Europe

https://tass.com/world/1398337

Press review: US pushing Russia, China closer and Ukraine eyes Israel’s Iron Dome

https://tass.com/pressreview/1397751

Russia, China urge US to accelerate elimination of chemical weapons stockpiles — statement (chemical weapons are classified as WMD)

https://tass.com/world/1398053

Macron-Putin meeting to be held in Moscow on February 7 — Kremlin
https://tass.com/politics/1398117

Russian president, German chancellor to meet in Moscow on February 15 — Kremlin
https://tass.com/politics/1398063

Russia and China call for internationalization of Internet governance — statement

https://tass.com/economy/1398177

Russia, China continue work on long-range jet — Kremlin (Boeing in the crosshairs of "competition")
https://tass.com/politics/1398175

NATO’s weapons supplies encouraging Kiev to use force in Donbass — Russian diplomat [Maria Zakharova]
https://tass.com/world/1398169

Gazprom, CNPC sign agreement on supply of 10 bcm of gas from Far East
https://tass.com/economy/1398047

Russian oil companies prepared ‘very good new solutions’ for supplies to China — Putin
https://tass.com/economy/1398041

Russian, US business to expand cooperation despite geopolitics, says Chamber of Commerce
https://tass.com/economy/1398257

Kremlin reveals number of approved agreements during Putin’s visit to China

https://tass.com/politics/1398249

Sputnik International
That's Rich!… False-Flag Experts US & Britain Accuse Russia
https://sputniknews.com/20220204/thats-rich-false-flag-experts-us--britain-accuse-russia-1092748523.html

Lavrov: US Statement Russia Allegedly Preparing Video Provocation to 'Attack' Ukraine is Nonsense

https://sputniknews.com/20220204/lavrov-us-statement-russia-allegedly-preparing-video-provocation-to-attack-ukraine-is-nonsense-1092742438.html

Luhansk Says Preparation of Kiev's Forces for Offensive in Donbass Enters Final Stage

https://sputniknews.com/20220204/luhansk-says-preparation-of-kievs-forces-for-offensive-in-donbass-enters-final-stage-1092744371.html

Consortium News
What a US Trap for Russia in Ukraine Might Look Like (foregone conclusion. The ducks are in place. Russia is expecting it. It will yet another monumental strategic blunder if it happens.)
Joe Lauria

Unable to Produce Evidence, State Dept. Spox Hits Reporter With Russia Smear

Daniel McAdams

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/04/unable-to-produce-evidence-state-dept-spox-hits-reporter-with-russia-smear/

Counterpunch
Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis (backgounder)

John Foster

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/03/pipeline-politics-hits-multipolar-realities-nord-stream-2-and-the-ukraine-crisis/

The American Conservative (neo-Nazis)
From the Archives: Stephen F. Cohen: Kiev’s Atrocities and the Silence of the Hawks (July 2014)
https://usrussiaaccord.org/from-the-archives-stephen-f-cohen-kievs-atrocities-and-the-silence-of-the-hawks-july-2014/

Irrussianality
Fascists in Ottawa. None in Kiev!
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/fascists-in-ottawa-none-in-kiev/

RT
UN names Moscow best world city to live in

https://www.rt.com/russia/548199-un-named-moscow-best-city/

Understanding Society (interesting read from the POV of the history of liberalism)
Alexander Herzen's radical liberalism

Daniel Little | Chancellor (emeritus) of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Philosophy at UM-Dearborn and Professor of Sociology at UM-Ann Arbor

http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2022/02/alexander-herzens-radical-liberalism.html