Thursday, March 3, 2022

Links - 3 Mar 2022 Part 1

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Russian Intelligence Chief Says Intel Showed Ukraine Was Working on Nukes, US Knew About It
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/russian-intelligence-chief-says-intel-showed-ukraine-was-working-on-nukes-us-knew-about-it-1093559308.html

Pakistan Claims to Have Intercepted India's French-Origin Stealth Submarine - Video
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/pakistan-claims-to-have-intercepted-indias-french-origin-stealth-submarine---video-1093551915.html

US Military Intel Launched Large-Scale Campaign to Recruit PMC Contractors for Ukraine – Russian MoD
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/us-military-intel-launched-large-scale-campaign-to-recruit-pmc-contractors-for-ukraine--russian-mod-1093555001.html

India Explores Alternative Means to Continue Trade With Russia Despite Western Sanctions
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/india-explores-alternative-means-to-continue-trade-with-russia-despite-western-sanctions-1093546396.html

West's Censorship of RT, Sputnik & Psy-Ops Against Russians is Sign of Weakness, Say US Analysts
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/wests-censorship-of-rt-sputnik--psy-ops-against-russians-is-sign-of-weakness-say-us-analysts-1093528682.html

Russia Stops Deliveries of Rocket Engines to US, Roscosmos Head Says
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/russia-stops-deliveries-of-rocket-engines-to-us-roscosmos-head-says-1093546777.html

Dollar's Weaponisation Threatens Its Global Dominance, Economy Professor Warns (It's over. We are now in a multipolar world.)
Tim Korso
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/us-military-intel-launched-large-scale-campaign-to-recruit-pmc-contractors-for-ukraine--russian-mod-1093555001.html

TASS (Russian state media)
US had prior knowledge of Kiev’s plans to go nuclear — [head of] Russian intelligence
https://tass.com/politics/1416255

Putin stresses inadmissibility of politicizing issues of global energy supply (road to war)
https://tass.com/economy/1416221

West trying to destroy Russia’s statehood with its sanctions — SVR head (US lacks "the courage for open confrontation")
https://tass.com/politics/1416219

West fueled neo-Nazi sentiment in Ukraine for years — Russian Foreign Ministry
https://tass.com/politics/1416163

Kiev’s actions now demonstrate bandits at helm in country — Russian Foreign Ministry
https://tass.com/politics/1416149
West ramps up sending mercenaries to Ukraine battle areas — Russian top brass
https://tass.com/politics/1416135

Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine will not have POW status — Russian military (they will be treated as criminals if captured. "Contractors" know this and accept the risk. It's part of the rules of war.)
https://tass.com/politics/1416131

SWIFT will disconnect Russian banks under EU sanctions on March 12
https://tass.com/economy/1416127
https://tass.com/politics/1415981

Zero Hedge
Russia Describes "Hot War" With West To Settle "Post-Soviet Space" Once & For All; Zelensky Urges Direct Putin Meeting
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-forces-lay-siege-ukrainian-seaports-2nd-round-ceasefire-talks-start

After Abstaining In UN Vote, China Blames US & NATO For Ukraine War
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/after-deafening-silence-un-vote-china-blames-us-nato-ukraine-war

Macron Says "Prepare For The Worst" In Ukraine After Disheartening Putin Call
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-says-prepare-worst-ukraine-after-disheartening-putin-call

The Second Cold War Is Here, And Supply Chains Will Be The Front Lines
Craig Fuller, of FreightWaves
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/second-cold-war-here-and-supply-chains-will-be-front-lines

RT (Russian state-sponsored media)
Lavrov makes Napoleon and Hitler comparison over Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/551148-napoleon-hitler-lavrov-interview/

The US and NATO have never been sanctioned for starting wars. Why? (Pregnant question. And then there are the copious war crimes and crimes against humanity from the time of the Korean War to the present, not to mention the braking of US law, e.g. torture that those in the highest offices admitted took place without taking action. "Exceptionalism"? That is a fascist excuse.)
https://www.rt.com/news/550990-us-nato-sanctions-wars/

Pentagon confirms US position on Ukraine no-fly zone (The military wisely does not want to fight a nuclear war with Russia with no ability to neutralize them.)
https://www.rt.com/news/550992-no-fly-zone-ukraine-pentagon/

France threatens to ‘cause the collapse of the Russian economy’ (total economic war)
https://www.rt.com/news/550942-france-economic-war-russia-ukraine/

Iran’s supreme leader weighs in on root cause of Ukraine crisis ("foreign power influence")
https://www.rt.com/news/550938-iran-ayatollah-us-role-ukraine-crisis/

Peoples Dispatch (first non-colonial war involving whites-against-whites since WWII. That's what is "shocking" about it.)
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/03/ukraine-a-conflict-soaked-in-contradictions-and-new-patterns-in-war-and-media/

Oilprice
U.S. Wants To “Degrade” Russia As Oil, Gas Power (China needs all the overland energy it can get to avoid the US Navy.)
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Wants-To-Degrade-Russia-As-Oil-Gas-Power.html

CaitlinJohnstone.com (getting even weirder now. Haven't seen anything like since McCarthy, not that there hasn't been pervasive narrative control all along. Now it is harder with the Internet.)
Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/03/03/spotify-purges-dissident-voices-in-latest-censorship-escalation/

Armstrong Economics (Don't agree with his political opinions but his forecasting model is interesting and he does make some good points in these posts.)
Will Taiwan be Next? (Armstrong's forecasting model says "yes")

Ukraine & Reality (dire)
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/will-taiwan-be-next/
Martin Armstrong

















 


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lastgreek said...

Hypocrisy Over Ukraine

By Evanggelos Vallianatos

I follow the evolution of the war in the Ukraine. The New York Times keeps updating the war by the hour. And while I decry the violence of the war, I cannot overlook the hypocrisy of the West, that is, the American-led NATO military alliance encircling Russia.

The West blessed the Turkish invasion of Cyprus

My mind rushes to 1974 when NATO, primarily America and England, authorized Turkey, a NATO “ally,” to invade Cyprus, a Greek island that had the misfortune of having a Moslem Turkish minority and British military bases.

In order to make the Turkish invasion easy, the Americans ordered Greece to remove its army from Cyprus. The Turks invaded Cyprus, blasting their way through Greek villages and towns, converting Orthodox churches into stables and mosques, killing thousands, and forcing half of the Greek Cypriot population to become refugees.

I don’t remember the West getting upset or imposing sanctions on Turkey. The atrocities of the invading Turks did not fill the pages of major American or European papers or found television reporters who cared to denounce the Turks. And, of course, “neutral” Switzerland failed to freeze Turkish money in its banks.

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End the war in the Ukraine

To put a brake to the raging war in Ukraine, European and American NATO leaders should stop their childish threats and sanctions of Russia. They should invite Putin to a conference for ending the war, promising in an official treaty that Ukraine would never be invited to join NATO.

Such an agreement should be step number one in cooling the tempers of hatred, racism, and anti-Russian hysteria in the West. Remember, Russia and the United States are armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. No sane politician should push insults or threats too far. Putin already ordered his nuclear forces into “special combat readiness.”

The second European / American initiative would be to reorganize the security status of post-Cold War world. Is NATO necessary? Why not replace NATO with a security arrangement that will include America, the European Union, Russia, and China?

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/03/hypocrisy-over-ukraine/

March 3, 2022 at 7:44 PM

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