Monday, April 17, 2023

Links — 17 April 2023 — Geopolitical State of Play

Strategic Culture Foundation
The Slow Art of Whole-of-Government ‘Warfare’
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy

The Duran
As Evgeniy Prigozhin sees it – FULL TRANSCRIPT [good analysis of the Russian position from a Kremlin insider; edited machine translation.]
Seraphim Hanisch

Simplicus, the Thinker
John Bolton Declares Total War on Russia [read with the above; contains a link to Bolton's WSJ op-end with no paywall.]

Meaning In History
Mark Wauck

Reminiscence of the Future
When The Meeting Is "Upgraded". [Russia and China see it coming and are getting ready for it jointly–game on.]
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer

Southfront (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
There Is No Peace in Sight. “Am Afraid that More Difficult Times are Coming”. A Russian Viewpoint
Yevgeni Primakov, "the younger," grandson of the former Soviet official, now head of the head of Rosotrudnichestvo, the Russian Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, compatriots abroad and international humanitarian cooperation interviewed by Dragan VujicicVečernje Novosti, Belgrade

Pekingnology
Josep Borrell's scheduled speech at CCG on China and EU-China relations [transcript of Borrell's speech; same old, same old]
Zichen Wang

Geopolitical Economics
BRICS Bank de-dollarizing, promises 30% of loans in local currencies, new chief Dilma Rousseff says ["gradually moving away from the dollar"]
Ben Norton

Moon of Alabama
How China Is Breaking The Colonial Effects Of Western Lending ["The case of Ghana shows that the IMF, over which the U.S. has a veto, will only lend fresh money if bilateral lenders like China, but not the 'multilateral' IMF or World Bank, nor private 'western' lenders, take haircuts."]
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Scheerpost
Patrick Lawrence: The Disinformation Complex: An Anatomy

Consortium News
Patrick Lawrence: Macron’s Europe

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