Links — 23 Dec 2021

Strategic Culture Foundation (the gas goes to China rather than Europe)

Exit Nord Stream 2, Enter Power of Siberia 2 — Strategic Culture

Pepe Escobar

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/23/exit-nord-stream-2-enter-power-of-siberia-2/

Sputnik International ("Putin revealed that Moscow and Beijing have teamed up to develop high-tech weapons, cooperating in space and aviation")
From Ukraine Crisis to Gender Politics: Key Takeaways From Putin's 2021 Presser

Daria Bedenko

https://sputniknews.com/20211223/from-ukraine-crisis-to-gender-politics-key-takeaways-from-putins-2021-presser-1091746890.html

The Vineyard of the Saker (video with translation, no transcript yet)
Putin: Annual Press Conference
The Saker

http://thesaker.is/putin-annual-press-conference/

Counterpunch
Putin Says Ukraine Peace Up to US
Len Bracken
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/23/putin-says-peace-in-ukraine-is-up-to-us/

2022 — Year of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine

Scott Ritter

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/23/2022-year-of-major-power-conflict-over-ukraine/

POLITICO (A US view)
Russian buildup near Ukraine gains steam, new satellite images show
Paul McLeary

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/23/russia-buildup-ukraine-satellite-images-526109

Russia Observer

RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 23 DECEMBER 2021
Patrick Armstrong, retired analyst and diplomat (2008) serving in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia from 1984 and a Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow in 1993-1996.

https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2021/12/23/russian-federation-sitrep-23-december-2021/

Moon of Alabama
U.S. Navy Acknowledges Russian Weapon Superiority

Counterpunch
America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral
Walter L. Hixson is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Akron
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/americas-foreign-policy-death-spiral/

India Punchline
US plays Tibet card as India seeks modus vivendi with China

M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

https://www.indianpunchline.com/us-plays-tibet-card-as-india-seeks-modus-vivendi-with-china/

Asia Times

Folly to base China-bashing on questionable allegations

Ken Moak

https://asiatimes.com/2021/12/folly-to-base-china-bashing-on-questionable-allegations/

Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the $94 Trillion World Economy in One Chart