Links — 8 Dec 2021

India Punchline (situation still on hair trigger)
Biden White House spoofs the Kremlin
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service
https://www.indianpunchline.com/biden-white-house-spoofs-the-kremlin/

Gilbert Doctorow

Biden-Putin Summit: who won the match of wills?

Gilbert Doctorow

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2021/12/08/biden-putin-summit-who-won-the-match-of-wills/

The Vineyard of the Saker
What Putin really told Biden
Pepe Escobar

http://thesaker.is/what-putin-really-told-biden/

Sputnik International (political theater for domestic consumption in the US)

Biden’s Empty Warning Over Putin’s Straw Man ‘Invasion’

https://sputniknews.com/20211208/bidens-empty-warning-over-putins-straw-man-invasion-1091360377.html

Biden Announces Plans for NATO-Russia Meeting to Discuss Moscow's Concerns
https://sputniknews.com/20211208/biden-reportedly-set-to-announce-nato-russia-meeting-to-discuss-mosow-concerns-1091358193.html

Kremlin Rebukes Victoria Nuland After She Claims Putin Seeking to Rebuild USSR
https://sputniknews.com/20211208/kremlin-rebukes-victoria-nuland-after-she-claims-putin-seeking-to-rebuild-ussr-1091356269.html

Ex-Pentagon Adviser [Douglas Macgregor]: Putin-Biden Talks Unlikely to Ease Tensions Amid US Inability to Compromise

Tucker Carlson Warns of Danger of ‘Hot War’ Between US and Russia Over Ukraine [Tucker gets this one right]
https://sputniknews.com/20211208/tucker-carlson-warns-of-danger-of-hot-war-between-us-and-russia-over-ukraine-1091361030.html

Putin: Sanctions Under Pretext of US Security Attempt to Contain Russia's Development

https://sputniknews.com/20211208/putin-sanctions-under-pretext-of-us-security-attempt-to-contain-russias-development-1091361396.html

Zero Hedge
Putin: Would Be "Criminal" To Stand By & "Spinelessly Watch" Ukraine Join NATO
Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-would-be-criminal-stand-spinelessly-watch-ukraine-join-nato

AntiWar

Did Biden Thwart Putin’s ‘Plan” to Invade Ukraine with 175,000 Troops? – Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch

https://raymcgovern.com/2021/12/08/did-biden-thwart-putins-plan-to-invade-ukraine-with-175000-troops/

Oriental Review
The Summit For Democracy Presages Hybrid War Escalations In The New Cold War
Andrew Korybko at One World

https://orientalreview.org/2021/12/08/the-summit-for-democracy-presages-hybrid-war-escalations-in-the-new-cold-war/

MR Online
The age of imperialism is not over—but we can end it

Jason Hickel

Originally at Current Affairs

https://mronline.org/2021/12/08/the-age-of-imperialism-is-not-over-but-we-can-end-it/

People's Dispatch
Amid talks to revive nuclear deal, US imposes fresh sanctions on Iranian entities and officials

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/08/amid-talks-to-revive-nuclear-deal-us-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-iranian-entities-and-officials/

Sputnik International
China Warns Canada of Investment Exodus if It Believes Huawei Risks 'Invented' by US

https://sputniknews.com/20211208/china-warns-canada-of-investment-exodus-if-it-believes-huawei-risks-invented-by-us-1091342806.html

The Hill
Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention
Reid Wilson
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/584835-conservatives-prepare-new-push-for-constitutional-convention

Venezuelanalysis
Venezuela: Guaidó Increasingly Isolated as UN Recognizes Maduro Gov’t in ‘Resounding’ Vote
José Luis Granados Ceja

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15405