Links — 19 Feb 2022 AM

Ray McGovern
Russia & Ukraine: The Critical Hour – A Light Conversation on Dark Subjects
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/2022/02/19/russia-ukraine-the-critical-hour-a-light-conversation-on-dark-subjects/

Moon of Alabama

Russia Is Pressing For More Concessions While Donbas Heats Up

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/russia-is-pressing-for-more-concessions-while-donbas-heats-up.html

RT (Russian state-sponsored media)
Putin warned the West, but the West didn't listen

Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

https://www.rt.com/russia/549342-putin-against-old-world-order/

The West still misunderstands the man [Deng Xiaoping] who shaped China’s rise

Tom Fowdy

https://www.rt.com/news/549867-deng-xiaoping-china-rise/

Reminiscence of the Future

Olaf Scholz Came In Handy...

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/olaf-scholz-came-in-handy.html

A Bit of a Broadside and a MisnomerA Bit of a Broadside and a Misnomer

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-bit-of-broadside-and-misnomer.html

Here Is My Talking Head.

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/here-is-my-talking-head.html

Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues.

India Punchline

Moscow’s coercive diplomacy is working

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

https://www.indianpunchline.com/moscows-coercive-diplomacy-is-working/

The Cradle
The twists and turns of Erdogan’s foreign policy

Pepe Escobar

https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/6915https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/6915

TASS (Russian state media) [Germany out on a limb over supporting Ukrainian neo-Nazis]
German chancellor’s claims about genocide in Donbass unacceptable - Foreign Ministry

https://tass.com/world/1406425

Russia to send to Germany evidence of mass graves in Donbass after Scholz’s charges
https://tass.com/politics/1406445

Border guards say stray shells crash on Russian territory near Ukraine

https://tass.com/world/1406439

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
America Ignored Warning NATO Expansion Would Be Greatest Blunder Since Cold War, Ex-US Diplomat Says
https://sputniknews.com/20220219/america-ignored-warning-nato-expansion-would-be-greatest-blunder-since-cold-war-ex-us-diplomat-says-1093182617.html

How the US is Benefitting From Escalating Ukraine Crisis Into West-Russia Conflict

https://sputniknews.com/20220219/how-the-us-is-benefitting-from-escalating-ukraine-crisis-into-west-russia-conflict-1093185192.html

Consortium News (calling BS)
Biden Says He’s Convinced Putin Has Decided to Invade
Joe Lauria

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/18/biden-says-hes-convinced-putin-has-decided-to-invade/

Anti-Bellum (Kamala gets some exposure to up perception of her foreign policy chops. Confirms Democrats are warmongers.)
Harris threatens Russia with unprecedented sanctions, further military buildup on its border
Rick Rozoff

https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2022/02/19/harris-threatens-russia-with-unprecedented-sanctions-further-military-buildup-on-its-border/

Covert Action Magazine
As U.S. Threatens War with Russia, Biden Administration Unveils Imperial Strategy for Indo-Pacific That Could Lead to War with China
Jeremy Kuzmarov

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/02/19/as-u-s-threatens-war-with-russia-biden-administration-unveils-imperial-strategy-for-indo-pacific-that-could-lead-to-war-with-china/

Turcopolier ("the Ziocons made us do it")
Ansar Allah (Houthis), yet another group of real fighters that the US has managed to make into enemies.
https://turcopolier.com/ansar-allah-houthis-yet-another-group-of-real-fighters-that-that-the-us-has-managed-to-make-into-enemies/

Trudeau is Canadian? Amazing.

https://turcopolier.com/trudeau-is-canadian-amazing/

Looks like the Ukies are doing most of the shelling

https://turcopolier.com/looks-like-the-ukies-are-doing-most-of-the-shelling/

Col. (ret.) Pat Lang

The Vineyard of the Saker
Experts from Russia, Europe and US discussed the reasons for the geopolitical clash of the West with Russia
Batko Milacic for the Saker Blog
http://thesaker.is/experts-from-russia-europe-and-us-discussed-the-reasons-for-the-geopolitical-clash-of-the-west-with-russia/

Lavrov Trolls Blinken ‘Real Men Do What They Say’

The Saker

http://thesaker.is/lavrov-trolls-blinken-real-men-do-what-they-say/