Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Links — 22 Feb 2022

Vineyard of the Saker (Orloff has a good grasp of things Russian)
The day Russia’s patience ran out
Dmitry Orloff
https://thesaker.is/the-day-russias-patience-ran-out/

The Crusaders are very, very angry. Who cares? (Russia caught the West off-guard. They did not see it coming.)
http://thesaker.is/the-crusaders-are-very-very-angry-who-cares/

Andrei Martyanov’s take on the events of the day (video)
http://thesaker.is/andrei-martyanovs-take-on-the-events-of-the-day/

Strategic Culture Foundation
The birth of the baby twins: Russia’s strategic swing drives NATOstan nuts
Pepe Escobar
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/22/the-birth-of-the-baby-twins-russias-strategic-swing-drives-natostan-nuts/

Anti-War
What Accounts for Putin’s Assertiveness on Ukraine?
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://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/02/21/what-accounts-for-putins-assertiveness-on-ukraine/

Global Times (Chinese state-sponsored media)

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Why isn’t America listening to the advice on NATO expansion of its foremost 20th century expert on Russia [George Kennan]? (Kennan warned about the currently unfolding debacle.)
https://www.rt.com/news/550215-us-nato-expansion-kennan

EU will soon pay double for gas – Medvedev
https://www.rt.com/business/550254-europe-gas-price-double/

West warned against sanctioning Russian energy sector (Fitch)
https://www.rt.com/russia/550264-western-sanctions-oil-crisis/
https://www.rt.com/russia/550281-putin-donbass-recognition-borders/

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Beijing Warns US That 'Bitter Competition' With China May Escalate Into Full-Fledged Confrontation
https://sputniknews.com/20220222/beijing-warns-us-that-fierce-competition-with-china-may-escalate-into-full-fledged-confrontation-1093255965.html

France Removes Australia From List of Strategic Partners Over AUKUS Betrayal
https://sputniknews.com/20220222/france-removes-australia-from-list-of-strategic-partners-over-aukus-betrayal-1093273906.html

Pentagon: US, 6 Allies Release Plan for 2031 Combined Space Operations Vision
https://sputniknews.com/20220222/pentagon-us-6-allies-release-plan-for-2031-combined-space-operations-vision-1093278989.html

Morgan Artyukhina
https://sputniknews.com/20220222/lets-talk-about-the-kievan-rus-who-the-us-kiev-embassy-memed-about-on-tuesday-1093282793.html

ECNS
Chinese FM holds phone conversation with U.S. secretary of state
Xinhua (Chinese state media)
http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-02-22/detail-ihavwrts3794807.shtml

TASS
Over 93,500 Donbass residents enter Russia
https://tass.com/society/1408645

https://tass.com/politics/1407811

Foreign Policy (Here we go again.)
Matthew Kroenig, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/18/us-russia-china-war-nato-quadrilateral-security-dialogue/

Bracing Views
Let’s (Not) Go To War!
W. J. Astore, Lieutenant Colonel (USAF ret.), taught at the Air Force Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and currently at the Pennsylvania College of Technology

Brave New Europe (US and UK intel apparently totally missed what Russia was really going to do)
Crossposted at Counterpunch
https://braveneweurope.com/patrick-cockburn-%ef%bf%bcrussia-ukraine-is-an-information-war-so-government-intelligence-needs-more-scrutiny-than-ever
http://johnhelmer.net/urgent-lessons-for-the-future-on-the-ukraine-and-syria-fronts-how-the-us-government-aimed-at-destroying-the-arabs-killing-their-leaders-paying-proxies-to-do-ther-dirty-work-rewriting-the/

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