Links — 27 Feb 2022 Part 3

Global Times (Chinese state-funded media)
China clarifies neutral stance as Russia, Ukraine poised for talks

Yang Sheng and Xu Yelu

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1253364.shtml

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)

Chinese embassy points to ‘real threat to the world’

https://www.rt.com/news/550736-chinese-embassy-points-real-threat/

Zero Hedge
Pozsar Warns Of Another "Lehman Weekend" As Russia Sanctions May Trigger Central Bank Liquidity Flood
Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pozsar-warns-another-lehman-weekend-russia-sanctions-may-trigger-central-bank-liquidity

Russia Central Bank Bans Selling Of Russian Securities By Foreigners

Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-central-bank-bans-selling-russian-securities-foreigners

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Russia Placed Its Reserves in Countries Where EU Can't Block Them, Borrell Says

https://sputniknews.com/20220227/russia-placed-its-reserves-in-countries-where-eu-cant-block-them-borrell-says-1093430361.html

Armstrong Economics

The Foolishness of Sanctions

Martin Armstrong

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/the-foolishness-of-sanctions/

'Question All Of It' - The Current Western Propaganda For Ukraine Is Epic In Scale
'Sundance' via TheConservativeTreeHouse.com

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/question-all-it-current-western-propaganda-ukraine-epic-scale

Glenn Greenwald

War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming

Defend Democracy Press

Russia-Ukraine war: These videos of the invasion are actually from the Middle East

Rayhan Uddin

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/russia-ukraine-war-these-videos-of-the-invasion-are-actually-from-the-middle-east/

The Hill
World Bank president warns of global financial consequences from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Joseph Choi

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/596039-world-bank-president-warns-of-global-financial-consequences-from-russias

Politico (they are just realizing this?)
Opinion | Why the West's China Challenge Just Got a Lot Harder
Jeremy Shapiro

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/27/us-biden-china-russia-00012029

MR Online
The U.S. is preparing war with China and Russia at the same time
Deborah Veneziale

https://mronline.org/2022/02/27/the-u-s-is-preparing-war-with-china-and-russia-at-the-same-time/

The Guardian (The West wakes up. The bomb is baack!)
Putin’s nuclear posturing requires west to tread extremely carefully
Julian Borger in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/putin-nuclear-warning-requires-west-to-tread-extremely-carefully

US condemns Putin nuclear deterrence order but cautiously welcomes talks report
Oliver Laughland

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/ukraine-russia-us-biden-putin-zelenskiy-nuclear-deterrenceorder-talks

Independent
Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threat a distraction, says Boris Johnson
Joe Middleton

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-nuclear-threat-boris-johnson-b2024564.html

1945
Atomic Bluff? Why Putin Placed Russia’s Nuclear Forces On High Alert

John Bolton (Yes, that John Bolton)

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/02/atomic-bluff-why-putin-placed-russias-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert/

TASS
Kiev regime’s leaders to be inevitably punished - Russian Defense Ministry
https://tass.com/defense/1412703

Putin orders "special duty regime" in Russia’s deterrence forces

https://tass.com/politics/1412697

Strategic Culture Foundation
Russia-Ukraine Coverage Update: What Western Mass Media Downplays (Nazism in Ukraine)

Michael Averko

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/27/russia-ukraine-coverage-update-what-western-mass-media-downplays/

AntiWar

Diplomacy Is a Four Letter Word (February 18, 2014 — 8 years ago) 

Posted onFebruary 18, 2014

Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

https://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2014/02/17/diplomacy-is-a-four-letter-word/

Occidental Observer

Neocons, Ukraine, Russia, and the Western Struggle for Global Hegemony

Kevin MacDonald

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/02/27/philip-giraldi-on-the-neocons-ukraine-russia-and-the-oligarchs/

Orinoco Tribune

Fake News Warfare In Ukraine Conflict (+Zelensky On The Frontlines?)

https://orinocotribune.com/fake-news-warfare-in-ukraine-conflict-zelensky-on-the-frontlines/

Popular Resistance
NATO’s Atlantic Council Promoted Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

https://popularresistance.org/natos-atlantic-council-promoted-ukraines-neo-nazi-azov-battalion/

Benjamin Norton

Axios

U.S. protests Israel’s refusal to back UN resolution condemning Russia

Barak Ravid

https://www.axios.com/us-protests-israel-refusal-condemn-russia-un-db20c1ce-16d2-4782-9ab8-461105a6cce5.html