Links — 28 Feb 2022 Part 1

Consortium News (not an idle threat but a signal of what is coming if NATO encroaches)
Putin’s Nuclear Threat

Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, serving in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, on General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/27/putins-nuclear-threat/

Reminiscence of the Future (see the comments, too. There is a machine translation of Col. Trukhan there.)
Read Real Experts.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/read-real-experts.html

Something Seemingly Irrelevant, But...

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/something-seemingly-irrelevant-but.html

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

Dances with Bears (Glazyev is probably closest to MMT in the Russian economic policy establishment but he is not there yet. His star is rising now.)
BLACK BOX DEFENCE FOR THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – DOLLAR DEBT REPAYMENTS BLOCKED; GAS AND OIL DELIVERIES TO GERMANY STOPPED; OLIGARCH ASSETS NATIONALIZED
Sergei Glazyev, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow

The Vineyard of the Saker (Russia and China seriously need to up their information game to compete with the US in information space)

Day 4 of the Russian offensive in the Ukraine

http://thesaker.is/day-4-of-the-russian-offensive-in-the-ukraine/

Russian MFA: Vassily Nebenzia’s explanation of vote
The Saker
http://thesaker.is/russian-mfa-vassily-nebenzias-explanation-of-vote/

A chance for Poland to regain its long lost territories?
Batko Milacic for the Saker Blog
http://thesaker.is/a-chance-for-poland-to-regain-its-long-lost-territories/

Politics of the Ukraine – Past and future possibilities

Straight Bat

http://thesaker.is/politics-of-the-ukraine-past-and-future-possibilities/

TASS (Russian state media)
DPR forces completing encircling Mariupol — Russian defense ministry
https://tass.com/politics/1413295

Referendum in Belarus held without violations, observers deem vote valid
https://tass.com/world/1413291

Kremlin says Russia systematically prepared to possible sanctions, including tightest ones

https://tass.com/economy/1413241

Middle East Eye
'Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier' is actually Palestine's Ahed Tamimi
Nur Ayoubi
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/russia-ukraine-war-girl-confronting-ahed-tamimi-palestine

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Indian Minister Calls Out Western Media for Pervasive Racial Coverage of Russia-NATO Row
Rishikesh Kumar
https://sputniknews.com/20220228/indian-minister-calls-out-western-media-for-pervasive-racial-coverage-of-russia-nato-row-1093444780.html

Russian Nuclear Triad Takes Up Standby Alert Duty With Reinforced Staff, Shoigu Tells Putin

https://sputniknews.com/20220228/russian-nuclear-triad-begins-combat-duty-with-reinforced-staff-shoigu-tells-putin-1093446860.html

Zero Hedge (Taiwan on the edge of the abyss now?)

Biden Dispatches Former Top Defense Officials To Taiwan After China Said "It's Not Ukraine"
Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-dispatches-former-top-defense-officials-taiwan-after-china-said-its-not-ukraine

The Independent (UK)
Trump claims there would be low gas prices and no Russia war in Ukraine if not for ‘rigged’ election
Oliver O'Connell

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-energy-b2024992.html

RT (Russian state-sponsored media)
Russia blames UK FM for elevated nuclear alert
https://www.rt.com/russia/550868-liz-truss-nuclear-alert

London takes back 'Putin regime change' claim (staring at being nuked?)

https://www.rt.com/russia/550879-uk-sanctions-regime-change

Sanders-linked US group blasts NATO’s ‘imperialist expansion’ – The Democratic Socialists of America claimed the US and NATO “set the stage for this conflict
https://www.rt.com/news/550837-democratic-socialists-nato-expansion-ukraine/

China comments on Western sanctions against Russia

https://www.rt.com/news/550841-china-comments-russia-western-sanctions

North Korea tests satellite surveillance system

https://www.rt.com/news/550812-north-korea-satellite-test/

Asia Times
Russia’s strangulation plan taking hold in Ukraine

https://asiatimes.com/2022/02/russias-strangulation-plan-taking-hold-in-ukraine/