Links — 4 Feb 2022 PM

RT (NATO Article 5 as "suicide pact." They didn't think this through as they were expanding.)
A war with Russia would be unlike anything the US and NATO have ever experienced
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://www.rt.com/op-ed/548322-war-russia-us-nato/

CNN’s Tapper slams government for ‘trust us or ISIS’ message

https://www.rt.com/news/548376-cnn-tapper-biden-enemies/

Reminiscence of the Future

Scott Ritter On War...
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues.

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/scott-ritter-on-war.html

TASS
Belarus intercepted many weapons from Ukraine during 2020 protests — Lukashenko

https://tass.com/world/1398361

NEO
US vs. China in Laos: Two Nations, Two Approaches, One Obvious Difference
Brian Berletic

https://journal-neo.org/2022/02/04/us-vs-china-in-laos-two-nations-two-approaches-one-obvious-difference/

Defend Democracy Press
DPR estimates number of Ukrainian troops on Donbas contact line at 150,000
Interfax

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/dpr-estimates-number-of-ukrainian-troops-on-donbas-contact-line-at-150000/

Media Cold War: Germans ban Russia Today, Russians answer banning Deuthsche Welle

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/media-cold-war-germans-ban-russia-today-russians-answer-banning-deuthsche-welle/

bneIntelliNews (Ukraine refused to comply with Minsk Agreement)
“No special status” for Donbas, says Ukraine
Theo Normanton in Moscow

http://bne.eu/no-special-status-for-donbas-says-ukraine-233820/