Links — 7 Feb 2022 AM

Sputnik International
Super-Duper Hypersonic: Answering Questions About Advanced Weapon That Moves 5 Times Speed of Sound
Oleg Burunov
https://sputniknews.com/20220207/super-duper-hypersonic-answering-questions-about-advanced-weapon-that-moves-5-times-speed-of-sound-1092828698.html

Blinken Believes Ukraine Can Move Forward on Donbass Special Status Using Minsk Agreements
https://sputniknews.com/20220207/blinken-believes-ukraine-can-move-forward-on-donbass-special-status-using-minsk-agreements-1092830653.html

Ray McGovern
Putin Is Not Stupid and That’s Good
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/2022/02/06/putin-is-not-stupid-and-thats-good/

Graham E. Fuller
Washington Denies Reality of “Spheres of Influence”–a New Pinnacle of Hypocrisy
Graham E. Fuller | adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University, formerly vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, and a former senior political scientist at RAND
https://grahamefuller.com/washington-denies-reality-of-spheres-of-influence-a-new-pinnacle-of-hypocrisy/

WSWS
Kiev denies war plans against Russia as conflicts within the Ukrainian ruling class escalate
Jason Melanovski
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/07/kiev-f07.html

TASS
Ukrainian military specifying Donbass offensive targets — LPR militia
https://tass.com/world/1399193

Zero Hedge
Ukraine & NATO Agree Threat of Russian Invasion 'Low' - But US Continues "Apocalyptic" Rhetoric
Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-nato-hq-agree-threat-russian-invasion-low-us-continues-apocalyptic-rhetoric

Oilprice (what about geothermal?)
Hydropower Cements Its Place As The World's Most Popular Renewable Energy

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Hydropower-Cements-Its-Place-As-The-Worlds-Most-Popular-Renewable-Energy.html

SouthFront
Lithuania Goes From Bad To Worse As Belarus Closes Vital Economic Railway Artery
https://southfront.org/lithuania-goes-from-bad-to-worse-as-belarus-closes-vital-economic-railway-artery/

Project Syndicate
Realism About Foreign-Policy Realism

Joseph S. Nye | University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ukraine-and-limits-of-foreign-policy-realism-by-joseph-s-nye-2022-02