Friday, March 18, 2022

Links — 18 Mar 2022 Part 2

Russia Observer
WHAT I GOT WRONG AND WHY (I got it wrong too, for the same reasons. So did many others.)
Patrick Armstrong, retired analyst and diplomat (2008) serving in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia from 1984 and a Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow in 1993-1996.
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/03/18/what-i-got-wrong-and-why/

The Vineyard of the Saker
The new reality in the United Stateshttp://thesaker.is/the-new-reality-in-the-united-states/

http://thesaker.is/mikhail-khazin-on-the-need-to-reform-the-russian-economy/

Reminiscence of the Future
What's the Game Plan? (video, not transcript)
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues.
https://youtu.be/wCRm7mwGMFo

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Another TRT World panel discussion of Ukraine well worth a look
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/18/another-trt-world-panel-discussion-of-ukraine-well-worth-a-look/

Fox News
Col. [Douglas] Macgregor on Tucker [Carlson] 17MAR22
https://youtu.be/thxHghdK838

Michael Hudson
Is Chinese Socialism Working? (transcript)
Paul Jay interviews Michael Hudson, President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Guest Professor at Peking University
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/03/is-chinese-socialism-working/

Strategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
‘We Trained Nazis’ – Former U.S. Marine Corp Intelligence Officer, Scott Ritter (Azov)
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/18/we-trained-nazis-former-us-marine-corp-intelligence-officer-scott-ritter/

Spiegel Online
Former U.S. National Security Adviser McMaster on the War in Ukraine: "It Has Already Escalated" (US objective should be to win Cold War 2.0 with Russia and China. Ignore nuclear threat as bluff.)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-u-s-national-security-adviser-mcmaster-on-the-war-in-ukraine-it-has-already-escalated-a-aead2710-2d88-421f-9a6b-5ae406fcc78d

Popular Resistance
Washington Rushes To Hide Its ‘Octopus’ NED Funding In Ukraine
Tim Anderson, Al Mayadeen
https://popularresistance.org/washington-rushes-to-hide-its-octopus-ned-funding-in-ukraine/

ECNS
Xi has candid, in-depth exchange of views with Biden (Xi Jinping was non-committal)
Xinhua (Chinese state media)
http://www.ecns.cn/news/politics/2022-03-19/detail-ihawpiuq2990743.shtml

The Unz Review
Why I Work for Sputnik (Ted Rall is pretty radically left)
Ted Rall
https://www.unz.com/trall/why-i-work-for-sputnik/

6 comments:

Footsoldier said...

This was slipped into the Russian sanctions bill on pages 19,20,21. It gives the President broad authority to sanction virtually anyone, anywhere in the world, whether they are connected to Russia or not.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1504562598615863303




Footsoldier said...

Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech?s=w


Tony Blair makes a rare intervention attacking Corbyn & backing intervention in Ukraine with an article on the website of his institute which is funded by the US State Department, the Saudi government and Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk.

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is also funded by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, a vehicle of Sir Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukrainian oligarch thought to be the wealthiest man in the UK.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Julian Assange has no right to appeal his extradition to the United States.

The US was spying on private conversations between Assange and his lawyer. This means there can be no pretence of a "fair trial" there, only a sadistic show trial.

The British government will extradite Assange knowing that it is tantamount to a death sentence.

The CIA planned to kidnap and/or kill him in London & the British agreed to assist by taking part in a hypothetical shoot out.

The only BBC branch to cover it was BBC Somali.

Alexander Corbeil is simultaneously Content Policy Lead at TikTok and the president of the NATO Association of Canada.

The Global Lead on Trust & Safety at TikTok, Chris Roberts, is a former Senior Director of Technology Policy at the Albright Stonebridge Group. Yes, Madeline Albright.

The White House is briefing TikTok users about Ukraine. It is also alarming that the current Livestream Policy Manager for Europe, Middle East & Africa at TikTok, Greg Anderson, worked in psychological operations for NATO.The

As Google blocks a documentary about Ukraine by the award-winning Oliver Stone from Youtube, it is worth remembering that Director of Trust & Safety at Google, Ben Renda, was employed by NATO as a Strategic Planner & Information Manager.

He is also a senior fellow at the Lockheed Martin & Raytheon funded Center for a New American Security think tank simultaneous to giving us trust & safety at Google.

A free society is not shaped like this.


There is nothing we can do about it. The name of anybody who can change things are never On the ballot box.

Footsoldier said...

In a warning to NATO, Russia fired the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ‘Dagger’ hypersonic missile in combat for the first time to engage targets in Western Ukraine, neutralising a large underground warehouse in the village of Delyatyn in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region near the country’s border with NATO’s Poland — over which it has a been receiving the bulk of military supplies, and reportedly destroyed a huge quantities of munitions.

This is the first and only known use of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. — there’s no known confirmed footage of the missile at the moment. — However, the use of the missile has been officially confirmed.

lastgreek said...

"In a warning to NATO..."

Lol..

It's Russia's nukes that keep the US/NATO forces at bay. Otherwise, Russia's two-bit conscript military would have been disposed of already.

Ahmed Fares said...

"two-bit conscript military"


"Quantity has a quality all its own." — Joseph Stalin

"Purportedly the quote refers to the Soviet tank attack against the Nazi Germans – they threw masses of cheap tanks (and sadly, human beings) against the more sophisticated Nazi war machine, and managed to stop the blitzkrieg through the sheer weight of numbers."

Russian has 900,000 active duty troops and two million reservists.

S400 said...

“ been disposed of already.”
An armchair warrior pretending being on the barricades for piece but it eventually shows what’s behind the those words. Just one in the mob with the regular biased world view.