Sunday, May 22, 2022

Links — 22 May 2022 Part 2

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
US Military Expert [Scott Ritter]: Russia to Score Major Victories in Donbass, Must Adapt to New NATO Game
Sputnik interviews Scott Ritter
https://sputniknews.com/20220522/us-military-expert-russia-to-score-major-victories-in-donbass-must-adapt-to-new-nato-game-1095703665.html

TASS (Russian state media)
US Indo-Pacific strategy geared to instigate confrontation - Chinese top diplomat
https://tass.com/world/1454347

India Punchline
CSTO won’t be drawn into Ukraine war
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador
https://www.indianpunchline.com/csto-wont-be-drawn-into-ukraine-war/

Oilprice
Geopolitics Takes A Back Seat As Biden Drops [Some] Sanctions On Venezuela
Felicity Bradstock 
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Geopolitics-Takes-A-Back-Seat-As-Biden-Drops-Sanctions-On-Venezuela.html

Russian and Eurasian Politics
The Influence of Neofascist and Other Nationalist Groups in Maidan Ukraine
Gordon Hahn | Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, http://www.canalyt.com and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis GroupM.
https://gordonhahn.com/2022/05/18/the-influence-of-neofascist-and-other-nationalist-groups-in-maidan-ukraine/

Defend Democracy Press
US and UK Split With France and Claim There Is No Exit Ramp for Putin ("Russia must lose.")
Kyle Anzalone
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/us-and-k-split-with-france-and-claim-there-is-no-exit-ramp-for-putin/

The Independent
Russia’s war on Ukraine can only be resolved through ‘diplomacy’, says Zelensky
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-end-diplomacy-zelensky-b2084448.html

American Affairs
The EU after Ukraine
Wolfgang Streeck
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/05/the-eu-after-ukraine/


2 comments:

Footsoldier said...

Croatian MEP has publicly proposed the EU to impose sanctions against the US and Saudi Arabia.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swAIYjl_NK0

Footsoldier said...

Russian MOD:



"We learned interesting facts about the Ukrainian territorial defense, which has swelled to the size of an entire army and is being successfully destroyed in all directions where it has to operate, and sometimes in the rear:

- The promised payments are not received by the defense workers, and if they do, then not in the amount in which it was declared;

- The benefits of combatants in the defense have been cut compared to the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

- Most of the TRO units from Western Ukraine are sent to the front, while they receive neither heavy weapons nor protective equipment (body armor and helmets are bought by them at their own expense, from weapons they are issued only small arms, rarely grenade launchers and anti-tank systems);

- No combat training of the TRO does not take place;

- The most favorite way to use TRO at the front is to use them as bait to open the position of our artillery;

- The losses are monstrous, hence the growing level of members refusing to fight"



In the Kherson region, a dual-currency zone officially began to operate from today, when the ruble and the hryvnia in the region will go simultaneously, until the complete transition of the Kherson region to the ruble zone.

Salaries and pensions in the Kherson region are being paid in rubles from May.