Links — 18 July 2022 Part 1

The Vineyard of the Saker
Sitrep Operation Z0V: Shifting sands and changing rhetoric
The Saker Staff
http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z0v-shifting-sands-and-changing-rhetoric/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article «Staged incidents as the Western approach to doing politics»

http://thesaker.is/russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-article-staged-incidents-as-the-western-approach-to-doing-politics/

Turcopolier

Russia Turns Off Gas by Walrus.

https://turcopolier.com/russia-turns-off-gas-by-walrus/

Naked Capitalism
Russia’s Campaign in Ukraine: Nearing an Inflection Point? -
Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/russias-campaign-in-ukraine-nearing-an-inflection-point.html 

Moon of Alabama

Three Other Writers With Thoughts On Ukraine

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/three-other-writers-with-thoughts-on-ukraine.html

The Guardian (UK)
Putin is already at war with Europe. There is only one way to stop him (floating the military solution, Typically delusional.)

Simon Tisdale

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/putin-is-already-at-war-with-europe-there-is-only-one-way-to-stop-him

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
London falling: Britain's military decline exposes NATO's collapse in credibility and capability (NATO lives under the US/UK/French nuclear umbrella. It has little relevance as a conventional fighting force as presently armed,  configured and trained. The rest just posturing.)

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/russia/558555-nato-uk-response-force/

RayMcGovern.com
Bin Salman to Biden: You Whitewashed Israeli Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, so why are you so upset about Khashoggi?

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://raymcgovern.com/2022/07/18/bin-salman-to-biden-you-whitewashed-israeli-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-so-why-are-you-so-upset-about-khashoggi/

Aaron Maté Subtack
In Ukraine, a proxy war on the planet
Aaron Maté
https://mate.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-a-proxy-war-on-the-planet

Reminiscence of the Future
You Remember This Funny Song...

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/07/you-remember-this-funny-song.htm

Some People Misunderstood My Latest Video...

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/07/some-people-misunderstood-my-latest.html

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

India Punchline
Russia-Iran relations take a quantum leap
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador

https://www.indianpunchline.com/russia-iran-relations-take-a-quantum-leap/

Counterpunch

Chris Hedges: War With Iran
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/07/17/chris-hedges-war-with-iran/

Armstrong Economics
Russia to Cut off Germany from Gas Thanks to Zelensky
Martin Armstrong

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/energy/russia-to-cut-off-germany-from-gas-thanks-to-zelensky/