Links — 6 July 2022 Part 1

The Vineyard of the Saker
Sitrep Operation Z: A small pause 
Amarynth

http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-a-small-pause/

Naked Capitalism
The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?
Yves Smith
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/the-coming-sanctions-induced-economic-tsunami.html

Welfare Can Discourage Crime More Than It Discourages Work

Manasi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago and Michael Mueller-Smith, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. 

Originally published at VoxEU

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/welfare-can-discourage-crime-more-than-it-discourages-work.html

War on the Rocks
A Modern-Day Frederick The Great? The End of Short, Sharp Wars (Is the West ready socially, politically and economically for the costs of protracted conflict with Russia and China? No, actually. But hey, who cares?)

David Johnson

https://warontherocks.com/2022/07/a-modern-day-frederick-the-great-the-end-of-short-sharp-wars/

TASS (Russian state media)
Russia uses Stupor anti-drone guns in Ukraine for first time — source
https://tass.com/politics/1476173

Russia threatens retaliation for any threats from Sweden and Finland as NATO members
https://tass.com/politics/1476419

Belarusian intelligence registers unprecedented rate of militarization of Poland

https://tass.com/world/1476519

Zero Hedge
"Whitewash": US Says IDF Shot That Killed Palestinian-US Journalist Was Accidental (What? Putin didn't do it?)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whitewash-us-says-idf-shot-killed-palestinian-us-journalist-was-accidental

US, G7 Discuss "Capping" Russian Oil Price At $40-60, A Move Which Could Send Oil Soaring Up To $380
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-g7-discuss-capping-russian-oil-price-40-60-move-which-could-send-oil-soaring-380

Russia Says It Destroyed Two US-Supplied HIMARS Rocket Systems In Ukraine
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-it-destroyed-two-us-supplied-himars-rocket-systems-ukraine
Tyler Durden

Medvedev skewers US policies for leaving trail of deaths on par with Hitler regime