Links — 11 August 2022 Part 1

Naked Capitalism
Is the US Underestimating China’s Space and Counterspace Capabilities?
Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/is-the-us-underestimating-chinas-space-and-counterspace-capabilities.html

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Ukraine and its Western backers should be held accountable for the ‘suicidal’ attack on Europe’s largest nuclear powerplant
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/560561-ukraine-nuclear-powerplant-attack/

Russia summons UN Security Council over nuclear emergency

https://www.rt.com/russia/560576-zaporozhye-nuclear-plant-un/

Glenn Diesen: In the developing new world order, Russia’s weapons will be pointing West, and its economy directed towards the East
Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal

https://www.rt.com/russia/560632-russia-developing-new-world/

Europeans must be willing to ‘pay’ to support Ukraine – top EU diplomat (Josep Borrell)

https://www.rt.com/news/560627-eu-pays-ukraine-price/

TASS (Russian state media)
Zaporozhye NPP operates routinely after new attack, no radiation danger — authorities
https://tass.com/politics/1492377

Zaporozhye regional official blames West for spreading fake news of mines planted at NPP

https://tass.com/politics/1492167

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Moscow Slams Kiev's Shelling of Zaporozhye NPP as 'Act of Nuclear Terrorism
https://sputniknews.com/20220811/moscow-slams-kievs-shelling-of-zaporozhye-npp-as-act-of-nuclear-terrorism-1099474068.html

'Another Step Up the Escalation Ladder': Denmark Sends 130 Instructors to Train Ukrainian Soldiers (this is how escalation began in Vietnam)

https://sputniknews.com/20220811/another-step-up-the-escalation-ladder-denmark-sends-130-instructors-to-train-ukrainian-soldiers-1099468999.html

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
China's scientific research climbs to No 1 (Japanese study)

China Daily (Chinese state-sponsored media)

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-08-11/detail-ihcazrmu4815313.shtml

1945

David Petraeus Is Wrong: The Afghanistan War was Never Winnable (

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (USA ret.), Senior Fellow and Military Expert for Defense Priorities

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/08/david-petraeus-is-wrong-the-afghanistan-war-was-never-winnable/