Links — 2 August 2022 Part 2

Compact
America Isn’t Ready for War with China
Malcom Kyeyune
https://compactmag.com/article/america-isn-t-ready-for-war-with-china

The Vineyard of the Saker
Nancy braves the Chinese dragon and wins?

The Saker

http://thesaker.is/nancy-braves-the-chinese-dragon-and-wins/

Project Syndicate (you may have to register for a free limited account if you care to read this)
Russia’s Looming Defeat in Ukraine (by and economist that knows nothing about economics, let alone war-fighting or war as a policy-instrument.)

Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance

Internationalist 360º
‘Tools of Russia’: FBI Raid on Black Political Party Seen As Part of ‘Black Scare/Red Scare’ in United States

Julie Varughese
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/tools-of-russia-fbi-raid-on-black-political-party-seen-as-part-of-black-scare-red-scare-in-united-states/

Why the West Got it Wrong on Russia

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://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/08/01/why-the-west-got-it-wrong-on-russia/

News Forensics (June 3)

What Ritter (and Everbody Else) Got Wrong

Julian Macfarlane

https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/scott-ritter-is-wrong

TASS (Russian state media)
US sees no reason for escalation over Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan — White House (clueless)
https://tass.com/world/1488315

Kiev’s remark on HIMARS targets proves US involvement in conflict — Russian top brass (co-belligerent)
https://tass.com/politics/1488209

US supplies weapons, performs gunner's function in Ukraine — Russian diplomat [ Maria Zakharova]

https://tass.com/russias-foreign-policy/1488185

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Nancy Pelosi Says US Cannot Stand By as China 'Proceeds to Threaten Taiwan'
https://sputniknews.com/20220802/nancy-pelosi-says-us-cannot-stand-by-as-china-proceeds-to-threaten-taiwan-1098042377.html

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan is designed by US to start conflict – analyst [Tim Anderson, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies], to RT (no war yet. This is politics on both sides.)
https://www.rt.com/news/560061-taiwan-conflict-us-china/

Biden’s team distance themselves from Pelosi over Taiwan (the good thing is all of this is that the American people are now aware of the potential for a hot war with China in the offing.)

https://www.rt.com/news/560038-blinken-pelosi-taiwan-own-decision/

Media: The Great Game of Geopolitics is Not What You Think
https://tomluongo.me/2022/08/02/media-great-game-of-geopolitics-what-you-think/

Counterpunch
Conservative Hypocrisy Over Brittney Griner (hardly just conservative hypocrisy over drug laws)
Jacob G. Hornberger

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/02/conservative-hypocrisy-over-brittney-griner/