Links — 5 August 2022 Part 2

Reminiscence of the Future
If You Ever Needed Any Proof...
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/08/if-you-ever-needed-any-proof.html

Moon of Alabama
Ukraine SitRep - Casualties Leak - Ukraine Admits Russian Breakthrough - Southern Front Paralysis

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-sitrep-casualties-leak-ukraine-admits-russian-breakthrough-southern-front-paralysis.html

Russia Post
The Strange Death of Liberal Russia – Part I
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

https://www.russiapost.info/society/death_of_liberal_russia_p1

TASS (Russian state media)
Poll reveals level of Russian public’s confidence in Putin [and other parts of the government]

https://tass.com/society/1489959

Zero Hedge
"Friendshoring" Trend Sees Companies Moving Ops To Dodge Tensions And Trade Wars (those jobs are not returning to the US.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/friendshoring-trend-sees-companies-moving-ops-dodge-tensions-and-trade-wars

US Prepares To Send $1 Billion In Latest Ukraine Weapons Package

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-prepares-send-1-billion-latest-ukraine-weapons-package

Tyler Durden

Fox News

Zelenskyy advisor says Ukraine will hold peace talks when it has military might to repel Russia  (feeding the grinder)

Caitlin McFall

https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-advisor-says-ukraine-will-hold-peace-talks-has-military-might-repel-russia

Internationalist 360º
The Russian Foreign Ministry Comprehensively Explained the Global Systemic Transition

Andrew Korybko, American geopolitical analyst and independent journalist based in Moscow, and member of the expert council for the Institute of Strategic Studies and Predictions at the People’s Friendship University of Russia

https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/the-russian-foreign-ministry-comprehensively-explained-the-global-systemic-transition/

The Unz Review
Greetings from Russia, by Ted Rall (don't believe what you are being told about Russia collapsing economically. The opposite is true, Rall reports.)

Ted Rall, political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis. Rall is a radical leftist.

https://www.unz.com/trall/greetings-from-russia/

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Report on a three-week visit to St Petersburg, July 2022
Gilbert Doctorow

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/08/05/report-on-a-three-week-visit-to-st-petersburg-july-2022/

Defense One
In ‘Irresponsible Act,’ China Trims Defense Communications with US
Tara Copp

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/08/irresponsible-act-china-trims-defense-communications-us/375496/

Politico
Pentagon chiefs’ calls to China go unanswered amid Taiwan crisis (first Russia, now China not answering calls.)
Lara Seligman and Alexander Ward

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/05/pentagon-china-calls-taiwan-00050175

Fortune
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was great news for China’s chip sector as investors welcome the prospect of a chip war boom

Yvonne Lau

https://fortune.com/2022/08/05/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-visit-great-for-chinas-chip-sector-investors-welcome-chip-war/

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
China denounces U.S. as 'unprovoked provocateur and creator of crisis'

Xinhua (Chinese state media)

http://www.ecns.cn/news/politics/2022-08-06/detail-ihcavkwr6143263.shtml