Consortium News [US finally has to make decisions that affect it too and is playing for time]UKRAINE CRISIS: US ‘Toolboxes’ Are EmptyScott 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 inspectorAntiWarGodot Likely To Arrive Before Russia Invades UkraineRay 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 BranchRT Is the plan to bankrupt Russia working? (No.)Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of
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UKRAINE CRISIS: US ‘Toolboxes’ Are Empty
Godot Likely To Arrive Before Russia Invades Ukraine
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
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Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kiev-now-crosshairs-russia-moves-fighter-jets-s-400-missiles-belarus-pentagon