- Rise in Iranian assassination, kidnapping plots alarms Western officials (washingtonpost.com)
- Russian airbase on western coast of Crimea damaged in explosions (theguardian.com)
- Thomas Piketty: The western elite is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s hyper-rich (theguardian.com)
- China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show (washingtonpost.com)
- Buffalo blizzard drops more than 6 feet of snow on western New York, storm expected to continue (nydailynews.com)
- Russia’s Shortfalls Create an Opportunity for Ukraine, Western Officials Say (nytimes.com)
- Western Leaders Ready Sanctions as Putin Orders Forces to Ukraine Enclaves (nytimes.com)Russian forces are in breakaway territories, E.U. says (washingtonpost.com)Wooing Allies, Publicizing Putin’s Plans: Inside Biden’s Race to Prevent War (nytimes.com)Is he sick? Putin’s bizarre, rambling Ukraine speech leaves western diplomats scrambling (theguardian.com)Five banks, three Russian oligarchs hit by UK sanctions (bbc.com)Piece by Piece, Russia’s Rationale for a Ukraine Invasion Is Put in Place (nytimes.com)It's time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia (cnn.com)Germany shelves Russia pipeline project (theguardian.com)CNN’s Brianna Keilar Gets National Security Official to Say Russian Incursion Into Ukraine is an ‘Invasion’ After Relentless Grilling (mediaite.com)
- Western Officials Warn Russia Could Use a Dirty Bomb as a Pretext (nytimes.com)
- Censored Chinese scholar: ‘new Iron Curtain’ will mark ‘life-and-death battle between those for and against western democracy.’ (editorialboard.com)
Will China turn its back on Russia?
- U.S. says Russia ‘clearly’ now has capability to attack as Ukraine complains of Western panic (washingtonpost.com)US warns Russia conflict with Ukraine would be ‘horrific’ as tensions simmer (theguardian.com)