This edition of the Spotlight interviews Gilbert Doctorow, independent international affairs analyst from Brussels, and Daniel Lazare, journalist and author from New York to discuss the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on global energy supply.
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Gilbert Doctorow is an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of 'public intellectual' after finishing up a 25 year career as corporate executive and outside consultant to multinational corporations doing business in Russia and Eastern Europe which culminated in the position of Managing Director, Russia during the years 1995-2000. He has publishied his memoirs of his 25 years of doing business in and around the Soviet Union/Russia, 1975 - 2000. Memoirs of a Russianist, Volume I: From the Ground Up was published on 10 November 2020. Volume II: Russia in the Roaring 1990s was released in February 2021. A Russian language edition in a single 780 page volume was published by Liki Rossii in St Petersburg in November 2021: Россия в бурные 1990е: Дневники, воспоминания, документы. View all posts by gilbertdoctorow
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Today, Belgian academia’s common line of thinking on the Ukraine war is to offer security guarantees for a neutral Ukraine via the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OCSE). These pundits, however, overlook the fact that as long as the US does not join negotiations about the real issue – a halt to NATO’s eastward expansion and efforts to unseat Putin – there will be no green light at the end of the tunnel. I just posted on Geopolitiek in context an interim assessment of the war in Ukraine, placed in the context of the struggle for power in the world, in which this point is mentioned. The title is ‘Why the Ukraine war is about much more’. Non-Dutch readers: just hit the Google translate box in the right upper corner. https://geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/waarom-de-oekraine-oorlog-over-veel-meer-gaat/
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thanks, Paul. will read a bit later today. now I am preparing my own prognosis for how and when this war ends. I do not share the optimistic folks who think there will be signing ceremony next week. no, it will come, if it comes at all, after the Russians have retakn all of Donbas. At present Lugansk has recovered 93% of its territories as at 2014, before the war. But Donetsk has only half the territory it had in 2014, the Russians will not quit till that is remedied
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The apple seldom falls far from the tree. The Lower Saxon state government under Ursula’s father, Ernst Albrecht used every opportunity to court former Nazis. Her husband is either grandson or grandnephew of Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen, a German lawyer and civil servant who worked as a district administrator in the occupied countries of Czechoslovakia and Poland during the National Socialist era and as *district governor of the district of Galicia* and was involved in the organization of the Holocaust. She and Victoria (Nudelman) Nuland are bedfellows in their hate for anything Russian, and in their veniality.
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