As I have observed based on my participation in live broadcasts dealing with current Russia-related events on Iran’s Press TV, the productions are good professional journalism and the guests are notable. A couple of days ago this impression was further substantiated when I joined the Christian Science Monitor’s man in Moscow, Fred Weir, in analysis of the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Kherson and Zaporozhie oblasts to the Russian Federation.
A discussion with Fred Weir on Iran’s Press TV: latest Russian developments
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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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Had no trouble finding the post, but your mic is picking up a great deal of echo from what sounds like a bare room.
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Found it. Good, if quick, discussion. I’m afraid the conflict won’t be finished in this year as the Ukraine is still making some territorial gains around Lyman with, as insignificant as they are, are already being touted in the MSM as bringing the Ukrainian army close to victory…. There are reported advances in Kherson Oblast as well.
To my thinking, none of this really matters. The Russian Duma has yet to ratify the incorporation of the four Oblasts into Russia and, until that happens, Russia will simply play on the defensive. Once the legalities have completed, the Russian army will come into play in force and the land lost will very likely be regained rather quickly.
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Reblogged this on Calculus of Decay .
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Of 25 most frequently active opinion makers on Flemish and Dutch international relations generally, and the Ukraine crisis specifically, the most candid one, an Antwerp University professor, has communicated complot theories rather that facts that are supported by sources. I wrote a piece on the issue, see
https://geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/opiniemakers-over-de-oekraine-crisis-en-de-realiteit-over-de-hybride-oorlog-tegen-rusland/
The professor suggests that the Russians destroyed their own pipelines, reports that “a nuclear train” was spotted on its way to the Ukrainian border, and that the Russians make nuclear threats by dispatching their Belgorod attack submarine. Most importantly, the professor accuses the Russians of making nuclear threats now that they are “cornered in the war”, an accusation he does not substantiate by the Russian nuclear doctrine that precludes any first use.
In the current affairs programme ‘Terzake’ on Flemish public television channel VRT yesterday, the presenter was visibly concerned about a pan-European nuclear war. It apparently did not occur to her that all these messages are pure American and British propaganda. Academic opinion makers, who undoubtedly know the truth but who also propagate the mainstream narrative, bear great responsibility.
The first commenter compared the professor’s media performance with the shame Germans felt of their parents’ and grandparents’ turning a blind eye to the Nazi persecution. “They would have admired them, had they been braver”…
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