‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 3 January

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This discussion with host Nima Alkhorshid focused on the prospects for a deal being done between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to define a new security architecture for Europe.

But that is not the real novelty of the show.  Rather it is to be found in the final minutes of our discussion in which I expressed my discomfort with Musk’s support for the Alternativ fuer Deutschland in the forthcoming German elections. And I do this without reference to their being ‘ultra-right. It is because the AfD were the political movement which first promoted the idea, now widely accepted among German politicians, that they bear no collective responsibility or guilt for the crimes of the Hitler generation.  Regrettably, this has allowed certifiable idiots like the Foreign Affairs minister Annabela Baerbock to stand on a soapbox and moralize against Moscows’s alleged aggression and misdeeds while German tanks rolled into the Kursk province of the Russian Federation.  No, German politics is still not ‘normal’ and the AfD will take the country further away from decency.

At the same time, I raise the question of collective responsibility of the American people for not taking action to stop the unconscionable military assistance to Israel provided by Biden and likely to be continued by Trump that enables the genocide.

Time is here for frank talk.

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

„Dialogue Works“-Ausgabe vom 3. Januar

In dieser Diskussion mit Gastgeber Nima Alkhorshid ging es um die Aussichten auf eine Einigung zwischen Donald Trump und Wladimir Putin über eine neue Sicherheitsarchitektur für Europa.

Aber das ist nicht die eigentliche Neuheit der Sendung. Sie findet sich vielmehr in den letzten Minuten unserer Diskussion, in denen ich mein Unbehagen über Musks Unterstützung für die Alternative für Deutschland bei den bevorstehenden deutschen Wahlen zum Ausdruck gebracht habe. Und ich tue dies, ohne darauf hinzuweisen, dass sie „ultrarechts“ sind. Sondern weil die AfD die politische Bewegung war, die als erste die Idee propagierte, dass die deutsche Politik keine kollektive Verantwortung oder Schuld für die Verbrechen der Hitler-Generation trage, eine Idee, die heute unter deutschen Politikern weit verbreitet ist. Bedauerlicherweise hat dies dazu geführt, dass sich nachweislich schwachsinnige Personen wie die Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock auf eine Rednerbühne stellen und gegen die angebliche Aggression und die Missetaten Moskaus moralisieren können, während deutsche Panzer in die Provinz Kursk der Russischen Föderation einrollen. Nein, die deutsche Politik ist immer noch nicht „normal“, und die AfD wird das Land weiter vom Anstand entfernen.

Gleichzeitig stelle ich die Frage nach der kollektiven Verantwortung des amerikanischen Volkes, das nicht aktiv wird, um die skrupellose Militärhilfe für Israel zu stoppen, die von Biden bereitgestellt wurde und wahrscheinlich von Trump fortgesetzt wird und den Völkermord ermöglicht.

Es ist an der Zeit, offen zu reden.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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5 thoughts on “‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 3 January”

  1. Why is the Biden Administration beyond frantic about Zelensky lowering the draft age to 18? Totally frantic.

    Any effort to send American troops to Ukraine will die instantaneously if the draft age in Ukraine isn’t 18.

    Putting these together reveals a desire to send American troops to Ukraine. And also reveals that the bouquet finale of provocations prior to January 20th will be a humdinger. The ideal moment for its arrival is obviously January 19th. Just like the ideal time for Trump’s assassination was the day before the Republican Convention started and he announced his running mate.

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    1. No, there aren’t any NATO armies to send. If they had the means they would have done so years ago.

      When the AFU wasn’t bled white & Russia had raised a war-time army.

      That’s why they want the Ukrs to provide all the soon-to-be-dead meat, in the vague hope this’ll delay the inevitable, harm Russia or a miracle black swan event occurs.

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  2. It is a great pity when history only rhymes if you’re a war criminal. Ukraine played the role of Vietnam lite until it didn’t.

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  3. agree that Musk and other foreigners should not act as influencers in the political affairs abroad, in this case voice support for the German AfD. But as far as collective guilt or responsibility for past or present affairs of a particular state, USA, Germany whatever, this blame should never be placed in front of a collective people, but exclusively the collective political leadership of a particular state, because the collective public in any country has never any real power over execution of any affairs determined by the administration of a state. Unless you consider the case when good people do nothing is already a punishable offence or even crime? Care to differentiate would be best in my opinion. Anyway today’s generation should never be held in collective custody for the offences and crimes committed by a generation in the past. I feel for instance not responsible let alone guilty for whatever life my parents were executing day by day until their deaths.

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