‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 9 January: Will Trump Expand the U.S.?

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The discussion today centered on Donald Trump’s latest demands on Denmark and on Panama that they cede to the United States Greenland and the Canal respectively.  We appear to agree that these macho plans serve one overriding purpose:  to distract public attention from what Trump is planning to do to Ukraine, namely to walk away from it and allow the Russians to impose their terms on Kiev.

Blackrock may lose its vast expanses of rich black soil farmland in Ukraine that it has acquired in the past several years for next to nothing, but other rapacious U.S. concerns will surely find offsetting benefits in exploiting the mineral riches said to exist in Greenland. The American juggernaut can proceed merrily on its way, without remorse or regret for the million Ukrainians who have died or been horribly mutilated on the battlefield in a hopeless war on Russia that Washington ignited and promoted.

We also spent some time dissecting Tony Binken’s latest video taped interview with The New York Times. Blinken lives in an alternative universe, as Judge Napolitano sees it.  As I see it, Blinken is setting out in these interviews his claim to a professorship at Columbia University, which is the modern day successor to The Hoover Institution in California as the graveyard of failed politicians.

See  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQx3pg0AyiE

Translation below into German (Andreass Mylaeus)

„Judging Freedom“-Ausgabe vom 9. Januar: Wird Trump die USA erweitern?

Die heutige Diskussion drehte sich um Donald Trumps jüngste Forderungen an Dänemark und Panama, Grönland bzw. den Panamakanal an die Vereinigten Staaten abzutreten. Wir scheinen uns einig zu sein, dass diese Macho-Pläne einem übergeordneten Zweck dienen: die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit von dem abzulenken, was Trump mit der Ukraine vorhat, nämlich sich von ihr abzuwenden und den Russen zu erlauben, Kiew ihre Bedingungen aufzuzwingen.

Blackrock mag seine riesigen Flächen an fruchtbarem Ackerland mit schwarzem Boden in der Ukraine verlieren, die es in den letzten Jahren für so gut wie nichts erworben hatte, aber andere habgierige US-Konzerne werden sicherlich einen Ausgleich in der Ausbeutung der Bodenschätze finden, die es angeblich in Grönland gibt. Der amerikanische Moloch kann fröhlich seinen Weg fortsetzen, ohne Reue oder Bedauern für die Millionen Ukrainer, die auf dem Schlachtfeld in einem hoffnungslosen Krieg gegen Russland, den Washington entfacht und gefördert hat, gestorben oder auf schreckliche Weise verstümmelt worden sind.

Wir haben auch einige Zeit damit verbracht, Tony Blinkens jüngstes Videointerview mit The New York Times zu analysieren. Blinken lebt in einem alternativen Universum, wie es Judge Napolitano sieht. Meiner Meinung nach erhebt Blinken in diesen Interviews Anspruch auf eine Professur an der Columbia University, die als moderner Nachfolger der Hoover Institution in Kalifornien als Friedhof gescheiterter Politiker gilt.

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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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One thought on “‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 9 January: Will Trump Expand the U.S.?”

  1. Great commentary. To sum things up, IMO, the world has gone mad (again). Looking at a circumpolar map, it is easy to envision the USA neocons, obssesed with ‘territory’ , setting up a polar front – Alaska, Canada, Creenland, & Scandanavia – to oppose Russia’s northern border. North Pole – touche. Given the fact that the US is basically broke, it would be fun if China and Russia got in a ‘bidding war’ with Denmark or the Greenlanders over the price of a melting icecap! An invasion would upset Nato’s Article 5 and Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia would have to be wary of the teritorial aspirations of Sweden, Poland, and Liechenstein. It is also easy to see Musk, a closet Imperialist, like another from South Africa, Cecil Rhodes. To paraphrase: “It is our god given right and duty to exploit land underutilized by the inbdigenous people. We .will bring them Civilization, Capitalism, and Christianity.” This concept might be a little reactionary considering that the US in the last half of the 20th Century utilized the World Bank and IMF to bring dozens of countries to heel without warfare or the need to maintain a garrison. On the other hand, perhaps Jr. approoached his ageing father with a more personal objective…..the desire for a private game preserve – polar bear, musk ox, sea lions – for the trophy wall. This disguised under the veneeer of geo politics. “Dad, we need to acquire Greenland.” Hunter to Biden as Jr. to Trump.

    And Global Warming, that will go the way of a bounties on terrorists.

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