In a posting yesterday, I said that I would present the link to the debate over Biden’s latest sanctions from hell imposed on the Russian energy sector as soon as that link became available.
I am hopeful that viewers will find this discussion with 5 participants as refreshing as I did when participating in it. My own contributions begin at the 9 minute mark and resume at the 21 minute mark. But I do recommend watching my fellow panelists for a reminder that the ‘truth will win out’ as Jan Hus once said in Prague and that ‘you cannot fool all of the people all of the time,’ as Abraham Lincoln famously quipped.
Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)
News X World: USA verhängen Sanktionen gegen Russland | Debatte mit Thomas Porteus
In einem gestrigen Posting sagte ich, dass ich den Link zur Debatte über Bidens neueste Sanktionen aus der Hölle, die dem russischen Energiesektor auferlegt wurden, präsentieren würde, sobald dieser Link verfügbar ist.
Ich hoffe, dass die Zuschauer diese Diskussion mit fünf Teilnehmern genauso erfrischend finden werden wie ich, als ich daran teilnahm. Meine eigenen Beiträge beginnen bei Minute 9 und werden bei Minute 21 fortgesetzt. Ich empfehle jedoch, meine Mitdiskutanten zu beobachten, um sich daran zu erinnern, dass „die Wahrheit siegen wird“, wie Jan Hus einst in Prag sagte, und dass „man nicht alle Menschen immer zum Narren halten kann“, wie Abraham Lincoln einst sagte.
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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