‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 15 January 2025: Nikolai Patrushev and how Ukraine will ‘cease to exist’ in 2025

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‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 15 January 2025: Nikolai Patrushev and how Ukraine will ‘cease to exist’ in 2025

As usual, the discussion with host Judge Andrew Napolitano covered a number of different subjects, including the ‘farewell’ speeches by Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken, bizarre statements from President Zalensky during an ongoing meeting with the press, and the latest comments by Polish President Tusk on how under his leadership the European Council and the broader EU Institutions will proceed with Kiev’s accession to the EU and NATO. 

However, the greatest time was devoted to a just published interview with Nikolai Patrushev, former Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council who now continues to serve as a close adviser to Vladimir Putin.  The interview appeared in Russian in the daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, with an abbreviated English language summary in The Moscow Times. See

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/14/ukraine-may-cease-to-exist-in-2025-putin-aide-says-a87610

In this article we see one possible end result of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Another possible end result will come about in an eventual summit meeting between Putin and Trump at which they agree on a new security architecture for Europe based on Realpolitik considerations such as were practiced in Yalta at the conclusion of WWII.  Putin clearly has these and other possible denouements in mind which he juggles like so many balls in the air.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025

For the Russian voice-over version see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCsijXAUEo

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

„Judging Freedom“-Ausgabe vom 15. Januar 2025: Nikolai Patrushev und wie die Ukraine 2025 „aufhören wird zu existieren“

Wie üblich wurden in der Diskussion mit Judge Andrew Napolitano verschiedene Themen behandelt, darunter die „Abschiedsreden“ von Jake Sullivan und Tony Blinken, bizarre Äußerungen von Präsident Selensky während einer laufenden Pressekonferenz und die jüngsten Kommentare des polnischen Präsidenten Tusk dazu, wie der Europäische Rat und die EU-Institutionen unter seiner Führung den Beitritt Kiews zur EU und zur NATO vorantreiben werden.

Die meiste Zeit wurde jedoch einem gerade veröffentlichten Interview mit Nikolai Patrushev gewidmet, dem ehemaligen Sekretär des Nationalen Sicherheitsrates Russlands, der nun weiterhin als enger Berater von Wladimir Putin tätig ist. Das Interview erschien in russischer Sprache in der Tageszeitung Moskowski Komsomolez und in einer gekürzten englischen Zusammenfassung in The Moscow Times. Siehe

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/14/ukraine-may-cease-to-exist-in-2025-putin-aide-says-a87610

In diesem Artikel sehen wir ein mögliches Endergebnis des andauernden Krieges in der Ukraine. Ein weiteres mögliches Endergebnis wird sich bei einem eventuellen Gipfeltreffen zwischen Putin und Trump ergeben, bei dem sie sich auf eine neue Sicherheitsarchitektur für Europa einigen, die auf realpolitischen Überlegungen basiert, wie sie in Jalta am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs praktiziert wurden. Putin hat diese und andere mögliche Ausgänge ganz klar im Sinn und jongliert mit ihnen wie mit Bällen in der Luft.

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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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2 thoughts on “‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 15 January 2025: Nikolai Patrushev and how Ukraine will ‘cease to exist’ in 2025”

  1. Great Interview with the Judge today. Also, it was very funny to hear Mr. Doctorow using the term “Cordon Sanitaire” (which I hadn’t heard in more than 30 years… no doubt, right now in Washington someone will probably be wondering “what in God’s name does it really mean”?)

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  2. Great Interview with the Judge today. Also, it was very funny to hear Mr. Doctorow using the term “Cordon Sanitaire” (which I hadn’t heard in more than 30 years… no doubt, right now in Washington someone will probably be wondering “what in God’s name does it really mean”?)

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