WION interview taken 29 January:Putin Says Ukraine War Will End In A Month Or Two
As promised in my essay on the subject a couple of days ago, I offer below the video link to this 10 minute interview which I gave to WION, India’s largest English language broadcaster.
In the time since the recording, the interview in Russian by Pavel Zarubin with Vladimir Putin which was referenced by the WION moderator and is quoted in the subject line above has been widely shown in major international media, including with English language voice over on a link which I provided here a day ago.
Nonetheless, the point is that the Indian media have been following developments in Russia relating to the war far more closely than most, providing as in this particular case a ‘scoop’ that was worth my commending them. They may have released my interview only today, but their one-two minute news briefs showed their global audience excerpts from Putin’s remarks to Zarubin already early on the 29th.
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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I expect Putin wasn’t particularly serious, with that statement.
The Ukrainians will shriek their usual nonsense, as will the most rabid usual suspects in the EU.
That gives the Russians a public “out” vis-a-vis these nonsensical “Trump talks”.
Putin had an incentive two years ago to negotiate. This is two years hence.
It’d be like Lincoln starting negotiations with Jefferson Davis after Gettysburg.
There is no incentive to stop short of unambiguous & total victory, even if it would have painful costs.
Due to the amount of blood, treasure, effort and time sacrificed. To get to this point.
Plus who the hell would trust the honourless USA in general and a crook like Donald Trump (of all people) in particular?
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