What a difference a couple of days make in our appreciation of the Trump White House!

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Beware all interviewees who participate in prerecorded programs that will be released several days later to suit a broadcaster’s weekly scheduling!

I have just received the link to the Afshin Rattansi’s “Going Underground” that we recorded this past Wednesday but which only went on air today within the distribution channels of RT.

This was before the news of the Trump-Putin phone call, before the speech of J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference and before we were aware of Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s presentation on the end game of the war to the Ukraine Coordinating organization in Brussels.

All of these developments put paid to the notion that Donald Trump and his inner circle are unaware of the realities on the battlefield in the war and of what has to be conceded if the Russians are going to sit down and sign a peace.  As we now know, someone in the White House has indeed been reading the daily mainstream newspapers and has trashed the briefings coming from the CIA without waiting for the intelligence briefings to be put in order by the incoming Tulsi Gabbard.

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Was für einen Unterschied machen ein paar Tage in unserer Wertschätzung des Weißen Hauses unter Trump!

Seien Sie vorsichtig bei allen Interviewpartnern, die an vorab aufgezeichneten Programmen teilnehmen, die erst einige Tage später ausgestrahlt werden, um dem wöchentlichen Sendeplan eines Senders zu entsprechen!

Ich habe gerade den Link zu Afshin Rattansis „Going Underground“ erhalten, das wir am vergangenen Mittwoch aufgezeichnet haben, aber erst heute in den Vertriebskanälen von RT ausgestrahlt wurde.

Das war vor der Nachricht vom Telefonat zwischen Trump und Putin, vor der Rede von J.D. Vance auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz und bevor wir von der Präsentation von Verteidigungsminister Hegseth über das Endspiel des Krieges vor der Koordinierungsorganisation der Ukraine in Brüssel erfuhren.

All diese Entwicklungen widerlegen die Vorstellung, dass Donald Trump und sein engerer Kreis die Realitäten auf dem Schlachtfeld des Krieges nicht kennen und nicht wissen, was zugestanden werden muss, wenn die Russen sich an den Verhandlungstisch setzen und einen Frieden unterzeichnen sollen. Wie wir jetzt wissen, hat jemand im Weißen Haus tatsächlich die täglichen Mainstream-Zeitungen gelesen und die Briefings der CIA in den Papierkorb geworfen, ohne abzuwarten, bis die eintreffende Tulsi Gabbard die Geheimdienst-Briefings in Ordnung gebracht hat.

Translation into Spanish (Chod Zom)

¡Qué diferencia hacen un par de días en nuestra apreciación de la Casa Blanca de Trump!

¡Cuidado con todos los entrevistados que participan en programas pregrabados que se emiten varios días después para adaptarse a la programación semanal de una emisora!

Acabo de recibir el enlace al programa «Going Underground» de Afshin Rattansi que grabamos este pasado miércoles pero que no ha salido al aire hasta hoy dentro de los canales de distribución de RT.

Esto fue antes de la noticia de la llamada telefónica Trump-Putin, antes del discurso de J.D. Vance en la Conferencia de Seguridad de Munich y antes de que tuviéramos conocimiento de la presentación del Secretario de Defensa Hegseth sobre el juego final de la guerra a la organización Coordinadora de Ucrania en Bruselas.

Todos estos acontecimientos echan por tierra la noción de que Donald Trump y su círculo íntimo desconocen las realidades del campo de batalla en la guerra y lo que hay que conceder si los rusos van a sentarse a firmar la paz. Como ahora sabemos, alguien en la Casa Blanca sí ha estado leyendo los principales diarios y ha echado por tierra los informes provenientes de la CIA sin esperar a que los informes de inteligencia sean puestos en orden por la entrante Tulsi Gabbard.

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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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3 thoughts on “What a difference a couple of days make in our appreciation of the Trump White House!”

  1. The title and wording of this post are very hard to understand. Are you saying that it is now clear that the Trump Team DO or DO NOT understand the realities?

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  2. The US still fails to grasp the reality of its role as a party in the war against Russia in the Ukraine and as a disrupter in European politics and economics and society. Apparently, the US fell for its own gaslighting.

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  3. It is interesting to note that the Cold War and the post-Cold War economic self-mutilation inflicted by the US and Russia on each other resulted in the emergence of two incontestable winners, outside of their plan. China is the top winner, followed by the European Union. Little considered as a viable entity, the EU is an economic and demographic contender vastly better positioned vis-a-vis both the US and Russia.

    This comes as such a surprise to the former adversaries that they are now in a frenzy to close ranks and talk about friendship against their very close former friends. They just discovered how much damage they inflicted on themselves and how far they have fallen behind both China and the EU.Can they, in a nefarious new alliance, succeed in stabbing the Europeans in the back for the third time?

    https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/15/from-cold-war-rivals-to-sore-losers

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