‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 19 February: Trump OBLITERATES Zelensky with SHOCKING Comments

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‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 19 February: Trump OBLITERATES Zelensky with SHOCKING Comments

Today’s session with host Nim Alkhorshid covered the waterfront of issues from the past week, including the headline title assigned to this video on youtube.

A substantially larger part was devoted to fleshing out the argument I presented in my latest essay on how and why the political skills that Donald Trump has exhibited since taking office are reminiscent of the terrific powers of political manipulation that Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrated till he finally lost his balance domestically and was forced to resign his presidency.

Trump has outwitted us all, for which I say kudos!  And this is being done for the sake of peace, not for the petty reasons of self-enrichment or glorification that his many detractors in the alternative media share with the dominant voices in mainstream.

And what do the Russians in the political talk shows now say about Trump?  “Watch your back!”

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

„Dialogue Works“-Ausgabe vom 19. Februar: Trump VERNICHTET Selensky mit SCHOCKIERENDEN Kommentaren

In der heutigen Sitzung mit Gastgeber Nima Alkhorshid wurden die wichtigsten Themen der vergangenen Woche behandelt, einschließlich des Titels, der diesem Video auf YouTube zugewiesen wurde.

Ein wesentlich größerer Teil war der Ausarbeitung des Arguments gewidmet, das ich in meinem neuesten Essay darüber dargelegt habe, wie und warum die politischen Fähigkeiten, die Donald Trump seit seinem Amtsantritt unter Beweis gestellt hat, an die großartigen Fähigkeiten der politischen Manipulation erinnern, die Michail Gorbatschow unter Beweis stellte, bis er schließlich innenpolitisch das Gleichgewicht verlor und gezwungen war, sein Amt als Präsident niederzulegen.

Trump hat uns alle überlistet, und dafür sage ich: Hut ab! Und das alles für den Frieden, nicht aus den kleinlichen Gründen der Selbstbereicherung oder Selbstverherrlichung, wie seine vielen Kritiker in den alternativen Medien gemeinsam mit den dominierenden Stimmen im Mainstream sagen.

Und was sagen die Russen in den politischen Talkshows jetzt über Trump? „Pass auf dich auf!“

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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 “‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 19 February: Trump OBLITERATES Zelensky with SHOCKING Comments”

  1. Thank you for this informative input, Gilbert, and I appreciate your non-personal critical comments about Mearsheimer’s and Sacks’ conclusions, which I think have methodological implications, namely their assumption that the United States as the nation state of US citizens has an objective national interest, whereas I think the term ‘national interest’ means whatever ruling elite/power bloc is hegemonic. Understanding a power bloc’s interest requires diving deeper into the class structures and social struggle dynamics of the society at any particular juncture. Of course the same would apply to understanding the Russian Federation and the Peoples Republic of China. These structures and dynamics will, on this assumption, continue playing out to produce geopolitical and diplomatic effects in the months and years ahead. I am no specialist of geopolitics between these powers but my sense is that as one conflict pressure point (Ukraine-Nato-Russia) starts dissolving, other could well swell up, reflecting underlying capitalist competition and whatever dominant ideologies inform the respective ruling elites.

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