‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 3 April: Why Trump is in a rush

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Today’s chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano covered the waterfront of news from and about Donald Trump. This is perfectly fine, because my basic thesis is that Trump’s many different initiatives both domestic and foreign are interlinked by a common concept of sovereignty and national interest.

Many of Team Trump’s actions are deeply offensive to those who uphold the rights of Palestinians to live in peace, the rights of Americans to enjoy freedom of speech, the rights of our long time allies to find us reliable and true to our past commitments. But everything Team Trump does finds its own justification in the higher objectives they have set, including and not least of all being the right of 8 billion inhabitants of Planet Earth to live out their days and not to be incinerated in a nuclear war. Even Trump’s critics in Moscow give him credit for moving us all away from that awful scenario.

My point is that personal and state morality are not the same – have not been since the time of Macchiavelli and will not be in the future.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdsNRJepog

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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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