Professor Glenn Diesen: Transatlantic Ties Unraveling

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The brief summary that Professor Diesen has attached to this 35-minute interview reads:

“The US seeks to readjust to a multipolar world, and Europe’s relevance and priority have declined. Beyond Europe’s efforts to sabotage Trump’s peace initiative in Ukraine and the tariff wars, there is a deeper contempt for Europe that is no longer concealed.”

Why does Washington show its contempt for Europe?  Simply put, because the European leaders, especially those in charge of the largest and most powerful European states are…contemptible.  They may have solid post graduate degrees, but they are superficial thinkers. Macron, like former British Prime Minister Sunak, put his service within U.S. brokerage houses on his CV but he has no analytical skills in the political sphere and changes his foreign policy posture with the kind of volatility that we associate with Donald Trump, while lacking a broad vision that Team Trump has of the future Great Power driven world order.

 A whole succession of capable French candidate presidents going back to Dominique Strauss-Kahn (2012), to Francois Fillon (2017) were sidelined, no doubt with CIA assistance, to bring to power the dimwit Francois Hollande, followed by the chameleon, Emmanuel Macron. Neither has been up to the challenges of the day both domestically and in international affairs, so that France as a country has sunk under them. What we have seen a week ago in the court-ruling barring the leading French candidate Marine Le Pen from participating in the next presidential elections is a further confirmation that French democracy is completely degraded.

Germany, the other ‘locomotive’ in the European Union tandem, is doing no better.  Chancellor Olaf Scholz was an empty vessel who oversaw the deindustrialization of his country.  The incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz is a vessel half filled with war mania and not much else.

Of course, the interview covered the waterfront of issues relating to the American-EU frictions or confrontations about how/whether the Ukraine war should end soon with Russia as the clear victor.

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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 “Professor Glenn Diesen: Transatlantic Ties Unraveling”

  2. Offering Monetary and military aid by the west Europeans to Ukraine is one thing, but actual delivery of same is another, it may not happen as stated. Trump is in danger of ending up with the Ukraine fiasco in his lap, the west Europeans with their over-the-top rhetoric of support for Ukraine are making sure that Trump, Zelensky and Poland etc. can’t pass the buck to Germany and western Europe for NATO’s defeat. there is a not so delicate dance going on between these frenemies. If on the other hand the west Europeans really believe in their rhetoric, then the question of mass insanity has to be considered.

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  3. Considering the very precarious position Russia has been in ever since the collapse of the USSR I would offer the opinion that Putin and his team have played a brilliant game with a weak hand.

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