News X World: Witkoff Putin Talks US envoy meets Putin

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This five-minute interview yesterday morning is interesting for the opportunity I was given to explain why the visit on Friday of Donald Trump’s personal emissary Steve Witkoff to Petersburg for a meeting with President Putin was likely taken on short notice.  It was less for purposes of continuing talks on ending the Ukraine war that it was for consultations on how to proceed Saturday in talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister in Oman which Putin had arranged.  Judging by the comments from the White House today that the Iranian talks were constructive and that a further meeting is planned in one week’s time, we may conclude that Vladimir Putin has helped to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for Trump on Iran just as he did for Barack Obama in September 2013 by agreeing with Bashar Assad on the destruction of Syria’s stock of chemical weapons.

If so, then this augurs well for a ‘U.S. brokered’ peace in Ukraine.  Not a cease-fire but a genuine peace, essentially on Russian terms.  Putin will have demonstrated what benefits can accrue to the U.S. from normal, cooperative relations with Russia.

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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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6 thoughts on “News X World: Witkoff Putin Talks US envoy meets Putin”

  1. LOL! Trump is not really interested in a peace deal with Russia. He’s just demonstrated it by extending Biden’s anti-Russian sanctions for another year.

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  2. I’m still unsure exactly what Europe and the UK get out of continuing the war in Ukraine.

    I read something about Ukraine being one of the most corrupt country’s on earth. Maybe its all about lining peoples pockets.

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    1. Ukraine is just the field of action. The EU, the UK are interested in perpetuating this war in the vain hope of fomenting regime change in Russia and returning there for pillage. Not hard to figure out…

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  3. lets say USA and Russia make peace and Ukraine and Europe are on board.

    Will Russia hold USA and NATO accountable for the killing of Russian soldiers sometime in the future ?

    Id be furious if I was them.

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