News X World (India): Zelenskiy Hosts European Leaders in Kyiv Amid Russia Tensions
Russia related news has proliferated these past two days and I have been repeatedly asked for commentary by News X.
Given that I am presently in Russia, where for reasons unknown youtube access is suspended, I am unable to enter the links which the broadcaster has kindly forwarded to me. These often are temporary and later are removed, which apparently happened to yesterday’s link to an interesting discussion I had with News X regarding the Victory Day parade in Moscow and what it means for reshuffling international relations. If I can recover the viable link when I am back in Brussels in a couple of days, I will post that one then.
As we now know, this gang of four are pressing Donald Trump to join them in imposing new and drastic sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin does not agree to the 30 day unconditional cease fire called for by Zelensky. We also know from their statements that the end game they expect to result from this exercise is a peace agreement that amounts to Russian capitulation. It is hard to see how Trump will play their game. It is 100% certain that Vladimir Putin will not.
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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The EU/US sanctions everything except the stupid pills for their swamp archons.
Russian capitulation or more boomerang sanctions?? Well good luck with that. Will the Gang of Four delusions of grandeur need to be shattered by a few hazelnuts hitting a few of their favourite military bases and personnel remains to be experienced. But then again one of their hero German generals is currently blabbering that Russian forces have no chance of winning the war militarily. Believe it or not! With such advisers it is no surprise to witness the mad hatters tea party in wonderland Kiev..simply grotesque!
The EU/US sanctions everything except the stupid pills for their swamp archons.
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Russian capitulation or more boomerang sanctions?? Well good luck with that. Will the Gang of Four delusions of grandeur need to be shattered by a few hazelnuts hitting a few of their favourite military bases and personnel remains to be experienced. But then again one of their hero German generals is currently blabbering that Russian forces have no chance of winning the war militarily. Believe it or not! With such advisers it is no surprise to witness the mad hatters tea party in wonderland Kiev..simply grotesque!
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