‘Judging Freedom,’ 5 June edition: The Pressure on President Putin

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This was a very good, well-rounded discussion of the telephone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, beginning with why it took so long after the Ukrainian drone attack on Russian air bases for the American President to place this call.  My interpretation is that Trump had his people check very carefully whether there was any American involvement in the actual execution of the attack.  He certainly would not have dared to phone Putin if there were a chance that the CIA or any other U.S. agency had facilitated the execution. And I maintain that American intelligence did not inform the president about Operation Spiderweb ahead of the attacks because they were satisfied that there was no current American participation, that they did not know when it might be staged, and that no one could know if the operation would be successful.

In our chat, I called attention to the two elements in Trump’s social media statement about his phone conversation:  the first, that he heard Putin say there would be a revenge attack on Ukraine, which he personally did not disagree with; and the second, that he had discussed with the Russian leader the ongoing negotiations with Iran over uranium enrichment and was satisfied that Putin also does not want Iran to produce nuclear arms.  The latter point, largely ignored by online commentators in the West, was a ‘dog whistle’ to Trump’s Zionist supporters on Capitol Hill, reminding them of the sound reasons for having good relations with Moscow.

Of course, our discussion also took in other related points which will be clear from the Transcript which I will post here within the coming 24 hours.

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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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  1. {1962 Cuban Missile Crisis} •Kennedy & Khrushchev feared WW-3 •Powerful archons pushed for war •Window of opportunity began closing •After crisis both leaders removed
    {2025 NATO Proxy War} •Trump & Putin reject WW-3 •Ground war continues •Powerful archons push for wars with Russia, Iran, PR China
    The Die is Cast. The Ides of March are upon us

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