‘Judging Freedom,’ 11 June edition: What the Kremlin thinks

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Today’s chat with Judge Napolitano was especially enjoyable and hopefully informative for the audience, because we covered a lot of ground and debunked a number of important fallacies that have taken hold in Independent Media, not least of which is that Ukraine is a basket case which can do nothing in the war without massive support from its Western allies.

We discussed today’s Financial Times article on how the Ukrainian drone attack on the RF air bases was by self-targeting drones that had no need of real-time satellite intelligence, meaning that the USA and Britain almost certainly had nothing to do with the final execution of Operation Spiderweb. Accordingly, when Vladimir Putin last spoke by phone with Donald Trump he knew for certain that the USA was not involved without ever having to ask.  This led me to the conclusion that Sergei Lavrov was dissembling when he said the Brits were behind it all.

We discussed the American fuel rods in the Zaporozhie nuclear plant, meaning that Trump’s proposal for the United States to control Ukraine’s nuclear power generation had some basis to it and was not just opportunistic and unfounded.

I was also given the opportunity to explain what I meant when I said a week ago that the Deep State is no longer.  Of course, there is a Deep State and always will be in the original sense of the term, which is a bureaucracy that serves decades long careers and sees many administrations come and go, acting all the time as a moderating force.  However, the Deep State as a monster enforcing Neocon policies is an aberration that was created when Dick Cheney gutted the US intelligence agencies and State Department, throwing onto the street anyone with a knowledge of Eastern Europe and Russia, hiring some experts in Islamic affairs and outsourcing a hefty portion of all intelligence work to commercial entities that use open sources, all of which say what their government handlers want them to say in order to get contract renewal.   That Deep State was cut to pieces by Donald Trump from the day he took office. USAID was demolished and the State Department is currently being purged.  For these reasons the notion that there are rogue elements in the intel services who are operating outside and against the policies of Donald Trump appears to be invalid.

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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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