It was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to share with the RT International audience my interpretation of the goings-on in Kiev following two days of massive anti-government demonstrations in the capital and across the country, as thousands denounced a new law stripping the anti-corruption agencies of their independence.
President Zelensky was caught in a no-win situation. If he persisted in defending the law, he faced further widespread protests that could overturn the regime. If he conceded victory to the demonstrators and withdrew the law, he faced further protests that could overturn the regime.
The primary issue I see here is that somehow the Ukrainian police and military were instructed NOT to shoot the demonstrators, not to crack skulls. Indeed, we have been told that the government only ordered soldiers not to participate in the demonstrations wearing their uniforms!
I insist that the week’s developments are the harbinger of regime change which is being enabled by one or another of the Western ‘backers’ of Ukraine, very likely Washington and London. This type of treachery has all the fingerprints of MI6 on it.
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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I was thinking the CIA was looking to replace MI-6 man Zelensky.
If indeed it’s MI6 that is working in the background to remove Zelensky, that can IMO only mean they already have an alternative for him. The question is then: who could that possibly be? I cannot think of anyone, really…
I was thinking the CIA was looking to replace MI-6 man Zelensky.
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Very good point. You may well be correct.
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If indeed it’s MI6 that is working in the background to remove Zelensky, that can IMO only mean they already have an alternative for him. The question is then: who could that possibly be? I cannot think of anyone, really…
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