Transcript of News X World panel discussion on European troops to Ukraine

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NewsX World: 0:01
I’d like to continue this discussion. I request the guests to stay on with us
0:06
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin had earlier at the leaders’ meeting stated that there are certain understandings that were reached during his summit in Alaska with Donald Trump.

He stated that this could open the path to resolve the war with Ukraine. Putin also expressed appreciation for efforts and proposals from both China and India, as well as other strategic partners to facilitate peace. Let’s listen in to his comments.

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Putin [from video subtitles]: 0:36
We value the efforts and propositions to solve the Urainin crisis / of China, India and other strategic partners of ours. The mutual / understanding that was reached at a recent Russia-US summit in / Alaska heads the same direction, I hope. It paves the way to peace / in Ukraine, I hope. I will inform my colleagues in more detail on the / results of talks in Alaska during our bilateral meetings today and / tomorrow.

1:17
I’d like to use this opportunity to say that Russia uses the same / approaches regarding the crisis in Ukraine. I will remind you that / this crisis was created not as a result of Russia attacking Ukraine. / It emerged as a result of a coup d’etat in Ukraine that was provoked / and supported by the West. What followed were armed attempts / to suppress the resistance of the regions of Ukraine and people / of Ukraine who did not accept that coup d’etat.
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NewsX World: 2:02
I’d like to bring Mr. Doctorow back into the conversation. Even though Putin has made these statements, Kremlin has not until now really given any indication of coming to the negotiating table in order to end the war. On the other hand, we see Donald Trump is eyeing the Nobel Peace Prize, and he’s not being very subtle about it. He does have his personal considerations as well, even while rooting for a trilateral. We’ve recently seen a defense minister’s meeting of European nations take place in Denmark.

They gathered to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine. So in this context, how urgent is it for Europe to outline these guarantees?

Doctorow: 2:49
Europe’s decision to possibly send troops into Ukraine is understandable because Ukraine’s military is collapsing. However, if they proceed on that path, _their_ troops will be decimated. The Russians have made no secret of the fact that they will destroy any incoming European so-called peacemakers.

I’d like to take issue with the comments of a fellow panelist in England who is saying that he would be ready to mediate, that all you need is common sense. I disagree. You have to have some area knowledge. You have to know the situation on the ground. You have to know what’s going on in Russia itself, which he admits to be ignorant about.

3:29
I assure you that Russia is doing quite well, and the inflation that’s reported in Russia is nothing like what we experience in Western Europe and here in Belgium with food prices and energy and so forth. Russia is winning this war, he is ignorant of that, and you cannot bring the parties together when you don’t know the real situation on the ground, which he doesn’t. I’d excuse him, because Western media would not allow you to know what is really going on, with rare exceptions.

So the situation is, I say, Russia is winning this war. Mr. Putin’s remarks at the conference in Tianjin were diplomatic, which means they were meant to sound kindly and sound reasonable, but the reality is that Russia does not need and does not want any intervention from any parties, including India, to try to end the war. Russia is doing what Mr. Burrell said it should do, it is fighting this war on the ground and the outcome of the war is being decided on the ground, not by the talking shops.

NewsX World: 4:39
Indeed, I’d request our guests to stay on with us because we’re tracking some breaking developments now. We’re learning that days after a federal appeals court in the United States ruled that most of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are–

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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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