RT International interview: the latest insane remarks of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

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Today’s quotations from the European leaders taking the Old Continent to the brink of catastrophe are absolutely stunning for revealing a detachment from reality that one can properly call insanity.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz went on record yesterday as calling Vladimir Putin the ‘worst war criminal of our days.’ This quote was put to the Russian president by Kommersant newspaper journalist Andrei Kolesnikov at a press briefing to the news pool after Putin’s arrival this morning in Vladivostok. Putin disposed of this insulting and totally unacceptable remark by his German counterpart by reminding him who was responsible for the outbreak of the civil war in Ukraine in February-March 2014: namely the Germans, French and Poles who did not exercise their obligations as guarantors of a deal for peaceful transfer of power signed with the then Ukrainian president Yanukovich a day before the violent coup d’etat that overthrew him.

Merz’s remarks were a provocation. One can say the same of the quote from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the latest gathering of the Coalition of the Willing in Prague. Listen closely to the quote that I was asked to comment on by RT International. We hear him say that Putin has no more power than the Governor of the U.S. state of Texas and that there is no reason to take Russia’s opinions into account while the Europeans plan putting their soldiers on the ground in Ukraine to ensure its security after a truce or peace is concluded. This is pure insanity

It is painful to think that persons so detached from reality as Rutte are entrusted with Europe’s defense.

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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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