‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 8 September: Nearing the end in Ukraine

Uncategorized 1 Minute

This chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano began with breaking news of the murderous Israeli attack on the Hamas negotiating team in Qatar and moved on to the balance between the evil that Donald Trump enables by his support to Netanyahu and the good that he has likely done by preventing an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran and by his giving breathing space to Vladimir Putin to complete the war in Ukraine on Russia’s terms.

As regards the prospects for the war ending soon, I once again express my doubts that a pure military victory will be the outcome. Rather it will precipitate at a certain point the political collapse both within the Kiev regime and within the Coalition of the Willing.  Progress on the former was evidenced yesterday by the defection to Poland of former Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kuleba. Progress on the latter was evidenced yesterday by the collapse of the French government. While Macron and the people he appoints as prime minister are being battered over their domestic policies rather than over his leadership of the Coalition of the Willing and belligerency towards Russia, the near bankruptcy of the country, the severe austerity being imposed on all budget entries except military expenses sharply aggravate the popular discontent with Macron in France and put his continued rule in jeopardy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2saYUvFeCY

Unknown's avatar

Published by gilbertdoctorow

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.

Published