Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 18 September 2025

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Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 18 September 2025

This far-reaching discussion gave me an opportunity to share some observations justifying an optimistic medium to long term vision of Europe’s returning to the objectives of the creators of the European Union, namely a peace mission and casting aside the militarization and marginalization that we see today under the direction of the usurper President of the European Commission, Ursula van der Leyen. We have come to this lamentable situation due in part to the rapacious and largely unchallenged behavior of von der Leyen, but not by her alone. The entire federalist movement in the European Institutions has for decades masked with seemingly progressive organizational solutions to harmonizing Europe what in fact is an odious package of globalism, loss of sovereignty by the Member States and most recently by the Union as a whole through acceptance of vassal status to the USA. The EU need not enter a century of humiliation, as Glenn Diesen suggests. But it must return to its original game plan of being an economic powerhouse and a cultural powerhouse. This means rejecting the geopolitical ambitions that over the past couple of decades have pushed aside the concept of Europe’s place in the world that the founding fathers of the European Economic Community had in mind.

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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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