This morning’s brief interview focused on the latest statements by the British Defense Minister at the Labour Party gathering in Liverpool assertjng Britain’s unswerving support for Ukraine and demanding that Vladimir Putin sue for peace, meaning capitulate. This demand is, of course, utterly nonsensical since the Russians are winning the war, a fact confirmed by the daily reports on their decimation of Ukrainian armed forces on the front lines in Donbas and in other oblasts of Ukraine.
Healey is speaking on behalf of a prime minister who is under attack within his own party for failing to realize the election promises that brought him to power. More significantly, Labour’s popularity ratings have been tumbling, so that latest poll results show Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is now well ahead of Labour while also several times stronger than the Conservatives.
See an article in The Independent carrying information that also appeared in The Financial Times: “Reform on brink of outright majority at next election.” Normally that election would take place in 2029, but considering the ongoing fight within Labour being led by its Left radical members, an early removal of Starmer and call for new elections is not to be dismissed.
Let us remember that Farage stands rather close to his friend Donald Trump in seeking normalization of relations with Russia, as opposed to anti-Russian policies of both Labour and the Conservatives.
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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“the Russians are winning the war, a fact confirmed by the daily reports on their decimation of Ukrainian armed forces” — I’ve been hearing this for the last three and a half years. What is it that makes 2025 more victorious than 2022, 2023, or 2024?
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“the Russians are winning the war, a fact confirmed by the daily reports on their decimation of Ukrainian armed forces” — I’ve been hearing this for the last three and a half years. What is it that makes 2025 more victorious than 2022, 2023, or 2024?
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