‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 8 October 2025: Is Putin stable?

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‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 8 October 2025: Is Putin stable?

I recommend this interview to the Community because Judge Andrew Napolitano and I discuss openly and in a focused way the reasons why Vladimir Putin should resign and pass the baton to a younger generation of experienced, talented, patriotic and decisive officials who have proven their worth in office these past several years and who surely will be more decisive than he appears to be in defending Russia’s deterrence to Western aggression

I have reached this conclusion after much reflection upon seeing the formation of a constellation of threats to Russia, now that European leaders seem determined to confiscate the 145 billion euros in Russian state assets for the sake of keeping Ukraine in the fight through 2029 when the Europeans expect that their current massive rearmament programs will enable them to impose a strategic defeat on Russia using conventional weapons and without U.S. participation.

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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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11 thoughts on “‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 8 October 2025: Is Putin stable?”

  1. “Vladimir Putin should resign”

     Why not simply change strategies? That appears to be happening.

    “who have proven their worth in office these past several years”

    Under his leadership!

    “and who surely will than he appears to be in defending Russia’s deterrence to Western aggression”

    You need to define “be more decisive”. For example, what should be done in the next 30 days?

    “keeping Ukraine in the fight through 2029”

    It appears to me that can only happen with foreign troops.

    “ when the Europeans expect that their current massive rearmament programs will enable them to impose a strategic defeat on Russia using conventional weapons and without U.S. participation.”

    Are the European economies in good enough shape to manage that?

    What do you know that you cannot say?

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  2. You give as an example one of those “who have proven their worth in office these past several years” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. I would be horrified if this fellow took over from Putin. During the Covid years he was fully on board with Klaus Schwab and the WEF agenda. He did everything he could to lock us down in Moscow and try to force QR codes on us in order to move about the city, to enter stores, to drive cars, etc.. Fortunately the Russian citizens were very good at rejecting his measures, finding ways around some of them and forcing him to resend some of them. However, had he had the power of the office of President . . . God help us!

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    1. 10-4 I’ll wait for the transcrpt so I can read it slowly. I guess I just need a little more detail.

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  3. Putin resigning why? When he’s currently winning, going to win and the constellation of threats, is what it always was. Only now more hysterical & weaker.

    The fabled “European rearmament”, of which they’ve already had three years and their most important militaries have shrunk and/or significantly disarmed themselves is BS.

    Stealing the illusory 150 billion, would have massive blowback, and do nothing to staunch the EU’s economic woes

    They’re also not inflicting anything on the Russians without the USA. Nor is Ukraine lasting another three years on the present ruinous expensive trajectory.

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    1. I almost feel Doctorow has been threatened. His last few posts don’t seem like him. I don’t have a problem with his changing his mind, he’s done that before with well presented reasons. Not this time.

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      1. Gentlemen,
        The dogs bark and the caravan moves on. The notion that I was threatened by anyone is absurd. Only fools do not change their minds when the facts in front of their noses change.
        Get new eyeglasses so that you can see the handwriting on the wall.

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      3. He is scared and considering his resume, if he is scared, so am I. “but the risks are very great, far greater than we had considered just weeks ago.” He said it in the interview.

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      4. The handwriting I’ve seen doesn’t speak to war more than it had in the past, with the main danger being in 2022.

        Instead I see crisis, decay, internal strife & repression. Being the true danger.

        There are reasons France can’t have a stable government, Germany’s economy is holed below the waterline and the UK with it’s moribund system is frantically trying to repress every overt opposition to eternal Blairism.

        To say nothing of the Kafkaesque nonsense, taking place in the USA. Which contra to Trump’s endless bloviations, is also in horrible shape.

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