Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 3 December: US & Russia Sideline Europe & Ukraine in Negotiations

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This 30-minute conversation covers very efficiently many of the issues surrounding the negotiations, the issues surrounding the European efforts to sabotage the peace initiative of Donald Trump. Accordingly I can recommend it heartily to the Community.

At the same time, I use this opportunity to say that the deluge of news on and about the war does not let up and the concerns set out in this video have in a way been bypassed by the latest news out of Brussels regarding the European Commission’s dramatic plans to push through the confiscation of Russian state assets to continue funding the war. The Financial Times online this evening sets out in great detail what von der Leyen is planning to do in order to overcome objections from Belgium, the jurisdiction of Euroclear where the single largest amount of these frozen assets are held, and also to overcome possible vetoes to her plans by Hungary and other states. The plan is monstrous and entails the utter destruction of the European Union institutions for one purpose only: to perpetuate the war at all costs.

As I said on the Judging Freedom show earlier today, essentially what is proposed is to prepare a 200 billion euro debt for the Member States without any of the parliaments voting on this vital question and in the knowledge that they will be hit for payment at some future date when the Russians eventually win justice in the courts. At that point, the citizens of Europe will be faced with costs that they never authorized their governments to incur.

Frau von der Leyen is a usurper of power, a dictator on the scale of Hitler. What is surprising, shocking is that the prime ministers of 23 of the 27 European Member States go along with her.  You have to ask where are the men in the room?  Have they all been castrated?  

For those of you who may have wondered how Europe could have blundered into WWI, we now know, because each day we see the present European leaders and the governing elites in Europe displaying utter ignorance of what a Continent-wide war will bring, namely the destruction of what remains of civilization here and the loss of tens of millions of lives.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025

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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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3 thoughts on “Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 3 December: US & Russia Sideline Europe & Ukraine in Negotiations”

  1. With everything that’s happening now in Belgium, or that might happen, with Euroclear… Just a question: do you still feel safe in Brussels? I live in Belgium too… (Flanders)

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  2. Thank you very much. I do not live there (but in Kortrijk, Flanders). I hope you don’t, neither. I would miss your commentary very much as a voice of reason in a mad world. I just did my daily exercise on the hometrainer, listening to your conversations with Judge Napolitano and Glenn Diesen; exactly the 50 minutes I need. I wish you all the best.

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