Another NewsX World interview worthy of your attention

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This 10-minute-long interview which begins at minute 4 in the podcast was another great opportunity to look behind the news to causes that mainstream does not touch. The questions included the following:

  • Will the Ukraine war continue into 2026 and if so, why?
  • What is Donald Trump doing to raise his popularity ratings and win support in the American political establishment for his Russia-friendly proposals to end the war? 
  • How will the Turks react to the reportedly Russian-built reconnaissance drones that were downed within Turkish air space?  How close are Russia and Turkey as allies?

You will note that in the course of this interview  I restate my conclusions both with respect to the pointless negotiations led by Trump to end the war and with respect to Putin’s latest public appearance on his Direct Line Q&A with the nation: that it is high time for Vladimir Vladimirovich to take his well-earned retirement and pass the torch to a younger generation that is less risk-averse and can do what is needed to end the war now, rather than let it drag on for years, which is where Putin is steering the ship of state.

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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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