‘Spotlight’ on Press TV (Iran): panel discussion of Trump’s takeover of Greenland

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‘Spotlight’ on Press TV (Iran): panel discussion of Trump’s takeover of Greenland

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/01/20/762645/Trump-fighting-allies-on-Greenland

Yesterday evening’s discussion opened with a brief report from Press TV’s Brussels correspondent Jerome Hughes on the overall reaction in the European Institutions to Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on those countries that have resisted his plans for Greenland.  My fellow panelist was Paolo Raffone, founder and director of the Italian Center for International Perspectives (CIPI), a research and consultancy nonprofit corporation on European and global economic and strategic scenarios based in Brussels. As usual the Spotlight show was moderated by Marzieh Hashemi.

I do not wish to be unkind, but my very well credentialed fellow panelist appears to be clueless over the sense of what Trump is doing over Greenland and also over the sense of globalism versus Realpolitik.

I am pleased that I was given every opportunity to set out my argument that the principal if not only reason for Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is to use the annexation as a tool to wreck NATO from within and, still , to break up the European Union or at least see 25 of the 27 prime ministers of the European Member States sent off to early retirement. Trump’s open declaration of a Might Makes Right foreign policy leaves the Europeans flabbergasted and humiliated, which is precisely what Trump intends.

I note with interest how the Russian chattering classes as represented on Vladimir Solovyov’s evening talk show appear to appreciate Trump’s moves on Greenland as I do.  To any EU censors reading these lines, please do pay attention:  the Kremlin appears to be picking up my line of interpretation, not vice versa.

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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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