On this podcast there are two separate segments to recommend. One begins at minute 3.40 in which I respond to the presenter’s request for an explanation of Trump’s humiliating Europe during his speech at Davos. The second, more valuable segment begins at minute 7.30 when I share with Professor Andrew Latham of Macalaster College in Minneapolis a discussion of the overarching view of global governance that drives Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to break up NATO and the EU. I had been in a ‘debate’ with Latham on News X within the past week but this time, to our mutual surprise, we were substantially in agreement over what Trump’s mission to remake global relations appears to be – namely that it draws on the thinking of Henry Kissinger.
Two segments of interviews yesterday on News X World worth close attention
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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. View all posts by gilbertdoctorow
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