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Putin threatens Massive Retaliation as Ukraine Escalates Long-Range Strikes
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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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It is pathetic how every other country has their foreign intelligence agency either leak to the press or perhaps say it public what they believe happened in a different country ( even if its false propaganda) . All that is, with the exception of the Russians and the mute SVR. This becomes a real problem when they allow the western media to run wild with the fed to them complete and utter nonsense of “Ukrainian divers”blew up Nord Stream 2. Perhaps the Russian agencies prefer that it looks like westerners arguing with eachother in a circus, rather than seeing it for what it is – an attack on partially Russian-owned property and economic interests that they once again havent retaliated against.
I say this because in my opinion for the entirely NATO destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines and Western-lead strikes on the Crimean bridge, the Russians should have planned to reciprocate by destroying, if feasible, the Scandinavian -Poland gas pipeline and the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France. Both would carry enormous symbolism, both would be victimless for the Tunnel is closed at night ,and both cause noticeable economic damage while not crossing the threshold to make a nuclear exchange likely. Major disruption would ensue from the tunnel going down into the bottom of the sea but the psychological impact is limited from a strike and damage that the public wouldn’t see, and the crossing by boat isn’t too far anyhow.
The Scandinavian-Polish gas pipeline, that lest we forget, was launched into operation the day after Nord Stream pipes were blown up ,simply should not be standing.
But if one is too weak to even accuse the culprit, and allow the west and Ukraine to play “pass the parcel” on responsibility, then the expectation of retaliatory strikes are next to nothing
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