I express my gratitude to the production team at News X World for putting up this morning’s rather passionate condemnation of Merz, “thick as a stick”as I say here. I don’t know how the Modi government feels about Merz, but if any tuned in to this show it gave them food for thought.
To the Community, I ask that you consider how Alternative Media, like Mainstream, devote so much attention to the alleged senility of Donald Trump, to his mental peculiarities underlying his ugly personality. Well, it is high time to pay attention to Friedrich Merz, who, I submit, is insane, yes, criminally insane in the sense that he is a wannabe war criminal. And I can say no better about the captains of German industry who accompanied him to Kiev. My best advice to fellow investors: SELL German assets because Merz and Company are making them worthless.
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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