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NewsX : Russia-Ukraine War Updates -Tensions Escalate...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/05/06

In the Travel Notes, Installment Three which I published earlier today, I presented a critique of Russian press censorship coming from the liberal wing of the profession. Here I offer readers an excellent example of how bureaucracy can run amok with unforeseeable consequences that do nothing for national defense while irritating a great many people … Continue reading NewsX : Russia-Ukraine War Updates -Tensions Escalate on Russia-Ukraine Border →

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 30 April: (Live from St...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/30

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 30 April: (Live from St Petersburg): Can Trump Negotiate for Peace? Today’s chat started out with some observations on what ordinary Russians are saying about their quality of life now that the war in Ukraine has entered its fourth year. My comments were drawn from table talk with four friends who … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 30 April: (Live from St Petersburg): Can Trump Negotiate for Peace? →

Belgium’s plans to raise its military budget to 2% of...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/30

The 24 April edition of Belgium’s main French-speaking daily newspaper, Le Soir, had on its front page and on most of pages 2 and 3 an article entitled “Defense. Billions promised…but not financed.” Reading through this fairly transparent account of Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s ideas on how to raise the funds needed, I was … Continue reading Belgium’s plans to raise its military budget to 2% of GDP: a fool’s errand →

Travel Notes, St Petersburg: first installment

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/29

In this report, I present a potpourri of impressions from this first trip back to Russia since last November. Some of these comments are about real changes in what I see around me. Others are simply first observations of sides to life that I did not experience on my most recent visits. Given that the … Continue reading Travel Notes, St Petersburg: first installment →

NewsX World (India): Trump and Zelensky meet during...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/28

Yesterday afternoon’s interview with News X focused on the fake news coming from Kiev: that Zelensky’s 15 minutes chat with Donald Trump in Rome signified a change in relations with the American President, who allegedly now is favoring Ukraine over Russia in any peace settlement. As they say, Zelensky was putting lipstick on a pig. … Continue reading NewsX World (India): Trump and Zelensky meet during Pope’s funeral →

Russia desperately needs its own DOGE headed by its...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/26

My first Travel Notes for this trip to Russia which began yesterday should interest not only those in the Community, particularly those living in Europe, who want some tips on how to make the trip to Russia without breaking the budget by flying via Istanbul or Dubai. The route I describe below is, for those … Continue reading Russia desperately needs its own DOGE headed by its own Elon Musk →

Transcript of Glenn Diesen interview of 23 April

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYactL5y58E Transcript submitted by a reader Note: one and the same reader has been providing all of these transcripts for the past year. He requested anonymity, which I have been obliged to respect although I regret not having had the opportunity to thank him publicly for all these efforts which many readers have found very … Continue reading Transcript of Glenn Diesen interview of 23 April →

Legitimate Targets: an interview with resonance

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/26

This community is growing, partly thanks to kind invitations from new, additional host broadcasters to enter into recorded conversations about the most important relevant developments in the Russia-Ukraine war. So it was with this week’s hosts at LegitTargets who disseminate their videos on X and other platforms. The main focus of this interview was my … Continue reading Legitimate Targets: an interview with resonance →

Coming events

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/23

I inform the community that tomorrow, 24 April I travel to Russia, where I will remain until 11 May. Most of the time I will be in St Petersburg, though for several days I will be visiting Moscow. As usual, during this trip I will be issuing several reports on how the Russian home front … Continue reading Coming events →

Glenn Diesen: Zelensky Rejects Peace Deal, Trump...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/23

It has been a busy day. This evening’s chat with Professor of the University of Southwest Norway Glenn Diesen was a special treat. Our discussion focused on the likelihood that Trump will wash his hands of the Ukraine conflict now that Zelensky has given him the perfect pretext by his refusal to acknowledge the loss … Continue reading Glenn Diesen: Zelensky Rejects Peace Deal, Trump Threatens to Exit →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 25 April edition

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/23

Transcript submitted by a reader Napolitano: 0:33Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for “Judging Freedom”. Today is Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025. Professor Gilbert Doctorow joins us from Brussels. Professor Doctorow, always a pleasure. Before we get into the Rubio-Zelensky standoff and what General Kellogg is doing and saying, what is the perception in Europe as … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 25 April edition →

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 23 April: Are...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/23

I am especially pleased with today’s chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano which covered a lot of ground that seems to be overlooked by others, yet bears directly on any prognosis of how the war will end and in what time frame. I have in mind the following separate elements. There is the new savvy Kremlin … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 23 April: Are Ukraine/Russia Peace Talks Fruitless? →

Transcript of Press TV interview on ratification of...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/23

Transcript submitted by a reader————- Joining us now out of Brussels is Gilbert Doctorow, Independent International Affairs Analyst. For more on the story, Mr. Gilbert Doctorow, pleasure to check in with you. Hope you’re safe and doing well this afternoon out there in Brussels. Your initial thoughts on the ramifications iInvolved here of this multi-year, … Continue reading Transcript of Press TV interview on ratification of the 20-year cooperation agreement

Press TV, Iran: Putin has officially ratified a...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/22

Press TV, Iran: Putin has officially ratified a 20-year strategic partnership agreement with Iran That Russia has in the past day fully ratified the strategic partnership agreement with Iran was not featured on Russian state news, to my knowledge, but it is understandable that Teheran takes special comfort from this formal completion of their special … Continue reading Press TV, Iran: Putin has officially ratified a 20-year strategic partnership agreement with Iran →

Interview in the latest issue of Zèbre magazine

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/21

In the new issue of this francophone Belgian magazine of commentary you will find on pages 20-24 excerpts from an hour-long interview which I gave to their lead journalist Daniel de Wolff not long ago. In the near future they will be putting a video of the interview on the internet. https://www.zebre-magazine.com/mon-zebre-digitale/zebre-magazine-04

President Putin’s 30-hour Easter cease-fire

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/20

As I have said from time to time, the requests I receive almost daily from one or another media outlet prompt me to speak or write about current events to which I otherwise might not give due attention. So it was yesterday evening when Sputnik International requested my thoughts on President Putin’s just announced 30 … Continue reading President Putin’s 30-hour Easter cease-fire →

The best thing that Trump can do now is to walk away...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/19

The past couple of days have brought wildly contradictory reports from the Trump administration on progress in its initiative to achieve a peace accord ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Either they are progressing well and close to success, as Vice President J.D. Vance has commented or they will be ended in the coming days if the … Continue reading The best thing that Trump can do now is to walk away from the Russia-Ukraine war →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 17 April edition

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/17

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCWkUAiE4Gw Napolitano: 0:32Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for “Judging Freedom”. Today is Thursday, April 17th, 2025. Professor Gilbert Doctorow joins us now. Professor Doctorow, welcome here. You have a fascinating piece out about Germany and May 9th and the significance of all of it. But before we get there, … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 17 April edition →

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 17 April

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/17

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 17 April Today’s show, which was advertised under the heading “Germany and May 9” did indeed devote some attention to Germany and the totally irresponsible position of belligerence towards Russia by the incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz. As Judge Napolitano remarked, in a recent essay I called Merz “the most dangerous German … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 17 April →

Harvard in the news: who is right in the...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/16

In what follows, I will not answer that question but I will provide the community with some food for thought. The text below is a ‘reprint,’ so to speak. It was written in August 2016 and published for a limited, dedicated audience, my Harvard undergraduate class of 1967. This was my entry in the Class … Continue reading Harvard in the news: who is right in the confrontation between the university and Donald Trump? →

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