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Gilbert Doctorow

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Trump and tariffs

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/03

You may wonder why in a website focused on Russia, I seem to stray here into an unrelated realm of domestic US economic policy. I ask your forbearance and assure readers that this will all come together in the last quarter of the essay. ***** Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump delivered a lengthy, typically rambling and … Continue reading Trump and tariffs →

Transcript of Press TV interview on Chinese military...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/03

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/133199 PressTV: 0:00For more on that ,we’re joined by independent international affairs analyst Gilbert Doctorow who’s with us from Brussels. Mr. Doctorow, welcome to the program. First of all, how do you read into these recent drills carried out by Beijing, specifically given all the tensions that already exist in … Continue reading Transcript of Press TV interview on Chinese military exercises →

Press TV, Iran: Chinese military exercises seen as...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/03

In recent weeks, the ‘Judging Freedom’ program has asked me and other interviewees how the Russians might react to a possible US-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. My own response was that direct Russian intervention to defend Iran is not foreseen by their recently concluded comprehensive cooperation agreement and, in fact, Russia is too deeply … Continue reading Press TV, Iran: Chinese military exercises seen as warning to USA against attacking Iran

Why is Donald Trump in such a rush to conclude a...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/02

Looking at the to and fro among the main actors in preparations to end the Ukraine-Russia war, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, it is obvious that only one of the three is in a rush: Trump. Zelensky is biding his time in the (vain) hope that he will be bailed out by the … Continue reading Why is Donald Trump in such a rush to conclude a cease-fire in Ukraine? →

Trump’s attack on elite American universities: just...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/04/01

There is considerable discussion among the chattering classes in the United States about the war front that the Trump administration has opened on elite universities. Harvard and Columbia are daily in the news for paying big present and prospective financial penalties. As an alumnus of both institutions, I take a special interest in what is … Continue reading Trump’s attack on elite American universities: just punishment but for wrongly identified offenses →

Sometimes mainstream media tell the truth…

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/30

About nine months ago, I alerted readers of these pages to a feature length article in The Financial Times which described the generalized prosperity in Russia since the start of the Special Military Operation and transition to a war economy. That article quoted extensively from Rosstat and other Russian official sources. It highlighted the fact … Continue reading Sometimes mainstream media tell the truth… →

Major policy statements by Putin in Murmansk on 27...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/29

Yesterday evening’s Russian news programs carried a great deal of information that is highly relevant to our understanding of how the Kremlin now views the prospects for Donald Trump’s peace initiative succeeding and on how the war may play out should the ongoing cease-fire talks fail. Yet none of this has been picked up by … Continue reading Major policy statements by Putin in Murmansk on 27 March that Western media have ignored →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 27 March edition

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/27

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmuHYvItP5ANapolitano: 0:31Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for “Judging Freedom”. Today is Thursday, March 27th, 2025. Professor Gilbert Doctorow joins us now. Professor Doctorow, a pleasure. As always, thank you very much for joining us. The United States at the present moment is embroiled in a controversy over this Signal … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 27 March edition

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 27 March: Kremlin’s View...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/27

In this session, Judge Napolitano was very keen to explore how the Europeans have reacted to the scandal in Washington over the leak of sensitive chat texts about the bombing of the Houthis in Yemen to the editor of The Atlantic magazine. As I remarked, the European media are entirely aligned with the Democratic-leaning media … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 27 March: Kremlin’s View of Trump Administration Foibles →

NATO is doomed. Will the EU Institutions implode soon...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/27

I have in the past blamed Angela Merkel for giving the pro-Brexit forces in Britain that little bit of assistance that pushed them into majority and led to the first departure of a Member State in EU history. After all, the flood of illegal migrants that Merkel so graciously welcomed into the European Union under … Continue reading NATO is doomed. Will the EU Institutions implode soon afterwards? →

Transcript of Press TV interview on war plans leak in...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/27

Transcription submitted by a reader https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/133126PressTV: 0:00US officials in Trump’s administration are still caught up in a chat leak scandal. US national security advisor, Mike Walz has now taken responsibility for the leak that exposed sensitive military plans for bombing Yemen. Waltz called the leak embarrassing and admitted to creating the chat group himself on … Continue reading Transcript of Press TV interview on war plans leak in Washington

Press TV, Iran: US bombing plan leak

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/27

In yesterday’s short interview with Press TV, I was given the opportunity to comment on the brouhaha in the United States and Europe over the leak of sensitive information about impending bombing of the Houthis in Yemen due to the inadvertent inclusion of a journalist, Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg among the chat recipients. https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/133126 … Continue reading Press TV, Iran: US bombing plan leak →

Further considerations on the significance of the...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/26

Last night I hastened to provide a summary of the main points in the just concluded tripartite agreement reached in Riyadh over a maritime cease-fire in the Black Sea. Now, on the morning after, there are further considerations to add including my response to the extensive coverage of the deal last night in the online … Continue reading Further considerations on the significance of the U.S.-Russia-Ukraine agreement on a maritime cease-fire →

Transcript of News X interview: Russia’s attacks on...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/26

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSrGMADG9D4NewsX: 0:00Russia has attacked Ukraine’s city of Odessa with one of its biggest drone attacks, injuring three teenagers, damaging residential and commercial buildings and sparking fires across the city. The attack comes as the United States is pushing for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia and hoping to agree … Continue reading Transcript of News X interview: Russia’s attacks on Odessa →

“Basic results of the meeting of Russian and U.S....

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/25

Yesterday at the conclusion of the 12 hours of negotiations between American and Russian working groups in Riyadh, the Russian side said it would publish a summary of what was achieved this morning at 11am Moscow time. That deadline came and went. Finally, at 18.55 Moscow time, just ahead of the prime-time news broadcasts, a … Continue reading “Basic results of the meeting of Russian and U.S. expert groups” →

‘Reset’ in relations with Russia: what are we...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/22

‘Looking back at what I and others have been saying in recent weeks about Donald Trump’s outreach to President Putin to find common ground to end the Ukraine war sooner rather than later, I see that I/we have used the term ‘reset’ to describe what Trump is doing without ever taking the time to explain … Continue reading ‘Reset’ in relations with Russia: what are we actually talking about? →

Transcript of NewsX ‘Big Debate’

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/22

NewsX: 0:05Welcome back. You are watching NewsX. My name is Vineet Malhotra. Well, Ukraine and Russia have in fact agreed to a ceasefire and this is something which, not an actual ceasefire, but this is something that has been worked upon for a very, very long time. And in that sense, both the countries have … Continue reading Transcript of NewsX ‘Big Debate’ →

Transcript of today’s solo interview on NewsX, India

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/21

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0gx2g1pGo NewsX: 0:01Russian authorities have reported a massive Ukrainian drone attack on the Engels Air Base in Saratov Oblast, with Russia’s defence ministry claiming to have downed 54 drones over the area. Windows were also blown out at a nearby hospital where one woman was injured, as well as two … Continue reading Transcript of today’s solo interview on NewsX, India →

Not everyone in power in Europe has gone mad: an...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/21

In the past several weeks, I have written a couple of essays on how Belgians are viewing Russia and its war in and over Ukraine. In one article, I put the spotlight on the newly installed Minister of Defense, Theo Francken, who a decade ago was bold and exposed the government and media lies about … Continue reading Not everyone in power in Europe has gone mad: an encouraging bit of news from….Belgium →

Transcript of Glenn Diesen interview

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/03/21

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni6gF3JH3cA Prof. Glenn Diesen: 0:00Hi everyone and welcome! I am joined today again by Gilbert Doctorow, an international affairs analyst and historian, for the purpose of discussing the US-Russia diplomatic developments to end the proxy war in Ukraine. And my main thought was: will this end with diplomacy or on … Continue reading Transcript of Glenn Diesen interview →

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