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Gilbert Doctorow

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The tiresome daily televised addresses of Vladimir Putin

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/13

Today I will deal with an issue that receives no attention whatsoever on Russian talk shows. On the contrary, they have become accessories to the problem. Both of my favorite television programs of this genre, The Great Game and Evening with Vladimir Solovyov now open with 15 minutes or more of the day’s speech to … Continue reading The tiresome daily televised addresses of Vladimir Putin →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 12 December

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/12

As an introductory comment to the transcript of today’s chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano, I am obliged to explain my point about how a factory producing the Russian equivalent of American AWACS planes may have been the true target of the Ukrainian strike on Taganrog using ATACMS missiles. Like the Ukrainian drone attacks earlier this … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 12 December →

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 12 December: Russia,...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/12

It was a particular pleasure to appear on ‘Judging Freedom’ today, when host Andrew Napolitano celebrated reaching 500,000 subscribers. The opening comments on this video express fulsome praise for this well-earned achievement in public service. In our chat about Syria, the key question was whether this is truly a major setback for Vladimir Putin as … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 12 December: Russia, Syria and Georgia →

Transcript of ‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 10 December...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/10

Transcription submitted by a reader Nima R. Alkhorshid: 0:05Hi everybody. Today is Tuesday, December 10th, and Dr. Gilbert Doctorow is back with us. Welcome back, Gilbert. Gilbert Doctorow, PhD:Well, thanks for the invitation. It’s a pleasure to be with you. Alkhorshid:Let’s get started with what’s going on in Syria and the repercussions of what has … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 10 December 2024 →

‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 10 December: Russia and...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/10

‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 10 December: Russia and the turmoil in Syria and Georgia Today’s session with host Nima Alkhorshid focused primarily on the situation in Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Who are the winners and losers from this among the foreign interveners? Will the new HTS-backed government, with its just named premier … Continue reading ‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 10 December: Russia and the turmoil in Syria and Georgia →

‘No Nuclear War’: 7 December at The National Press Club

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/08

What is the value of the Opposition in the USA and Europe in preventing a looming nuclear war? A look at The National Press Club event organized by Scott Ritter yesterday provides some answers. The ‘No Nuclear War’ proceedings in Washington, D.C. on 7 December (Pearl Harbor Day in the United States) will no doubt … Continue reading ‘No Nuclear War’: 7 December at The National Press Club →

My experience as a talking head on the Syrian crisis...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/07

My preference is to ‘stick with my knitting’ and limit my participation in on air news programs to what I know best, which is Russia. However, since Russia has long been a major player in the Middle East thanks to its close ties with Syria, Iraq and, more recently, with Iran, it is difficult to … Continue reading My experience as a talking head on the Syrian crisis for WION, India’s premier global broadcaster →

Transcript of Press TV panel discussion on Syrian...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/07

Transcript submitted by a reader http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131888PressTV: 0:01Iran’s foreign minister in a trilateral meeting with his Syrian and Iraqi counterparts says the situation in Syria is a threat to the whole region, which requires regional and international action to resolve it. Abbas Araghchi: 0:16The trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq and Syria had … Continue reading Transcript of Press TV panel discussion on Syrian crisis, 6 December

Last night’s discussion in Press TV, Iran of the...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/07

This ten-minute segment from last night’s Press TV news round-up at a little after midnight Iranian time opens with statements from the Iranian Foreign Minister at the end of consultations with his counterparts from Iraq and Syria on how to deal with the HTS rebel advances in the northwest of Syria these past several days. … Continue reading Last night’s discussion in Press TV, Iran of the crisis in Syria →

CNN interview with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/07

According to TASS, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov released a couple of days ago has already been seen by more than 2 million viewers on the social network X alone, with presumably a great many more who watched it on Carlson’s own TCN network and on other media outlets. That was, … Continue reading CNN interview with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov: compelling for those who want to think for themselves →

Sputnik International’s focus on the current...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/06

The ongoing political crises in each of these major countries have purely domestic causes, to be sure. But they also have a common foreign dimension due to the contradictory positions in the broad population of each country and in their political parties inside and outside of government with respect to relations with Russia and to … Continue reading Sputnik International’s focus on the current political turbulence in France, South Korea and Germany →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 5 December...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/06

Transcript submitted by a reader Napolitano: 0:32Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for “Judging Freedom”. Today is Thursday, December 5th, 2024. Professor Gilbert Doctorow joins us now. Professor Doctorow, always a pleasure, my dear friend. Thank you very much for your time and for your thoughts. The last time you and I spoke, the Russians … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 5 December 2024 →

“Judging Freedom” edition of 5 December 2024

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/05

“Judging Freedom” edition of 5 December 2024 In this session our discussion focused on two of the most important questions of the day: The first question is so important because Vladimir Putin’s plans for responding to any further U.S., British and French provocations is now to concentrate his firepower on Ukraine, threatening to destroy its … Continue reading “Judging Freedom” edition of 5 December 2024 →

Transcript of ‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 3 December...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/04

Transcript submitted by a reader Nima R. Alkhorshid: 0:06Hi everybody, today is Tuesday, December 3rd and Dr. Gilbert Doctorow is here with us. Welcome back, Gilbert. Gilbert Doctorow, PhD:Good to be with you. Alkhorshid:Let’s get started with what’s going on in Georgia and in Syria. What are the repercussions of these two major events that … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 3 December 2024 →

A long chat with Free Canada: Dimitri Lascaris in...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/03

Yesterday I had the pleasure to have a lengthy chat with a brave Canadian who defies the Trudeau government’s intolerance for free speech and public debate on relations with Russia. Our chat covered the waterfront of issues in current international affairs and I leave it to the community to watch part or all of the … Continue reading A long chat with Free Canada: Dimitri Lascaris in Montreal →

Is the ruble worth anything? Why is there no panic in...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/12/01

In his press conference at the end of his two-day state visit to Kazakhstan, President Putin was asked about the sharp devaluation of the ruble against the dollar and euro that was occurring during the week. By my estimation the ruble exchange rate worsened by about 7% in just a few days’ time. The … Continue reading Is the ruble worth anything? Why is there no panic in Russia over its 7% depreciation against the dollar in the past week? →

We can all breathe easy: the Russians will not...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/11/29

We all heard the tough talk from President Putin during his press conference yesterday in Astana, Kazakhstan. From his warnings, many Western journalists expected an imminent attack on Kiev using the new Oreshkin hypersonic missile to atomize both civilian decision-making and military command and control centers. There was also speculation in mainstream and in alternative … Continue reading We can all breathe easy: the Russians will not presently attack Kiev or some NATO country

Transcript of interview with WION, Indian global...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/11/29

Transcript submitted by a reader WION: 0:00All right now to give us more perspective in terms of where this war in Ukraine is headed at the moment, we are joined by Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, who’s an international affairs analyst, who’s an author and also a historian, and he’s joining his live on this broadcast. Doctor … Continue reading Transcript of interview with WION, Indian global broadcaster 28.11.24 →

Reconnecting with WION: the significance of the...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/11/28

Over the past month or more, it was very difficult to find a mutually acceptable time slot with WION,, India’s premier English language global broadcaster, for a discussion of the day’s leading Russia-related news. Happily, we did that today and I offer to the community my 4 minute interview on Russia’s latest Wunderwaffe missile, the … Continue reading Reconnecting with WION: the significance of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile and why it was not foreseen by US intelligence →

Missile-gate, 2018 revisited

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/11/28

In yesterday’s widely viewed interview on Judging Freedom, Andrew Napolitano asked me whether US and British intelligence had missed the point of Vladimir Putin’s 1 March 2018 speech to the nation and to the world in which he rolled out Russia’s new unrivaled strategic weapons systems, including hypersonic missiles operating on the same physical principles … Continue reading Missile-gate, 2018 revisited →

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