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Gilbert Doctorow

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In his crushing electoral victory, Vladimir Putin has...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/19

One may say that Vladimir Putin made his point to the Collective West in the latest presidential elections: that he enjoys enormous support among Russians which translates into legitimacy as Russia’s leader. What can you say when 87% of the votes cast were for Putin and when the turnout of eligible voters was a record … Continue reading In his crushing electoral victory, Vladimir Putin has won grudging legitimacy in the West →

France sees no red lines in what it does to Russia:...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/17

For more than a week now, the president of the Russian Union of Journalists, Vladimir Solovyov has been asking all French viewers tuned in to his television talk show which city they are prepared to see the Russians raze to the ground first: Lyon, Toulouse or Paris…? The question is posed in the context of … Continue reading France sees no red lines in what it does to Russia: there will be consequences… →

MI6 strikes again: Navalny’s aide Volkov beaten up...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/13

We are two days from the opening of polls in Russia for the 2024 presidential election and the Brits could not pass up an opportunity to spoil the mood by cooking up a follow-on atrocity to remind us of the murder of Alexei Navalny that they brought to the door of Putin in mid-February. This … Continue reading MI6 strikes again: Navalny’s aide Volkov beaten up in Lithuania →

Russia-Ukraine war update on Iran’s Press TV

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/09

Yesterday evening I joined expert on modern warfare and conflict resolution Greg Simons based in Uppsala, Sweden for an eight-minute Skype ‘panel discussion’ of latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war hosted by Iran’s global television broadcaster Press TV. We substantially agreed that the most important recent events in the war pointing to its end sooner … Continue reading Russia-Ukraine war update on Iran’s Press TV →

Trump and Biden: which liar will you vote for?

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/08

Over the past several months, the public and media have directed a lot of attention to the advanced age of the two leading candidates for the U.S. presidency this November. In the case of Trump, he has only an abstraction, the calendar, working against him. Otherwise, looking at him, listening to him, he seems to … Continue reading Trump and Biden: which liar will you vote for? →

Some additional thoughts to bring good cheer

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/06

Yesterday evening I tuned in to the Vladimir Solovyov talk show hoping to hear a serious discussion of the causes and significance of Victoria Nuland’s resignation, which caught so many of us unawares earlier in the day. However, in the first fifteen or twenty minutes, the discussion rambled in all directions about the coming attack … Continue reading Some additional thoughts to bring good cheer →

Farmers of the world, unite!

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/05

Farmers of the world, unite! (some media material for Russian speakers) The farmers’ protests across the European Union these past several weeks were followed with great interest in Russia and Belarus by local media. As someone based in Brussels living just 20 minutes walking distance from the European Parliament buildings on Place Luxembourg, which resembled … Continue reading Farmers of the world, unite! →

Victoria Nuland resigns: what can this mean for U.S....

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/05

In this business of geopolitical analysis, there is no room for stubborn insistence on consistency of message or false pride. Indeed, when the inputs change in a cardinal manner, I have no hesitation whatsoever to turn away from what I said yesterday. The latest news is that Victoria Nuland has resigned from the State Department … Continue reading Victoria Nuland resigns: what can this mean for U.S. policy on Ukraine? →

The Bundeswehr scandal: loose ends

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/04

There are many ‘loose ends’ in the story about the Bundeswehr generals discussing how to use Taurus missiles to destroy the Kerch (Crimea) bridge, not least of which is the question of Russians supposedly breaking secure communications lines to obtain the recording which RT’s Margarita Simonyan made public. Just how complicated and rife with speculation … Continue reading The Bundeswehr scandal: loose ends →

Fall-out from the Bundeswehr scandal

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/03

The silence among Western media that initially followed the Russian release of tapes of the Bundeswehr plotters seeking to bomb the Kerch bridge was broken after a couple of days when Chancellor Scholz acknowledged the authenticity of the tapes and transcript. He told reporters that the incident was very serious and will now be investigated … Continue reading Fall-out from the Bundeswehr scandal →

German officers plot Taurus missile attack on the...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/02

You very likely have not heard anything about the headlined news, but it is an item which has been widely discussed in official Russian media yesterday and today. RT took the lead in publicizing it and other news portals followed suit. Moreover, it was featured on yesterday’s Sixty Minutes news and analysis program of Russian … Continue reading German officers plot Taurus missile attack on the Crimea bridge →

Postscript to Overview of Vladimir Putin’s State of...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/03/01

Putin’s two hour and five minute address was very rich in ideas and my overview of yesterday was incomplete. In what follows below, I propose to direct attention to several further elements of the speech that merit discussion. It bears mention that during the speech Vladimir Putin explained more than once that many of the … Continue reading Postscript to Overview of Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation address →

Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation speech today: an...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/29

Earlier today Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russia’s bicameral legislature, of which the State Duma is the lower house. In addition to the federal level legislators and administrators, the audience numbering slightly more than 1200 included regional governors, leaders of civil society, i.e. representatives of volunteer organizations having national importance, … Continue reading Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation speech today: an overview

More WION: What does Kiev’s need for $3 billion per...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/29

This morning WION, India’s premier English language global broadcaster invited me to a far-reaching discussion that began with the latest news from Ukraine, where the Finance Minister had just announced the country’s need for $3 billion per month of assistance from its foreign backers. As I explain in this interview, the money is not in … Continue reading More WION: What does Kiev’s need for $3 billion per month of foreign assistance tell us? →

Brief interview with Press TV, Iran on Macron’s...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/28

International developments foreboding an escalation of localized wars into regional conflagrations (Israel-Hamas) and regional conflagrations into world wars (Russia and NATO over Ukraine) have been coming at a fast pace in recent days. Accordingly, I and my peers among political analysts find ourselves in considerable demand. I say that in a matter of fact way, … Continue reading Brief interview with Press TV, Iran on Macron’s proposal to send European troops to Ukraine →

Emmanuel Macron’s provocative advocacy of European...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/28

Yesterday’s news analysis programs in Europe and in Russia devoted a lot of attention to French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements during a meeting at the Elysée Palace of a Conference in Support of Ukraine which was attended by a great many European heads of government or their immediate deputies and at a press conference which … Continue reading Emmanuel Macron’s provocative advocacy of European troops on the ground in Ukraine →

News Flash: Houthis attack underwater communications...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/27

News Flash: Houthis attack underwater communications cables in the Red Sea This morning’s news ticker on the Russian Dzen website features an item that you will not see on the pages of today’s New York Times or Financial Times. I quote: The Houthis have attacked underwater cables connecting Europe with Asia As a result of … Continue reading News Flash: Houthis attack underwater communications cables in the Red Sea →

UN agency for Palestinian refugees at ‘breaking...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/23

UN agency for Palestinian refugees at ‘breaking point’: Press TV, Iran I recommend this 10 minute video both for what the presenter and my fellow panelist said as they described Israel’s unconscionable efforts to destroy UNRWA, the main provider of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians inside and outside of Gaza, and also to what I was … Continue reading UN agency for Palestinian refugees at ‘breaking point’: Press TV, Iran →

German parliament to vote on delivery of long-range...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/22

For those who are interested, the leading German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has posted on its website a link to live coverage of the debates taking place in the Bundestag this week over the Ukraine war and German arms deliveries to Kiev. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/bundestag-debattiert-ueber-ukrainekrieg-und-deutsche-waffenlieferungen-19537018.html A vote is expected next week and some observers speculate that the … Continue reading German parliament to vote on delivery of

Britain’s failed submarine launch of a nuclear...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2024/02/22

In my latest interview on India’s premier English language global broadcaster, WION, we discussed the degradation of the British navy as revealed by the official announcement of a test submarine missile launch carried out off the Florida coast in January. The first stage of their Trident missile failed to ignite and it fell back into … Continue reading Britain’s failed submarine launch of a nuclear missile set against its proxy war with Russia →

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