"Glenn Diesen interview, 29 May 2025: Germany and Russia Moving Toward War"
Gilbert Doctorow (May 29, 2025)
https://youtu.be/jQNqBwqEiE4

Today’s discussion with Professor Glenn Diesen was far-reaching and no doubt viewers will find it especially rewarding.

As the title indicates, we began with review of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s irresponsible decision to approve supplying Kiev with the long-range German cruise missile Taurus by one means or another. In fact, as I remark here, the logic is that he already has delivered some missiles there in violation of his commitments to his coalition partners.

We concluded with considerations on how this war may end after Donald Trump withdraws the United States from participation. As I suggest, the inevitable capitulation of Ukraine will also signify the capitulation of NATO, and at that point finally negotiations will begin to draw up a new security architecture for Europe, as the Russian proposed back in December 2021 but the USA and NATO haughtily rejected out of hand.

In between we discussed why Donald Trump is play acting all the time, why we must look closely not at what he says, which is calculated to confuse and disarm his opponents, but at what he does. The man who approved closing down USAID, the main instrument of regime change paid for by the CIA, the man who has decapitated the US intelligence agencies, who is now purging the State Department, who is scaling back the National Security Council from its bloated 200 staff under Biden to its prior headcount of 60 – the man who is doing all this cannot be a buffoon. Let us put aside his egotistical personality and admit that Trump is intelligent and brave and knows what he wants to do with the U.S. government. As I also state here, it is very wrong-headed to believe that Trump is under-informed or misinformed about the international situation by his subordinates. On the contrary, it is more believable that he knows more about what is going on in the Russia-Ukraine war than any of us commentators on youtube today. That is just how it should be.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025

Comment: See Chalmers Johnson -- The Sorrows of Empire -- for a rejoinder about what governments think they know and what they keep secret from the public for any self-interested, nefarious reason anyone could imagine.