Gilbert Doctorow: The U.S. & Russia Are Testing Each Other’s Red Lines

Gilbert Doctorow discusses how the U.S. and Russia are testing each other's red lines in a bid to avoid Doomsday. Russia felt existentially threatened and thus needed to push back U.S. and NATO presence in Ukraine. The war is also existential for the U.S. Both sides seek to prolong the war. The most depressing thing is that everything Gilbert disliked about the Soviet Union has now moved to the United States. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Gilbert Doctorow: The U.S. & Russia Are Testing Each Other's Red Lines #341 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://gilbertdoctorow.com Transcript Geopolitics & Empire: Geopolitics & Empire is joined by Brussels based political analyst Gilbert Doctorow. Welcome to Geopolitics & Empire, Gilbert. Gilbert Doctorow: Thanks for having me. Geopolitics & Empire: I've been enjoying your work for many years, so it's a pleasure to finally speak with you and here on Geopolitics & Empire, I like to get right to the heart of the matter and jump straight into the fray and examine the existential issues and you've recently been writing about the coming existential threats. You discussed Russia revising their nuclear plans in light of fears the US via Ukraine targets Crimea and heartland Russia, these plans for sea counterstrikes against US military instillation in Europe and in the continental US using hypersonic missiles and you point out that a panelist on Russian TV for the threat of counterstrikes in Europe and the US to made public and explicit so that no one is in doubt about what to expect from the Kremlin. You also wrote that, "The Russians are stripping away the fiction of a proxy war and revealing the cobelligerent status of the US and its NATO allies in preparation for a kinetic war with NATO." And your conclusion in your recent piece, freaking me out, you write, "Back in 1937, there were Jews in Berlin who decided they could ride out the storm and stay put, there were others that took the first boats out to England, to the US, to South America. All of us in the Northern Hemisphere now may be facing the same existential choice," and apart from what you've pointed out, I am seeing many similar signals, reports, and movements to back up what your possible vision of the future. And so could you give us your breakdown of the Ukraine war and this East versus West proxy war, which is basically a World War 3 scenario, could you tell us from your vantage point what's going on? Gilbert Doctorow: First of all, there is a lot of mirror imagery here between what the Russians are doing and the United States are doing. In the United States, they don't see this, there is a condescension towards Russia, a condescension towards most of the world, and in Washington, they cannot simply take in the fact that the Russians could be playing them the same way they think they're playing the Russians. What do I have in mind? Both sides have been playing what is commonly described as turning up the temperature on the frog in a pot. That is to say both sides have been doing baby steps, incremental escalation of the sort that they're testing the red lines of the other side and as for the United States, they don't see the Russians are doing this.