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Currently Playing: Gilbert Doctorow: Ukraine Has Two Months Of Money Left,Why This War Ends In Two Months

Ukraine's treasury has roughly two months of money left — and Gilbert Doctorow argues this war will end on a payroll, not a front line. Speaking from Brussels, the Russia scholar explains why Putin has abandoned the military clock for a third strategy — blockade the sea, sever the rail corridor, destroy the export revenue, and make Kyiv uninhabitable — and why the thing that finally forced that change was not Ukraine at all. It was Iran. Doctorow is not a Putin booster and says so on the record. In this conversation he accuses Putin of costing 500,000 Russian lives and of destroying Russian deterrence — and then explains why he now expects United Russia to hold the Duma in the election opening this weekend, having predicted six months ago that it would lose. Also: the Russian drone that came close to Boris Johnson and Carl Bildt at the Polish border, and why the strike distances mattered · why Trump suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine and reversed within days · why Moscow flatters Witkoff and Kushner · and how one Belgian prime minister united his entire parliament and stopped von der Leyen and Merz taking Russia's frozen assets. Gilbert Doctorow holds a PhD in Russian history from Columbia, lived and worked in Moscow and St Petersburg from 1994 to 2002, and has been based in Brussels for forty years. He co-founded the American Committee for East-West Accord with the late Stephen Cohen. He joins Transition Protocol twice a week. #Geopolitics #EU #Ukraine #Russia #Belgium #Brussels #EUsummit #GilbertDoctorow #TransitionProtocol #FrozenAssets