Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

There are two very big issues that are central to the whole war with The UKr -and are intimately interconnected- that the conversation did not touch on @and are as follows:-

(1) there was no mention of the invasion of Georgia or what Russia is doing in the Transnistra part of Moldova or the widespread involvement of Moscovy - BY PROXY- in the economic, financial, security, etc, business of a good number of soverign states. This would include cyber attacks

(2) he made a big - he put it central to his argument re the war- issue that the expansion of NATO has led to the war in UKr. Putins ‘top of the pile’ - by far- objective is the recreation of the USSR,. He has said that the GREATEST MISTAKE ever made by the powers that be was the breakup of the USSR and all his actions are towards that end. In a nutshell he is about creation a ‘STRONG US’ and a ‘WEAK THEM’

That should be as clear as ‘the proverbial nose on your face’

I am not attacking University of Chicago in general. I clearly acknowledged in my last post and do so again that it a highly regarded instruction. So stop suggestion I am attacking the University in general because I am not. I will however attack their Economics department and Milton Friedman for the horrific euphemistically named "trickle down" economics which he and his colleges from Chicago have foisted on so many countries and which have destroyed the economic lives of so many particularly in latin America. The Chicago boys as they became known and Milton Fredman and Arnold Harberger were intimately involved with the disgusting evil dictator Pinochet and destroyed the economic lives of millions in Chile while helping to enrich those at the top and thus support the authoritarian Chilean dictatorship. To use your word "villain" that is exactly who Friedman was and is. It does not mean he did not do some good work and good things in his career but it equally does not change who and what he was and did. A man who foisted an economic policy that destroyed lives and consorted with a murdering dictator like Pinochet.

Remember when you claimed 400,000 dead Ukrainians and another similar number of contractors ,and putin has shown restraint in occupied territories,

Your the last person to ask if someone has been discredited

Worth pointing out that the core of Ukraine's air defence which is what is keeping Russian air force and missiles at bay is based on Soviet era Buk and S-300 air defences. They don't have an unlimited supply of missiles for these, which is why it is important for NATO countries to provide alternative systems. This is more complicated than just providing ammunition \ parts for existing systems.

They weren't even estimates. They were fantasy figures pulled out of thin air.

Can't wait to see RT@s Solovyov's and Simonyan's reaction to that bit of news.... LOL