A key point of Stone's is that in his opinion, Ukrainians in general are living in fear of the Nazis in their midst, even Zelensky. Stone calls them death squads. Obviously if true, that affects folks' accounts of things, and unfortunately Mr Stone is usually right.

I started looking at this only from the point of view of how the propaganda affects the energy problem, but now having looked deeper, I can't ignore that we in Europe are likely to see lasting repercussions affecting all of us, all over Europe. We've already seen the after-effects of terrorists formerly funded by us and the USA coming around to haunt us. This time it is almost like we designed it, something like a trojan horse, targeteding ourselves, for maximum after-effects.

It probably won't affect you much though. To be honest I don't like talking about it much. Like I said I had a speciific mission (!?!?) when I started on it, but seem to have been dragged into a dark quagmire which can't be avoided, as Niemoller reminds.

Anyway no worries, different opinions on seemingly academic matters aren't worth losing friends over, it seems to me :)