Obvious HP for having some of the most odious views on this forum. That being said, without him there’d be basically no coverage of the politics of some major non-Western countries so he does provide something of value compared to a lot of posters of his ilk.
That's true, although I suspect that in many cases if you actually know the countries in question, you'd find his analysis rather ... lacking. I'm not qualified to comment on many of them, but where I do have some knowledge to check his international posts against, I've often found that they consist of faux-neutral presentation of extremely slanted takes. And of course, we're all familiar with his infamous spamming of the Ukraine thread.
As for my overall opinion, you are of course right that it barely needs to be stated that he is a massive HP for having the most cartoon-villain views of anyone on this site.
That's what I've never understood. I don't see how anyone who has read his posts about how he'd support the Nazis in WWII (or any of his other weird comments) could trust his commentary on Indian elections, or whatever. It'd be like if somebody seemed to know a lot about nuclear physics, so you just took his word for it, but then you later find out that he believes the earth is flat and he believes in chemtrails. It kind of calls everything into question.
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