So he says. I have been tempted to write a thread debunking Lira for a while. Kiwifarms.net "is a website about Internet drama". Gonzalo Lira has a long running thread there.
From Gonzalo Lira / Coach Red Pill / expat229 - Scam Artist, Male Feminist Pretending to be Alt-Right, Possible Rapist?, Liar, Failed Economist, post #3,723, there is some interesting information about his arrest and edits to his Wikipedia page.
Too Long; Didn't Read version: Lira just unplugged from social media for a while, attempted to edit his Wikipedia entry under a new account name, got caught and had the new account banned, then a few days later started posting again on social media claim he was arrested by the SBU.
His thread on Kiwi Farms started Nov. 18, 2017, is now 187 pages, 3,739 posts long (as of a minutes ago), and cover his online scamming going back to 2013.
For ten years, he has invented and reinvented his online presence as a fake economist, website thief, fake dating and pick up guru, fake MGTOW, fake alt-right, fake anti-globalist, fake pro-Russia, and fake international political expert.
So, yeah, if the anti-Ukraine, pro-Russia crowd around here wants to use him as a trusted, go ahead and do it.
Just don't say I didn't warn you.
Ok thanks, I knew nothing of him other than watching a couple of his videos. He did come off as kind of a flake, but he was never my go to guy anyway.
From the 503 page, another site is referenced: https://t.me/s/kiwifarms.
The source is questionable, no matter what position one holds on things. Your citation of something so tenuous to prove your assertion seems therefore itself tenuous. Two participants, Josh and Blake, seem primaries, and one is apparently flying in to Belgrade, suggesting connections in Serbia and perhaps nearby geographic areas.
Like or dislike Lira's commentary -- to which I listened -- the premise that the current deep and bureaucratic state under Biden has and continues to provoke additional conflict seems supportable. Since 2000 when the US debt was $5 trillion through to today as it passes $31 trillion in only 22 years, our nation has invaded a number of countries, cut and run in all of which I am aware excepting Syria, where "we" continue to control militarily about 1/3 of the country, uninvited by Syria. Iraq is a mess, and Afghanistan has been ceded back to the Taliban complete with billions in material. Libya, Obama's toy, is also a mess. The US military-industrial complex has done quite well for itself, while the nation is beggared.
As to testimony from a hostile witness, that too is taken in court as we know, even when the witness is perhaps not fully trustworthy. So your interest in proving that someone in particular is untrustworthy seems to be odd, in a world full of untrustworthy voices.
In the "there are only two alternatives" game, there is always a third. Not my circus and not my monkeys also fits. Don't care for Russia, and don't care for Ukraine (with its fine association with Americans like the families of Biden, Pelosi, Kerry, Romney and Nuland, for starters. Their testimony by their actions is also part of the picture, and not a pleasant one at that.
Not my circus -- no matter which side has "lost a third of their ground forces" -- and not my monkeys. But sure as hell billions of MY American money is being spewed like a fountain "over there." The remaining question is -- for what?
How this Ukraine / Russia eventually turns out will be what it will be. If it's anything like our activities in Afghanistan....