Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 15, 2024, 10:44 AM

American citizen Gonzalo Lira dies from neglect in Ukrainian prison.

One of my earliest interviews was with Speedy Gonzalo back in the early days on the Diner when he had his online pay per view debate with Nicole Foss of The Automatic Earth over the Hyper-Inflation vs Deflation debate on the outcome of Quantitative Easing.  Speedy was on the HI side of the debate while Nicole argued for Deflation.  As it turned out, neither outcome was entirely true, as the newly printed money mainly disappeared into the Black Hole of Bailouts for the banks and reappeared on the balance sheet of Federal Debt which the Taxpayers will never pay off.

He was living in Chile at the time and fiercely anti-Amerikan and anti-Capitalist.  Much like Dmitry Orlov, he idolized and deified Vlad the Impaler in his writings, but unlike Dmitry who moved himself to live safely under Uncle Vlad's protection in Mother Russia, Speedy was stupid enough to drop himself into Ukraine to do 1st person war correspondent type journalism.  To then go and write this kind of inflammatory gonzo reporting while still there would be like if Hunter Thompson wrote character assassinations of the Hell's Angels while  hanging out with them.  Hunter instead heroized them, so he got wasted with them quite safely.  If he was writing shit like that, he should have been embedded with a Russian regiment and surrounded by friendly Kalishnikovs.  Just plain dumb, and Speedy wins the Darwin Award for this early ticket to the Great Beyond.

RE