The Mafioso and the Skater Boy.

Included: The Armstrong Perspective.

It was pure turbulence. Vikid was being hammered from all directions heading straight into the storm.

He realized then and there that everything had a tendency to fall apart and that the tendency was not only strong, it was active. It took real leadership to keep things together. That was the critical missing factor in the world today. The cohesive glue had been lost, real leadership had been diluted, replaced by morons, corrupt morons.

We were led by those who were shrewd and ruthless in the short term but lacked any sense of moral duty to humanity at the large, especially at scale.

There were a few interesting events that had happened a week prior.

One, he had met with an Italian mafioso. Who worked in oil and gas. The family were worth billions, with operations in several continents. What was interesting was the fact that this man had spent the last 5 years living in Moscow dealing with the top brass there. The very top. He had also conducted business all over the central asian countries. So as chance would have it, Vikid met the guy over a beer and he was clear. Europe was trying to provoke a war because it’s leadership had destroyed their economies and had no where else to go. No excuses left.

“When all else fails, go to war”

He said that the current Russian leadership were moderates. There were some real crazies waiting in the lurks and if they got into power, all hell would break loose. He knew these guys personally.

The Russians had barely warmed up.

On the counter side, a few days later, Vikid shared a Prosecco with the managing director of a company installing and maintaining Gas turbines in same regions. The guy was less politically connected and sported a series of tattoos all over his body. He happened to be a Skater Boy. He spoke some sense and then talked about the war in Ukraine. His installation team was working in Ukraine as we spoke. In fact a rocket had hit an installation just 150m from where his crew was working a few weeks earlier, causing them to evacuate. Now they were refusing to return to the same location.

He had the impression that Russia had bloodied its nose and wanted to back out but couldn’t without losing face. The Russians had miscalculated and were on the back foot.

Who to believe?

In this case, Vikid was more inclined towards the Mafioso… but you can form your own conclusions.

As an aide, Vikid would post a video of an interview. The aim was for the audience to listen. Some of it would be a refresher on what you already know. Some of it would be new. The rest would be an alternative perspective.

But would they listen?

There was a global storm on the way. To navigate it would require understanding multiple perspectives.

Bon Chance.

And that’s,

The Vikid Truth