Ramesh Thakur is well known to this audience; he has appeared on the Leighton Smith Podcast more than once.
There was much to catch up on.
His views on the world and its various parts are substantiated by life experience. He taught at a number of universities including Otago and ANU Canberra and Rector at the U.N. University. He was also an assistant Sec-Gen of the U.N.
As a result his commentary on world issues is superb.
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