3) I've seen suggestions that VVP is essentially a rather conservative politician. Fair enough; that's acceptable. More worrying, though, is the apparent absence in the speech text itself, and in the Q&A session afterwards (which is also available with English voice-over now on YT) of any mention of the global geophysical/ecological crises; those all-encompasing crises of which the stalwart group of really deep clearseers speak constantly; the Greer, Orlov, Heinberg, et al deep penetrators. Since it's becoming unmistakable that these emergencies, which I usually tag as the SGCs, the Synergising Global Crises - climate shift, the Sixth Extinction, human population overshoot, and so on - are going to overwhelm all other geopolitical considerations, it's to be hoped that VVP already has some inkling of them, and will be up to speed on their implications as soon as possible.