I had literally the same thought as you re. Dreizen. On that occasion it seemed he'd either been drinking the 'Putin's Enormous Blunder' Kool-Aid or was trying to fit in with the audience demographic that had.

Mercouris on Farage is a duplicate of Mercouris on Trump, Farage's total domestic unelectability apart. Something disgustingly reactionary is sloshing around just out of sight over there, I can feel it...

M.