After their opening statements had been made the moderator, Maria Rublev, a financial journalist for Russia Today, got the conversation started by asking the Ukrainian trade representative what his experience was of being pulled in the direction of both the East and the West.

"Well, it is a balancing act for sure because we recognize the need to protect our cultural identity but we also need to make sure that our citizens have opportunities and if opening ourselves up more and more to the west is going to create more opportunities for them then we need to open up."

"Dr Milichenko, you don't agree with this?" The moderator asked him.

"What is he talking about when he says opportunity? Is he talking about the opportunity to eat McDonalds until you explode? If that is so then no, I don't agree with him."

The audience laughed at this, whether they were laughing at Fyodor or at America, David couldn't tell.

"Mr. Huntsman, you are an American, do you see any value in the West possibly abandoning some of its economic principles and adopting some of those of the East?"

"As an American what I can tell you is that there is absolutely no appetite for communism in America or indeed in the West as a whole. Our democratic and capitalist societies have all experienced extraordinary growth and prosperity, so why on earth would we turn away from that?"

The audience applauded this as well, in fact David was certain that he had gotten louder applause than Dr Milichenko had gotten.

"Dr Milichenko, your response."

"My response is to point out that what capitalism has actually produced is unsustainable levels of greed and consumption that have completely eroded human values, and you can't have a well functioning society without values which is why capitalism is bad for society."

More applause. David was starting to get annoyed by this man and didn't wait for the moderator to interject before making his retort.

"Does hunger and poverty and lack of opportunity make for a well functioning society? Because that' what we got with communism."

"Because of western sabotage, which was done because western corporations wanted people wasting their money because that meant bigger and bigger profits for them and western political parties wanted people wasting all of their time and money on nonsense because if people are distracted then it's easier to govern them, or not govern them, as is increasingly the case in western democracies that have been captured by big money special interest groups."

"Communism didn't need to be sabotaged, it collapsed under its own weight because it's inherently flawed."

"Then why does your country continue to embargo Cuba? Why not leave the Cubans to grow their economy any way they wish and judge them by the results they achieve?"

"Cuba is embargoed because it is a repressive military junta and we in the United States will not recognize a government that uses fear and intimidation to repress its citizens."

By this point the rest of the members of the roundtable had been rendered superfluous and everybody watching was only interested in continuing to watch Dr Milichenko and David Huntsman going at each other.

"Everything that you have just said about Cuba I've heard western politicians, commentators and intellectuals saying about countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and yet none of those countries are subject to the same economic restrictions as Cuba; why? Because you get cheap manufactured goods from China and oil from the others, which makes you hypocrites, because what you are saying is that you consider the freedom of non-Americans to only be worth as much as a cheap toy or cheap petrol."

More applause from the audience, much louder than the applause that David had gotten the last time they had applauded him. David was used to being revered by the people in his orbit, people who looked up to him as the God of Wall Street. He wasn't used to being challenged, didn't like being challenged, and to have a communist getting the upper hand on him like this was making his blood boil.

"I'm not here to comment on which countries the United States chooses to trade with, I'm not involved in those decisions, what I will point out though is that countries that wish to maximize their growth potential are embracing free market principles."

"That is because you are holding capital hostage and not allowing countries to access it unless they agree to your demands, it's economic blackmail."

"Of course we are not going to send money to countries that have no respect for values like freedom and access to opportunity."

"Unless that freedom includes freedom to exercise family planning, because your State Department refuses to allow foreign aid to go to countries where women have access to family planning services."

"Again, I am not here to comment on US foreign policy, I am here to talk about the opportunities available to countries that embrace capitalism as opposed to what communism is offering."

"The opportunities that you are talking about are in fact not real because they are financed by dangerous amounts of debt, as you found out when your economy nearly collapsed in 2008."

"Economic crises are inevitable in any economic system."

"That was a crisis that could have easily been prevented if you had reined in the lenders, but you wouldn't do that because that would be to go against your free market principles and because the lenders had completely captured the government with their campaign contributions."

"I'd like to point out here that Prism Capital wasn't affected by the housing bubble and subsequent crash, in fact we did extremely well."

"So you're saying that it doesn't bother you that the economy and the country were driven to near apocalypse because you were able to get even richer off of it?"

David had made a misstep in saying what he had said but before he could clarify his remark Fyodor recognized the chance to pounce and did. He got up from his seat and walked to the front of the stage to deliver a disquisition to the audience.

"You see ladies and gentlemen, this is what I am talking about, this is the attitude of the capitalist: the amount of misfortune that is caused by reckless speculation is meaningless so long as somebody down the line is profiting, and when this reckless speculation goes too far and threatens to bring about societal collapse who is responsible for preventing that collapse? Governments, with taxpayer money, it's the same old story of socializing the losses and privatizing the gains, that's the con that these people have been running for the longest time. This same selfish attitude has seeped into every aspect of Western society, it's why they believe they can consume to their heart's content with no regard for what it is doing to the planet, although it's not like they have much choice in the matter, because what capitalism has programmed them to believe is that the less you consume the less of a person you are, so people do whatever they have to do to consume more and more, even if that means taking on massive amounts of debt that they can't afford, which allows the banks to bleed them dry with interest payments, and because people are so distracted by their need to consume and the increased financial difficulty that they are putting themselves in to finance their consumption they are not paying attention to what is happening with their government, which allows the rich and the powerful corporations to use the wealth to exert undue influence over public policy for the purpose of corrupting it for their own benefit, this causes the public institutions that are needed to facilitate upward mobility to start failing, which exacerbates the wealth gap and destabilizes society. Now, what I want you to do is this: I want you think about everything that I've just said and ask yourselves how this can possibly be a recipe for success? It can't be, the road that people like David Huntsman are asking us to follow them down leads only to disaster, we're seeing this happening now in his country, the United States, where industrial farmers have been allowed to do whatever they want with no government regulation and what they ended up producing is crops that killed livestock all over the world, that is why it is a foregone conclusion, at least I believe so, that Jim Balmer is going to be the next President of the United States, because are fed up of hearing from people like David Huntsman that they know what's best only to then have to deal with the consequences that result from them cutting costs and corners to squeeze out more profit. If we are truly to have a society that works for all then it needs to be a society that is built from the bottom up, not from the top down, with an emphasis on ensuring that the needs of all are met rather than prioritizing the greed of just a few, that is why I am campaigning for Ukraine and Russia to unite and why I believe other countries will join as well, because if we are strong we can't be bullied by the west and we can reject their destructive consumerism in favor of an approach that values human welfare above all else and achieves its ambitions through collective effort and shared reward."

At the conclusion of Dr Milichenko's speech the audience got up from their seats and erupted in rapturous applause. the roundtable discussion was over. Fyodor, having accomplished what he had set out to do, took in the applause of the audience and walked off the stage having put on another slaying clinic that his fans would no doubt be thrilled to see once the video hit YouTube.