Edward thank you for opening up the conversation about this topic. I’m Australian living in Australia with a dual citizenship to the United States. The media is not very helpful or even factual. Basic things like Crimea being *won* by Russia in a referendum before they even arrived in the Ukraine. All we hear is that Russia is all evil and the west is all good. I’m not advocating for wars, but I am interested in strategy and most importantly a decent and responsible media in any situation. Cheers.
🥵 ok so a week later I’m back! I’m finally working out how to use this platform (but only just) and now I’m back because I really liked this stack, your stack I mean. I enjoyed Edwards one and I really liked your response.
I’ve been searching for it for a few days but it’s a bit messy here on Substack and I am really excited to have found the platform so I tend to rabbit hole a lot.
I’m going to save your article here because I like referring to it when I’m trying to discuss the war in the Ukraine and Russia using sensible data which is un-findable in the MSM.
1. Strelkov seems to think that military intervention is the solution to everything. He seems blithely unaware of the difficulty Russia had after the west sanctioned Russia after Crimea. And he wanted to make it worse!
2. See 1.
3. How would Strelkov prove beforehand that Minsk was not going to be implemented back then?
4. So based on Strelkov, ignore Merkel pleas for cessation of violence, no Minsk accords, no Nord Stream 2. No attempt at reconciliation or compromise. Just impose military solution. What friends would Russia have at that moment??? I doubt China and India would have gone along.
9. Funny given that everything Putin does (because of his legal training) is always aligned with International and Russian law. Maybe Strelkov should listen to both Putin and Lavrov a bit more.
10. Strelkov obviously knows nothing about how central banking works. You cannot avoid having reserves abroad when you are trading. A bit of study on this would help.
11. Another embarrassing statement from Strelkov. First, the military doesn't use leading edge semiconductors. They use the equivalent of semiconductors for a PowerPC (i.e. above 90nm) which Russia produces itself. As for import substitution, what industries are missing in Russia? Or is he looking for specifically local versions of these industries?
Edward thank you for opening up the conversation about this topic. I’m Australian living in Australia with a dual citizenship to the United States. The media is not very helpful or even factual. Basic things like Crimea being *won* by Russia in a referendum before they even arrived in the Ukraine. All we hear is that Russia is all evil and the west is all good. I’m not advocating for wars, but I am interested in strategy and most importantly a decent and responsible media in any situation. Cheers.
Oh, I'm not Edward. I'm the Underdog who was responding to Edward's Substack article.
Sorry. I’m still learning how to use this platform.
No need to apologise, it happens more often than you would think.
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🥵 ok so a week later I’m back! I’m finally working out how to use this platform (but only just) and now I’m back because I really liked this stack, your stack I mean. I enjoyed Edwards one and I really liked your response.
I’ve been searching for it for a few days but it’s a bit messy here on Substack and I am really excited to have found the platform so I tend to rabbit hole a lot.
I’m going to save your article here because I like referring to it when I’m trying to discuss the war in the Ukraine and Russia using sensible data which is un-findable in the MSM.
Cheers 🍻
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Yep, done!
I will elaborate on a couple of your points:
1. Strelkov seems to think that military intervention is the solution to everything. He seems blithely unaware of the difficulty Russia had after the west sanctioned Russia after Crimea. And he wanted to make it worse!
2. See 1.
3. How would Strelkov prove beforehand that Minsk was not going to be implemented back then?
4. So based on Strelkov, ignore Merkel pleas for cessation of violence, no Minsk accords, no Nord Stream 2. No attempt at reconciliation or compromise. Just impose military solution. What friends would Russia have at that moment??? I doubt China and India would have gone along.
6. And yet despite all these problems Russia was still far ahead of the US. https://youtu.be/_CMby_WPjk4
7. Strelkov is talking out his backside.
9. Funny given that everything Putin does (because of his legal training) is always aligned with International and Russian law. Maybe Strelkov should listen to both Putin and Lavrov a bit more.
10. Strelkov obviously knows nothing about how central banking works. You cannot avoid having reserves abroad when you are trading. A bit of study on this would help.
11. Another embarrassing statement from Strelkov. First, the military doesn't use leading edge semiconductors. They use the equivalent of semiconductors for a PowerPC (i.e. above 90nm) which Russia produces itself. As for import substitution, what industries are missing in Russia? Or is he looking for specifically local versions of these industries?
12. See this. https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare
13. As I said, Strelkov would have done very well in the USSR. In a democracy, you need to keep popular support on your side.
14. ???. I guess these things are not related?!? Maybe Strelkov should read Primakov.
15. I won't even bother answering it.
16. Ditto.
17. I seem to remember this being an SMO.
18. Another dumb question.
19. Ditto.
20. Again. Typical Soviet official who assumes that people don't make mistakes and are incapable of learning from them.
21. Maybe Strelkov should listen to Putin's meeting with representatives from African states a couple of months ago.
22. Maybe this is why he is arrested. Similar to Prigozhin (arm chair quarterback) in second guessing how the SMO is being conducted.
23. I think that Strelkov should read Clausewitz. He might learn something.
24. All one needs to do is look at why Russia has such good relations with the Chechen Republic.
25. I seem to remember that this was the reason that Surovkin is in charge operationally of the SMO.
26. See 9.
27. None of your business.
28. Ditto
29. ???
30. ???
31. None of your business
32. Ditto.
33. ???
34. ??? Truly bizarre. Commit terroism in Ukraine!?!
36.. Because it is a SMO
37. The goals were stated. Strelkov is just choosing to ignore them.
38. You have to give peace a chance before starting a military conflict.
39. Oh my! His EX girlfriend is living in the west! He should be flogged!?!
Thanks for the link to the Rusi article about industrial warfare. Very informative.