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Guido VANDEVEN's avatar

I cannot deny that I have an enormous respect for the Russian people, and that’s got nothing to do with communism. I remember a case of an airplane in the eighties or nineties, could it be a Tupolev can’t remember. I couldn’t take off because some part of the engine was failing. So what to do in this case, what would we westerners have done? For sure get out and wait for an airplane fully equipped, but no there was an engineer who asked for money from the passengers to have the part copied and made in a shop nearby where they can do impossible things, so within a couple of hours everything fixed and the plane took off. This shows our dependency and poverty in relying on others, and this shows also the super advantage in technology of NATO and US forces, but bitterly failing in improvisation according to the situation on the field. It’s no surprise to me that they have teams repairing their destroyed tanks and engines on the spot, and the F16 Belgian or Italian are nothing more than sitting ducks, too vulnerable to be applied and certainly to burn as easily as all western army equipment. Work for yourself, you couldn’t put it more exactly, it swings.

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That Macro piece you wrote is great. I wonder if the breakaway areas will still employ command economy tactics on their populations as a means of hanging on to the energy mix necessary to engage in highly competitive multi polar geopolitics.

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