All right. We are live with Alexander Mercuris. And we are very, very happy, very excited to have with us.

The one and only Andrei Martianoff. Andrei, how are you doing today?

I'm doing fine. Thank you, gentlemen. Pleasure to be with you.

Fantastic.

And I have Andre's information where you can follow him, his publication, his blog, as well as his

excellent YouTube channel.

It is all in the description box down below, and I will add it as a pinned comment as well

when the stream ends. Hello to everyone that is watching us

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And of course, to everyone that is watching us on YouTube and our fantastic awesome moderators

Peter Zarayl long time no C Zareel and who else is moderating

Tish M great to have you with us Tish M and I think that is that is everybody that is

moderating at this moment.

So Alexander, Andre, let's discuss why after two years,

the collective West still can't figure out how Russia is going about this conflict. It's pretty amazing that we're two years

into it and they're still scratching their heads stuck on territorial gains and stuff like that

while Russia is just playing on a different level. Anyway, Alexander, Andre, get to it. Indeed, let's do so because of course with

Andre, Andre has been writing, but of course he knows the Soviet and Russian military system

very well. He was part of it. He was part of the Soviet armed forces. He's written with great

erudition about the Russian military and about the Soviet armed forces. He's written with great erudition about the Russian military

and about the Soviet armed forces and about the Soviet and Russian political philosophies

and how they approach war and matters of conflict and leadership and economic organization and industrial organization, all topics

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