Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[Haykakan]

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It really doesn't. Swiss and Germans, Swedes and Japanese, all still manage to be strong exporters. The goal is to create a competitive economy and not live like some kind of peasants.

A stronger currency means confidence in the AMD. Means that you are not really at the crutch of the toilet paper known as the ruble.

Yes it does as it makes everything bought from your country more expensive to others. The only reason the examples you gave successfully export is because they managed to make things that are not only superior to the competition, but also are difficult to copy. Things like carbon fiber used in German cars is difficult to replicate. Germany has a strategy designed to achieve such advantages by bringing together its industries and education systems together. I only wish we had such organization and planning in Hayastan. Economic concepts like the value of a currency have both positive and negative consequences either way you go with them. The key to success regarding currency is stability.

[HyeSocialist]

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Yes it does as it makes everything bought from your country more expensive to others. The only reason the examples you gave successfully export is because they managed to make things that are not only superior to the competition, but also are difficult to copy. Things like carbon fiber used in German cars is difficult to replicate. Germany has a strategy designed to achieve such advantages by bringing together its industries and education systems together. I only wish we had such organization and planning in Hayastan. Economic concepts like the value of a currency have both positive and negative consequences either way you go with them. The key to success regarding currency is stability.

It is not completely impossible to have this. Estonia had this. Again, it is constantly repeated here again and again, the oligarchy are really pieces of sh*t. It's coming to be the same thing here in the US where the wealthy seem to think that it is completely ok to justify their actions of wealth concentration.

[Lori]

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All this talk about economy is hollow and hopeless. As long as the Western Turks and Eastern Turks blockade the border, there can be no "competitive economy". No Switzerland or Austria. As long as the blockade is up by Armenia's two biggest neighbors, Armenia's economic gains will always be hindered. Armenia is at war with not only Azerbaijan, but with Turkey as well. A blockade is an act of war. Turkey is indeed a party to this feud. Any talk of economics should be grounded upon this understanding of Armenia's ordeal. However, this problem the nation must stand against does not mean that the rats that hold sway over Armenia's industries are to be forgiven or trusted. They must go.


Building Armenia's wealth and livelihood comes after. Now, it is time for war.

[HyeSocialist]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

All this talk about economy is hollow and hopeless. As long as the Western Turks and Eastern Turks blockade the border, there can be no "competitive economy". No Switzerland or Austria. As long as the blockade is up by Armenia's two biggest neighbors, Armenia's economic gains will always be hindered. Armenia is at war with not only Azerbaijan, but with Turkey as well. A blockade is an act of war. Turkey is indeed a party to this feud. Any talk of economics should be grounded upon this understanding of Armenia's ordeal. However, this problem the nation must stand against does not mean that the rats that hold sway over Armenia's industries are to be forgiven or trusted. They must go.


Building Armenia's wealth and livelihood comes after. Now, it is time for war.

False! We live in the digital age. An export isn't just automobiles and machinery! Exports are Financial Services, IT services, ENTERTAINMENT, ATHLETES, and TOURISM. We can definitely EXPORT a lot more than the blockades try to stop. Be creative, be vigilant. The Turks aren't going away any time soon.

[Lori]

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False! We live in the digital age. An export isn't just automobiles and machinery! Exports are Financial Services, IT services, ENTERTAINMENT, ATHLETES, and TOURISM. We can definitely EXPORT a lot more than the blockades try to stop. Be creative, be vigilant. The Turks aren't going away any time soon.

Thats true, automobiles and machinery aren't the only things that can be exported or imported. There is also foods, goods, minerals, metals, and natural resources. There are a sundry of things that must be exported through borders. Do you truly believe that a nation of 3 million can live off of basketball players, crappy films, telemarketing, and socially inept Western European tourists? Those kinds of exports are not substantial, well unless Armenia was as big as Monaco.


The lack of a border with Russia and being landlocked not only hinders economic progress and access to resources, it also hinders Armenia's ability to get help from the outside world and her friends. Russia only has 3-4 thousand troops in Armenia. If war broke out with Turkey and Azerbaijan, how would Russia send men to strengthen the frontline in Armenia? Teleport them?


We should have one goal: Land corridor to the black sea. Anything else is nonsense. If you know the history of interwar Poland and the Danzig corridor, you will understand why its so important. Mainly with two genocidal neighbors.

[burjuin]

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Armenian women in the Armenian Army

[Vrej1915]

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[burjuin]

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Armenian women in the Armenian Army

[HyeSocialist]

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Thats true, automobiles and machinery aren't the only things that can be exported or imported. There is also foods, goods, minerals, metals, and natural resources. There are a sundry of things that must be exported through borders. Do you truly believe that a nation of 3 million can live off of basketball players, crappy films, telemarketing, and socially inept Western European tourists? Those kinds of exports are not substantial, well unless Armenia was as big as Monaco.


The lack of a border with Russia and being landlocked not only hinders economic progress and access to resources, it also hinders Armenia's ability to get help from the outside world and her friends. Russia only has 3-4 thousand troops in Armenia. If war broke out with Turkey and Azerbaijan, how would Russia send men to strengthen the frontline in Armenia? Teleport them?


We should have one goal: Land corridor to the black sea. Anything else is nonsense. If you know the history of interwar Poland and the Danzig corridor, you will understand why its so important. Mainly with two genocidal neighbors.

Land corridor to the black sea. OK. Fantastic. We can be like Djibouti and Somalia, nations with access to the water yet no idea what to do with it. The argument I am trying to make is that the whole concept of Armenia taking over Azerbaijan or expanding the geography of the country is largely not going to happen. They are political ideologies that distract from making what we have better and competitive.

Industrializing and improving Armenia's economy is as much part of defeating Azerbaijan and the Turks and making Armenia the better state than all this muscle flexing of weaponary.

Look at the two Koreas. No one would argue that the North is winning anything, which is why they're developing nukes. They're essentially failed states that have nothing else but political blackmail going for them.

[burjuin]

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Armenian women in the Armenian Army