Brian:
"I am floored by your comments"
I guess all I can say in relation to this then is: stani be chojek?. I think from judging the emotional factor in your response, you may have interpreted my post to be in some way an attack?, if this is the case, maybe you should look to initially exercise a bit of restraint on the emotional side of things, I'm not attacking you.
When I made the reference to "your metaphor", it was in relation to your "Sledgehammer to a Walnut" comment: "it's all in and use EVERYTHING at your disposal like taking a sledgehammer to a walnut". Upon reflection, I admit that I could have phrased my wording a bit better to prevent any misinterpretation, my apologies.
If my manner comes across as condescending in anyway, that is not my intention, I do not claim to be intelligent, in fact I tend to be the one that asks the "dumb" questions, this is because I do not subscribe myself to assume the obvious. You would be surprised how often misunderstandings occur simply because one party believes their particular view to be obvious or "common knowledge", when in reality, in the eyes of another it can be quite the contrary.
When you subscribe to the ideology that "the world is solely a field for cultural competition among nations" then by definition, I would think that all nations would be considered your opponents, but what is in discussion here is one particular opponent which is "the Albanians". The only reason why I sought clarification on who you thought the "Albanians" were is because you indicated that you thought engaging in a hot war with this entity would produce a favourable result to RoM, and the only way that it could be to its detriment is if the resolve of RoM's politicians becomes fickle. This opinion differs from my own and the only area where I think this could stem from is that we perhaps have different opinions as to who the Albanian opponent encompasses.
My personal opinion as to who the Albanian opponent encompasses (excluding any mention of possible parties of greater influence) is as follows: The Republic of Albania and all entities who consider themselves affiliated by ethnos to it (i.e. Kosovo, Albanian minority of RoM, etc), the head of this entity is Tirana. As I consider this entire entity to be the Albanian opponent, I cannot see how engaging in a hot war with this entity would be in anyway favourable to RoM at present. From your comments, if I understand them correctly, your view of the Albanian opponent is primarily the ethnic Albanian citizens of RoM?, hence if this is correct, then this is where our views of the Albanian opponent differ. When considering your view of the Albanian opponent, if RoM was to engage in a hot war with this opponent, then I agree that the result could turn out to be favourable to RoM, but only if the strategy has been formulated and approached correctly, the proper mechanisms have been put into place and it is engaged at the "right" time, BUT as I do not personally consider the opponent to be restricted to the minority in RoM, my comments on such a possible favourable outcome are invalid. I don't mean to suggest that my opinion in this matter is right, all I mean to say is that as a leader, when looking to engage your people in a hot war, unless there are absolutely no doubts as to who your opponent entirely encompasses, to decide on formulating strategy on a restricted vision of your opponent which serves to position the odds in your favour can be severely detrimental to your cause (and in my opinion would be inexcusable in a hot war scenario), as should your opponent prove to be otherwise, you are simply setting yourself, your people, up for failure. On the other hand if you factor in to your strategy all possible (whether probable or not) components which could represent the entirety of your opponent, and design it to accommodate for all these components, then your foundations for achieving a favourable result are solid. This way whichever case eventuates, you are properly geared to manage it. Again this is just my opinion.
"Seriously guy WTF comment was that??? See Post2458 if somehow you don't know who is our "opponent" and why. It's common knowledge".
I think I've indicated my sentiments towards the concept of "common knowledge" above.
"That said, can I ask if it's "Tomche (Skup) Makedonche (citizen)"???"
Nice touch, like I've mentioned before, I consider myself an Australian with Macedonian Heritage, the part of Macedonia where my heritage derives from, in a geographic sense, would slightly be closer to Solun then Skopje, however to be honest, right now both cities seem in a way foreign to me, although that is not how I actually consider them. Nevertheless maybe next time you can try something along the lines of "Tomche" (Niki)?, just to even it out
"I am floored by your comments"
I guess all I can say in relation to this then is: stani be chojek?. I think from judging the emotional factor in your response, you may have interpreted my post to be in some way an attack?, if this is the case, maybe you should look to initially exercise a bit of restraint on the emotional side of things, I'm not attacking you.
When I made the reference to "your metaphor", it was in relation to your "Sledgehammer to a Walnut" comment: "it's all in and use EVERYTHING at your disposal like taking a sledgehammer to a walnut". Upon reflection, I admit that I could have phrased my wording a bit better to prevent any misinterpretation, my apologies.
If my manner comes across as condescending in anyway, that is not my intention, I do not claim to be intelligent, in fact I tend to be the one that asks the "dumb" questions, this is because I do not subscribe myself to assume the obvious. You would be surprised how often misunderstandings occur simply because one party believes their particular view to be obvious or "common knowledge", when in reality, in the eyes of another it can be quite the contrary.
When you subscribe to the ideology that "the world is solely a field for cultural competition among nations" then by definition, I would think that all nations would be considered your opponents, but what is in discussion here is one particular opponent which is "the Albanians". The only reason why I sought clarification on who you thought the "Albanians" were is because you indicated that you thought engaging in a hot war with this entity would produce a favourable result to RoM, and the only way that it could be to its detriment is if the resolve of RoM's politicians becomes fickle. This opinion differs from my own and the only area where I think this could stem from is that we perhaps have different opinions as to who the Albanian opponent encompasses.
My personal opinion as to who the Albanian opponent encompasses (excluding any mention of possible parties of greater influence) is as follows: The Republic of Albania and all entities who consider themselves affiliated by ethnos to it (i.e. Kosovo, Albanian minority of RoM, etc), the head of this entity is Tirana. As I consider this entire entity to be the Albanian opponent, I cannot see how engaging in a hot war with this entity would be in anyway favourable to RoM at present. From your comments, if I understand them correctly, your view of the Albanian opponent is primarily the ethnic Albanian citizens of RoM?, hence if this is correct, then this is where our views of the Albanian opponent differ. When considering your view of the Albanian opponent, if RoM was to engage in a hot war with this opponent, then I agree that the result could turn out to be favourable to RoM, but only if the strategy has been formulated and approached correctly, the proper mechanisms have been put into place and it is engaged at the "right" time, BUT as I do not personally consider the opponent to be restricted to the minority in RoM, my comments on such a possible favourable outcome are invalid. I don't mean to suggest that my opinion in this matter is right, all I mean to say is that as a leader, when looking to engage your people in a hot war, unless there are absolutely no doubts as to who your opponent entirely encompasses, to decide on formulating strategy on a restricted vision of your opponent which serves to position the odds in your favour can be severely detrimental to your cause (and in my opinion would be inexcusable in a hot war scenario), as should your opponent prove to be otherwise, you are simply setting yourself, your people, up for failure. On the other hand if you factor in to your strategy all possible (whether probable or not) components which could represent the entirety of your opponent, and design it to accommodate for all these components, then your foundations for achieving a favourable result are solid. This way whichever case eventuates, you are properly geared to manage it. Again this is just my opinion.
"Seriously guy WTF comment was that??? See Post2458 if somehow you don't know who is our "opponent" and why. It's common knowledge".
I think I've indicated my sentiments towards the concept of "common knowledge" above.
"That said, can I ask if it's "Tomche (Skup) Makedonche (citizen)"???"
Nice touch, like I've mentioned before, I consider myself an Australian with Macedonian Heritage, the part of Macedonia where my heritage derives from, in a geographic sense, would slightly be closer to Solun then Skopje, however to be honest, right now both cities seem in a way foreign to me, although that is not how I actually consider them. Nevertheless maybe next time you can try something along the lines of "Tomche" (Niki)?, just to even it out
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