Meeting Information
Update on the war in Ukraine
Date:
Wednesday November 9, 2022
Time:
3:00pm - 4:30pm US/Eastern GMT-5:00
Location:
Zoom
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Meeting capacity:

300

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Agenda:

Topic: Update on the war in Ukraine

Speaker: David Edick Jr., Principal at Core Global Advisory, Past President, San Diego World Affairs Council

Presentation:
On February 24, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. What the Kremlin expected to be a brief “special military operation” has turned into long, costly war that has shaken the world. Indeed, the war has had a number of phases where either Russia or Ukraine seemed to winning. Delivery of American HIMARS long distance precision rocket systems to Ukraine fundamentally altered the battlefield in July, sharply reducing Russia’s advantage in massed artillery. More recently, large gains by Ukrainian forces and disarray in Russian forces in Northeastern Ukraine in late August into September gave way to partial mobilization inside Russia – thereby bringing the war to the wider Russian public for the first time.  

Where does the war stand today as fall turns toward winter? What have been some of the notable impacts of the war to date? What’s the outlook for the war?

In his presentation David will discuss the following aspects of the conflict:
- State Of Play On The Battlefield – Red Army Legend Or Myth?
- Putin’s Nuclear Saber Rattling
- Associated Global Impacts & Sanctions Outlook – including Energy Insecurity, Food Insecurity, Technology, and the Turkish/UN-brokered Ukraine grain export corridor
- Western Nations Allied Support – Solid Or Fracturing?
- Russia – Internal Situation and Perspective 
- Potential Offramps and Cessation of Hostilities

Following his presentation, David will take questions from the audience.

Speaker’s bio:
David Edick Jr. is Principal at Core Global Advisory, a consultancy focused on energy, political risk, commodities, and market strategy. David has over 30 years' experience in trade, investment banking, and NGO relations in Russia. He has worked abroad in Russia in the food trade and investment banking sectors, and in Mexico in the seafood export development business.

David also serves as a member of the Energy Committee for the Western Regional Partnership (WRP), a collaborative between the Department of Defense and representatives of Federal agencies and State and Tribal leadership in 6 states of the US southwest. He also serves on the WRP Natural Resources Committee and the Tribal Engagement Working Group.

Drawing on his global perspective and experience, David has lectured widely for more than 15 years on energy, finance and geopolitics.

Long active in San Diego's international civil society community, David is 3-term Past President of the San Diego World Affairs Council. He is also 6-term Past President of the San Diego International Sister Cities Association, and 7-term Past President of the San Diego - Vladivostok (Russia) Sister City Society. In 2004-2005 David guided the establishment of Sister City relations between San Diego and Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and in 2015 he served as Chair of the Steering Committee which led the establishment of San Diego’s 16th sister city relationship (Panama City, Panama). 

David graduated from San Diego State University in 1985 with a custom-designed, cross-disciplinary degree in Global Political Economy. David and his family live in Rancho San Diego, California.

David has made a number of presentations over the years to chapters of The FENG including:
- Europe’s Derussification Supercharges a Global Energy Crisis 
- The Global Economic Implications of the War in Ukraine 
- The Natural Gas Pricing Crunch and Inflation
- Russia and the Global Energy Transition
- Fracking and US Energy Independence
 

David Edick Jr
David Edick Jr., Principal at Core Global Advisory, Past President, San Diego World Affairs Council
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