Palestine Protestors vs Boomers.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israel has notified Western nations that it has established a deadline on March 15 for reaching a political agreement with Lebanon, after which the Israeli government will be prepared to escalate military operations into a large-scale war.

Carl Schmitt mentions Augustin Cochin as part of his calendar of saints. Sadly he was killed at the Battle of the Somme, leaving his writings incomplete. To be mentioned alongside Hobbes, Bodin, and Cortés speaks to the importance of his writings on the French Revolution.

A few photos I snapped during the peace march against the war in Ukraine (which the Hungarian media frequently calls "the American war") that took place in Budapest today, sponsored by Fidesz, Viktor Orbán's party. The march was in part intended to rally the supporters before next week's European elections.

"I could conceive of a national war, but how many such wars have there been? One in a thousand years, perhaps; for the rest, among civilized nations especially, who reflect on it and know what they are doing, I confess I don't understand it at all. It could be said that glory explains everything; but, in the first place, glory only goes to the leaders; in the second place, this only evades the difficulty, for then I must ask precisely why this extraordinary glory is attached to war."
~ Joseph de Maistre

"The soldier is so noble that he even ennobles what public opinion regards as the most ignoble, since he can exercise the functions of an executioner without debasing himself, provided however that he only executes his fellow soldiers and that he uses only his weapons for this purpose."
~ Joseph de Maistre

"Everywhere where men are religious, warlike, and obedient, how can they not by right be full of good hope?"
~ Xenophon

"There is no technology that could rival spiritual strength. We were convinced of this countless times, this fact was proven by every unknown soldier, who had passed through all the horrors of military technology and placed his indestructible, sturdy heart on the scales."
Jünger

NEW - Palantir wins $100M U.S. contract for AI targeting military tech. Maven Smart System, likely using Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites, uses battlefield data and advanced AI algorithms to identify targets.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/azmst4biw7/

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"Here were Gods fighting Titans, and the viewer immediately sympathized with the nobler figures."

Goethe and the Aesthetics of War
https://actaeon.substack.com/p/goethe-and-the-aesthetics-of-war