Polish president says calls with Putin like speaking to Hitler

Polish President Andrzej Duda slammed the leaders of France and Germany over their phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying it was like having talks with Adolf Hitler during World War Two, according to the German mass-selling daily Bild.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Macron have both held one-on-one phone calls with Putin since Russia launched a devastating invasion of Ukraine, with Macron in particular stirring Ukrainian ire by saying Russia must not be "humiliated" so as to preserve chances of a diplomatic solution.

Duda, in an interview with Bild first released on its YouTube channel late on Wednesday, said such discussions only legitimized an illegal war in Ukraine.

"Did anyone speak like this with Adolf Hitler during World War Two?" Duda said. "Did anyone say that Adolf Hitler must save face? That we should proceed in such a way that it is not humiliating for Adolf Hitler? I have not heard such voices."

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Multipolarity Is Not Multilateralism

Another model of world order, distancing itself somewhat from direct American hegemony, is multilateralism. This concept is widespread in the American Democratic Party; formally, President Barack Obama followed precisely this model in his foreign policy. In the context of American foreign policy debates, this approach contrasts with the unipolarity insisted on by neoconservatives.

Multilateralism means in practice that the US should not act in the domain of international relations wholly and fully relying solely on its own forces and informing all its allies and “vassals” in an imperialistic manner. Instead, Washington should take into account the positions of its partners, argue for and convince others of decisions in dialogue with them, attract them to its side with rational conclusions and sometimes compromises. In such a case, the US should be “first among equals,” not a “dictator among subordinates.” This obligates the US to its allies in certain ways in foreign policy and demands submission to a shared strategy. This general strategy is in the current case the strategy of the West to establish a global democracy, market, and the implementation of the ideology of human rights on a planetary scale. But in this process, the US, as leader, should not directly equate its national interests with the “universal” values of Western civilization, in whose name it acts. In certain cases it is preferable to act in a coalition, and sometimes even to concede something to partners.

Multilateralism differs from unipolarity in that the emphasis is placed here on the West as a whole, and especially on its “value” (i.e. normative) aspect. In this respect, the apologists for multilateralism resemble those who support a non-polar world. The difference between multilateralism and non-polarity consists only in the fact that multilateralism emphasizes coordination among democratic Western countries, while non polarity includes as actors also non-state players: NGOs, networks, social movements, etc.

It is significant that in practice Obama’s multilateral policies, announced by him and by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, differed little from the direct and transparent imperialism of George W. Bush, in whose administration the neoconservatives dominated. US military interventions continue (Libya), and American troops kept their presence in occupied Afghanistan and Iraq.

A multipolar world does not coincide with a multilateral world order, since it does not agree to the universalism of Western values and does not recognize the right of countries of the ‘rich North’ — neither alone nor collectively — to act in the name of all humanity and to act (even compositely) as the sole center of decision-making concerning the most significant questions.

Russian ministry of defense-sponsored billboards sprang up in Lugansk. One of them reads: "We are the Russians. The God is on our side!" Let us wait till the year end to verify this claim.

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Something rather novel: pictures of Evola from his war years until right before his death:

1. Evola on the Asiago front during world war II
2. Evola in artillery officer uniform
3. Evola (first on the right) with a group of other officers
4. Evola in the Alps (first on the right)
5. Evola in the early 1920s
6. Evola in the 1930s
7. Evola in the 1930s
8. Evola in the 1940s
9. Evola in the 1960s
10. Evola in the 1960s
11. Evola in the 1960s
12. Evola in the late 1960s
13. Evola in the 1970s, right before his death

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Fights in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk - war through the eyes of the enemy

The practically surrounded grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions dug in in the industrial zone, where it is under constant fire from the troops of Russia and Donbass.

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"No Asian king could have thought of Alexander's invasion, no other could have made such a decision. Gordius, who had tied the knot and whose name it bears, was one of the kings of Phrygia, a land which historically lies in twilight, but mythically in dazzling splendour. It was a golden kingdom, surrounded by other golden kingdoms. The names of kings such as Midas and Croesus point in this direction. Alexander is also one of the princes surrounded by golden splendour. But it is a very different glow from that of these early golden kings. It is a sublime, detached light, a radiance emanating from the sun rather than from the depths of Pactolus, the womb of the earth.

On his sword, cutting the knot of fate, a golden glow flashes; it is a symbol of light. In an instant, out of time, it seals a new, more spiritual world."

~ Ernst Jünger

We've been on the verge of the technological singularity for thirty years. You would think this would be a good time for DARPA/NATO to unleash the robot dog armies.