"Every law requires an authority who watches and regulates its execution; but this power is lacking in the observance of international agreements. Acknowledgment of established rules does not secure adherence to these rules.
By the same token, no paragraph learned by heart will convince the soldier that he must see a lawful enemy in the unorganized populace which resorts to force of arms on its own initiative and from which his life is not secure for a moment, day or night.
Thus, not much weight should be attached to international agreements. What third power will resort to arms solely because one or the other of two belligerents has violated the laws of warfare? There is no earthly tribunal. Success is to be expected from the religious and moral education of the individual. It also stems from the sense of honor and justice of the leaders. They lay down the law and act accordingly as far as possible under the abnormal conditions of war, where everything must be considered individually."
~ Helmuth von Moltke

"Human life, even the entirety of human nature, is nothing but war of the future against the present."
~ Helmuth von Moltke

"I believe that all governments are today honestly endeavoring to maintain peace. The only question is if they are strong enough to be able to do so."
~ Helmuth von Moltke

The FSB detained two local residents in Kherson suspected of attempting to kill an official of the new administration.

We are talking about a terrorist attack against the head of the USIN in the Kherson region, whose car was blown up.

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"I am a disciple of Nietzsche, and take the greatest delight in a struggle for power wherever it occurs and whoever wins."

https://juengertranslationproject.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-the-storm-of-steel-ernst

Putin accused "the collective West" of unleashing a "war" in Ukraine and said Russia's intervention in the pro-Western country marked the beginning of a shift to a "multi-polar world."

"This process cannot be stopped," he added.

He also warned Kyiv and its Western allies that Moscow has not even started its military campaign in Ukraine "in earnest."

"Everyone should know that we have not started in earnest yet," he said.

Putin said most countries did not want to follow the Western model of "totalitarian liberalism" and "hypocritical double standards."

"People in most countries do not want such a life and such a future," he said.

"They are simply tired of kneeling, humiliating themselves in front of those who consider themselves exceptional."

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/07/putin-says-if-west-wants-to-defeat-russia-on-battlefield-let-them-try-a78241

The weird thing about these hit-piece articles which amount to;

“Lol the Russians have a general who’s fat and in his 60’s!”

Is its complete ignorance of European military history wherein fat men in their 60’s directing military campaigns was the norm.

It betrays a staggeringly infantile culture, one in which Otto Von Bismarck would not be taken seriously because he was fat, while he proceeded to check mate you for being a retard.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/juanperonsghost/1146

Bit of a weird take since the guy's a bowling ball. But it's another good example of using memes as propaganda.

Angry depositors gathered outside the People’s Bank of China in the city of Zhengzhou on Sunday demanding their money back, following similar demonstrations in May and June.

Videos circulating online showed hundreds of demonstrators, some of whom were holding banners accusing local officials and police of corruption, being surrounded by police and beaten by identified men wearing white.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/11/chinese-police-arrest-suspects-in-bank-scandal-behind-protests

“All night we talk of this object. How much farther can it be? Beyond the Ganges, that we know. But how distant is that? No guide can tell us. I cannot overstate how this excites me. To stand where no man of the West has stood before! To behold that which none has seen! And forever to be the first!
Do you think me vain or self-inflated? Consider: What has almighty Zeus portioned out for man, save this earth? Heaven He has kept for Himself. But this sphere here, beneath this sky, we mortals may roam with naught to hem us but our own will and imagination.
I can see Earth’s Limit. It shines before my inner eye like a city of crystal, though I know, when I reach there, it will be but a shingly strand beneath an alien sky. No matter. It is Earth’s Ultimate, of which not Heracles or Perseus have dreamt, but only I.
What will I seize when at last I stand upon that shore? Nothing. I shall not even bend to pick up a stone or shell, but only clasp my mates’ hands and gaze with them upon the Eastern Ocean.
That is what I want.
That is all I want.”
—The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield

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