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

WA-raised 11th Battalion

Soldiers’ journey from WA to an ancient world

Nothing could possibly have prepared the 1026 men of the WA-raised 11th Battalion for what awaited them after they sailed away from WA in November 1914.

The 11th was the first battalion raised in WA and was also in the first convoy to head for the battlefields.

If any thought they were headed for the European theatre of war, they were sadly mistaken. Instead, they disembarked in Egypt in early December to continue training.

Incredibly, they found themselves not only a world away from home but also in an ancient world.

https://thewest.com.au/news/anzac/soldiers-journey-from-wa-to-an-ancient-world-ng-b881005365z.amp

Just released: Nuclear Preparedness PSA

https://youtu.be/N-5d7V4Sbqk

Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton: "As someone who has helped plan coup d'état—not here but, you know, other places—it takes a lot of work. That's not what [Trump] did."

— BREAKING: Sri Lanka's president flees to Maldives after protesters storm his home - @SkyNews

@TGNewsU

Japan, the land of the rising sun, the world of Tradition, the cult of ancestors, the cult of the elements - the Sun, the Moon, Water, mountains, streams, groves. The unique etiquette of the samurai. A warlike and heroic nation, mobilized for a common and total service to the highest solar ideal.

All this contrasted sharply with what we see in our homeland, in Germany and in Europe as a whole. Cosmopolitan cities, selfishness, capitalism, the market, venality, oblivion of higher ideals.

But at the same time, how close is Japan to the romantic soul of a German patriot, in love with German myths and legends, full of nostalgia for that golden feudal age, when Tradition flourished on the European continent — the age of Knights, Holy Empires and Magical Kings.

~ Karl Haushofer

The bear will leave its cave forever.