"If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I am about to embark on the greatest and most difficult enterprise I’ve ever attempted.
But what has been begun must be carried through.”
—Napoleon on the eve of the Russian campaign.

It is interesting to ponder how little the cataclysm of the Russian campaign damaged Napoleon’s reputation to future generations.
I’d say it is the Awe for the Daring of the Deed, no matter the outcome. The Great Risk justifies itself, win or lose.

📊 Trends in the number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine

#Ukraine @mod_russia_en

🇷🇺⚡Eyewitnesses post new footage of the explosion in Crimea, on the beach people are asked to hide in shelters

You please look tweet to which this is a reply. It is Important Theorist and lover of internet Drama Greg Johnson. He is pretending he hated Bronze Age Mindset. In fact on my previous account, which he knows is banned so I can't find the many messages he sent me--I may have taken screenshots but I'd have to look--he repeatedly asked me for an interview. I believe his publication Counter Currents also praised my book and gave it a good review. But he himself liked it at the time, and was trying to invite me for interviews. Now because we disagree on Ukraine he lies--he doesn't just lie about disliking it, but that he hated it so much HE THREW IT IN THE TRASH before he was done! I'm only addressing this because this is such a clear case of lying by hyperemotional drama queens on the right. Many liked and promoted my book when it came out and praised it after reading it. They can't just say, "Yes it was a good or funny book, I liked it, but we disagree on Ukraine so..." I assume in any case that it's Ukraine he's revved up about, from looking at his timeline, and because in a recent article I talked about how Olena Semenyaka flew out members of the "altright" to Ukraine for all-expenses-paid tours. Greg was one of these people (who paid for all this? The US govt?) I didn't mention him in the article though and whenever I disagree with him on my show I go out of my way to be polite. But you can never expect calmness or generosity from the hysterical types that are attracted to being facefags on the "altright." I won't address this matter further or mention Greg again. His theorycel essays are for the most part ignored. As a petty man driven by vindictive envy he will then be ignored; he can consider this attention I'm giving him to be a final act of charity https://twitter.com/williamcacusso/status/1556698493569351685

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
~ William Shakespeare

Live, because truth is living. Die, because death is immortal. Order your battle anew. We are the equals of Time. This is the war's beginning.

If this be the hour of battle and harvest, here are the sickles, here are the weapons. Let us fight and reap . Let us die and gather in. We will no longer share our bread with the brute beast.

March on! Now as then, in wood and mountain and plain, or river and lake and sea, let man daily invent his glory and his death. There is no more sleep. There is no more truce. There is no more respite. March on! Towards the world's battle.

Gabriele D'Annunzio

https://news.1rj.ru/str/FuturismForever

~ Heinrich Vogeler, Die Ausgießung der sieben Schalen des Zorns, 1918

Will only be doing a short reading for this month while we catch up on discussions and other projects. "Mechanized Warfare", posted below.

"With the arrival of 1916, after the bloodbath at Verdun, the visage of war had changed. By that time the striking force of the great armies was either depleted or successfully held at bay by the opponent, forcing them to resolve to new means in order to sway the outcome of the battle in their favor. Mobilization became more intense, encompassing with no exceptions all the energies and organizational resources of national states. The Battle of the Somme had already shown that persistent combat for the edges of some little village or a patch of scorched forest demanded the strength of the entire nation, all the way down to the last woman factory worker.

All energies of great industrialized countries with their factory centers, transportation capabilities and armies of machines had erupted in fiery currents onto the battlefields. The front was transformed into a churning cauldron that had to be maintained in working order. Development of weapons, with possibly the exception of large battleships, that manifested in themselves imperialistic will in its pure form was lagging behind technological progress. There was a lack of practical experience to realize the hidden capabilities of technology. Lost time had to be made up, war had to become the essence of the modern spirit of big cities."

https://juengertranslationproject.substack.com/p/mechanized-warfare-ernst-junger

Haven't really followed this, but will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.

- The alleged Facebook account of Hadi Matar, the Lebanese man who attacked Salman Rushdie

His profile pictures contain images of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani and other IRGC generals.

🔴 @Cultures_of_Resistance

- To be honest, this is all a little bit suspicious.

This + the fake name "Hasan Mughniyah" (referring to the late Hezbollah commander Emad Mughniyah) could point towards a very obvious false flag by the CIA/Mossad.

We have to see if in the next few days the US uses this event to put blame on Iran or Hezbollah and uses it as a justification to take some sort of military or political action.

If the US blames this on Iran and changes some sort of policy as a result, my personal suspicion is that this was a carefully executed false flag.

"Russia hasn't lost a man, and look what we've lost."
I think studying America's response to revolutionary war would reveal a lot about the past few decades.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGarvJPTOAY

Ukraine's Zelensky Angry Over Leaks Coming From His Government

"During a Thursday briefing, Zelensky claimed that Ukrainian officials were discussing sensitive internal matters with journalists to boost their egos. “War is definitely not the time for vanity and loud statements,” he said, going on to argue that leaks to the press are setting back Ukraine’s military.

“The fewer details you divulge about our defense plans, the better it will be for the implementation of those defense plans,” the president continued."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-zelensky-angry-over-leaks-coming-his-government