II. Skilled in the unvarying way, a wise leader is not the aggressor; skilled in warfare, he is cool headed; a victor, he does not humiliate his foe; commanding men, he humbly applies his art.

In not contending lies his strength. By the efforts of others, his work is carried out, following the unvarying way of the heavens.

~ Lao Tzu

🇺🇦 In Ukraine, quiet gnawing horror that the Kiev government underestimated the true extent of the army's losses.

Translation:
«Thanks to good people, the documentary "Donbass" now has English subnoscripts.
Someone asked me: Does it exist, will it exist?
Well, here you go.
If you have friends abroad who want to understand what was happening in the Donbas and why we started the operation, it's time to send them this film.»

Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/MedvedevVesti/9103
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Tags: #Russia #Ukraine #Donbass

"There are different kinds of war. There are holy wars, just wars, and wars as duel [Duellkriege]. The holy war and the war as duel both retain something of the original character of a judgment of God. The just war, in contrast, places judgment in the hands of human beings. In the age of modern positivism, justice is transformed into a law made by people for people. It makes of law a settlement of settlements [eine Setzung von Setzungen]. To the same degree it deprives just war of the last vestiges of a sacral thought. The goddess of justice opens Pandora’s box, and there appear not only the snares of intricate trials but also the judicially clothed terrors of bloody civil wars."
- Carl Schmitt

"One must change one's tactics every 10 years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority ..."
- Napoleon

"As he himself once said, it was not genius that suggested what he should do, but reflection. His skill at thinking through the scenarios ... "
- Martin Boycott-Brown, on Napoleon

🇷🇺Russia will adequately respond to all challenges and threats, it has always been so and will be now — Putin.

The main thing from the president's speech at the Council of Legislators.

▪️Moscow cannot allow the creation of anti-Russian territories around itself.

The Russian soldiers and officers prevented the danger that hung over Russia.

If someone wants to interfere in the situation in Ukraine and creates a threat, the strikes will be lightning fast.

"The decision on this has already been made."

▪️Russia uses threats to it in response to means that its opponents do not have.

The answer to the "clumsy" attempts of isolation will be greater openness and freedom of business.

Decisions on the indexation of pensions, salaries of state employees and all benefits will be taken in the near future.

Russia will do everything possible to protect Russian journalists, and attempts to intimidate them are doomed to failure.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Epic spetsnaz night hunt: Ukrainian dugout attacked. After being hit by a grenade launcher, an ammunition depot detonated.

Evola, in the Metaphysics of War, explained something similar:

"Let us consider some other evidence of this tradition, which, by its very nature, is metaphysical: elements such as ‘race’ cannot therefore possess more than a secondary, contingent place in it. We say this because, in our next article, we intend to deal with the ‘holy war’ practiced by the warriors of the ‘Holy Roman Empire’. That civilisation, as is well known, represents a point of creative convergence between various components: Roman, Christian, and Nordic."

"We have already discussed the conceptions of the ancient Roman world in this respect. We then described the Nordic traditions regarding the immortalising character of the truly heroic death on the battlefield. It was necessary to examine these traditions before considering the medieval world, since, as is generally recognised, the Middle Ages, as a culture, arose from the synthesis of three elements; firstly, Roman; secondly, Nordic; and thirdly, Christian."

And as we all know, the Middle Ages are the real heart and soul of Europe.

Irregularity, Mobility, Political Engagement, and Telluric Character. Four criterion of the partisan according to Carl Schmitt.