"The real will to struggle, the real hatred is satisfied by anything that can destroy the enemy. Destruction is the only means which seems suitable for nationalism in the present situation. The first part of its task is anarchic, and he who has realised this will welcome anything that can destroy in this first part of the road. It is not our task to devise measures to make external political pressure more bearable, to reduce internal political tensions, to participate in elections, to influence conferences and votes, to engage in so-called referendums. It is not our job to go on long tirades against the general deterioration of political and social morality, against abortion, against strikes, against lockouts, against cuts in the police and the army. We leave all fanatics with the idea that there is a form of revolution that maintains order at the same time. What has the elemental to do with the moral? Yet we are drifting towards the elemental, which has become visible to us again for the first time in a long time in the hellish throes of war. We will not stand where the flame of the torch has not opened the way for us, where the flamethrower has not accomplished the great purification through nothingness. He who denies the whole cannot draw fruit from the parts. Since we are the true, real, and irreconcilable enemies of the citizen, we entertain his degradation. But we are not citizens, we are sons of war and civil war, and only when all this, this spectacle of circles spinning in the void, is swept away, only then can what is still left in us from nature, from elementality, from true savagery, from original language, from the capacity for true reproduction through blood and seed, blossom. Only then does the possibility of new forms emerge."
~ Ernst Jünger, "Nationalism" and Nationalism

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"The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is ‘heroism’. War, it is said, offers man the opportunity to awaken the hero who sleeps within him. War breaks the routine of comfortable life; by means of its severe ordeals, it offers a transfiguring knowledge of life, life according to death. The moment the individual succeeds in living as a hero, even if it is the final moment of his earthly life, weighs infinitely more on the scale of values than a protracted existence spent consuming monotonously among the trivialities of cities. From a spiritual point of view, these possibilities make up for the negative and destructive tendencies of war, which are one-sidedly and tendentiously highlighted by pacifist materialism. War makes one realise the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a ‘more-than-life’, and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value."

- Julius Evola, Metaphysics of War

The losses seem unimaginable to me. Video is allegedly from the fortifications in Pesky.

The Kiev regime lost hundreds of thousands of people killed during the operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

This was stated by Sergei Krivonos, ex-deputy Secretary of the NSDC and former first deputy commander of the SSO of Ukraine.

"Why didn't you do anything, why dozens, and already we understand that hundreds of thousands died – why did they die?" the ex-general asked.

Krivonos did not forget to comment on the "counteroffensive" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, calling them suicidal operations.

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Column on the March, 1915, C. R. W. Nevinson