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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