"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

The Ypres Salient at Night, 1918, Paul Nash

“Because the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do, who not only have to regard present troubles, but also future ones, for foreseen, it is easy to remedy them; but if you wait until they approach, the medicine is no longer in time because the malady has become incurable. […]
Therefore, the Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once, and not even to avoid a war would they let them come to a head, for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others. They wished to fight with Philip and Antiochus in Greece so as not to have to fight them in Italy. And at the time they could have avoided both wars, but this they did not wish. Nor did they care for that which is forever on the lips of the wise ones of our time, namely, that for one’s own benefit one has to bide one’s time, but always they immediately wanted to exploit their own strength and insight. For time drives everything before it, and can turn something that is bad into something good, but also something good into something that is bad.” —Machiavelli, The Prince, CH3.

2022, I'm not forgotten. I'm taken seriously.

I do not say that Russia will lose the war. That is simply impossible. But these are bullshit excuses. The Russians were smashed in the Kharkov area because of strategic mistakes and failures of the Russian Army General Staff.
their stupidity is beyond imagination and excuse. And thousands of innocent people will die because of it.

Not only have they been shamefully defeated, their idiocy continues - They have moved the 15,000 man 3rd Corps from Donetsk to Izium, which leaves Donetsk almost defenseless. If ukrops now advance on Donetsk, even get a small foothold inside the city, it will be a blunder of strategic proportions.

I am in Donetsk. I got back from Moscow yesterday. There is a serious shortage of motor fuel (propane and gasoline) and drinking water in the city. Ukrop shelling is heavy and continuous. Our home is in Petrovsky District, less than 10 Km from the front lines in Mari'inka. We have been staying for the last few months in a friend's apartment in the city center, about 20 Km from the ukrop frontline positions, about an hour's drive by tank. I do not think they can make it to the city center, but taking Donetsk is the ukrop's main strategic objective, and even if they get a small foothold inside the city, they will have tens of thousands of civilian human shields and can create another Mariupol scenario.

The question is not whether Russia will liberate Ukraine, that is a given, the question is how many soldiers and civilians will have to pay with their lives in the process for the fuckups of the General Staff. It looks now like the answer will be "Too many."

So the story is "we will force a pyrrhic defeat with our propaganda mobilisations." And people wonder why Russia isn't playing territorial games.