"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.

Saddam Husseins Birthday Song

"For the Western commander, taking the plunge into the unknown means a greater risk than for the Eastern commander. This already cost Crassus his head."

"There are today two great peoples on earth, who, though they started from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans.
Both grew in obscurity, and while humanity’s gaze was focused elsewhere, they abruptly vaulted to the first rank among nations: the world learned almost simultaneously of their birth and of their grandeur.
All other peoples seem close to achieving the limits traced for them by nature and henceforth need only to preserve what they already have; but these two are still growing. All the others have stopped, or move forward only with the greatest of effort. Only these two march with an easy and rapid stride down a road whose end no eye can yet perceive.
The American does battle with the obstacles that nature has placed before him; the Russian grapples with men. One combats wilderness and barbarity; the other, civilization with all its arms. The American makes his conquests with the farmer’s plowshare, the Russian with the soldier’s sword.
To achieve his goal, the American relies on personal interest and allows individuals to exercise their strength and reason without guidance.
The Russian in a sense concentrates all the power of society in one man.
The American’s principal means of action is liberty; the Russian’s, servitude.
Their points of departure are different, their ways diverse. Yet each seems called by a secret design of Providence some day to sway the destinies of half the globe."
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Perhaps the precursor to Schmitt's Großraum. See below.

Ernst Jünger's predictions for war in the 21st century.

"Regarding the fate of man, particularly as a state-forming, political being, various prognoses are possible, including the following:

1. There will be great destruction. The machine is smashed or comes to a standstill, be it by wars or in other ways. There is a lack of means, perhaps even the inclination, to rebuild it. The Veil of Maya has shifted. A greatly diminished population, with new ideas and a different economy, appear as post-catastrophic beings. They are more powerful, more natural, because the eradication has affected precisely those areas where homo faber has shown itself most sharply. It has, as so often repeated in natural history, led itself ad absurdum by hypertrophic armaments. This prospect is the least likely.

2. World unity is constituted by treaties, whether by peaceful agreement, under coercion, or both at once. This requires a supreme body. This can be achieved:

a) By rationalisation in the form of consolidation: The states renounce part of their sovereignty. They are dismantled in favour of society, the societas humana. Armies become police forces and the major combatants will manage world divisions. Like gold, they are stored in depots without appearing de facto, and guarantee order existentially. Competition is eliminated in the field of war as well as in economics. Forms and means are perfected, state plans are replaced by earth and cosmic plans.

b) By a third world war without comprehensive consequences, outlined above. A power remains in possession of sovereignty and the appropriate equipment. It cedes parts of it as it sees fit. It must remain a state. In World War I the monarchies were eliminated, in World War II the nation states were eliminated, and in World War III one of the great continental spaces will remain. The order thus achieved would be weaker than that achieved by evolution, and the risk would be enormous.

c) Through overexertion. Increased repetition and internal weakening interact in such a way that machine parts wear out or explode. Pressure, suppression, propaganda, spending on armaments to the detriment of the standard of living, threats, panic, unrest – all these would kill one or more partners and eliminate them from competition. The great slogans lose traction. The result is a more or less emphatic pénétration pacifique. In principle, all wanted the same thing. Force works from the forward pressure, from the future result.There lies the unity of the process, not in understanding. The wisest ideology is not the best, but that which follows the earth's current most easily, harmonizes with it.

d) By gaining position. Here warfare, like chess, approaches the pure acts of intelligence. The commander recognises his strategic superiority and deduces the consequences, as in some Renaissance trading. The best positions are tangential, flanking – in principle: falling out of the system. They lie outside the contested object."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 At first we did not want to publish this video - it's hard to watch it. But we decided nevertheless that these shots are also important for the chronicle, as they show the heroism of our guys who are fighting for a dead comrade.

In the video from Mariupol, a Russian marine was wounded by the Azov national battalion. The wound turned out to be fatal - the bullet hit the artery.

Ukrainian TVD, Day 58-64.

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