Russian (LPR) Forces Heavy Battle Combat Training For Advancing On Kharkov Ukraine
https://youtu.be/nC8tHSWeWec
https://youtu.be/nC8tHSWeWec
"I don't agree with the assessment that Russia has already lost the war because they didn't sweep through with a victorious Blitzkrieg. It's possible for it to reach the point where it would become a Pyrrhic victory for Russia to topple the Zelensky regime, but I don't see it as near that point at all. For that to happen, the NATO involvement would have to escalate to the point where it is no longer just a proxy war."
https://news.1rj.ru/str/hyperboread
I don't think there can be any doubt that what America wants is for Russia to push so that another front can be opened up on the world stage. Otherwise, a mistake would serve the same function. The aggressive and reckless actions are precisely for this reason (and of course Ukrainians are just pawns to NATO). "Appear strong when you are weak." Given this, a real sign that Russia has been weakened would be the opening of another front. Iran has been fermenting for a long time now, that it or another location has not been attacked indicates that America/NATO has not achieved its aims in Ukraine. As well, if there were another attack in a new region at this point an extreme degree may indicate desperation.
As Schmitt said, the American law of war is neutrality in principle and presence in practise. This is intensified to the highest degree in this war, which is without question a world war. It will continue until a new spatial order is established – either the Leviathan or Behemoth will perish.
The other aspect is nuclear deterrent. On the cognitive warfare front there is a gigantic force which criminalizes Russia, even as America conducts nuclear testing. But seen from the East, the Leviathan is wounded and presents the danger of all wounded creatures: one does not want to be smothered and choked by the tentacles on the way down. Russia could face nuclear assault itself if it mounted a full attack.
In both cases, Parthian retreat is an essential tactic and strategy. And this tactic is fundamental, absolute in the atomic era of war – jets dominate the skies, submarines the seas, and nuclear weapons are hidden beneath the earth itself. They are submerged in the potential ruins like the old kings buried in the foundations of cities. This is the meaning of Dead Hand – one can still move from a position of total defeat. The nuclear defense is a response to absolute criminality and surrender in international law, and it changes warfare immeasurably.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/hyperboread
I don't think there can be any doubt that what America wants is for Russia to push so that another front can be opened up on the world stage. Otherwise, a mistake would serve the same function. The aggressive and reckless actions are precisely for this reason (and of course Ukrainians are just pawns to NATO). "Appear strong when you are weak." Given this, a real sign that Russia has been weakened would be the opening of another front. Iran has been fermenting for a long time now, that it or another location has not been attacked indicates that America/NATO has not achieved its aims in Ukraine. As well, if there were another attack in a new region at this point an extreme degree may indicate desperation.
As Schmitt said, the American law of war is neutrality in principle and presence in practise. This is intensified to the highest degree in this war, which is without question a world war. It will continue until a new spatial order is established – either the Leviathan or Behemoth will perish.
The other aspect is nuclear deterrent. On the cognitive warfare front there is a gigantic force which criminalizes Russia, even as America conducts nuclear testing. But seen from the East, the Leviathan is wounded and presents the danger of all wounded creatures: one does not want to be smothered and choked by the tentacles on the way down. Russia could face nuclear assault itself if it mounted a full attack.
In both cases, Parthian retreat is an essential tactic and strategy. And this tactic is fundamental, absolute in the atomic era of war – jets dominate the skies, submarines the seas, and nuclear weapons are hidden beneath the earth itself. They are submerged in the potential ruins like the old kings buried in the foundations of cities. This is the meaning of Dead Hand – one can still move from a position of total defeat. The nuclear defense is a response to absolute criminality and surrender in international law, and it changes warfare immeasurably.
Telegram
Halls of the Hyperboreads
In this Atlantean Academy you will find the gymnasium of the heroes, the library of the philosophers, and the temple of the druids
🔥1
Nomos of War pinned «"I don't agree with the assessment that Russia has already lost the war because they didn't sweep through with a victorious Blitzkrieg. It's possible for it to reach the point where it would become a Pyrrhic victory for Russia to topple the Zelensky regime…»
Putin — who has jailed critics and rivals — took a nonsensical detour in his major foreign policy speech to rail against 'cancel culture'
The Western champions of liberalism and progress have slipped into banning [Fyodor] Dostoevsky and [Pyotr Ilyich] Tchaikovsky," Putin said via a live English translator, referring to a Russian novelist and composer, respectively.
"The so-called cancel culture is basically a cancellation of culture that annihilates everything that is alive and creative. It stunts the growth of free thought in economy, politics, and culture," Putin continued. "The very liberal ideology itself has today changed beyond recognition."
The Russian leader went on to blast Western liberals for what he claimed was their ability to strip freedoms of people who have an opposite view point, and said that attitude is reflected on Russia, too.
"Right now, they've bridged an absurd situation when any alternative point of view is declared to be a subversive propaganda and a threat to democracy," Putin said. "Whatever comes from Russia, well, it's all the Kremlin's doing, but they should look at themselves first."
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-jailed-critics-rivals-took-170506135.html
The Western champions of liberalism and progress have slipped into banning [Fyodor] Dostoevsky and [Pyotr Ilyich] Tchaikovsky," Putin said via a live English translator, referring to a Russian novelist and composer, respectively.
"The so-called cancel culture is basically a cancellation of culture that annihilates everything that is alive and creative. It stunts the growth of free thought in economy, politics, and culture," Putin continued. "The very liberal ideology itself has today changed beyond recognition."
The Russian leader went on to blast Western liberals for what he claimed was their ability to strip freedoms of people who have an opposite view point, and said that attitude is reflected on Russia, too.
"Right now, they've bridged an absurd situation when any alternative point of view is declared to be a subversive propaganda and a threat to democracy," Putin said. "Whatever comes from Russia, well, it's all the Kremlin's doing, but they should look at themselves first."
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-jailed-critics-rivals-took-170506135.html
Yahoo
Putin — who has jailed critics and rivals — took a nonsensical detour in his major foreign policy speech to rail against 'cancel…
"Whatever comes from Russia, well, it's all the Kremlin's doing, but they should look at themselves first." Putin said during his rant.
Putin: ‘New world order’ will compensate for Russia’s losses in Ukraine war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will “accelerate” the inauguration of a “new world order based on law and justice” in which economic and political gains will justify the losses sustained thus far, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We're facing a historic milestone,” Putin told the Valdai Discussion Club in a Thursday address. “Ahead of us is possibly the most dangerous, unpredictable, and, at the same time, crucial decade since the end of the Second World War.”
Putin took the stage against a backdrop of international anxiety about the risk of nuclear escalation in Ukraine and domestic Russian anger that a series of Ukrainian successes forced the Kremlin to send unprepared connoscripts to the front lines. Putin insisted that “a flare-up” of some sort “would have happened regardless of how Russia could have acted in Ukraine” due to a purported decline in Western power and maintained that his policies would “accelerate” that process.
“Yes, there are some issues — I refer to the losses incurred due to the special military operation — and I always say that, yes, there are economic losses, but there are also enormous acquisitions,” Putin said through an interpreter. “What is happening, indubitably, in the end — I emphasize that — in the end, will benefit Russia and its future. Why is that? Because it’ll help reinforce our sovereignty in all domains, and in particular, in the economic field.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-new-world-order-russia-losses-during-war-in-ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will “accelerate” the inauguration of a “new world order based on law and justice” in which economic and political gains will justify the losses sustained thus far, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We're facing a historic milestone,” Putin told the Valdai Discussion Club in a Thursday address. “Ahead of us is possibly the most dangerous, unpredictable, and, at the same time, crucial decade since the end of the Second World War.”
Putin took the stage against a backdrop of international anxiety about the risk of nuclear escalation in Ukraine and domestic Russian anger that a series of Ukrainian successes forced the Kremlin to send unprepared connoscripts to the front lines. Putin insisted that “a flare-up” of some sort “would have happened regardless of how Russia could have acted in Ukraine” due to a purported decline in Western power and maintained that his policies would “accelerate” that process.
“Yes, there are some issues — I refer to the losses incurred due to the special military operation — and I always say that, yes, there are economic losses, but there are also enormous acquisitions,” Putin said through an interpreter. “What is happening, indubitably, in the end — I emphasize that — in the end, will benefit Russia and its future. Why is that? Because it’ll help reinforce our sovereignty in all domains, and in particular, in the economic field.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-new-world-order-russia-losses-during-war-in-ukraine
Tide Turning in Ukraine War, Russia on The Offensive Now, Top Official Close to Kremlin
Russia believes that it has halted the counter-offensive by Ukraine and is on track to seize back the initiative, a source close to the Kremlin has told News18.
Manpower reinforcements, which will be in place in the next few weeks, will allow Russia to hold the line and go on the attack simultaneously, the person said.
“The Ukrainians tried a counter-offensive; it was stopped. Our side is beginning to advance again in the centre, while expecting yet another Ukrainian attempt in the south,” said the Russian official, who is a close confidante of President Vladimir Putin. “Worry is for the wider public that maybe expected a quick victory. While the high command, seeing that the West is in fact taking over command from the Ukrainians, is quietly preparing for more serious action."
https://www.news18.com/news/world/tide-turning-in-ukraine-war-russia-on-the-offensive-now-top-kremlin-official-to-news18-exclusive-6256369.html
Russia believes that it has halted the counter-offensive by Ukraine and is on track to seize back the initiative, a source close to the Kremlin has told News18.
Manpower reinforcements, which will be in place in the next few weeks, will allow Russia to hold the line and go on the attack simultaneously, the person said.
“The Ukrainians tried a counter-offensive; it was stopped. Our side is beginning to advance again in the centre, while expecting yet another Ukrainian attempt in the south,” said the Russian official, who is a close confidante of President Vladimir Putin. “Worry is for the wider public that maybe expected a quick victory. While the high command, seeing that the West is in fact taking over command from the Ukrainians, is quietly preparing for more serious action."
https://www.news18.com/news/world/tide-turning-in-ukraine-war-russia-on-the-offensive-now-top-kremlin-official-to-news18-exclusive-6256369.html
News18
Tide Turning in Ukraine War, Russia on The Offensive Now, Top Official Close to Kremlin Tells News18 | Exclusive
Manpower reinforcements, which will be in place in the next few weeks, will allow Russia to hold the line and go on the attack simultaneously, the source said
Forwarded from Der Schattige Wald 🇬🇱
Jünger's officer coat with beetles talisman; these talismans were commonly sewn into coats by WWI soldiers.
❤4
Forwarded from Der Schattige Wald 🇬🇱
Lesser-known WWI book. Something of an opposite to Jünger, being a non-professional's account, but gives a great image of a titanic yet simple figure.
Forwarded from Der Schattige Wald 🇬🇱
"I was sick again and vomited severely. Brown and Mickey stayed with me. There was a comparative quiet now in our sector, but heavy firing to both our right and left. Machine-gun bullets whined about so that we had to crawl, and we were back a distance we found the Professor lying on the road bank, riddled with bullets. He was plastered with mud and had lost his glasses and steel helmet. Evidently he had got lost in the darkness and there he lay, after years of study and culture, a smashed cog of the war machine, with not a hope of burial save by a chance shell.
Ten yards on we came into a light vapour rising with the chill of the night. Over on the high bank of the road, we saw Stewart stooped over someone. We called to him softly and told him to get down in the ditch. He did not answer and went on bandaging someone who was lying perfectly still. There was the report of a German rifle. Stewart pitched head-first across the man he was bandaging, so that his kilt fell over his back, and lay there, dead, while the sniper shot again and again, as if venting a crazy hate. The wounded man was still. I had lost a bomb and we had none, but we wormed back to a spot on the roadbank and from there all three of us fired at the rifle flashes. They stopped instantly. We started back. Mickey was at the limit of his endurance. He was not rugged and we had to rest him now and then, so it was an hour before we were back in the trenches. And there I suddenly lost consciousness again.
When I came awake it was late in the morning. I was lying in a corner of the trench, plastered with mud, and Mickey was beside me. Brown was curled like a dog in another corner. Mickey told me I had been violently sick twice and then had lain as if in a coma. He said there had been a heavy shelling of the area. I became aware of the acrid reek of explosives. None of the other survivors were near us. Not a runner had appeared. We huddled there until noon, then I roused up and peered over the side of our refuge. A few yards away there were three green-scummed pools. White chalky hands reached out of one, and from the farther one a knee stuck up above the filthy water. In another bit of old trench, where the parados had disappeared, a soldier stood rigidly, feet braced apart. He had been killed by concussion, and his body was split as if sliced by a great knife. Some German bodies were lying on a bank and one, bareheaded, looked as if he were reclining on one elbow.
A shell came as I looked and erupted almost beneath the body, and the dead man stood up a heartbeat, as if saluting, then tumbled down on the other side. I lay down again and saw that neither Brown nor Mickey were moving. They were huddled side by side, mud-splattered, sleeping."
Ten yards on we came into a light vapour rising with the chill of the night. Over on the high bank of the road, we saw Stewart stooped over someone. We called to him softly and told him to get down in the ditch. He did not answer and went on bandaging someone who was lying perfectly still. There was the report of a German rifle. Stewart pitched head-first across the man he was bandaging, so that his kilt fell over his back, and lay there, dead, while the sniper shot again and again, as if venting a crazy hate. The wounded man was still. I had lost a bomb and we had none, but we wormed back to a spot on the roadbank and from there all three of us fired at the rifle flashes. They stopped instantly. We started back. Mickey was at the limit of his endurance. He was not rugged and we had to rest him now and then, so it was an hour before we were back in the trenches. And there I suddenly lost consciousness again.
When I came awake it was late in the morning. I was lying in a corner of the trench, plastered with mud, and Mickey was beside me. Brown was curled like a dog in another corner. Mickey told me I had been violently sick twice and then had lain as if in a coma. He said there had been a heavy shelling of the area. I became aware of the acrid reek of explosives. None of the other survivors were near us. Not a runner had appeared. We huddled there until noon, then I roused up and peered over the side of our refuge. A few yards away there were three green-scummed pools. White chalky hands reached out of one, and from the farther one a knee stuck up above the filthy water. In another bit of old trench, where the parados had disappeared, a soldier stood rigidly, feet braced apart. He had been killed by concussion, and his body was split as if sliced by a great knife. Some German bodies were lying on a bank and one, bareheaded, looked as if he were reclining on one elbow.
A shell came as I looked and erupted almost beneath the body, and the dead man stood up a heartbeat, as if saluting, then tumbled down on the other side. I lay down again and saw that neither Brown nor Mickey were moving. They were huddled side by side, mud-splattered, sleeping."
A_Soldier’s_Place_The_War_Stories_of_Will_R_Bird_Will_R_Bird_Thomas.epub
1.5 MB
This includes a few ghost stories. At the time it was common for soldiers to believe in ghosts.
I think this is the only World War One horror film other than Trench 11.
https://youtu.be/G0KQYHJ6K_s
https://youtu.be/G0KQYHJ6K_s
YouTube
Deathwatch Trailer HD
In Theaters: 6 December 2002 (UK)
In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night. They capture a German soldier that advises that evil is in the trench, forcing the soldiers…
In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night. They capture a German soldier that advises that evil is in the trench, forcing the soldiers…
Forwarded from Intel Slava
🇺🇦⚡️ Ukranian insider channel:
Our source in the OP said that foreign volunteers / mercenaries refused to take part in the assault on Kherson, which is why the entire operation is postponed for several weeks until the Ukrainian Armed Forces collect new reserves.
Our source in the OP said that foreign volunteers / mercenaries refused to take part in the assault on Kherson, which is why the entire operation is postponed for several weeks until the Ukrainian Armed Forces collect new reserves.
🤔1
Russia's defence ministry said Ukraine attacked the Black Sea Fleet near Sevastopol on the annexed Crimean peninsula with 16 drones early on Saturday, and that British navy "specialists" had helped coordinate the "terrorist" attack.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-suspends-participation-deal-ukraine-grain-exports-tass-2022-10-29/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-suspends-participation-deal-ukraine-grain-exports-tass-2022-10-29/
Reuters
U.N., Turkey, Ukraine press ahead with Black Sea grain deal despite Russian pullout
Antonio Guterres was trying to revive the agreement, which aims to ease a global food crisis. President Biden said the suspension would increase starvation, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia was "weaponizing food."
Forwarded from Lance's Legion
https://lanceslegion.substack.com/p/extreme-ownership#details
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Extreme Ownership"
Episode 7
Orientation: You are being briefed by Gen. Lance and his trusted advisor Sgt. Barnes.
Situation: Straight from the Commander's tent on the frontline, you are listening and learning.
Mission: You will listen, learn, and apply leadership and military knowledge from Jocko Willink and Gen. Lance.
Execution: You, legionary, will sit your ass down and put me in your ear hole and shut your face hole.
Administration/Logistics: You will buy "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink . You will explore Jocko's Podcast for further Professional Military Education (PME).
Communications: Signals and Communications will be relayed over Substack. Transmission will be available on demand.
Commander's Intent: You, legionary, will imbibe a warrior spirit and leadership ethic. You will walk away with a better military understanding of the Russo-Ukraine War. You will be enriched with greater military education resources. You WILL feel the need to buy Sgt. Barnes a bottle of Jim Beam.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Extreme Ownership"
Episode 7
Orientation: You are being briefed by Gen. Lance and his trusted advisor Sgt. Barnes.
Situation: Straight from the Commander's tent on the frontline, you are listening and learning.
Mission: You will listen, learn, and apply leadership and military knowledge from Jocko Willink and Gen. Lance.
Execution: You, legionary, will sit your ass down and put me in your ear hole and shut your face hole.
Administration/Logistics: You will buy "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink . You will explore Jocko's Podcast for further Professional Military Education (PME).
Communications: Signals and Communications will be relayed over Substack. Transmission will be available on demand.
Commander's Intent: You, legionary, will imbibe a warrior spirit and leadership ethic. You will walk away with a better military understanding of the Russo-Ukraine War. You will be enriched with greater military education resources. You WILL feel the need to buy Sgt. Barnes a bottle of Jim Beam.
Lance's Legion
Extreme Ownership
Listen now (127 min) | Episode 7
Forwarded from Disgruntled Citizen
Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all… Of all the war's exciting moments, none is so powerful as the meeting of two stormtroop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back; the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.
— Ernst Jünger
— Ernst Jünger
Forwarded from Lance's Legion: Taberna
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Comment on the Martin Sellner and Joel Davis discussion. Basically this is an outline of the world order and the conditions of this war. This gives us a better view than that of legality or competing ethno-states which do not have power. If one wants to argue for national sovereignty or an ethno-state it has to be from within this order. These conditions give shape to and limit national power, without confronting them they can never be overcome.
—-
First of all, Ukraine lost the war in 2014. This was a mixed state of war with America/NATO which subverted the law and sovereignty of the country. To control the law, to give shape to order is the essence of war, it is a conflict of the existential, the nomos. Where this is lost, the war is lost – no matter if atomic weapons are used or subversion through tv-democracy erodes the national character. The streaming of sitcoms and news into the communications of another nation is precisely the same tactic as that of special police forces blasting Metallica into the Waco compound. To join NATO is to accept its existential qualities, whether through military or psychological raid.
Discussing this on the ground of the international clown court only allows America to determine all possible limits of discussion – limits that have been set out in advance by psychological warfare programs. European international law ended in the 1870s and the World Wars were final national struggles to maintain sovereignty and reestablish law. Since then there has been an intensification of the world duality and a push for unity. There are no sovereign nations anymore, and no ethnostates, so rationalizing from such positions does not matter at all. In the eyes of NATO, Ukraine is nothing more than a staging ground to reach out its tentacles and try to latch onto the Behemoth. It is a non-space.
For these reasons, and the fact that Ukraine began before a decisive outcome in Syria, the Middle Eastern conflicts do not constitute revenge. America launched its world war in 2001 – and perhaps 1991 or 1948 would make even more sense as starting dates. All of these conflicts have been part of a single overall strategy by America to isolate Russia and skim off its hide through a world war of attrition. All other spaces are simply a staging ground for nuclear weapons, nuclear defenses, industrialisation, neutralisation, mass mobilisation, and routes of infiltration. From such a viewpoint the nation is little more than a highway system. This applies even to China, which is only a factor because it was developed into the interconnector of the East.
What is most important in understanding this war is that it is a conflict that has developed for two-hundred years, Tocqueville brilliantly saw it in the 1830s. At that early date, he outlined the most simple law of the world conflict: only these two forces grow, and they do so with an easy stride. America has lost both its growth and its stride – it is in the midst of existential catastrophe.
The question of China is largely incidental, but one can say if it does come to power then it has to become the bearer of its own growth, and give order to it. This would require a revolution equal to all the pressures of its industrial pact with America. For this reason it remains a possible weak point for the Eastern defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a378Rvj-f2U
—-
First of all, Ukraine lost the war in 2014. This was a mixed state of war with America/NATO which subverted the law and sovereignty of the country. To control the law, to give shape to order is the essence of war, it is a conflict of the existential, the nomos. Where this is lost, the war is lost – no matter if atomic weapons are used or subversion through tv-democracy erodes the national character. The streaming of sitcoms and news into the communications of another nation is precisely the same tactic as that of special police forces blasting Metallica into the Waco compound. To join NATO is to accept its existential qualities, whether through military or psychological raid.
Discussing this on the ground of the international clown court only allows America to determine all possible limits of discussion – limits that have been set out in advance by psychological warfare programs. European international law ended in the 1870s and the World Wars were final national struggles to maintain sovereignty and reestablish law. Since then there has been an intensification of the world duality and a push for unity. There are no sovereign nations anymore, and no ethnostates, so rationalizing from such positions does not matter at all. In the eyes of NATO, Ukraine is nothing more than a staging ground to reach out its tentacles and try to latch onto the Behemoth. It is a non-space.
For these reasons, and the fact that Ukraine began before a decisive outcome in Syria, the Middle Eastern conflicts do not constitute revenge. America launched its world war in 2001 – and perhaps 1991 or 1948 would make even more sense as starting dates. All of these conflicts have been part of a single overall strategy by America to isolate Russia and skim off its hide through a world war of attrition. All other spaces are simply a staging ground for nuclear weapons, nuclear defenses, industrialisation, neutralisation, mass mobilisation, and routes of infiltration. From such a viewpoint the nation is little more than a highway system. This applies even to China, which is only a factor because it was developed into the interconnector of the East.
What is most important in understanding this war is that it is a conflict that has developed for two-hundred years, Tocqueville brilliantly saw it in the 1830s. At that early date, he outlined the most simple law of the world conflict: only these two forces grow, and they do so with an easy stride. America has lost both its growth and its stride – it is in the midst of existential catastrophe.
The question of China is largely incidental, but one can say if it does come to power then it has to become the bearer of its own growth, and give order to it. This would require a revolution equal to all the pressures of its industrial pact with America. For this reason it remains a possible weak point for the Eastern defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a378Rvj-f2U
👍2