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.

📎 Jomini of the West

🇷🇺⚡Russian special operation in Ukraine contributes to the liberation of the world from the oppression of the West — Lavrov

"It is obvious that the attempts of the collective West to interfere with the natural course of history, to solve their problems at the expense of others, are doomed. Today's world has several decision-making centers, it is multipolar. We see how the states of Asia, Africa, Latin America are developing dynamically. Real freedom is emerging for everyone choice, including ways of development and participation in integration projects. Our special military operation in Ukraine also contributes to the process of liberating the world from the neo-colonial oppression of the West, heavily implicated in racism and an exclusiveness complex," the Russian Foreign Minister said in an interview.

🇩🇪The protesters shouted over Scholz's speech in Dusseldorf.

And all because of the posts of weapons and ammunition to Kiev.

The audience did not support them and shouted during Scholz's speech — "it is possible to achieve peace without weapons!".

The German Chancellor even had to shout over the protesters.

"This view is outdated," Scholz replied to his opponents from the crowd.

However, almost half of the residents of Germany who oppose the supply of weapons to Ukraine do not agree with this.

Video: @rt_russian

8 years ago, on May 2nd 2014, Ukrainian radicals murdered at least 42 people in Odessa for the crime of being Russian. They burned them alive. They had tacit approval from the government; no one was punished. From that day on, it was clear that war had become inevitable. The War in Donbass had barely started; after May 2nd, 1000s of volunteers from Odessa & Russia joined the Militias. Ukrainian social networks were full of “funny” videos of people jumping to their deaths to escape the fire. Restaurants added "Vatnik shashlik" to their menus. Young girls poured the Molotov cocktails that lit the Trade Union House on fire; Ukrainian politicians joked about “the traditional May BBQ” for years; people who were involved in the massacre are now popular bloggers, pundits, advisors, military leaders.

The Punhart Von Steyr

Constructed in Styria, Austria in the early 1400’s, the Punhart Von Steyr is the largest wrought iron bombard by caliber. According to modern calculations, it could fire a a 690 kg stone ball around 600 m using a 15 kg charge of gunpowder. Today the Punhart Von Steyr is on display at the Museum of Military History in Vienna.

🇨🇦🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to unconfirmed reports, Canadian General Trevor Kadier left the territory of the Azovstal enterprise and was detained by the Russian military.

A monument to a grandmother with a Red banner was erected in Belgorod.

The one who came out to the Ukrainian military with the flag of the USSR and refused to take help from them

Also, a sculpture in her honor will be installed in Voronezh, reports @rt_russian.