"If pacifist hostility toward war were so strong as to drive pacifists into a war against nonpacifists, in a war against war, that would prove that pacifism truly possesses political energy because it is sufficiently strong to group men according to friend and enemy. If, in fact, the will to abolish war is so strong that it no longer shuns war, then it has become a political motive, i.e., it affirms, even if only as an extreme possibility, war and even the reason for war. Presently this appears to be a peculiar way of justifying wars. The war is then considered to constitute the absolute last war of humanity. Such a war is necessarily unusually intense and inhuman because, by transcending the limits of the political framework, it simultaneously degrades the enemy into moral and other categories and is forced to make of him a monster that must not only be defeated but also utterly destroyed. In other words, he is an enemy who no longer must be compelled to retreat into his borders only."
~ Carl Schmitt

Some information on European energy crisis and inflation:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZwIrznhuw

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"In other words, he is an enemy who no longer must be compelled to retreat into his borders only."

This is absolutely critical in understanding why this war is not about territory. For America the Russians are a criminal element, not an enemy - the whole of their territory must be neutralised. Capture of the Donbass, even Crimea and retreat into formal Russian territory would not be enough. This is why peace talks do not even pretend to be serious.
So too are the Ukrainians a non-human and titanic force. A resolution to the war would only amount to having to create another reason for its return in another place, and the building up of another gigantic force.
If the Russians are fighting on another ground of law, and against the liberal order, then they cannot fight in terms of criminality and a war of elimination. Neutralisation cannot be the principle, instead there must be a distinct separation between Ukraine as a territory and the gigantic military force of the world that has accumulated there.

If this truly is the method employed by Russia then we are in an entirely new age of warfare and international law.

Pretty extreme headline, but he always has an interesting perspective at least.

https://youtu.be/dfgF4x7TCmM

Knight on Horseback
Germany
circa 1520

🇩🇪🇺🇸At the US Consulate General in Leipzig, a protest was held by local residents with the slogan "Americans, go home"

The Warrior Archetype

“Today, we also see the proliferation of non-state actors (non- governmental organisations, private and multinational foundations, financial interests, lobbyists, etc.) in all the domains of international life. This evolution has redefined the relationships between the public and the private spheres, and between the civilian and military sectors. Whereas soldiers become more and more ‘technicians’ or ‘civilians in uniform,’ we simultaneously see an accelerated privatisation of all that relates to security (or to preventing insecurity). The privatisation of war does not result merely from the fact that, in many theatres of operation, the belligerents are civilians who have taken up arms, or from the fact that certain criminal organisations now have recourse to veritable private armies, as is the case with drug-traffickers."

- Alain de Benoit, Carl Schmitt Today

Many are also reporting 380,000 missing Ukrainians soldiers.
The video was taken down and this clip of "100,000 officers killed" removed from the video.

https://twitter.com/thenobodyz/status/1597895930165878786

"Much of the battle for Bakhmut is fought underground, in bunkers where Ukrainian solders use real-time feeds from consumer drones to direct artillery attacks."

https://twitter.com/mickbk/status/1597874772809072641

Guangzhou city. Reportedly many are having their health passports revoked and they end up homeless.

Just a meme. Kanye did not attack Assad.