"The great Eastern campaigns change the monarch who leads them. Immediately after Darius died, the Persians saw Alexander as his rightful successor. Much to the displeasure of the Macedonians, Alexander tried to unite Greek and eastern power. From that moment on he displayed traits that were difficult to reconcile with the image of his youth. He began to surround himself with Asiatic splendour, and the Greeks, when approaching the throne, had to kneel according to Persian custom. Callisthenes' refusal cost him his head. Callisthenes was a relative of Aristotle, of whom Alexander said in his youth that he, Alexander, should thank his father Philip for his life and that he lived in a manner worthy of Aristotle. Western historiography sees arbitrariness as incompatible with the dignity of a monarch; it is always seen as a shadow on the character of the few to whom it attributes the noscript of 'great'. This is not the case in Eastern sources. Alexander is also an oriental hero, but he appears as a new character."

🇷🇺 In honor of Victory Day, the Consolidated Orthodox Choir performed "Katyusha" in front of the Main cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces

No English subnoscripts.

https://youtu.be/czKIvFGMJPU

English translation in this one:

https://youtu.be/wSxdfu3WPSc

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible

— Harry Truman, The New York Times 24 June 1941; also in TIME magazine 2 July 1951

Blitzkrieg in Manchuria. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the last major offensive of WW2. The Soviets transported 4 whole armies from the West to the East in record time. The Japanese were taken completely by surprise by the size and speed of the Soviet advance. The Kwantung army, terribly undersupplied and severely lacking in planes, artillery and tanks, collapsed in six weeks.

Commentators on the war should be checking the news to confirm their facts, especially if they did not follow the 2014 crisis. The proposal for an EU military was in the news years ago, so it should not be used to argue for Based NATO restructuring or any other nonsense coming from Spencer and those who think the administration can be replaced.

The war did not start in February. A CBC analyst even confirmed this, and you should not be saying less than what the embedded journalists and thinktanks are willing to admit.

This one is only 2021, but it's also the first page of a search:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-aim-rapid-deployment-force-without-us-assets-by-2025-document-says-2021-11-16/

Referring to the discussion between Joel Davis and Richard Spencer. They, like many others, use the example of the EU military as a sign of Russian miscalculation and a strengthening West. Aside from not being a new development, this will most likely lead to an accelerated collapse of the organisation, which does not have any higher purpose. It is an economic valuation group, nothing more.
Around 1:10:00 in their video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IRElpMpkqJU&t=1211s

This too. No one should be surprised by the clown show at this point.
EU-NATO launched this war. Why would it be surprising that it would unite them when the plan worked (i.e. when things stayed the same)?

An attempt to clarify Carl Schmitt's Land and Sea:

Land and Sea should not be taken as a geographical problem, nor even a polarity. It is a theological, and even mythic question of the elements. The dominant elements shift within an environment, undergo metamorphoses, from earth to water, and from water back to earth. Just as they unite and divide in the philosophy of Empedocles, there is a higher relation irreducible to the material world, the reactions of nature alone. It is a cosmological question rather than geopolitical, of freedom, fate and the perspective it gives us: one can stand at the natural borders to view the sea from land, just as one can view land from the sea on his ship. However, the perspective alone does not change the elemental order.

The elemental distinction begins in England in the 16th and 17th centuries with the turn towards the sea in the political order. England became a sea power in law, that is, with the mastery over the elemental forces which guide from the great spaces of water. Again, it is not an environmental or territorial distinction, but a distinction of power and ordering of space. With this turn in the machine forms, and it is itself the sea force reigning over technology, and also hat allows mastery of the water – a shift in the elemental order which was once autonomous of man, even sovereign and terrifying. The dominance of law in an interim environment, and yet of its own impenatrability.

Significantly, an order of enmity must also reveal itself. There is no true contest of land and sea without enmity. The bear does not wage war upon the whale, just as there is no eternal war of Behemoth and Leviathan without God. The polarity only gives character to the world opposition, the most powerful political enemies.

Russia may even be said to be its own sea power in this regard. It is as much a land of monstrous forests and bogs as it is the steppe. In size it is as impenetrable as the oceans. And today we see a whole new territory opening up in the once frozen regions. Within the depths of the nuclear submarines we may even consider other elements.

One cannot presume a constant in polarity; a shift is also due for the West. And if there is a sea power today it is with the Third World, in which anti-colonial hordes have overrun all Western power – for some, only taking advantage, or not seen as a threat at all by the elites, who themselves live in a state much like the nuclear submarines. what is the elemental metamorphosis of the depths? The westerners are escaping the cities, leaving for other countries, or returning to rural areas – into the cottages with a last view of the ocean, and life itself. In form this is no different from the Greek retreat inland, escaping from the pirates in Thucydides' time. Yet this movement is of its own historical nerve, perhaps even post-historical in its laws.

As Goethe said, "Everything has fled from the miniscule."

🇺🇦This is how the queues for gas stations in Ukraine look like.

There is a shortage of fuel throughout the country.

Drivers take a queue at 6 am and only by 10 am they manage to refuel their car.

The situation remains difficult despite the assurances of the Kiev authorities about increasing supplies from the EU.

pavlovskynews video

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Russian army broke through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Izyum and took a well-fortified settlement. For a long time, the battles for this village went on for several weeks.

Around Dolgenkiy, the enemy concentrated large forces with armored vehicles and artillery.

The Russian army unleashed a huge number of cannon artillery shells and MLRS on the fortified area of ​​the enemy, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses here. In the forests, Russian special forces carved out a lot of guard posts.

Our troops continue the offensive from the Kharkiv region to the Donbass.