I believe the stalemate scenario is too simplistic. You have to accept some fundamentals. (1) Ukraine is a core strategic interest of Russia, this will not change - it will always been in there sphere of influence. (2) Azov sea is now a Russian lake and controls the Northern half…

There is a void at the centre of Western life. Mr Putin is driving a train through it. We forgot. To care about our own people, to care about our own economy and national security. At the core of today’s liberalism is the spoiled child; miserable, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic…

In Russia. There, the power to will has been long stored up and accumulated, there the will — uncertain whether to be negative or affirmative — waits threateningly to be discharged(to borrow their pet phrase from our physicists) Perhaps not only Indian wars and complications in Asia would be necessary…

Points which have get lost in the daily news : — Western military experts saw clear plans for full-scale invasion and occupation of Ukraine in February 2021; Ukrainians were making plans for mass-evacuations months before 24th February 2022. This War started in February 22nd 2014 when the Ukrainians rejected the Yanukovych deal. Since then it has been ongoing. Russian units have been rotating through their positions in Eastern Ukraine for 5 years. The big recent escalation almost exactly 8 years later to the day may not be a coincidence.

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Along comes a virus a post-modernist picture story from Britain People with authoritarian tendencies, of which there are many in the west, admire China’s idea of social harmony & stability. For example, seeing religious people as unhealthy and wishing millions of muslims were locked up; as they are in East…

Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle. What are…

Part 7 of 10 : WE SCHOLARS — Teachers notes and Evaluation notes taken from https://hxtarth.medium.com CHAPTER VI: WE SCHOLARS Teachers notes The main contrast of this chapter is between real philosophers as Nietzsche conceives of them and “philosophical laborers” and scholars. The great success of science and scholarship has encouraged philosophy to subordinate itself to science, concerning…

Part 6 of 10 : THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS — Teachers notes and Evaluation notes taken from https://hxtarth.medium.com Teachers notes: Morality is as old as humanity, and there have been many different kinds of morality across the millennia. Moral philosophers today lack this historical perspective, and in searching for a “rational foundation” for morality, all they really do is try to…