The Message Was Simple; There Was No Need to Take Notes.

The Message Was Simple; There Was No Need to Take Notes.

The media yesterday drew attention not to the lack of specifics in Putin's speech, but to what Putin did not say on Red Square, who was missing in the stands, and above all what he could not boast of.

On August 22, 1939, in Obersalzberg, Adolf Hitler gave a rhetorically good speech to the Wehrmacht officers.

“Be without mercy! Be brutal! The destruction of Poland is our first task. (...)

It doesn't matter what the weak Western European civilization says about me. (...)

The goal of war is not to reach specific lines, but to physically destroy the enemy.(...)

I ordered the ruthless and merciless sending to death men, women and children of Polish origin and language.

The message was simple, there was no need to write anything down. 

Separate circulations of information allow the same events to be given extremely different meanings. This increases freedom of action.  

Unfortunately, the limits of imagination are also the limits of cruelty.  

War is a form of culture. Culture does not float above the war, does not sway in the clouds, it is revealed in images of funnels after bombs and excavated graves. Under the rubble and in musty shelters. War is a game between ostentation and retardation (its form recognized by the military: rejterada).

World War II is a pathological form of globalization under imposed imperial conditions.

We can write many similar opinions, unfortunately, as a Polish state, we are not capable of effective action to protect the inhabitants of Ukraine, even those who live closest to us. From what happened in the cemetery of Soviet soldiers, it appears that the Polish authorities had no idea how to prepare for various variants of threats related to Victory Day, celebrated by Russians in Poland. That's what about the Day of Disaster.

The experience of powerlessness or, as we have heard in recent years, "impossibility" is devastating, leaves long traces even in "thriving economies". And muttering after Heraclitus won't help: Unexpected fire will surprise, judge and engulf everything. (D 66)

Heraclitus, as the smart commentators of cultural policy remember, proclaimed that war is an ornament that encorates and decorates all of Nature known to people. 

The most beautiful order of the world accidentally swept garbage. (D 124)

Shelter in the basement of the Orthodox Church in Bashtanka near Mykolaiv, Thursday, March 31, 2022, (photo. AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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