An Indian-Pakistani blend who is technically an NRI unravelling life's jokes.
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#watches @spectrumwatches
#gifting @tothebazaar
#wellness @KOKOROlogy
LITERALLY ANYONE WHO HAS MADE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST IMPACT THIS PAST YEAR!
THEY'VE ALREADY GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND THEIR CALL OF DUTY, AND WILL BE A BETTER FIT
JUST #NOBJP#NOMODI
1063 DAYS TO GO!
#workformyvote
Where's the UN to intervene to stop the Genocide of Gaza? Where are the other countries which have condemned this Genocide? Where are the people of the Earth who know what's happening right now and why they don't act accordingly NOW? Why are still there Israeli embassies? Why are we still petrified in our homes and not out, flooding the streets demonstrating angrily?
What are we waiting for? For the Genocide to be completed?
Shame on us, shame on us shame on us.
#StopGazaGenocide #StopTheGenocide
Gripping read from @seldeeb on the post-earthquake fate of Antakya, a now-devastated city that was famed for thousands of years as a meeting place of civilizations and revered by Christians, Muslims and Jews
https://t.co/nfLQMJ5Tx0
But if you lost after the brutal and bloody fight your mythos is alive. The memory of the last battle will live through the ages. It will shape the mythological space your descendants live in and they'll attempt to restore independence at the first opportunity. End of thread
Theorists of war of the bygone age understood it. Clausewitz pointed out that it's important not only if you lost independence but *how* you lost it. If you submitted without a fight, you saved lives. But you killed your mythos. You'll be digested by the conqueror
Consider Venice. When Napoleon came they surrendered without a shot. Very smart, saved lives, saved the city. It's just killed the mythos of Venice. People lived but the Republic died. It was never restored and is unlikely to be restored again
And finally. The very fact of resistance against so much superior enemy very much empowers the Ukrainian mythology. It's enormous mythos building we are witnessing. The very phenomenon of war is inconceivable without taking into account mythological dimension
So. Power is mythological. Russian state security are gods within their own mythological space where they represent the god like state. But what they found that Ukrainians left this mythological space. Thus Russian state security has no power there. They are just mortals
They were not used to getting arrows in the face. The very realisation they are not demigods but mortals shocked them. They ran away dropping their armor, guns and cannons. Moscow was burnt to the ground despite having total "kinetic" and technological superiority
Within the Muscovite mythology Oprichniks were invincible untouchable demigods, as hands of Orthodox Tsar, who's kinda living God. But when facing foreign enemy they left this mythological space. And entered a new space where they are just people and can get arrow in the face
Money is a myth. It exists only because we believe so. Power is a myth. Nation is a myth. Institutions are purely mythological. Consider the story of the burning of Moscow in 1572. Ivan the Terrible divided his country to Zemschina (land) and Oprichnina (taken apart)
Even in case when Russia doesn't technically lose and some source of armistice/agreement is achieved, Ukraine already won. Why? Many describe this conflict as kinetic. Bullshit. Human conflicts or interactions are not kinetic. They are mythological and run by myths
So my prognosis is: if the fight continues and victory is not achieved Russian ability and willingness to fight will be disappearing quickly. Putin doesn't have a choice but many of his subordinates do
What Putin can do?
1. Start destroying infrastructure (done)
2. Blockade cities (done)
3. Simply level cities with bombers and artillery like in Chechnya or Syria (may be)
The first two would inflict humanitarian catastrophe and as he hopes break the will
It's not that Russian morale is low, it's rather that it depends on how hard the war is.Most Russian troops would be enthusiastic or wouldn't mind against a small foreign vacation with fun and adventures. Fighting a hard long war with real possibility of death is another matter