Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

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Even taken as just IO/Political Theatre this is impressive.  Yesterday, actually earlier today.  Even without translation from the Russian, the speech rhythms, the alliterations, the speaking informally, relaxed as can be, extempore, without notes, are recognizable as embodiments of rhetorical grandeur such as I do not remember here in USA since POTUS Kennedy.

Reagan and Trump had transcendent energy, but this guy Putin has grandeur. Grandeur occurs in the dimension of spirit, wherein power and meaning unite. This video participates in an embodiment of grandeur.  Note also, these are common citizens full of patriotic enthusiasm, not military formations full of themselves, as at the Nuremberg Rallies of yore. Political Theatre, yes, but human, not demonic, bright and celebratory, not dark and threatening. Patriotism is an outpouring of filial piety towards the Mother Country.

These people will not be humiliated or blackmailed by American nukes dropped on them, as is under consideration inside the interlocking family epicenters of emotional manipulation (The Junta) such as DoS (Nuland-Kagan), Atlantic Council (Lutes), ISW (Institute For The Study Of War, Kagan, Keane), CIA, NSC (National Security Council), CFR (Council on Foreign Relations, Kagans), Brookings Institution (Kagan), Project For The New American Century (Kagan), and AEI (American Enterprise Institute, Kagan).

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Americans do not understand Russians. Americans have never had to defend their homeland, their homes, their families, their towns, from a capable enemy. (Some might argue, not without merit, that Americans are having to do that just now, against arrays of capable internal enemies comprising persons and institutions Americans pay taxes to have work for them but who instead work against Americans, regarding them as scum.) The Junta Americans and Europeans suffer under protract conflict in Ukraine because, they calculate, this will cause Russians themselves to overthrow Vladimir Putin and that will enable The Junta to extirpate Russia as a nation altogether. Americans do not understand Russians, especially Russians today.

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Principle I

The United States have no interest in the domestic affairs of other countries and expect other countries to reciprocate by having no interest in our domestic affairs. The United States have interest in the lines of communication running between The United States and all other countries and expect all other countries to bear fairly the burden of keeping those lines open, safe, reliable, fair, and clean.

Principle II

The United States welcome alliance with our brother nations India and Russia for enforcement, from their perspective, of the ground of statecraft set forth in Principle I and urge Japan and Egypt to join us for that endeavor and commitment.

Principle III

An order to deploy which lacks or frustrates intent to compel a target to sign a declaration of unconditional surrender is an unlawful order by the Rules of Just War, the Conventions of War, Common Sense, and the Spirit of America. An order to deploy conveys this intent to the Commanding Officer: win this war / battle in a timely manner or do not come back alive.

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Sophia Loren