Schmitt: "The enemy in the political sense need not be hated personally, and in the private sphere only does it make sense to love one's enemy, i.e., one's adversary."

The liberal world order won so thoroughly that every act of tyranny must be rationalized from the defensive standpoint of victims and underdogs. Strength may no longer joy in itself.

Hegel casually pioneering a frontier thesis in 1829.

We’re going through a Sinocurious phase.

Kojève: "The historical process which replaced feudal entities with national States [. . .] can be explained by economic causes, which manifest politically in and through the requirements of military technology."

Virilio: "History progresses at the speed of its weapons systems."

Eschatological times. Soon, esoteric militias will emerge.

Chamayou: "The kamikaze: My body is a weapon.”
The drone: “My weapon has no body."

We invaded your state for the love of the game.

Thinking about the elderly Sikh gentleman in this photograph of British veterans of the American Civil War (London, August 1917).

We have invaded your country to provide allyship and do the work and decenter ourselves.

The last defender of Anglo-liberal civility.

At the end of history, war, grown weary of its telluric-thalassic orientation, takes entirely to the heavens.

Schmitt: "With air bombardment, the lack of relation between military personnel in the air and the earth below, as well as with inhabitants thereon, is absolute. Not even the shadow of the relation between protection and obedience remains."

At the end of history, martyrdom does not exist, but Shahed drones do.