Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.
I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
#Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.
Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.
#Prighozhin #moscow #lukashenko #wagner #belarus #varangian #putin #byzantine #belisarius #Justinian #kings #emperors #modern #war #ukraine
How #Jesus STOLE his Identity from #Roman #Emperors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZfjdd5ze3M
#gospels #bible #christianity #myths #legend #NT #apologetics #history
#jesus #roman #emperors #gospels #bible #christianity #myths #legend #nt #apologetics #history
#Putinism is followed by #corrupt leaders everywhere.
#Netanyahu #Israel #corruption
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/23/israel-ratifies-law-stipulating-conditions-for-a-netanyahu-ouster
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65048602
In medieval times we had #kings #emperors #counts #dukes
Now #politicians behave like #dictators #dictatorships versus #democracy #Letztegeneration #UN #humanrights #Myanmar #Russia #Belarus #Ukraine
#putinism #corrupt #netanyahu #israel #corruption #modi #India #china #xijinping #dictator #Kings #emperors #counts #dukes #politicians #dictators #dictatorships #democracy #LetzteGeneration #un #HumanRights #myanmar #russia #belarus #Ukraine
#Vss365 (gardener's version)
Cantwell said #Gardeners #Dream bigger dreams than #Emperors & that is #True. There's a lot of #Ego in #Gardens.
I once went to a #Fairy #Garden #Workshop w/ a friend who is a therapist.
We saw a garden w/a fairy in the middle of a stream. I moved the fairy to the riverbank. My friend laughed.
"That fairy is a self-object. The #Gardener that put her there can't make a decision. Until then, she'll put the fairy back in the #River.
#Gardens are the gardener.
#vss365 #gardeners #dream #emperors #true #ego #gardens #fairy #garden #workshop #gardener #river
Went to #Arashiyama #嵐山 in #Kyoto at the peak season of changing leaves #紅葉 in fair weather on November 19, 2022. The crowds of tourists to #Japan are back, although not like 2019 yet. I got there by midday and quickly headed for the famous bridge #渡月橋 and bamboo forest, then two #Japanese #Buddhist #temples, Jojakkoji 常寂光寺 (better for #temple buildings blended with foliage like in these photos) and Nison-In #二尊院 (better for beautiful #trees and stone monuments to #Emperors and aristocrats).
Our house is near Kyoto, so I do photo shoots like this often. On Facebook as @waoesteve I show and explain much more.
@japodon
#emperors #trees #二尊院 #temple #temples #buddhist #japanese #渡月橋 #japan #紅葉 #kyoto #嵐山 #arashiyama
IIRC, this was a lesson from my 6th grade history class.
Though we learned of a lot of kings and emperors, for some reason, this popped up inordinately often in conversations I had with my mom because this king wasn't as popular as the ones from the Mughal empire.
Musk's handling of Twitter, and especially the disaster with the $8 blue checks reminded me of this story.
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#history #politics #twitter #musk #india #kings #emperors #economics #currency #bluetick
#BlueTick #currency #economics #emperors #kings #india #musk #twitter #politics #history