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  You can't handle the truth "We needed a bad cop anyway, and there are always more good cops." For the past two decades, I’ve been watching the world wake up to the obvious. As Orwell said, nothing is so difficult as noticing the nose in front of your face. A few people, me among them, were seeing that the whole story of reality that we lived in was as false and narcissistic—at least!—as the Soviet Union’s narrative of itself. Yet none of us could accept the darkest aspect of that truth. We all had the idea that we could stand up and speak the truth and, if it was true enough, it would flash around the world like lightning. Nothing could prevail against the truth. The Father of Lies could not stand against the Lord of Hosts. That this fantasy itself was part of the lie—that truth has no army, that no angels will ride to our rescue—was too much. Perhaps if I had known it, I never would have said anything. This truth is only available to the most advanced atheists and the ...

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  Israel’s Tech Tactics and the Future of Total War The weaponization of surveillance, AI, and deepfakes in modern conflict. Alexander Dugin Since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza – almost immediately following the Hamas attack on Israel during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which triggered a chain reaction of subsequent events – we have witnessed Israel’s deployment of military technologies previously unseen in action. These technologies played a decisive role in securing Israeli success in several military and political operations. They involved the use of communication devices, computers, mobile phones, and even pagers to inflict sensitive, even critical, losses on the enemy. This tactic was tightly interwoven with missile strikes and combat drones. Moreover, it is now clear that Israel actively employed deepfake technology. Together, these factors have fundamentally transformed the nature of modern warfare. Israel’s adversaries in the Middle East were utterly...