War
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Beyond the Finish Line
In yesterday’s blog, I wrote that there is no finish line. But perhaps that isn’t entirely true. There is a finish line. It is the ultimate truth—death—a certainty that awaits every living being. Yet, the real question is: what do we do before we reach that line? How do we make our lives echo beyond Continue reading
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The Last Dawn
(a fiction story) The old man sat by the frozen cliffs of Antarctica, staring at the endless horizon. Twenty years had passed since the Great War, though no one really counted time anymore. Time had died with the cities, the skyscrapers, the stock exchanges, and the buzzing clocks that once ruled men’s lives. Beside him Continue reading
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Shadows Beneath the Shine
We live in an age of dazzling technology. Satellites beam information across the globe in seconds, medical machines peer inside the human body with astonishing precision, and almost anyone can speak face-to-face with someone thousands of miles away with a simple tap on a screen. If judged only by our inventions, the present seems like Continue reading
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From Waterloo to Cyber Shadows: The Transformation of Warfare
On 18 June 1815, the fields of Waterloo became the stage for one of history’s most iconic open battles. Two armies — Napoleon’s French and Wellington’s Anglo-Allied — stood in ordered lines across rolling farmland, waiting for the clash. Muskets, cannons, and cavalry charges decided the fate of empires. It was war in its most Continue reading
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The Last Thunder of Hooves: Izbushensky, 1942
On a summer morning in August 1942, the wide steppes of the Don lay still under a red dawn. Horses snorted and pawed the earth, their riders waiting in silence. Across the fields, a Soviet regiment had dug in — 2,500 men, rifles, mortars, and machine guns. Facing them were 700 horsemen of the Italian Continue reading
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Meaning of Being Human
Human beings often claim themselves to be the most intelligent creatures on Earth. Some, driven by ego, go a step further, assuming we are the only intelligent life form in the entire universe—without truly comprehending how vast or limitless the universe really is. With this presumed intelligence comes a dangerous arrogance, one that places us Continue reading
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Invented: New Warfare
We often imagine war through the lens of history: tanks rumbling, bullets flying, soldiers dying. But what if the deadliest wars of our time are being fought not on battlefields, but in boardrooms and bank networks—without a single bullet fired or a single drop of blood spilled? Welcome to the age of financial warfare, the Continue reading
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The Real World: A Mirror We Refuse to Look Into
We live in an age where the world claims to be more connected, more advanced, and more prosperous than ever before. But is that really true? Strip away the glitter of social media, the facade of technological progress, the engineered feel-good narratives of advertising and media—what do we find? A world that is still broken. Continue reading
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