Quote of the Day

Fyodor Lukyanov writing in The Moscow Times about ISIS and Ukraine. Hat tip to RealClearWorld for the link.

A medieval spirit reigns, with its internecine wars and in which the only great strategy, if one exists at all, is to indulge the passion for blood. This desire to repay the enemy a hundredfold — even if he is yesterday's neighbor or friend — is often mixed with religious fanaticism or blind nationalism.

Lukyanov sees what is happening worldwide as a replay of the Thirty Years War, in that he agrees with Daniel P. Goldman, who channels Spengler.