Also sprach Zarathustra
"MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia has "no need" to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, its defence minister said on Tuesday, describing media speculation that Moscow might deploy nuclear or chemical weapons in the conflict as "absolute lies"."
"From a military point of view, there is no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine to achieve the set goals. The main purpose of Russian nuclear weapons is to deter a nuclear attack," Sergei Shoigu said during a speech at an international security conference in Moscow.
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_______________________________________________________Nietzsche
Born in Röcken in 1844 as the son of a Lutheran pastor, after the early death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche grew up in the so-called “Naumburg women’s household” with his mother, sister, grandmother, two unmarried aunts and a maid. After graduating from high school, he studied philology first in Bonn and then in Leipzig. In 1868, as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian artillery, he was unable to work due to a serious riding accident and in 1869 received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Basel. He frequents Richard Wagner's house in Tribschen, whom he initially admires and later radically rejects. He feels the same about Arthur Schopenhauer, whose philosophy fascinates him at first, but then fundamentally breaks with him. He retires at the age of 35 in poor health, lives as a freelance author in Sils-Maria and spends the winter months in Italy. He falls in love with the young Louise von Salomé, who, however, rejects his marriage proposal. Plagued by ever-increasing episodes of illness, he retreats further and further into extensive isolation. After the first signs of incipient megalomania, he suffered a mental collapse in January 1889 - probably as a result of syphilis - and was committed to an insane asylum. First the mother, and later the sister, takes care of the mentally deranged man. On August 25, 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche, an extremely idiosyncratic thinker and multifaceted author and an outstanding aphorist, died. The now world-famous philosopher no longer noticed the interest in his work that began in 1890.
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