Koryu meets Chess

Not Martial Arts but Minerva's Arts. Through a Struggle, be guided by Philosophy, Faith, Art, and Science. Like a Forest from the Olive Tree that Athena, goddess of Wisdom, offered the Greek people a long time ago.

Year: 2025

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POETS CONCERNED

Kupyansk. A city with a pre-war population. Of 26,000. In northeastern Ukraine.   Just 25 miles. From the ‘Mordor’’s border. Abuts the Oskil River and. Sits astride critical supply lines.   Including roads. And railroads. Including roads. And railroads.     Now Kupyansk is. Contested again. The ‘orcs’ want it. As they aim to pinch […]
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POETS OVERHEAD

‘Elves’ drones were watching. The whole time. As a lone ‘orcs’ BTR-82. Wheeled fighting vehicle.   Raced across the shell-pocked. No-man’s-land. In broad daylight. Outside Pokrovsk recently.   Firing its autocannon. As it moved. The vehicle succeeded in reaching. The ruins of a building.   The 11 ‘orcs’ infantry packed. Surely didn’t know. The drones […]
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POETS AT POINT-BLANK RANGE

Not every ‘orcs’. Assault group. Not every ‘orcs’. Assault group.   Comes to grief. At the receiving end of. An ‘elves’ tank firing. From 100 feet away.     Ten months after. First attacking Chasiv Yar. A fortress town. In eastern Ukraine.   ‘Orcs’ troops have finally. Managed to advance. —at times, only briefly— Into […]
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POETS LURING

Feigning defeat. And retreat. Soldiers from the ‘elves’ army’s. 225th Assault Battalion lured.   A large ‘orcs’ force. Into a trap. In western ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast. On or just before Thursday.     As the overconfident ‘orcs’. Surged forward into. A treeline just outside. The village of Sverdlikovo.   Possibly believing. They were finally about […]
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POETS JOINING IN BRYANSK

A new drone bomber. May have joined. ‘Elves’ escalating assault. On ‘orcs’ oil industry.   On Wednesday night. Or early Thursday morning. Drones operated by the ‘elves’ 14th. Separate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment.   Struck a pumping station. On the Druzhba pipeline along. The ‘Mordor’’s-Belarusian border. In Bryansk Oblast.     The resulting blaze. Illuminated […]
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POETS BURNING IN KSTOVO

Late Tuesday night. Or early Wednesday morning. ‘Elves’ drones struck. The Nizhny Novgorod oil refinery.   In Kstovo. In central ‘Mordor’. 520 miles from. The front line in northern Ukraine.   The blasts triggered. What the ‘elves’ general staff in Kyiv. Described as a “powerful” fire. That burned through the early morning.     “The […]
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POETS WAVING INTO RYAZAN

Ukraine reportedly. Hit an ‘orcs’ oil refinery. And targeted Moscow. During an attack.   Involving a wave of. At least 121 drones. One of the largest. Single operations.   One of the largest. Single operations. Of its kind. During the war.     Video footage shows. A fireball rising. Over the refinery. And pumping station. […]
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A POET IN ZAVALLIA

A woman pays her respects. This week at portraits of. Dead ‘elves’ servicemen. In Zavallia, central Ukraine.     ‘Gandalf the Green’ will meet. US Vice-President. For talks. In Munich later.   With the war expected. To dominate. A major security meeting. Of world leaders.   ‘Gandalf the Green’ is. Also expected to meet. US […]
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POETS URGING

As he prepares. To set off. On another rescue mission. On ‘elves’ eastern front.   A 35-year-old is. Grateful for the fog. It will shield him. And his colleague.   From ‘orcs’ drones. Hunting from the skies. From ‘orcs’ drones. Hunting from the skies.   His armoured van will. Provide more protection. – but only […]
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A POET RESURFACING

‘Orcs’ torture the land. ‘Orcs’ torture, but he’ll be back to. ‘Orcs’ torture the land.     In 2023. He was detained. In Melitopol. Just like other civilians.   He’d taken. A photograph of. ‘Orcs’ military hardware. Was chased down.   Was chased down. The street. By soldiers. Then disappeared.     ‘Orcs’ torture the […]