The ninth was Western which he called Roman-Germanic. As each civilization matured and decayed it would be replaced by a new one. A great war would mark the replacement of the decaying Western Civilization which was founded on violence and individualism by the tenth civilization, a panslavic one with Russian Orthodoxy and Russia at its center. Dostoyevsky in April of 1876 welcomed the approach of war with the Turks as fulfilling Russia's destiny. War develops in him love for his fellow men and brings nations together by teaching them esteem for each other.
War rejuvenates men.
It raises the spirit of the people and the recognition of their own worth. The Russians inadvertently set the stage for the outbreak of World War I by buying Austrian neutrality when they attacked Turkey. The Russians won the Turkish war, but many Russians lost their lives for minimal gains. War will clear the air which we breathe, the air in which we stifle in helpless rottenness and spiritual narrowness. We need war and victories.