The paper deals with critical analysis of the discourse of power and warfare discourse on the example of the discussions of the reader of the Advance portal. The topic of discussions is the war in Syria. The paper shows that the left-right paradigm does not determine the essence of the ideological nature of the commentary, but it is determined by the dichotomy of proRussian propagation on the one hand, and transatlanticism on the other. In the introductory sections, an overview of the discourse of power and warfare discourse is brought, and a link was established between the war discourse and the Deleuze’s and Guattari’s war machine. In the second part, the discourse of power and warfare discourse are presented in its semantic aspects, and in content and expression of confrontation of the local and global, so the expressions of folk culture are considered (expressions such as idioms, proverbs and regionalisms). Various types of offensive expressions and slurs have been analyzed, also conceptual metaphor and metonymy on which war metaphors are grounded. Borrowing English words are studied in particular as paradigmatic examples of the global narrowing of the world. In all this, the expressions and cognitive grounding of the discourse of power are visible.