That is why he is quietly building an air force of drone aircraft. It is just a step away from arming them.
They can't have a war unless red states provide their arms. And we built any arms they have.
Even 10,000 drone aircraft won't do much against a country as large as ours, and a population as dispersed.
Logistics, logistics, logistics.
/johnny
“That is why he is quietly building an air force of drone aircraft. It is just a step away from arming them.”
History shows us examples of what happens. Asymetric warfare begins. A hellfire blows up some opponents of a totalitarian regime. Little can be done about that.
A sultry woman in a Las Vegas bar is cuddled up wih an Airman from Nellis. After several drinks, he brags about his job as a drone operator. He is pointing out that he was fully trained as a regular pilot.
Two days later, on his way home, he is pumping gas into his car. He is shot dead in what appears to be a carjacking. Nobody knows he was drinking with that woman a few days ago. Nobody knows that she lost her politically active father in an ATF drone attack, and so with her brother, she hatched a revenge plot. They are part of no organization or movement. They never talk about it to anyone. Their arsenal is a Glock 19, two boxes of hollowpoints, -and- her smoking hot 22 year body, the kind men can’t resist.
The owner of a drone manufacturing concern gets an envelope delivered. It has photos of his daughter walking into a school. Crosshairs are drawn over the photo. He demands and gets labor intensive protection that the government cannot really provide in the strained environment. His office window is 25 feet from a major public street, he see’s cars drive by all day. Anyone could be a bomb. When they founded the business, the wars were over in central Asia and they were just an aviation supplier.
The air base commander looks at his wife. He met her years ago while training in Texas. She just told him they should go visit her parents at Christmas this year. He remembers that house of theirs, out on that small remote 400 acre patch they have. He goes to the ranch. He is never seen again. The wife stays with her parents, and files a police report that he is “missing”. Nobody ever knows that just before the trip, she was sickened by seeing Americans killing Americans. She knows the base is heavily into drone work. And she just found out her Officer husband was pulling a “Petraeus”.
Think this is farfetched? I direct you to every insurgency on earth. I direct you to Mexico, today, this saturday evening.