China want the chip fab in Taiwan. Move it to Texas.
I would also tend to agree with the speculation. A large enough drone swarm is pretty hard to stop, if not impossible.
Unfortunately this will just educate China to not export drone tech and to militarize it more for themselves. Missiles are missiles but 10K drones coming at you... when they are AI coordinated... Not good.
I am by no means a hippie peacenik but the fact that we have these actual or potential armed conflicts in our world at this point in time seems pretty embarrassing if in fact we are “progressing” towards something better. And yet almost no money is spent on things that seem far more urgent, like the water supply, real public health as opposed to the imaginary hocus pocus of mandates, and border security.
The “special operation” in Ukraine is about the equivalent of some idiot deciding to take a crap in front of his own house for the whole town to see. Taking Taiwan (which I don’t think is ever actually going to happen) would just wreck the place and accomplish nothing for anybody. Then you have all the pointless agitation throughout the Muddled East.
When most middle class people live roughly the same way in all these different lands, or at least they aspire to do so, and it seems absolutely pointless to be trying to change ideological masters when the end result will be more or less the same anyway. So it is all done to benefit the ruling master class, or professional idiots as they are showing themselves to be. This is why they hate Trump, all he wanted to do was restore decent and honorable government like maybe we once had back in the day (or maybe not, argument for a different time and place). Restore it or create it for the first time, works for most of us. But it is so ray-cist to want to live undisturbed and pursue liberty and (globalist false gods forbid) happiness.
Drone swarms could be subject to non-nuclear EMP weapons.
Would be pretty slick to see ten thousand networked drones
drop into the drink, all at once.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=non+nuclear+emp+process&t=h_&ia=web
China's "toy" drones from DJI and others are not the threat. The US is by far the leader in military drone technology and it's not remotely close. Even in Ukraine, it's their domestically produced R18 octocopter drones and the Turkish Bayraktar that is killing Russian armor, not Chinese consumer level drones. Against an aircraft carrier, or any warship at sea, cheap consumer drones are not going to be effective. Military drones will. Anti-ship missiles and torpedoes are still the primary threat to ships.