Posted on 10/11/2024 6:50:13 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Forget the latest whiz bang fighter aircraft, they will be relegated to the rear of the battlefield/airspace. The nations which can mass produce and deploy the largest drone swarms while fending off attacks on its means of production, will be the victors.
Nothing short of Jesus returning or a nuclear war will halt the advance of this form of warfare (and after the wars, control of civilian populations).
The war will end—all wars end—even the 100 years war ended. By the way do you recall who won the 100 years war? I think Ukraine is about done. They have shot their best chances in some stupid attacks that just killed lots of their own men. The war will be settled over a peace table and Trump will make sure of that. Silly people want this to be the game changer WW III but wiser heads will win out—reason over emotion. A more dangerous tinderbox is Israel vs Iran—that could spill into WW III with little effort.
Hmmm, this reminds of one of Matthew Bracken books. I think it was last "Enemies" book, "Foreign Enemies And Traitors". As I recall, our government had "No mans lands" and they use drones to kill anyone who was found there.. (?)
Thak you for your insight. It will end with more lives lost on both sides and enormous treasure wasted for nothing worthwhile. If Ukraine is rebuilt, what’s left of it that is, it won’t be by Trump’s USA. Maybe the Europeans will tax their people to send it to Ukraine to rebuild.
It’s not “the” Ukraine.............
The Ukraine is an historic region, Ukraine is an artificially created state.
The answer to all your questions:
Start at Genesis 1:1 and read to Revelation 22:21.. :)
All states are artificially created.
In mid-July Russia began production of 4000 drones a day... and now they are fully integrated into units across the front. Everywhere used to be Ukrainian drone footage, but now the Russian’s has far surpassed Ukraine in it’s heyday. While Blinken *idiot and j/Snake Sullivan were busy in May and June bashing China over drone part exports, in July on the same day the Russia drone factory shipped their first productions, exports to Ukraine were hated to comply with US demands China stop the exports. China has a sense of humor, and today’s diplomatic corps is shell of its former self, lacking high IQ of yester-years as our failed education system no longer produces a quality human product.
Poor Ukrainian civilians are having their vehicles stolen by the Ukrainian military and soldiers are dressing as civilians to escape encriclements. There are dozens of drone strike videos of guys fleeing cities in civilian vehicles and the Ukrainian soldiers changing into uniforms as they ditch their commandeered transportion. Not to worry though, Russian drones still hit those Biden bastards.
Kinda like The Netherlands, which is neither here and nidder there;) The Dutch used to hate when I said that to them for four years.
NATO’s shock and awe-”shit” was started by Bill Clinton in the early 90s in THE former Yugoslavia, NATO bombed all the electric grids, bridges, railways, and water purtification plants. Nothing like knocking the white folk back into the stone age so the DNC could usher in the ear of Muslim Illegal Immigration into the West. The book Baklin Ghosts was an excellent historic read on 400 years of strife between the peoples there.
The US is very efficient in turning our enemies homelands into stoneage accommodations prior to our boots on the ground.
Russia has not resorted to the NATO-Blitz but they have used a more refinned chocking technique to cause pain for Uk-pain-e, and US-pain-e and NAZI-Ukraine pain.
Regardless of its conception it is inappropriate to call it “the” Ukraine. It’s also irritating to read. Perhaps Purin will conquer it and reincorporate it into Russia proper. Until then please refer to it correctly.
It is no more improper to call it the Ukraine than it is to call our country the United States. Get a life.
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“There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.”.
Collateral damage is one thing, that is a sad fact of war. But deliberately targeting civilians specifically in order to make them casualties is evil, and nullifies any moral case for fighting the war.
The conclusion drawn from your statement is that we ended up having no moral case (or abdicated it) for fighting WWII then, because we did deliberately target civilians. There’s no ifs/ands/or buts about it.
Civilians support or tolerate their leadership. They provide a tax base, labor, and material support for their leadership. To argue that they don’t have “skin in the game” in a conflict is absurd. You can effortlessly find video of civilian populations cheering their leadership/side on in war, digging out and soldiering on after being bombed, industrial equipment in their burned out homes, etc...
The only reason the deference to civilians attitude finds purchase here is due to us being isolated from any other tier 1 power and our being the penultimate badasses on this planet. If/when we are engaged in a conflict with a tier 1 power that threatens the territorial integrity or existence of the U.S. you can take to the bank that we are going to attempt to kill members of the opposing forces people by any means available until they stop, are defeated, or God forbid defeat us...
I love that line;)
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