Terminator theme is A+
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I don’t know how anyone can look at stuff like this and stuff like Palantir and think that people will be able to rise up against the elite ever again.
People are innovative and there are more of us.
Hope I’m wrong, I just think modern tech is gonna level the playing field in terms of innovation and power scaling. Drones with machine guns and autonomous AI target identification are a very different challenge than human soldiers with machine guns.
I guess. Still technology changes but the fight remains the same. People versus assholes.
Might need them for their own defense?
There inlies the problem. US should be able to build them cheaper when they use non-immigrant labour (lol)
erm, did not transpire
‘US presi donny needs to fleece the war torn country, 50:50 with his russian paymasters
We are going in circles. The remaining Dutch patriot systems are currently in Poland at the Ukraine border defending Polish airspace. All Nato/EU/whatever needs to do is allow them to engage Russian missiles targetting civilians. And of course other EU countries with air defence systems can do the same. It would protect most of the west of Ukraine. The EU have the systems and the capability but chose not to which is why that is my biggest frustration.
Shahed deploying an FPV.
Only half way through, but really good article on intelligence prior to the war:
It is the story of a spectacular intelligence success, but also one of several intelligence failures. First, for the CIA and MI6, who got the invasion scenario right but failed to accurately predict the outcome, assuming a swift Russian takeover was a foregone conclusion. More profoundly, for European services, who refused to believe a full-scale war in Europe was possible in the 21st century. They remembered the dubious intelligence case presented to justify the invasion of Iraq two decades previously, and were wary of trusting the Americans on what seemed like a fantastical prediction.
Depressing to think about how much damage is being done by Trump right now, even if America somehow recovers.
This is Poland, EU shooting down Rusiian missles from Poland / Eu i.e. esculation - be like Canada shooting down US missles in the Caribbean / South America / Gulf of Mexico - not a good look
This works, seems to solve the issue..
The latest item on his list is permission to manufacture American weapons under licence, including Patriot air defence missiles.
“Today the issue is air defence. This is the most difficult problem. Unfortunately, our partners still do not grant licenses for us to produce systems ourselves, for example, Patriot systems, or even missiles for the systems we already have. So far, we have not achieved success in this.”
Why won’t they do that?
“I don’t know. I have no answer.”
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This might have been Ukraine’s most successful week with hitting medium or long range targets.
Confirmed Flamingo hit:
there’s also another pic of a destroyed bunker which was probably a Flamingo.
Belgorod today without power, and launching a huge amount of AD. Also it seems like they are using anti-ballistic against GMLRS.
They also hit a ship, an airfield, and several S-300s.
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Oh you really can’t come up with an answer to that riddle eh?
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Four years to the ~minute. Asshole has killed or injured hundreds of thousands to satisfy his insane craving for power.
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~2 million
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By the end of 2025, drones were responsible for more than 80% of all enemy targets destroyed, with 819,737 video-confirmed hits logged that year.
Twelve drone operators with enough airframes can now do the work of dozens of infantry — a ratio that inverts the traditional calculus of ground combat.
The 28th Brigade’s newly formed Unmanned Systems Battalion “Flash” is Ukraine’s first international UAV unit — a foreign-heavy drone force where English fluency, not combat experience, is the entry requirement.
Interesting story concerning the war in Ukraine and imminent rise of machines/destruction of humanity.
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https://x.com/theACentauri/status/2026289158289760673
Russian strikes on Kyiv captured from space. YouTube channel AstronautiCAST published a time-lapse filmed from the International Space Station during the night of December 26-27. The compilation of footage from the ISS camera shows the flight of ballistic missiles and the operation of air defense in the capital and region. Visible are both missile interceptions and hits in Kyiv and near the Trypilska TPP. That night, the enemy attacked Ukraine with ten ballistic missiles (Iskander-M/“Kinzhal”) and thirty cruise missiles — Kh-101, Iskander-K, Kh-22.
https://x.com/nickschifrin/status/2026346106557280381
https://www.ft.com/content/281c145c-30da-4df9-97bf-efafc9b6bf6b
Demarche? So like a demerit?
Yeah, probably meaningless, but still frustrating how dumb these people are.
The Trump administration has formally warned Ukraine not to strike targets within Russia that could hit US economic interests, according to Kyiv’s ambassador to Washington
[…]
Ukrainian officials have privately expressed frustration over the Trump administration’s relative silence about Russian attacks on US businesses in Ukraine.
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Horizon Zero Dawn was prophetic.