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All-out drone war in Ukraine points to future

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That the reporter still claims Iran provided Russia with weaponized drones is laughable.

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"Because these are basically expendable with a very short shelf life, they have to be provided to the forces in very large quantities," he said.

With 3D fabrication and machine learning the danger of drone WMD is very real.

https://www.businessinsider.com/slaughterbots-short-film-depicts-killer-drone-swarms-2017-11

Produced by leading AI expert Stuart Russell

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Drones are so 2022, wake me when the autonomous robot dogs have Miniguns on their backs.

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Now is the time for the Russians to hit NATO hard! Send the nasty fascists back to the netherworld from whence they came!

Get back to us in 6 months, see how things actually pan out. After all Ukrainian was going to fall within eight weeks? Now 100,000 dead Russians, 300,000 forced conscripts, Army gutted, tank force more than decimated. And they have yet to encounter NATO forces. Get back to us in 6 months.

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Get back to us in 6 months, see how things actually pan out. After all Ukrainian was going to fall within eight weeks? Now 100,000 dead Russians, 300,000 forced conscripts, Army gutted, tank force more than decimated. And they have yet to encounter NATO forces. Get back to us in 6 months.

The projection is never ceasing. Shows how divorced from reality the *+@#$ are. Just a few days in the "big meeting" between the unelected leaders of the EU and NATO, they started raving about how evil Putin is because he is apparently trying to recreate the Russian Empire. Then in the next sentence, without blushing one bit, started talking about NATO and EU expansion into Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Kosovo and setting up NATO subsidiaries in Asia.

Very sick people utterly divorced from reality. This is all very obvious but why can't people like you understand it? Do you think it benefits you?

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Not about me, it’s about the people bombed out of their homes. Without heating, life totally destroyed. Because Putin wants a legacy? I hardly think they were Nazies as the elderly know full well what that means. Bet they never saw their Slavic brothers were going to behave the same way.

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Ummm, NATO cannot expand unless more countries want to join it... On the other hand, Russia invades countries that don't want to join it.

Why do you think more countries would want to join NATO?

The projection is never ceasing. Shows how divorced from reality the *+@#$ are. Just a few days in the "big meeting" between the unelected leaders of the EU and NATO, they started raving about how evil Putin is because he is apparently trying to recreate the Russian Empire. Then in the next sentence, without blushing one bit, started talking about NATO and EU expansion into Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Kosovo and setting up NATO subsidiaries in Asia.

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NATO cannot expand unless more countries want to join it...

If you mean, NATO cannot expand if democratically elected governments via the majority of the population don't want it, I hope you are just trolling. Because if not, it suggests something very bad about your mental state. Ukraine itself being a good example.

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Oh ok, it's a conspiracy. Must not be a very good one considering how hard it is to join NATO then.

If you mean, NATO cannot expand if democratically elected governments via the majority of the population don't want it, I hope you are just trolling. Because if not, it suggests something very bad about your mental state. Ukraine itself being a good example.

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Loose slips sink ship!!! Drone killers skybots Kill zones sniff and destroy!

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This proxy war is paid for by American and British tax payers.

BlackRock just made a deal to "rebuild" Ukraine after the war FFS.

Disney Wars.

Go back to Instagram people it's much more relavant. Coffee and cake!

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Then in the next sentence, without blushing one bit, started talking about NATO and EU expansion into Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Kosovo and setting up NATO subsidiaries in Asia.

You can thank Putin for the NATO expansion. How can a neighboring country stand by and not join NATO when they say the barbarism that the Russian leadership is willing to inflict on it's own people to achieve it's goals. 100,000 is nothing for Putin, he would gladly sacrifice 10 times that to make his Empirical dreams come true. I feel sorry for the young men on both sides fighting for old men's glory,

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If Putin hadn't tried to expand his territory towards NATO borders, this whole debacle wouldn't have happened. Putin decided to provoke NATO by trying to expand its territory towards NATO, and is now angry that NATO has responded accordingly. War-hungry Putin is 100% responsible for all of this, and sadly the Russian people will be living in a N. Korea-like state for the next few decades as a result.

They should really rise up in another Russian Revolution. Take out the Kremlin, for the better of humanity.

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StrangerlandToday  01:33 am JST

If Putin hadn't tried to expand his territory towards NATO borders, this whole debacle wouldn't have happened. 

If NATO hadn't tried to expand its territory this wouldn't have happened.

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I guess this means the armed forces can work from home.

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If NATO hadn't tried to expand its territory this wouldn't have happened.

lol I thought this "special operation" was to get rid of rightwing extremists in Ukraine. No, you're wrong here though, this wouldn't have happened if Russia hadn't chosen to invade. The reason Russia's neighbors want to be part of NATO is so they don't get invaded, so they can actually be independent of Russia.

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If NATO hadn't tried to expand its territory this wouldn't have happened.

NATO's territory hasn't changed, Russia's has. NATO is not in any countries now that they weren't in a year ago, Russia is.

See how this is all Russia's fault?

Try keeping up, mmkay?

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With drones taking over the role of 'close order air support' for ground troops, missiles and drones taking over the role of bombers and air defense, the nice new (flaw and bug ridden) F35 are the horse cavalry of WW1, a shiny pretty thing to impress the civilians back home, but not much use on the front lines.

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Cards fanToday  03:39 am JST

lol Where were they expanding? Certainly not in Ukraine, but Sweden and Finland certainly now are. Brilliant move by the Russian government. 

lol Worked out well for Ukraine huh?

Oh yes, Biden kept provoking Ukraine, which is precisely why they've been funding separatists in eastern Ukraine since 2014. Also precisely why they annexed Crimea. Nonsense. 

Yeah.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/us/politics/biden-putin-strategy.html

And you do?

Yes, which is why you are replying to my comments.

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lol Worked out well for Ukraine huh?

It's not their fault Russia chose to invade Ukraine.

Yeah.

Nonsense. This is nothing more than a meager attempt at justifying Russia invading Ukraine.

Yes, which is why you are replying to my comments.

lol No. That's a non sequitur.

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Some people are ignoring that NATO was backing Zelensky's war on eastern Ukrainians in violation of international law (UNSC resolution 2202) before Russia intervened in the Ukrainian civil war, which certainly sounds like NATO trying to expand right up to Russia's border.

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Welcome to the age of cyberwar. Wars fought with computers and robots

The laws of war still require a human to make the decision to employ a weapon. In the case of the US that means a decision by a commissioned officer and a legal team, both of whom are viewing a live feed from the UASs sensors.

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Some people are ignoring that NATO was backing Zelensky's war on eastern Ukrainians in violation of international law (UNSC resolution 2202) before Russia intervened in the Ukrainian civil war, which certainly sounds like NATO trying to expand right up to Russia's border.

Zelensky's war on eastern Ukrainians? lol You mean Russian backed separatists? You know what would stop that from happening? If Russia stopped arming separatists there. Even if one were to accept your premise that Zelensky is at fault for attacking the separatists, that hardly justifies Russia then annexing Ukrainian lands. I don't think anyone is fooled by this sophistry.

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Some people are ignoring that NATO was backing Zelensky's war on eastern Ukrainians in violation of international law (UNSC resolution 2202) before Russia intervened in the Ukrainian civil war, which certainly sounds like NATO trying to expand right up to Russia's border.

I'm not saying you're part of the Kremlin's propaganda team, but I will point out that you are posting the same propaganda as the Kremlin's propaganda team.

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