He was later disciplined and removed from parliamentary sessions for this. While the penalty was announced he threw a pathetic tantrum:
“Adept” and “advanced” may not be the best descriptors, but it is fair to say that drones have proved to be decisive for both sides in this war. It’s the common denominator in all of General Zaluzhny’s reasons for the current stalemate: drones adjust artillery aim which makes shelling more effective and harder to respond to; drones detect all attempts to cross mine fields and stop them with artillery; air superiority is now a hazy concept because we’re talking about swarms of drones operated by both sides; jamming or hijacking enemy drones is made more difficult by the fact that your side also uses drones with the same off-the-shelf components.
Perhaps the availability of cheap, mass-produced drones will end up reshaping battlefields much like the availability of cheap, mass-produced firearms did back in the day, and we’ve barely started to figure this out. The idea of maneuvering out in the open where enemy drones can see and target you may become as weird as the idea of tight formations of soldiers in brightly colored uniforms exchanging musket fire.
Ukraine war: Putin tells Russia his war objectives are unchanged
Just in case anyone thought there could be a lasting peace in Ukraine without a) breaking the Russian military and pushing them out of Ukraine, or b) Putin dying or losing power (same thing, really, because he’s probably not going to survive long if he’s ousted).
Please, everyone - contact your political representatives, and tell them that we must keep supporting Ukraine.
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Putin’s ability to convey sincerity when addressing the daily issues of ordinary Russians has waned over his more than two decades in power, Rostislav Murzagulov, a former associate of Radiy Khabirov, the head of Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan, told The Moscow Times.
“Under Putin, a lot of things in Russia have turned into simulacra, just as [Jean] Baudrillard described it,” said Murzagulov, who is now in exile, referring to the French philosopher whose work explored the boundaries between reality and simulation.
“We saw one of them today.”
