Russia about Ukraine in 2022: Ukraine is really just part of Russia.
Ukraine about Russia in 2026: Russia is really just Ukraine's drone testing range.
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Ukraine has, single-handedly, changed the way modern warfare is conducted. The days of large land wars, preceded by artillery and followed by tanks, is over. Those days were kinda over but Ukraine finished them off.
That would make one hell of a drone show. At least make a big "fuck Putin" sign with a million of them over Moscow before an attack.
I wonder if they are calling it the "drone deal" just to get under Trump's skin. After all, he views the world as a zero-sum game, and the US as competing with Europe. So, any deal thar Europe "gets" is one less deal for the US.
Ukraine's territorial integrity shouldn't be subject to "deals", but here we are.
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Welcome to the future.
Reminds me of this short from a while back. It didn't quite predict the focus on smaller, cheaper drones, but still pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMNIFZTQkg
This is also some good context about drones being the future of warfare, including in space. Star Wars having fighters duke it out with human pilots will almost certainly not be a thing:
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