Those already exist. But there isn’t a machine yet that can replace infantry, which is why some of scariest technologies coming up are the smart fire control systems on infantry rifles.

Soldiers identify the targets they want to hit, get their rifle in position, aim, but the gun fires itself when it’s calculated it’s best chance of hitting the target.

They will be tried in Ukrainian courts I imagine.

I can’t envision the Hague actually prosecuting, convicting, and jailing, any Russians. Just as I can’t see them doing that to Americans.

I could be wrong, Russia’s position has certainly weakened enough for it to be possible, but until that dam is broken, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Ukraine on the other hand, that’s an entirely different story. They’ve already been prosecuting war criminals in their own courts. Which is problematic in its own right, but if the Hague isn’t a viable possibility yet, what other options do they have?

Are these used to extend the range of munition carrying/suicide FPV drones?

What’s their flight time with those repeater/antenna payloads?

Do they have plentiful stocks of ATCMS now? Or was that a highly specialized ($$$) group of soldiers training?

Maybe it’s the grainy video, but it looks like dirt mounds, portable trailers, some light vehicles, and maybe 10-20 soldiers?

That’s hilarious that you’re pretending you didn’t just spend the last 10 minutes Googling that shit.

Because if you did know all that, as you claim, you wouldn’t be conflating Hezbollah with a terrorist group.

So which is it? Do you have a basic grasp of the facts?

Or do you believe they are a radical Islamic terrorist organization, just like Al-Qaeda and ISIS?

What sources?

Do I have to cite the Bill of Rights every time I mention the second amendment?

Water is wet, the Earth is round, and Hezbollah was formed in response to Israel’s invasions of Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

More accurately, it was a consolidation of various militant Shia factions and groups.

In case you’re unaware, modern Islamic terrorism is almost exclusively a Sunni phenomenon, or more accurately, more fundamental offshoots and subsets of Sunni Islam e.g. Wahhabism.

But sure, that’s just my recollection of past readings and I’m not going to go find the books I read to provide a bibliography.

If I got anything grossly wrong in there, please call me out and show everyone how misinformed I really am.

I did not endorse Azov, or attribute any sense of morality to them.

They were an apt analogy to Hezbollah e.g. militant resistant groups, but not terrorists.

The fact that you all actually believe Hezbollah is akin to Al-Qaeda or ISIS is the real insanity here.

But I get it, you’ve been told that your entire life from mainstream Western outlets, and it’s a hard to leave that propaganda bubble entirely.

I did enjoy how you dismissed me as some “tankie” and Twitch viewer…? Given that I don’t use Twitch, am not a tankie, and have an academic background in related fields that give me at least a slightly above average insight and perspective into this subject.

That’s not even close to whataboutism…I explicitly stated that Hezbollah was not a terrorist organization, unlike the IDF and Israeli security state.

Next time maybe ask ChatGPT before burping out the first thought that pops in your head, it might save you from future embarrassment.

Hezbollah is as much a terrorist organization as the Asov battalion is.

That is to say, you may not like their politics, but they’re resistance groups formed to fight against an occupation.

To that end, Iran is their sponsor, so of course their is coordination between the two, especially at the highest levels.

The irony, is that you’re saying this not even two weeks after thousands of consumer electronics were turned into bombs, and detonated inside Lebanon, and then multiple residential buildings flattened via airstrikes, both actions taken by the Israelis.

I guess to you, any civilians killed in those instances were just collateral damage, and definitely not victims of terrorism.

I don’t watch his releases every week anymore, so does anyone know if he’s announced that he quit his day job?

I found his channel after his first Russo-Ukraine war video was a day old, and JFC how has he kept up releasing an hour-long PowerPoint a week ever since?

I know he was late once or twice, but holy shit, that is an insane work ethic. I hope he doesn’t burn out because videos are still grade A+.

Dell’s inside sales team probably has a much flatter bell curve, performance wise, then their outside (traveling) reps.

So yes, they are looking to do a layoff without the headlines, or severance, but probably aren’t as concerned where on the bell curve those employees rank.

Middle and lower management of those teams is absolutely sweating bullets about their teams getting wrecked, but big picture, whatever impact the C Suite is expecting, clearly isn’t enough to outweigh whatever net outcome they’re hoping for here.

Edit: also, I pretty much guarantee that any of their far high-end outliers on the inside sales team bell curve, will be given an exemption by whoever is 2 or 3 levels above their direct manager.

I mean, sure it’s possible this was an attack, but coal mining is incredibly dangerous, and Occam’s razor would suggest that it was caused by the mining itself.

That doesn’t mean that no one is ultimately responsible, whether through negligence, shoddy practices, etc., just the explanation is most likely related to the mining operation itself.

Not that I think blood and misery for it’s own sake is above Israel, just that their are much more likely scenarios here.

Bridges are still functional with giant holes blown in the deck. Maybe capacity is reduced, or it needs patchwork, but still functional.

That is why they’re typically targeted with large bombs, or missiles. Even then, might take a while.

If this wasn’t a hot war, it’s possible a covert demolition team could rig enough explosives at the right structural points, but trying that now is a great way to lose a bunch a SOF teams.

Here’s a somewhat relevant parable about how hard it can be to destroy a bridge during war.

If you’re Boeing, or even just a rogue Boeing executive/team, the best way to make sure you fail at this would be to leave an obvious trail of bodies.

These ambiguous deaths are plausibly unrelated enough to justify no one looking too closely, but are clear enough for their intended audience.

Hell, even if Boeing just got insanely “lucky” and these two deaths are as they appear, it’s still going to have a massive chilling effect on anyone else who might have been considering coming forward.

It’s the chain of events that could be suspicious, or totally random.

A person has trouble breathing, which could have been induced, or just bad luck, then goes to hospital and dies of MRSA - which also could have been induced, or just bad luck.

The most logical explanation is that bad things happen to people all the time and it’s usually not murder.

However, because of the widespread press coverage of the previous “suicide”, it makes sense that if additional whistleblowers were being killed, that the methods would grow increasingly complex and obfuscated.

Remember, these were all long time employees. Boeing is going to have all sorts of information on them, including their medical history and that’s not even factoring in the resources they have available.

It’s not hard to imagine that they would know how to create a situation where a person gets hospitalized, without causing suspicion, and have the resources to finish them off inside that hospital with something like a rapid MRSA infection.

Or maybe all this means is that corporations really are people and Boeing is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Now, God is an enacting revenge on the people who have testified against his favorite son, and our Savior: Jesus Boeing Christ.

…you realize that other users can see both your account creation date, and old comments…right?

Your account is literally a day old…or rather, the account you’re using at this moment.

You probably shouldn’t make these ambiguous comments with your brand new alt/Smurf/shill account.

Without a post history I can’t tell if you’re recommending McKinsey in good faith, which would be hilarious btw.

Or if you’re trying to make a sarcastic recommendation because you think McKinsey would have some adverse affect on the efficacy, or posture, of the US DOD. Which would also be funny, as it would imply that you made that joke while being unaware that McKinsey already does quite a lot work within the US MIC.

Anyways, while I found you use of a brand new account to leave that specific comment amusing…still, fuck McKinsey and anyone who’s ever worked for them cough Mayor Pete.

The Democrats abandoned the Unions long before Union members largerly abandoned the Democrats.

You’re not wrong, but the appointment of Lina Khan to head the FTC is easily one of the only good things Biden has done while in office.

So, at least she’ll go down kicking and screaming before they finally snuff her out, metaphorically speaking.