You have to include the US here too, Israel is a Vassal State of the US essentially.

Yeah but I mean if it gets people to click, why not just blame it on the AI headline optimization tool you used?

sigh

I agree but it looks most like a future reef to me.

To be honest immediately not much, Trump is a russian asset so…

Medium term though, Ukraine is a popular cause in the US, Trump and his cronies are always desperately trying to distract from that and throw a wrench in the mechanisms of the US trying to help Ukraine but they cannot as hard as they try make the majority of people in the US not find common cause with Ukraine, even when Trump hangs a picture of him and Putin in the whitehouse.

The more Zelensky openly helps the US the more it destabilizes Trump/Republican attempts to sabotage Ukraine and makes Trump look like an unpopular weak fraud of a leader.

It is classic “kill them with kindness”.

Honestly they gave it a good go, it is the thought that matters with Air Defense.

unfortunately left wing governments around the world are adamant on bringing in age verification to everything to make controlling their citizens easier.

Lol ok

Ok but what if you make the boat out of a series of isolated cages and stack them all together like a big floating row of lobster traps? Surely that will be impenetrable.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3391402#map=12%2F59.6565%2F28.2608

You are done russia, tap the fuck out while you are still more than a brand name China slaps on cheap products.

It hurts the environmentalist in me to see images of Oil infrastructure burning like this, the damage is real… but like… fuck russia, if there is ever a time to look past the immediate environmental impact of a military strike on oil and gas infrastructure, certainly russia is at very top of the list.

Also, Ukraine is investing into alternative energy and what these images convey isn’t just a strategic failure for russia to evolve but something deeper and more global. This is the world in some way saying firmly that the beginning of the end of fossil fuels have come, or rather it is the world saying it in a newly undeniable way after having asked nicely for so long for such a future to come to pass.

Geopolitically, the Ukraine War in many ways was launched in attempt to prevent this future of a credible alternative to the byzantine and predatory power structures of fossil fuels and all the empires they enable in Eastern Europe.

The message is clear and actually kind of hopeful in a strange way, if we want stability, peace and an end to pointless, corrupt resource wars that rip countries apart than we MUST invest in alternative energy. The fragility of fossil fuel infrastructure creates far too sure of a lever from which the ruling class of the world can manipulate us into killing each other instead of working together for a better future.

All this to say, I can be an environmentalist and still find these flames beautiful to behold.

See related article https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-s-ust-luga-port-halts-oil-shipments-after-ukrainian-attack/

What is the point of not just executing someone accused of terrorism on the spot if they will not be allowed to speak to anybody that loves them before they are executed?

Surely isn’t the point that this question naturally arises soon after this law is passed as a gesticulation somewhere from the back in the angry cry of the mob? Wouldn’t it be cheaper, faster and less dangerous just to execute them right there in the field where they are apprehended!!!

Can we really pretend that isn’t what is already happened in the Genocide of Palestinians?

I agree in the sense that all violence like this is a contagion purposefully spread with the hope that it catches fire in a mirror, mutual cancer of hate.

Yeah protect your roads with drone nets, sure.

Protect your howitzers with drone nets too sure.

Heck, place cages on your armored vehicles, just make sure to do it in a way that isn’t overly bulky and defeats the purpose (i.e. why Turtle “Tanks” are a failure).

Placing a cage on a naval ship around the wheelhouse though? That is an admission you don’t have a warship but a target.

This has nothing to do with tactics and how drones change them and everything to do with in military terms what it means to actually build a Navy.

If you can’t physically keep a small (flying OR submersed) drone from hitting your naval ship you shouldn’t be in the business of having a navy lol.

We aren’t talking about a tank that may move through thick brush and complex terrain that could mask threats anywhere, we are talking about a large boat in the water which by definition is a large expanse.

I mean yes whatever works works, but it is undeniably pathetic and a direct admission that the russian navy barely exists as a serious concept the way we typically think about navies.

The US is collapsing that is why.

Literally

As long as a quarter of the thirds are not mutually exclusive in the pair it works!

If Russia was stupid enough to attack Lithuania (or other baltic state) like people think might happen, if they have not prepared properly (as of today, they are not), they could overwhelm the air defences and take out more strategic value than the $500 million cost.

…and then what? Invade with a vastly diminished force that was only minimally invested in because all the money went to shaheds? Again basically what can be done is an act of mass terrorism, but that doesn’t project power and it sure as hell doesn’t produce money which the russian economy is in desperate need of.

Edit: The only thing preventing that right now is the ongoing war in Ukraine, but if that ended, they could stockpile.

I mean yeah, if we just let russia sit there and pile up weapons it is going to be a problem.

“Fortunately” I don’t see russia being able to extract itself from the Ukraine war without getting severely fucked up (I say fortunarely in quotes because it sucks for Ukraine), russia’s air defenses are crumbling and it leaves the backbone of their military utterly exposed to very longterm damage. I am not saying there is no threat I am saying the anxiety around russia’s shahed production is seen under a very warped lens.

I agree Europe needs to prepare better, I don’t mean to come down against that either.

Edit: According to official Ukrainian data[1], the total number of Shahed-type UAVs launched by Russia in 2025 amounted to 54,538, including approximately 32,200 Shahed-type strike UAVs.

50,000 shaheds * $50,000 per shahed = $2.5 billion that would have been better spent on a more permanent aspect of the russian war machine, too bad they are obsessed with making flying murder bombs like it is a religion.

https://en.defence-ua.com/analysis/shahed_136_really_cost_20_50k_iran_sold_them_to_russia_for_200_300k_in_2022_actual_price_far_higher-17764.html

What I have contention with is the idea that this is an unstoppable strategy, it is a dead end strategy to monomaniacally pursue flying bomb production as a method of building overwhelming force.

Yes Iran can use it to deny the Strait Of Hormuz. Ok, I just don’t think that actually proves as much as people think it does.

Of course it can, you’d have to be an idiot to think that’s not possible, but the military complex is better defended so it’s more likely to get shot down, using EXPENSIVE missiles because people aren’t taking action on what is happening in Ukraine and building drones to fight these things.

Not really, the entire job of an Army is to not have an address you can look them up with and send a flying bomb too. It is a moving apparatus and therein lies the rub for an Air Force or Navy opposing it.

It is far easier to kill somebody living in a house, or a fire station or blow up a electrical substation, those don’t move.

Hitting a well defended, mobile Army? That is an entirely different ballgame and shaheds aren’t going to be especially effective in that environment. Sure you have frontline equivalents to the shahed, but once heavy machine guns and flak cannons come into the question shaheds are literally just target drones whether we are talking static or mobile contexts.

To put it another way, sure shaheds/flying bombs work but any counter your enemy invests in is eventually going to outpace you in power because your attacks are so inherently disposable yet costly in nature.

A combined arms defense/offense will almost always be more efficient than a “monoculture” flying bomb saturation strategy and it will be useful in a vastly broader array of contexts.

These are only some of the far more cost efficient counters that exist.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/24/british-troops-shoot-down-dozen-iranian-kamikaze-drones/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System

https://www.army-technology.com/projects/l3harris-vampire-multi-purpose-weapon-system-usa/

https://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/defense-systems/marine-air-defense-integrated-system-madis/

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1000630/12th-cab-aviators-explain-apache-effectiveness-counter-drone-operations

https://united24media.com/latest-news/tiny-baguette-sized-missile-poised-to-crush-russias-drone-advantage-13252

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martlet_(missile)

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/navy-mi-8-destroyed-12-shahed-drone-3-hours/

Where is your evidence of this? I see none.

You still aren’t addressing the problem that no amount of shaheds/flying bombs, no matter how great, can project even a gram of true power. All they do is kill, maim, temporarily break and terrify. That is NOT the same as projecting military power.

Shaheds don’t “invade”, that implies a sense of permanence on the battlefield they don’t possess, they don’t even really “fight”, all they do is “murder”.