where they spoke about the “high-tech arsenal of the United States” during the operation in Iran, they used video of the Ukrainian interceptor drone STING from the manufacturer “Wild Hornets”.
Was genuinely skeptical of this being a pure Ukrainian invention, given how much tech has been crossing the border from the NATO states. But... fuck me, I can't find anything to suggest this isn't 100% home grown. I'm sure if you got your hands on the tech specs, you'd find some kind of cross-over (not like Ukrainians invented VR googles or remote telemetry and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if folks outside Ukraine were involved in the design). Past that...
I do wonder how secure this technology is, if its something you can gin up with a 3D printer. Like, are there Sting specs out in the wild at this point? Or is this something they keep under lock and key?
Idk. If he's just going to be the Colmes to Tate's Hannity...
Any time I see a UK or US publisher run its "Look at these weirdos" segment, its typically as a prelude to do something incredibly gross. Like the time Tucker Carlson tried to convince a bunch of young men to take testosterone and sun their assholes.
I mean, crypto does the job cleaner and faster. Stablecoins, in particular, are fantastic at spin-cycling dirty cash. Hell, half the time the money never gets "dirty" to begin with, since there's no real tangible relationship between the transaction and the crime.
Trying to imagine the kind of house Boeing would build, and I've got this image of a converted shipping container with custom proprietary electric and plumbing hook ups that cost $50M/ea and disintegrates when it rains.
He assessed that Afghanistan could be won through slow cultural conversion by unconventional forces, described as "multiple generations of winning hearts and minds", and anticipated 100 years before such objectives could be achieved, saying:
We are in a war of ideas and we are fighting an ideology. It is easy to bomb a tank, but incredibly difficult to bomb an idea. We need a long-term strategy that discredits the ideology of Islamic extremism ... We are in a multi-decade war and we are only 15 years in.
Telecommunications equipment made by the company of Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera is being used by the Russian military in its war against Ukraine, according to a report from Hunterbrook Media.
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In the report, Hunterbook Media revealed video where Wi-Fi equipment made by Ubiquiti is being shown on the front lines in the Russia-Ukraine war. The equipment reportedly has helped Russia use drones that have targeted civilians in Ukraine.
"Without Ubiquiti, these drones in Russia, the ones leading to massacres, would not work," Hunterbrook reporter Sam Koppelman said on the "Pablo Torre Finds Out" podcast on Jan. 27. "They would be flying blind."
The US and Europe are profiting massively off this conflict. They don't want it to end.
