Late on Sunday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on social media that all of the operatives of the nation’s security services, SBU, who had participated in a a raid earlier in the day that knocked out about $7 billion in Russian military aircraft within the invading country’s airfields, were safe in Ukraine and accounted for.
The operation was dubbed “Spiderweb.”
“An absolutely brilliant result,” the president wrote.
“A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time,” Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
That’s just really really scary. Drones will be the new land mines, except they’ll kill us in suburban centers where no soldiers are fighting.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-drones-gaza
Unfortunately that’s already a reality in Gaza. They use AI powered quadcopters murdering civilians there. There have been reports that they would even play recordings of cries for help etc. to lure people out and then shoot them.
Now imagine where this is headed. Genocide drones will be equipped with heat sensors and trained to enter flats through windows and they’ll be instructed to kill any human they can find. It’s only a matter of time at this point because what we are afraid of is already in use, we’re just not at the receiving end of it (yet).
And all of that because most friends/relatives of evil motherfuckers in the world prefer to uphold the “good tone” and family relationships over telling their friend/father/sibling that they are an evil mass murdering pile of human garbage and ideally spitting in their faces. “It’s my job” is how evil wins.
Direct residential entry for mass genocide remains unlikely, they’re too vulnerable at close range for this to be efficient at scale. The technology can’t overcome the need for lightweight assembly and will always be susceptible to a good swing from a baseball bat. This will only be used for high value targets or as a last resort while withdrawing from an area.
In urban environments they’re much more likely to just blanket the area with surveillance and slaughter people in line of sight from the air, then starve the sheltering population out like a modern siege. Like what’s literally happening in Gaza right now. It’s far more efficient in terms of ammunition, manufacturing, and psychological warfare.
But I absolutely agree. War is still Hell, but it sure is fucking changing. We’re running out of time before this asymmetry becomes mainstream and groups and leaders that are willing to deploy this technology become the only ones left.
It will still be MAD for nations to use these - as evidenced by the fact that a wartorn underdog can covertly assault a distant air field - but without major global collaboration it will be impossible to stop because unlike nuclear ICBMs these things can be built in a basement and deployed from a shed.
Hunter killers were discussed in Terminator and the Matrix. It’s a terrifying new world we live in.
This is a plot point in An American War
Well and there’s “Kill Decision” by Daniel Suarez. Also, the short film Slaughterbots.
Slaughterbots is likely where we’re headed. It’s a shame that humanity can’t figure out how to constructively coexist.
The good news is, we have already come up with so many interesting ways to almost perfectly self-exterminate, precisely because we can’t constructively coexist. We are the problem, and the problem solves itself! … for the rest of the universe, anyway. This also probably conveniently answers the Fermi paradox, presuming that we have indeed reached one of the great filters and may be about to find out that our species won’t get to pass it due to our persistent inability to peacefully coexist.
Yes, I was thinking that eventually people with critical thinking skills like you and me will simply be eliminated by “unidentified terrorists” and then our murders will be used to justify further backdoors and surveillance laws… Fuck this timeline.
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