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Re:The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone tech... by CamperBob2 on Friday May 10, 2024 @01:16AM (#40315694)
Russia's greatest strategic mistake if they wish to push against the expansion of NATO.

The Ukraine war isn't about NATO, of course, any more than it was about Nazis.

It also wasn't a mistake. They aren't in it to win. I believe that Putin is deliberately trying to turn his country into a failed state that the rest of the world will have no choice but to prop up.

When you realize that it is Putin who looks at Kim with envy, and not the other way around, a lot of seemingly-nonsensical things abruptly begin to make sense.

Re:The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone tech... by CamperBob2 on Friday May 10, 2024 @11:52AM (#40320416)
Not to complain about voting, but interestingly, I've advanced this theory multiple times on multiple venues and it gets downvoted without comment each time. Can't anyone actually come up with a counterargument, just for discussion's sake? Or simply ask a question that the proposal doesn't answer adequately?

I can't think of such a question, and apparently neither can anyone else. The only admissible conclusion is that Putin wants to turn Russia into North Korea.