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"super expensive infrastructure" that is always going to be cheaper in a city compared to building equivalents in the countryside.

Americas are the two continents. Try telling a Canadian they’re from America.

America is not a continent in the English language.

The Millennium Challenge 2002 is discredited because it had motorcycle couriers that moved at light speed handling all communications and 10' speed boats launching 19' missiles.

Do you have any examples of American expressions young generations are using in French?

It was mostly children. Every child is on the internet and uses the same social medias adults use.

I don't believe there is anything else we could realistically do. This stage of the conflict is about to hit the 2 year mark.

You still vote for the lesser evil? Sitting out only benefits the greater evil, not you. I don't know how to make this any clearer.

> Shahed where originally designed and manufactured by Iran.

I'm talking about mass manufacturing, not design. Russia has had capability to hit any Ukrainian factory since Day 1 of the war, that's why they've successfully dispersed and hidden their production so much. Also, I've always been pro-Ukraine.

>they are always several steps behind Ukrainians.

That's not true anymore, both sides have plateaued because all innovations are quickly copied. Anti-recon quadcopters were another Ukrainian innovation that took the Russians roughly 6 months to catch up to. The only advantage they have is size and strategic depth. There isn't much else.

Russia has the strategic depth to mass manufacture specialty drones in a way that Ukraine cannot. Even though Ukraine used fiber optic drones first, the Russians were the first to produce them in large numbers and it took Ukraine months to catch up. Lancet/Shahed drones are even bigger examples of this.

> How long would it be until their entire fleet is sunk? 2 days? A week?

That's not something you or anyone else could predict.

> How long after that should the Three Gorges Dam be allowed to exist?

This would immediately cause a death toll in the millions and a nuclear response would follow.

Read the rest of his comment

> Not that I'm a rabid atheist or would deny my child such a thing, but if THAT can enter my 8yr olds brain via his short allowed time where he can browse by himself, i'm worried what else is coming his way through it.

No such kill switch exists, the US stopped providing electronic warfare intelligence that made the jets more survivable. The stoppage of all military aid was significantly more damaging.

The reality is that both sides still kill someone begging like that. Both sides are using over at least a 1,000+ drones a day and yet only 1-2 videos of this nature come out every month.

I don't see that happening. They're too simple and too effective for any military to ignore. The bomber drones cause more casualities than any other type of drone and most of them are just commericial off-the-shelf drones with very simple modifications.