I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).
But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.
If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).
And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).
Today this technology is used to fight your enemy, tomorrow it WILL be used to fight YOU.
You cannot prevent this with “dealing with the oligarchs”, this technology simply has to disappear.
I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).
But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.
If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).
And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).
There is a non-zero chance that this person won’t live long enough to see that scary tomorrow due to scary today that requires this technology.