Ukraine inflicts the faintest little sliver of retaliatory damage against Russia (drones against some Moscow area), and the US is suddenly back.
Merely a suspicion, but this feels very potentially like Musk in 2023, disabling Starlink in Crimea during a Ukraine attack. "No, you may not hurt the aggressor." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264
This feels likely to end up being trying to keep Ukraine from causing any inconvenience to Russia. Again.
Also, it's got to be such an incredibly awful thing to have c6isr (command, control, communications, computers, cyber-defense and combat systems and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance just up and disappear. It's unclear how much the defense-net the US ran, would be so interesting to hear what happened during this past week.
And especially curious to know, how many different weapons systems depended on the US's presence to even function at all? I can't help but expect a bunch of weapon systems basically didn't work at all or became utterly ineffective after the sudden & total abandonment of our ally that happened here, that this was like a nightmare case for the US defense industry showing that all these weapons systems are software dependent, tied whether the now volatile we'll-take-Canada-by-force USA is working with you or not.
Maybe your F-15 can get in the air, but without a battle net, it's not going to be effective at anything. But radars, missile systems... Did they even have basic functionality still intact with the US abandonment?
Starlink was never disabled over Crimea because it was never on. It's illegal to provide services to Russian controlled territory because of US sanctions yet this falsehood keeps getting repeated forever.
Merely a suspicion, but this feels very potentially like Musk in 2023, disabling Starlink in Crimea during a Ukraine attack. "No, you may not hurt the aggressor." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264
This feels likely to end up being trying to keep Ukraine from causing any inconvenience to Russia. Again.
Also, it's got to be such an incredibly awful thing to have c6isr (command, control, communications, computers, cyber-defense and combat systems and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance just up and disappear. It's unclear how much the defense-net the US ran, would be so interesting to hear what happened during this past week.
And especially curious to know, how many different weapons systems depended on the US's presence to even function at all? I can't help but expect a bunch of weapon systems basically didn't work at all or became utterly ineffective after the sudden & total abandonment of our ally that happened here, that this was like a nightmare case for the US defense industry showing that all these weapons systems are software dependent, tied whether the now volatile we'll-take-Canada-by-force USA is working with you or not.
Maybe your F-15 can get in the air, but without a battle net, it's not going to be effective at anything. But radars, missile systems... Did they even have basic functionality still intact with the US abandonment?