Movies would have you believe that soldiers/generals go into a situation control room here in NA with 20 different screens and point to an area and a missile would be sent to strike.

This looks like a video game. Look at the feet 18 sec in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarV...t_in_mariupol/

Incredible! This is what that vehicle looks like with its 30mm gun

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...2021%2C_13.jpg

Usually not a huge fan of war footage, but when there is so clearly good and evil in a conflict - this is a straight up terrorist invasion - it's nice to see the bad guys getting destroyed.

That’s kind of how it works though.

My grandfather on my moms side was a high ranking officer in the UK armed forces, he got invited to a vip tour of the big military base in Vegas and took my dad along. There’s an area there with what are basically sea-cans filled with screens and control panels and this is where a lot of the drone operators dropping bombs abroad work from. Kinda fucked

The future of defending Canada's north is probably gonna be with drones/robots. Time to start investing. The soldier of the future is gonna look less like GI Joe and more like Team Liquid.

The sad thing is that we'll become desensitized without real humans on the ground seeing the true cost of war and the impact on human lives. People killed and families destroyed like it's a video game.

You can have all the drones, drop as much artillery and bombs as you want, but at the end of the day you still need the boots on the ground to hold the territory.

Elon is trolling Putin. LUL

Elon Musk has challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to single combat on Twitter. The prize: Ukraine.

The Tesla and SpaceX owner issued the challenge via tweet early Monday morning, in what was pretty clearly an effort to troll the Russian president.

It's just the latest in a mix of serious and absurd efforts that Musk has been making to help Ukraine, after Russia invaded the country in late February.

"I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat. Stakes are Ukraine," Musk tweeted, with Putin's name spelled out in Russian.

He later tweeted directly at the official Kremlin Twitter account asking: "Do you agree to this fight?"

He then told someone else on Twitter: "I am absolutely serious


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What a dork

Yup and Russia is learning you can send in all the tanks in the world, but if there's no infantry to support them, they are pretty much sitting ducks.

Putin seems like someone to accept the single combat challenge, cheat, lose, and still claim that he won. Come to think of it, sounds like another former world leader :troll:

Does Elon crave attention that bad? Go use some of that money and get a life.

The first thing that I thought of is -- if Putin becomes really annoyed with Elon Musk, he is just gonna send in some secret agent and discretely feed Musk some sort of radioactive poison to get rid of him.

And he sort of has reason to -- all that Starlink service that he has sent over to Ukraine -- it's ruining his propaganda game and allowing Ukrainians to post up all those war videos.

russian yachts scrambling.

They should turn them all into housing for Ukrainian refugees

The idea is to sell them for funding for them, but I don't know if there's enough disgusting rich people to buy them all

Canada needs to invest in signal scrambling devices, so drones and whathaveyou will no longer respond to commands sent to them.

Better yet, intercept the command signals and have drones fly back to where they came from and destroy the bases.

Detonate or neutralize nuclear warheads within seconds of being launched.

There might be, but the kind of rich knobs who can afford to buy and maintain those things (supposedly they cost ~10% of their build price per year in maintenance) don't seem like the kind of people who would buy used.

The running costs of those yatchs is crazy. You are looking at millions a year. Some 40 to 50 mill a year. I wonder who is paying for that right now. You also have a bunch that are in mid construction. They shipyards have to stop working on them if they are being built for a Russian but can't move them to start another project because they are so large there is no place to store them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting...someones_hand/

that's how the war starts

OMG what a loser! Even Kim Fucken Jong Un doesn't want to shake his hand! EleGiggle

Joker's Joy Buzzer.

drones and missiles cost a lot of money

old ass tanks and young bodies from mother russia, not so much

Zelensky pleads with MPs during a virtual meeting with Parliament for a NATO no fly zone.

I do not think that a NATO enforced no fly zone is gonna "fly".

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/0...iament-speech/


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made history on Tuesday addressing the Canadian Parliament and pleading for continued support amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In his virtual speech in the House of Commons, Zelenskyy asked Canadians to imagine if their country was under a similar attack.


“Can you imagine the famous CN Tower in Toronto if it was hit by Russian bombs?” asked Zelenskyy during his address. “Every night is a horrible night.”


The House of Commons was full for the first time in two years with most MPs there in person and dozens of invited guests in the public galleries.

The Ukrainian president acknowledged and thanked Canada for their assistance and aid in recent weeks. Zelenskyy continued to make his pitch to NATO allies to enforce a no-fly zone, asking Canadians to imagine if they were facing Russian missile attacks.

“We are not asking for much. We’re asking for justice, for real support,” he said.

Canada, along with other allies have denied the request for a no fly zone out of fears it will lead to an escalation of war in Europe.

“Volodymyr, in the years I’ve known you, I’ve always thought of you as a champion of democracy, and now democracies around the world are lucky to have you as our champion,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a short introduction before the president spoke.

“Your courage and the courage of your people inspires us all.”

Trudeau also announced sanctions against 15 more Russian officials during his introductory speech for the Ukrainian President.

“Ukrainians are already paying incalculable human costs. This illegal and unnecessary war is a grave mistake. Putin must stop it now,” Trudeau said.

During his address, Zelenskky said the sanctions imposed so far have not been enough and to deter Russia and encouraged more measures to ensure it cannot continue to support its war effort.

Trudeau announced that Canada will send another $50 million of specialized equipment to help Ukraine while visiting Europe last week. He also imposed new sanctions on Russian oligarchs, government officials and supporters of the country’s leadership.

Canada has also committed $145 million in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in 2022 and created new immigration measures to help people fleeing the war.

Shortly after Zelenskyy’s address, it was confirmed Trudeau, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, and Defence Minister Anita Anand were placed on a list of Canadians banned from Russia. Their names were included in a list of banned foreigners on the Russian embassy’s website.

That's the primary thing people in the foreign policy community are worried about.

If you're Ethiopia and you're at war with Eritrea -- traditionally you would need to send physical troops and equipment to attack your enemy. If now you can simply fly a cheap drone and bomb a building or installation without any risk to your troops, you'll do it.

This can and will lead to more proxy wars between countries utilizing drones against one another, also putting more civilian lives in danger as a result (easy to attack towns and cities across borders without sending troops).

We're already seeing this happen in Africa in countries that don't carry a real air-force of any kind, but are able to acquire these drones to utilize on civilians and their enemies.

It's scary stuff.

We seem to have unlimited funds to send over there.

Every time I see a new headline of billions in aid money and weaponry being sent to Ukraine by NATO countries makes me wonder where it's all truly going.