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The US change in sides to ally with Russia has left Europe scrambling. Suddenly the continent's decades-long intertwining dependence on American military tech has become a vast liability, and one that needs to be urgently corrected.

Former Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the way to do this is to ditch American military tech, and quickly rearm having learned lessons from the conflict in Ukraine. He says a key insight from that war is that cheap drones can consistently destroy Russian systems that are orders of magnitude more expensive.

Coordinated by OneWeb, the euro version of Starlink, the continent's military should place tens of thousands of intelligent robotic drones along its border, and do this in a matter of months, not years.

The German government passed its €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) rearmament budget yesterday, which also allows for unlimited future borrowing to fund further German military buildup. It seems vast robotic drone army battalions may be a thing of the future, and arriving soon.

Interview - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In German, use Google translate to read.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

You asked a bunch of questions and then immediately followed them with "this is not worth addressing further." Not much of a useful comment.

The idea that history is inevitable is a fundamental assumption behind the perspective you are putting out

That's not what I'm "putting out." I'm saying that these events are a result of historic trends, not just because one man woke up one morning and decided "I'm going to make America a seething cesspit." As I explicitly said in the comment you're responding to:

Trends can be redirected with effort and taking out Putin would be part of that effort.

How is that the idea that "history is inevitable"?