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The ultimate sleeper agents. By all accounts the Ukrainian attack took a year to execute. It's the kind of planning that was behind the explosive pagers that
by smackeyacky 1y ago
The ultimate sleeper agents.
By all accounts the Ukrainian attack took a year to execute. It's the kind of planning that was behind the explosive pagers that Israel cooked up.
It's a new kind of automated terrorism - who knows what is planted around Russia now and when the Ukrainians will set it off.
- Teever 1y agoThe next step in the automation is a cargo container sized machine that can be fed parts and spit out packaged drones ready to go.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
- alisonatwork 1y agoIt's not terrorism if a country is at war and their military facilities were targeted.
- o11c 1y agoBut the definition of "country", "at war", and "military facility" depend entirely on whether your audience perceives that you're winning or not.
- mmooss 1y agoI don't understand that. Nobody would debate that the countries are Russia and Ukraine, that they clearly are at war, and that the target was a military facility.
- mmooss 1y agoWhile you define a legal act of war, that can stil be terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic that works by insipiring fear and causing a response. The attack itself usually doesn't do enough damage to change the outcome of the war. By creating fear among Russian officials and, possibly, the population, Ukraine causes Russia to divert resources to protecting more places in Russia. The loss of the planes, while a substantial economic blow, doesn't change the outcome of the war.
- preisschild 1y ago> Terrorism is a tactic that works by insipiring fear and causing a response. The attack itself usually doesn't do enough damage to change the outcome of the war. Yeah, like the Blitz Terror bombing in WW2. But this isn't that. They attacked strategic enemy assets, so it's not terror bombing.
- mmooss 1y agoWe agree, other than a matter of definition. I don't think the definition of terrorism excludes legiimate military targets, though it certainly includes illegitimate civilian targets.
- ponector 1y agoBy your definition, introduction of the new ballistic missile capable to hit Russian airstrips is also a terrorism
- mmooss 1y agoIt depends on whether it has a tactical or strategic effect, or if it is just to cause fear and alarm.
- mcv 1y ago> Terrorism is a tactic that works by insipiring fear and causing a response. The attack itself usually doesn't do enough damage to change the outcome of the war. But this wasn't that. This was taking out bombers. If anything, it reduces the amount of terror. > By creating fear among Russian officials and, possibly, the population, Ukraine causes Russia to divert resources to protecting more places in Russia. By that definition, every war is terrorism. And maybe it is, but this war was started by Russia. Russia is still the only terrorist state in this war, no matter how you spin this.
- mmooss 1y agoTaking out the bombers won't change the course of the war, so why did they do it?