Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Once it happens once in a western country by terrorists and I'm sure it will then you will see massive clamp downs on who can purchase drones etc. Imagine some terrorist used it let's say in England on a live premiership game or say when the king is at Buckingham Palace waving to the public. I can see something mad like that happening someday with drones.

Yes I would.

I wouldn't consider it necessarily as "Ukraine tax" but rather a Defence tax. This is in Ireland's interests. A strong and safe EU is in Ireland's interests.

We are known as free-loaders when it comes to defence spending, I think there are other threads on this.

Reports from the guardian:

20 members of Morozovsk airfield personnel killed or injured, Kyiv says

I read Mike Martin's excellent book "How to Fight a War" last year. This is the book's epilogue which is very relevant to the conversation above:

This war will be studied by military analysts for years to come. The fact that 40% of Russia's black sea fleet was destroyed not by an opposition Navy but by Drones. I think it will really have many countries reevaluating where they put their military focus and questioning how valuable some of their shiny toys really are.

To be fair I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the works. Like why do a suicide bomb on a bus when you could have a few drones doing the same. Technically you could just have 1 terrorist and they have multiple drones set up. If there in the middle of say London you could technically have a drones go and hit Buckingham Palace, big Ben, Westminster all in the space of a few mins or seconds laced with explosives. I think we will see this happen and I say stuff like this is in the works. I say its just a matter of when sadly. Not just militaries are looking at what drones can do now since the conflict in Ukraine, you will have terrorist organisations looking big time into these and even your mad nutter type person.

Thank you well said. I shall take my claim back so.

Well, the propagandists claim Irish reunification would cost 20 billion a year for 20 years and cause us a lot of hardship.

If that's true, the cost of unification of Ukraine would be astronomical. Besides, the EU would help us like they helped Germany. The president is there.

It wouldn't cost 1%of that anyway.

he has just got himself a death sentence

Well, looks like my favourite youtube anti Putin channel will soon shut down. The 'dude' [not the name of his channel] is at the end of his nerve due to massive numbers of reports made against him. His sure the you know who's in Russia are to blame. I will miss him he was very entertaining guy. His is not the only channel on YouTube facing shut down.

You (still) have to get the explosives, or make them.

The effectiveness and novelty of a drone "delivery system" with possibility for swarms of the things in future and potentially AI doing the flying/targetting etc. (that "slaughterbots" video from a few years ago, well before Ukraine war, comes to mind) does not change this and it seems to get overlooked sometimes.

That is still hard in Western/developed countries with decent police, intelligence etc. that will (usually) spot people trying to construct bombs.

Birds of a feather.

Flock together.

Sort of obvious really .. doesnt surprise me anyway