But these guys were too puffed up on their own Hubris and Netanyahu's bullshit to pay attention.

Crystal Ball and Saagar speaking with Prof Jiang. . Definitely recommend.

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Ukraine in its turn has done great work developing and adapting its countermeasures and taking out some of the launch facilities and factories, but no thanks to the rapidly decaying dozy tinpot despot.

Now it's going to bite him (and a bunch of other people, many blameless) in the ass.

Remnants of Shaheds with Russian markings have been recovered in some of the Gulf states in the last week or so. Iran initially supplied Russia, then helped it set up its own manufacturing plants, and Russia has since been exporting drones to Iran.

Logically, Trump should either help Ukraine take out the known Russian plants by providing the necessary means, deploy some of the US's much-boasted vast array of armamaments to do the job as legitimate targets in the current conflict with Iran, or intercept any shipments that may occur from now on.

But maybe Vlad wouldn't like it. Perhaps he and Witkoff can have a chat about it the next time they have a cosy get-together to discuss European history, Russian mythology and the oodles of $ they look forward to sharing.

Since Trump is a Russian agent, that's exactly what he WON'T do.

Even the most advanced Ukrainian drones (sometimes adapted small aircraft) so far only have ranges of a thousand miles or so, though that's growing by increments.

You'd need to worry more about ballistic missiles, which aren't a new threat. Or, on a less technological level, bombs planted somewhere. Or people flying planes into buildings, which seems far-fetched ...