Quote (Malopox @ Nov 25 2024 10:24am)
All it takes is 185 euros worth of training, 3d printed drone and an unhealthy dose of hatred for “traitors of the Ukranian dream”.
There's a small overlap between the technical know-how to produce self-made weapons with such sophisticated capabilities and the zealots willing to carry out attacks.
The intelligence community, when its not just spying on and locking up Americans for daring to express political opinions in a supposedly protected manner, has exploited that venn diagram to honey pot all the would-be terrorists with undercovers offering access to weapons for extremists.
Even the guy who assassinated Shinzo Abe had to prototype and rigorously test a dozen builds of his zip gun and that was just to be a low tech version of 16th century weaponry
The danger here is we're handing out weaponized drones like candy to people we already know are fatalist radicals that we're going to betray and abandon. Between the black market and those Nazis that will carry a grudge, we're putting advanced weapons into the hands of terrorists. Not just 3d printed drones barely more functional than a frisbee, these are FPV grenade/suicide drones with miles operating range and high explosive payloads. I mean shit our saving grace here is that we so thoroughly eradicated the military age male population of Ukraine there will be a significant gap in the next generation who would be raised to despise America for our exploitation and disposal of their country. After all, the only Lienz Cossack to take revenge on the west was in a piece of hollywood fiction lmao