Of course. 30,000 to 35,000 Russian soldiers are being killed 24 hours a day every month now in Ukraine if they even walk around in Ukraine outside of a bunker or armored vehicle of some kind. Ukraine is a killing field for Russian Soldiers just like Iran would be a killing field for American soldiers from drones.
If any soldier sees a drone he is basically already dead because it is flying at them and into them at around 50 to 100 miles per hour before it blows them up dead with pieces all over the place. They are pretty much dead instantly. This is also happening to Israeli Soldiers from Lebanon from Hezbollah too which is why the war hawks of Israel want to burn Lebanon to the ground. (All of it).
It's like some Americans have said to Israel: "You won't be able to survive just by killing everyone you want to." Which is completely true. Partly this is true is that there are only 9 million Israelis to begin with and there are 92 to 93 million Iranians and the Israelis cannot kill every Iranian and every Lebanese person whatever their inclination is. It just isn't going to work.
Netanyahu (IS ONLY) the suicide of Israel fast or slow and that's all at this point. Like Trump said: "Without the U.S. Israel would already be gone."
However, there are ONLY 5.8 million people in Lebanon so it's possible that Israel will cut its own throat by killing all 5.8 million Lebanese people by destroying every building in Lebanon. But, at some point Shia Terrorists will also find revenge on Israel. It's a long term losing war for Israel with drones like today existing including the fiber optics drones being used to kill Israeli soldiers much like Ukraine is killing 35,000 Russian soldiers with drones every month now 24 hours a day which night vision and infrared senses to sense the warm bodies of soldiers. So, at night (maybe it's merciful) but they won't even know they are going to die because they won't even see the drone killing them until it hits. So, maybe this is a mercy to both Russian Soldiers and Israeli soldiers to be killed at night with a drone they cannot even see in the pitch black of night.
So, we are witnessing the nightmare of modern drone and missile warfare where soldiers are not really fighting each other on the battlefield so much as they are being killed just while walking around anywhere in a battle zone.
My biggest concern is that drones and missiles will be used more and more places just on civilians to end world economies one by one until there is nothing left of civilization at all anywhere.
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As Putin takes Russia off the grid, there are growing signs of discontent
Russians might be getting fed up with the Kremlin making their lives harder and more isolated in the name of security.
A rare call for protests over the weekend followed mounting signs of anger and ridicule aimed at authorities, with pro-Kremlin influencers and newspapers joining a growing wave of public frustration at the government’s approach.
A major mobile internet blackout in Moscow and the throttling of the popular messaging app Telegram, both justified by ambiguous security considerations, helped fuel the rare public criticism over this erosion of digital freedoms and connectivity. It comes against the backdrop of soaring prices and an ailing wartime economy, with little sign of major battlefield progress in Ukraine.
Memes on TikTok and Instagram ridiculed Russians resorting to paper maps and pagers in the absence of mobile internet, or walking around the capital with satellite antennas strapped to their laptops.
Others went beyond satire, calling on their compatriots to gather in protest over the weekend. While authorities did not approve any public rallies, at least 20 people were detained for protesting digital restrictions across Russia on Sunday, a rights group said.
President Vladimir Putin "really wants every Russian citizen to feel alone and rejected,” information technology specialist Alexander Isavnin said.
“He wants them to keep their discontent inside and feel like they are the only ones not happy about what is going on,” Isavnin, 49, told NBC News, explaining why he was among those who tried — and failed — to get approval for protests in the capital and the Moscow region.
“We basically live in a digital concentration camp,” he said.
Engaging in any form of protest has become increasingly dangerous since a crackdown on free speech was intensified following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Even before the war, mass gatherings had to be sanctioned by local authorities. Most are still denied on grounds like Covid restrictions, which don’t seem to apply to government-approved events.
Still, the increasing limits on digital freedoms appear to have hit a nerve with many Russians, despite the Kremlin’s long-standing drive for greater control of their lives.
With state television and media heavily censored, the internet is one of the last bastions of freedom and a source of independent information for millions, although many foreign sites have been banned since the war.
Activist and political strategist Dmitry Kisiev was among those calling for mass gatherings March 29, a symbolic reference to Article 29 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees freedom of thought and speech.
Kisiev, 31, said local activists had submitted applications to hold rallies in 17 regions across Russia. They were all denied, he said, including some that were initially given the go-ahead. Despite that, the OVD-Info protest monitoring group said Tuesday that at least 25 people were arrested across Russia for protesting digital restrictions Sunday, 18 of them in Moscow. The group also reported detentions ahead of Sunday of people who tried to apply to hold a protest.
Protests could show those who don’t agree with the restrictions “that there are other like-minded individuals,” Kisiev said.
NBC News reached out to more than a dozen Russians to ask what they think about the calls for protests. Most did not respond, while some declined to speak, without providing a reason.
Earlier this year, some Russians said they feared the Kremlin was preparing the public for a “North Korea” model of the internet, heavily controlled and censored by the state. “I don’t think the Russian public will accept this,” Kisiev said, given how central the internet has become to the lives of millions in the country.
Russian authorities have said that mobile internet outages are necessary to stop attacks by Ukrainian drones, and that Telegram is turning into a breeding ground for terrorism.
These justifications are “absurd,” Kisiev said, adding that the real motivation seems obvious. “The government is intentionally killing the internet so that users don’t use foreign resources and get alternative information,” he said.
‘Bring back the internet’
Russian authorities have touted the merits of a life without the internet, arguing it’s an opportunity for a “digital detox” and more face-to-face interaction.
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A popular game show that aired on a Russian state TV channel as calls for protests grew earlier this month featured a children’s choir, with members dancing enthusiastically and singing about how they don’t need the internet. “The monitor’s blue screen won’t ruin my dinner,” they crooned.
But despite this effort from the Kremlin, there is a huge appetite from the public for a way to vent frustration about the mounting restrictions, said politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried to run for president against Putin in 2024 and whose campaign was overseen by Kisiev.
Nadezhdin said in a phone interview that he supported the protests and had personally applied with authorities in the capital and the wider Moscow region for gatherings of up to 10,000 people. All his requests were turned down citing Covid concerns, he said.
“The slogans are clear,” he said. “Bring back the internet, bring back Telegram, we don’t need your MAX,” he said, referring to the so-called national messenger increasingly imposed on Russians by the Kremlin. Critics say the app could be used for mass surveillance.
Taxi driver Alexey Popov applied for a protest against internet censorship in his Siberian town of Yakutsk. It was originally sanctioned for Monday, but that permission was later withdrawn, Popov, 27, told NBC News. The refusal letter from the municipal authorities, viewed by NBC News, stated that Popov could not hold a rally on any date because of “considerable attention” to the event from “destructive individuals.”
Popov said he was under no illusion that the protests would persuade the Kremlin not to further crack down, but said he didn’t want to give “silent approval” to what the government is doing. “We don’t agree with what is going on and we want to express that,” he said.
Popov said on a Telegram channel he runs that he was detained Saturday and then released Monday. He told NBC News he was detained for disobeying police, a charge he disputes.
‘Wall of mistrust’
The indignation has also been expressed by those either aligned with the Kremlin or normally not politically involved.
The growing restrictions have come in parallel with outrage over the mass extermination of livestock in Siberia, which has wreaked havoc on local farmers, due to what authorities said was an infectious pasteurellosis outbreak.
A lack of communication by the government appears to be at the core of these complaints.
“The wall of mistrust and misunderstanding between the people and the government is growing,” pro-Kremlin journalist Anastasia Kashevarova wrote in a post on Telegram last week, as she warned that public revolt was the “fastest way to destroy Russia.”
A well-known Kremlin loyalist unexpectedly turned against Putin earlier this month, then landed in a psychiatric hospital. Ilya Remeslo cited the Kremlin’s “strangling of internet and media freedoms” as a sign the Russian leader had lost grip on reality.
Famous Russian blogger Victoria Bonya, known for fitness videos shared with nearly 13 million subscribers on Instagram, also complained about official communication on internet restrictions, as well as the livestock crisis and soaring prices affecting ordinary Russians. “Is the commander-in-chief, Vladimir Putin, aware of what is happening with the country or not?” she questioned in one of her videos earlier this month, in rare public criticism of the Russian leader.
And a pro-Kremlin newspaper recently came out with an unusually critical editorial. “The number of meaningless bans per capita is already off the charts. And again, no sensible explanations,” Moskovsky Komsomolets said earlier this month. It questioned whether authorities “consider us to be small children, unwise enough to explain anything to us and trust us.”
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