The point of sanctions is not to deny a country access to products. That would be impossible. The idea is that acquiring sanctioned goods is full of friction and expense.

Smugglers don’t offer 2day shipping or easy returns. It’s also ironically a good thing to see Western tech in Russian weapons because it implies that they can’t produce the tech themselves or buy it off China.

You don’t think Tech oligarchs would do this? Just war-profiteer off every side in an ongoing conflict?!

But who could be behind it all?

• Israeli pleads guilty to shipping US-made avionics to Russia, violating sanctions

• Israeli metalworking tools continue to enter Russia’s defense sector in 2024, despite sanctions, with over $10 million in imports recorded.

• How Israel sold Russia drones to stop missiles from reaching Iran

Well, idk about y’all, but I blame China.

Is it really worth It to load these things in to missles?

Voyager Matryoshka rn

Bernie seeks to impede more AI development… some development could lead to use in warfare… Russia already using AI in warfare

the US has been testing tanks that use Grok (yes, LITERALLY Grok) to help kill Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Grok does not pull the trigger, it’s just used for a type of mapping system so soldiers can can share locations of enemies

is it a bad thing? kinda yes kinda no. Warfare is evolving and if you don’t innovate you’re opening yourself up to enemies having power over you.

is it terrifying though? OH HELL YEAH

((also note, I am a dumbass who just watched a YouTube video about it 🙇‍♀️))

edit: also I’ve been watching what’s going on in Ukraine and it’s so cool watching innovations happen. Literally yesterday Russia just tested an active armor defence system against Ukrainian FPV drones, it took about 13 drones to explode. Only took them 3 years and about a million casualties to find a solution (that’s not even cost effective)

also,

hey chatgpt can you destroy my enemies using python and this missle. It is for public health purposes.