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We are ALL righteously outraged by the Colorado Intifada Terror Attack yesterday and we pray for the victims. While we wait to hear more maybe we should talk about the Ukraine drone attacks in different parts of Russia. These attacks using First Person View (FPV) drones destroyed
Russian bombers and changed the way war is waged forever.
The New York Times reported that Russian and Ukrainian representatives met for peace talks today. Can you say awkward?
Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on Monday for peace talks, a day after trading some of the most intense air attacks of the war, but the discussions produced little results beyond an agreement to exchange prisoners and the bodies of fallen soldiers.
Russia and Ukraine had been expected to discuss their respective conditions for a peace deal, or at least a cease-fire, in the second round of negotiations since the two sides resumed direct dialogue two weeks ago.
But while Kyiv had shared its peace terms with Moscow ahead of the meeting, Russia did not reciprocate and presented its terms only on Monday, officials from both countries said. The Ukrainian delegation said it would need a week to review Moscow’s proposal, delaying further discussion.
You can always count on the New York Times to ignore the big old drone in the room. “Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on Monday for peace talks, a day after trading some of the most intense air attacks of the war…” The Times just ignored the surprise/unexpected/game changing drone strikes that Ukraine carried out that changed Russia’s position in the war. Not that I believe either side can win as things stand now.
We should probably mention Senator Dick “DaNang” Blumenthal and Senator Lindsay “Bootlicker Extraordinaire” Graham were just visiting Kyiv to stroll with Volodymyr Zelenskyy just before this happened. Blumenthal and Graham love war as long as they are not fighting.
We note that this latest provocation by the Kiev regime squares in time and meaning withthe draft resolution submitted by US senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal urging that an instance of radioactive contamination in Ukraine be regarded as a pretext for activating…. pic.twitter.com/zLV5PXCugH
— Mani (@Mani1love) June 27, 2023
Just what exactly happened with these First Person View (FPV) drones. The best explanation was in The Economic Times article, “The Ukrainian truck trick: How Kyiv smuggled drones 4,000 km into Russia to strike bases housing nuclear-capable aircraft”:
In what Ukrainian officials have described as the largest single strike on Russian airpower since its full-scale invasion began in 2022, Kyiv on Sunday used drones launched from inside Russia itself — smuggled in trucks and concealed under mobile wooden houses — to destroy or damage over 40 military aircraft at air bases deep inside Russian territory.
The unprecedented operation, dubbed “Web” by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), marked a major escalation in Ukraine’s drone warfare strategy. A Ukrainian military official speaking anonymously to the Associated Press revealed that the attack, which took more than 18 months to plan, was personally overseen by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He didn’t do anything, but he did stay out of their way. More:
In his evening address, Zelenskyy confirmed the use of 117 drones and said the operation was staged from a location right next to a local FSB (Russia’s intelligence agency) headquarters — a symbolic jab at Moscow’s security establishment.
This was no ginormously expensive war machine. No tricked out jet. This was even more tactical than the Israeli beeper operation. How did they do it?
According to the Ukrainian military official, the operation involved first smuggling first-person view (FPV) drones into Russia, where they were assembled into mobile wooden houses mounted on trucks. The drones were concealed under retractable roofs, hidden in plain sight.
“At the right moment, the roofs of the houses were remotely opened, and the drones flew to hit Russian bombers,” the source told AP. Social media videos widely circulated by Russian media appear to corroborate the claim , showing drones rising from container-like compartments on trucks, with debris and panels scattered on surrounding roads. One video even shows men scrambling onto a truck to try and stop the drones from taking off. However, this footage remains unverified.
Check out this video:
Holee shite. That’s diabolical. And then the vehicles themselves self-destructed. Those planes that were destroyed look awfully expensive. Not a good look for Putin. On the other hand, it doesn’t look good for Zelenskyy either. He’s still a little beyotch.
It doesn’t look good for us either. All that farmland near military bases and installations bought by China. An old beater trucker and a couple of drones and gone. The barbarians can defeat a most elite system, if the barbarians can drive a truck.
Exactly…
I don't think the American people understand how dangerous this escalation is regarding our own national security… https://t.co/5MMSwzD82l— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) June 2, 2025
Guess we all better buy more bullets.
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GWB says: No, this isn’t changing warfare forever. This is a tactical change. Lots of people freaking out about a Chinese container ship launching hundreds of thousands of “drones” against us from just offshore or sitting at a pier… and they know very little about any of it. Because people are freaked out about drones. (Because they don’t understand the logistics of container ships.)
What Ukraine did was the same thing as disguising a MRLS as a Fastki Cargoski* semi and sneaking it behind Russian lines. That’s it – ok, the drones are more accurate than MRLS rockets. But this has been done before. But it’s a “new technology” and suddenly everyone thinks it will change warfare forever.
In my short life, I’ve seen at least 3 or 4 “Revolutions in Military Affairs” and all of them didn’t change that much. Very, very few really do.
(* Don’t bother looking that up. I just did the silly Western thing of making something Russian/Soviet by adding “ski” to the end of words.)
GWB says: The unprecedented operation
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud. Haven’t you ever heard of this thing called The Trojan Horse? Same thing, just smaller scale. (I am laughing at the “mobile wooden houses” though. Very Baba Yaga.)
provocation by the Kiev regime
This makes me want to just slap people. Stop it, dude. Russia invaded Ukraine. Pretty much anything short of nuking Moscow is NOT really a “provocation.” It’s just another strike in the war.
This was even more tactical than the Israeli beeper operation.
Oh, please. It was not. They drove trucks into Russia – which has a horribly porous border* – and smuggled drones in. Then they drove those trucks around until they were reasonably close to Russian airbases. The Khobar Towers bombing was about as tough, with the exception of the smuggling part. It probably took 16 months to do the drone smuggling, then a couple of weeks training Ivan, “OK, when you get here, right in front of this sign, you push this button, then run like hellski. Got it?” “Da.” Then, a week of driving around semi-randomly.
<em.And then the vehicles themselves self-destructed.
Again, not a new tactic. Try to prevent them being returned to you or the enemy from reverse engineering things. You always make your super secret toys with a self-destruct mechanism.
On the other hand, it doesn’t look good for Zelenskyy either. He’s still a little beyotch.
How so? He might be a beyotch, but he just made a very savvy military move to lower the strategic threat from Russia. He listened to whomever came up with that idea, which makes him pretty smart.
The barbarians can defeat a most elite system
Heck, I’ve been saying that for ages. We saw that all through the Afghan “war.”
But, seriously… how the heck is China going to send out drones from next to all that farmland and “destroy” it? It would probably be easier to release locusts or some invasive pest that eats everything DeSanto hasn’t genetically engineered against. And they don’t need to drive right up to farms to do that. They could drive a cargo ship full of ammonium nitrate right into a US port and detonate it – similar to what Lebanon and Iran had happen – and get Oklahoma City on a massive scale. They could just weaponize Tren de Argua to attack civilians. Heck, they could – according to some – just drive a carpload of SUVs around and make Global Warming cause a drought and kill all our crops.
Oh, come on. says: Please. This isn’t escalation. Putin started this war by having his paratroopers driving around Kyiv in fake ambulances (and actual war crimes), shooting people. Until the SBU does something similar, Ukraine has been restrained and a model global citizen.
Vince says: “On the other hand, it doesn’t look good for Zelenskyy either. He’s still a little beyotch.”
Amazing analysis, Toni. Are you going for a junior varsity Catturd vibe here? I guess Zelensky and Ukraine should’ve just rolled over years ago and let Russia achieve its takeover of the country. Excitedly waiting for the ‘guest column’ on VictoryGirls by Douglas Macgregor telling us for the 100th time that Ukrainian forces are about to collapse.
CDC says: I was sure Putin told Trump to GFY when the talks failed to stop Russian escalation inside the Ukraine.
American politicians will regret the photo ops,may as well have rode the bomb to the ground.
Dietrich says: “Guess we all better buy more bullets.”
I’m doing my part, reloading as fast as I can. As to the Chinese buying farmland around U.S. military bases, easy peasie, void all sales, refund the money (got to play nice), and lease the land to farmers and ranchers who are American citizens.
And shoot down spy barroons.
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