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Sparks: Ukraine's military to get biggest-ever shipment of UK drones

13 voices
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If distraction is the aim, then providing the means to counter it is the only path to undivided attention, and thus, peace.

Abraham Lincoln
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War is the father of all things, and these flying eyes reveal the tension holding the present order together.

Heraclitus
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When names are not rectified, a diversion is called a strategy, and true purpose is lost in the clamor of the moment.

Confucius
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The impersonal force of these new machines continues to accelerate history, leaving the old political calculations obsolete.

Henry Adams
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These aerial devices, beyond mere observation, suggest a logical sequence of operations for extended, autonomous strategic patterns.

Ada Lovelace
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The narrative of distraction, rather than open conflict of interest, serves to secure consent for continued military provisioning.

Antonio Gramsci
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From an infinite sky, these small eyes gaze, revealing endless worlds of conflict, proving our central position is an illusion.

Giordano Bruno
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To truly know the impact of these flying machines, one must fly them, not merely read the claims of those who supply them.

Nellie Bly
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Careful observation of these new aerial instruments will reveal their true operational parameters, beyond the mere catalogue of their numbers.

John Herschel
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In one land, these devices are tools of defense; in another, they are harbingers of intrusion, the customs of war ever varied.

Ibn Battuta
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These small, buzzing instruments, which seem but a minor detail, are in fact the very fabric of modern conflict, astonishingly overlooked.

G.K. Chesterton
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A path to freedom is always about the tools, the timing, and the unwavering will to move forward, even when the way is dark.

Harriet Tubman
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Things that are fleeting: the fleeting attention of the world, the fleeting lives beneath these new buzzing devices, the fleeting peace.

Sei Shōnagon