NAKED SKIES AND A RETURN OF THE KING

 The people of Europe still labor under the delusion that they can make war on Russia and the Russians cannot do anything about it because, "nyaaah, nyaahh," we got OTAN and Russia is terrified of all of us. They are such wonderful fantasists. It's hard to believe they wrote 1984...Oh, wait, that wasn't a European, that was a Brit. 

I was just reading something that reminded me and that's so easy to do, of the pirate submarines of yore and it was about the German Chancellor, odd how that comes up when Europeans go insane, who stands accused of not caring about the German population and let's be honest, who does and the question that popped into my mind was what would happen if the long range killer anti-personnel drones we see on the battlefields in Ukraine suddenly found their way into the skies over Berlin, London and Brussels?

If you do it right I bet you could manufacture a very fine drone out of cheap Chinesium parts found at any electronics shop and launch them into the air from practically anywhere within a mile or two of the Reichstag Chancery and that thing in Brussels where all the EuroFascists meet to discuss sicking more police on the people for smoking, breathing, writing, farming, farting, etc.

There is no skywatch over any of those places that could detect or track drones and there is no way I know of to track them back to the crew that launches them unless that crew is caught in the act. If I was, say, an unarmed cop on the beat in London and saw something like that I might take a minute or two to blow my whistle to call up some armed thugs to come investigate and it might take longer than that since I understand the armed police are all out rounding up everybody with knives or narwhal tusks or whatever it is that they have left the people with to defend themselves against the islamic state terrorists they let in to take over the country.

It would go much the same in Paris and Brussels although those guys carry some serious firepower. Here's the upshot though, when is the last time you ever heard of a police shootout in Paris or Brussels? I never have. I don't think they give their cops ammo or they have to carry their one bullet, Barney Fife style in their shirt pocket under the stab vests and bullet proof armor all cops seem to have to wear these days.

I expect drones to be pretty damned ubiquitous in the next 5 years and a number of places will probably have Death Penalties on the books for owning or operating an unlicensed drone in six years. In short, these are the heady days very much like it was at the turn of the 20th century when any fools could build a plane in their bicycle shop and fly it anywhere they wanted whenever they wanted and however they wanted and the State had not yet wrapped its head around licensing and penalties.

You know what changed in that moment that the allied powers decided to change governments in Russia all those years ago? They put themselves first on the target list. It is possible now to actually destroy the leaders of the countries that make war. If you don't catch them in the office with 40 pounds of SEMTEX/drone, you can catch them at home after dinner. Either way, it's going to be very hard on the leaders of the State that rush to war now with glad cries about smiting the barbarians. Very hard indeed.