Putin confident in victory, project Ukraine failed and Europe failed

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On anti FPV drone warfare, two suggestions:

TETHERED drones. Each vehicle should have a sizable companion drone tethered to it electrically as well as by data wire. Fying along with the vehicle without battery constraints. From above it would detect incoming FPV drones and take them out with machine guns, shotguns, releasing small ramming drones, EW or whatever weaponry works best.

WIRE CUTTING drones. Such drones should be placed on the ground along a perimeter, using cameras and microphones to detect FPV drones passing by. Radio controlled have to fly above tree tops, hills, buildings to not lose contact. But wired drones can fly low even through a forest or a town. When detected, these anti-drones would take off and simply cut the FPV drone's fibre optics wire, and then return to its station waiting for the next one.

I'm convinced this ridiculous FPV drone phenomena will soon not be a thing anymore. Geran type cruise drones is another thing.

An Analysis of Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day Comments by Alexander Mercouris.

Putin’s press conference yesterday was interesting because it highlighted his deep feeling of anger and betrayal by Europe.

(1) He reminded the journalists (all Russians) that the crisis began with the EU insisting Ukraine ratify an Association Agreement incompatible with Ukraine’s free trade agreement with Russia. When Ukraine demurred the Maidan coup was the result;

(2) He said Europe’s objective in 2022 was to engineer Russia’s collapse so that the Europeans would be able to help themselves to its parts. In a truly extraordinary passage, he spoke of Finland joining NATO in order to participate in the plunder;

(3) He gave a very bitter account of the events of April 2022 and of the failure of the Istanbul Agreement.

Briefly: He revealed for the first time that it was Macron who called him and tricked him into pulling Russian troops back from Kiev, telling him that “the Ukrainians could not be expected (to sign ...