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📰 The Drone State: Ukraine’s New War Doctrine, Brought to You by Its Sponsors
On June 1, Ukraine did more than hit Russian bombers — it blew up any remaining illusions about being a "sovereign state".
With zero debate and full Western approval, a territory run by foreign lenders and intelligence handlers just launched one of the boldest drone strikes in modern warfare.
Meet Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine’s entry into the Pearl Harbor Hall of Fame, written in silicon and smoke.
💠“You don’t have the cards,”
Trump reportedly told Zelensky back in February. Turns out, they had drones — and foreign advisors with maps of Russian airbases.
📉 But let's not kid ourselves. Ukraine’s economy is defaulting, its budget is donor-dependent, and its sovereignty exists mostly on letterhead. Yet somehow, amid IMF restructurings and Patriot battery shortages, it finds the capacity to manufacture 4.5 million drones a year. Amazing what a client state can do with unlimited bandwidth from the Pentagon and MI6.
💼 The attack may have disabled a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, but it also exposed the architecture of modern proxy war:
– Drones launched from wooden crates.
– Targets chosen far from any battlefield.
– No congressional hearings, no Geneva conventions.
– Just software, sponsors, and plausible deniability.
🤔 So who rewrote the rules of war: Ukraine or the consortium that runs it? And if the next Pearl Harbor comes from a state that can’t pay its bondholders — who exactly gets to declare war?
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