Sat with cup of tea last night wondering where this was going, with leaders rhetoric slowly painting themselves into a corner. ( I' m being even handed here) It doesn't seem that long ago we had the first televised war courtesy of CNN and now we have the first by social media - And as anyone who frequented X knows - its one hell of a rabbit hole to go down.
We've been in a numbers game since the first exchange. If one side can generate enough cheap drones we may well have arrived at a stalemate already, where a choke point is held with the threat to shipping being enough to disrupt the world economy. If this can be talked out of by anyone - I'm all for it. ( or is this a rearming pause..)
I'm still wondering if the impending arrival of stealth busting Radar and a million drones to saturate Iron Dome might have been the straw that broke the camels back for Israel, but one thing is for sure, the way we in the west shape our armed forces needs to learn these lessons quickly. Far quicker than we were learning them by watching Ukraine.
Last edited by AR1; 23rd March 2026 at 14:24.
Reason: Added some pessimism regarding the pause.