James Stout
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You can have your Patriot missiles, you can use your C-RAM, you can shoot them down with various weapon systems on an aircraft.
Every group FPV and dropper drones as commercial off-the-shelf drones.
This is the thing, right?
The United States has been supporting Ukraine since before 2022, but it's including since 2022 with the full-scale invasion.
It has not been supporting the revolution in Myanmar, but
Clearly, they have not learned enough from those two conflicts, right, in terms of the use of these small commercial off-the-shelf drones.
And this is now showing up as a weakness in their defence strategy leg.
This is a serious thing for the US government, for someone to be... And for them to just fly a recon drone over the embassy, obviously they now know where everything is.
And for them to publish that footage is like a public, somewhat like humiliation, right?
The sort of security infrastructure.
So finally, I guess a couple more things.
Iran is now militarizing the area of Kurdistan between the Iranian and Iraqi states.
So that's the Iran-Iraq border in Kurdistan, right?
It seems to have issued orders preventing people moving around the region as they habitually would.
People move around because they've always moved around.
People move around with their animals, right?
The Iranian government appears to have ordered its troops to shoot people who it perceives to be moving around without permission.
People often gather near the border with Iraq to access cell signal.
And the government forces appear to have left their bases in the region in favor of occupying the mountains as well as local educational institutions and sports facilities.
So that means that people in towns are now at threat.