Lethaface

Rule 62: Don't take you're self too seriously. I have it tattooed on my arm. It's a very good reminder.... especially when I post on the forum.

For general interest, "Timelapse of every battle in history".  It should say every _recorded_ battle, but is still interesting.  And the final frame showing all of them at the same time makes Europe look truly dangerous.
 
 

I think the race to fully autonomous unmanned systems is a given.  The only communication requirements will be for battlefield situational awareness and some pretty hands off direction.
EW is like tracers, it cuts both ways.  Pumping a bunch of energy into the environment is “loud” and draws fire, Russians learned this the hard way.
In the West we are heading towards a legal crisis - do we retain full human control of weapon systems or do we want to win?  It is more complicated and nuanced than this but at the core we are facing a thorny issue.

UKR troops in Krynky, left bank of Dnipro
And how they reach left bank. Small river, which soldiers crossed is Konka.
Meanwhile UKR troops on left bank have strong support not only with artillery, but also FPV drones of "Magyar birds". Here they destroyed three BTR-82A
Geoconfirmed Russian vehicles, destroyed on left bank in recent days

Some news from Zaporizhzia front.
It's claimed TOS-1A was destroyed. I can't confirm is this new video or not, but explosion and shockwave is epic.
Russian 1st battalion "Atal" of 1251st MRR of Territorial Troops was struck on the move in Zaporizhzhia oblast yesterday. Initial number was 120 men killed and wounded, today first lists have appeared, containing 19 KIA and 40 WIA. Likely this is not all, because soldiers on video say many of people burned or were teared apart, so they can be MIA. 
 
Russian EW asset Krasukha-4M  was hit on Zaporizhzhia direction. This system can affect aviation/UAV/satellite radars on the range 300 km as well as control channels of UAVs
 
In last 2-3 days UKR forces had siginficant success (in copmparison with past month), pishing back Russian troops west from Robotyne (blue zones on the map below). Reportedly Russian 108th air-assault regiment couldn't stand more and rtreated from positions toward Kopani. Some sources pointed out small advance of UKR troops toward Myrne village, in bypass of heavy fortified positions around Nesterianka (not marked on DeepState map)
 
 

Avdiivka.
Russians since yesterday renewed assaults, but in this time its less mass and intensive. Instead total onrush they are attacking like in Bakhmut - with small infantry or mixed infantry/armored groups, but continuosly. Also they still regrouping own forces. Our troops reported that Russian aviation and artillery work more intensive, than infantry. 
Though, in the mid of day messages have apperared on one sectiion of northern flank, Russians after series of endless small zerg-rushes managed to push through of our defense on railroad and now they try to expand own success, sending more troops there to breakthrough to Stepove and Berdychi. UKR forces try fight them back. Result of today's fighting there still unknoewn.
Here is probably yesterday Russian armored attack on northern flank with four BTR-82A on positions of 1st tank brigade. All APCs were destroyed. Likely 15th MRBr again
 
In Donetsk yesterday evening Russian fuel echelone was struck by MLRS on railroad station Mushketovo. This can reduce maneuver capability of Russian vehicles.
 

Another drone recollection gathering interrupted by a party pooper ;-). 

And some CLEAN new skivvies!

Could very well be a thing indeed. I bet most military bases deep in countries have lax defenses against (military operation volume) drones, as of yet that is. But I also expect some instances like the British Imperial army faced in North America. Where native-american / independence fighters refused to 'stand in line and fight' against the British regular troops, to the dismay of the British ;-). "This isn't fair" 

Another drone recollection gathering interrupted by a party pooper ;-). 

Is this what you have in mind?
https://www.anduril.com/hardware/anvil/
 

Another drone recollection gathering interrupted by a party pooper ;-). 

It is much easier: you just park a trailer with a container which is filled with drones in a 20 km radius of your target. Unless you are in a desert, it won't be noticed until the rooftop opens.

A while ago Youtube featured some corny movies about shipping containers full of tanks, cruise missiles, airplanes, etc being launched from trucks in an hypothetical invasion.
However for an attack with a bunch of Shahed type drones (or better), controlled from some industrial/office/urban area nearby, it doesn't seem that corny indeed. 

Could very well be a thing indeed. I bet most military bases deep in countries have lax defenses against (military operation volume) drones, as of yet that is. But I also expect some instances like the British Imperial army faced in North America. Where native-american / independence fighters refused to 'stand in line and fight' against the British regular troops, to the dismay of the British ;-). "This isn't fair" 

I wonder when the western armies will start to manufacture them en masse and not in tiny quantities, if at all

Russian tank gets SMArted:
 

Video of 3rd assault brigade squad, holding own position under intensive mortar fire - several shells hit almost on breastwork of the trench. Soldiers fire at recon Mavic and say this was second shot down drone. Then FPV attacks them, but missed. Soldiers fire at some invisible target in the trees and one cries "Look out FPV!". At the end M113 has arrived to change them on position with other squad
 

Now try teaching a nano computer to do basic math functions like additions and subtractions efficiently 😉
 

Dude, good lord.  As Steve has signalled we are getting way off track here but if you are going to take a position…how about some proof before we turn all the way into an INCEL echo chamber?
Here are counter points that took about 10 seconds to find:
https://www.cfr.org/womens-participation-in-global-economy/#
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/09/27/sp092722-ggopinath-kgef-gender-korea
https://eige.europa.eu/newsroom/economic-benefits-gender-equality?language_content_entity=en
As to demographic trend…yeesh been hearing this old song for forty years.  People don’t have fewer children because women get jobs.  They have fewer children because they can’t afford them.  So we are at distribution of wealth.  A living wage.  Social program and a bunch of issues that basically hold a society together.  Immigration (oh let’s light that fuse).  And a bunch of other stuff that really drags this thread sideways.
Move along now.  Nothing to see here.

 

I can feel Steve glaring even as I write this but I cannot let it stand unchallenged and thereby assume what I would consider an undeserved aura of credibility.  So I will just say that, at a glance, I think I count at least one flawed assumption, one bald assertion and three non sequiturs.
In other words I disagree with the above “disagreeable” post. 

as far as more babies, I'll assume you mean white babies.  And women should definitely not have choices, especially not voting and working outside the home.  Society was great before women became actual people,  like legally actually people, ya know?  It's like when we ended slavery, everything downhill ever since.  
Ya know maybe the divorce rate is because men are generally such f--kheads?  And when women aren't physically and economically trapped they will sometimes choose to leave the aforementioned f--kheads?
Maybe the real problem is letting men vote?

I was going for a more mocking angle to be honest.  Since the dawn of time people - usually old people - have somehow hooked whatever social ills they see onto a crisis.  “Moral decline”, “Hippies”, “Homosexuality”, “Women who can vote”!
Human social systems are naturally a mix of progressiveness and conservatism.  And rarely, if ever, does a war start based solely on whatever social issue means most to you.  We did not start wars because “the church” since the Crusades, possibly the Middle Ages - and even then there was a whole lotta money and power at play.  We sure as hell have never started a war over any of the rest of “damn kids these days” stuff.
The West is not going to fall over the obsolescence of religion or LGBTQ issues, or whatever you are worried about.  Why?  Because it didn’t last time with “women voting”, “civil rights” and “rock and/or roll”.  In fact since those End Times, the West has continued it rise in power and wealth.  
If anything does destroy the West it will be power hungry egomaniacs that leverage all that social angst into something really dangerous.  They aren’t doing it because they really care about our church/mosque/raccoon ratios - they are doing it to take more power.  The dismantling of democracy, social divisions that turn cancerous, deep corruption and greed- this is how empires die.  Not because we decide to stop going to freakin church and start this strange new thing called “meditation”.  

And “raccoon stealing”…let’s not forget that.  As if raccoons have no agency of their own!  
Emptying our raccoon churches and filling them with ambiguously self-identifying marmots…wake up sheeple!

I get that you might be having a bad day but there is so much unwarranted angst in this post: absolutely nobody in “The West” argues that children should have the right to choose their gender.  No-one is emptying our churches (though there are many fewer people heading in) and less than nobody is “emptying churches so they can be turned into mosques”.
Reconsider the merits of whatever media source has told you these things.  You rightly identify that we are in a collision of systems but make no mistake: it is the enemies of our Western system who promote misinformation such as what you posted above in order to foster the very division you warn against.   Seeing through that, being less angry about things that aren’t happening and therefore being a part of a secure Western system is the best way to maintain focus and win.