I think combat drones will go full autonomous this year, as a means of overcoming control signal jamming.
It will be limited-mission autonomy, and only as a capability not the default operational mode, but there will be a huge push to make the newest drones capable of continue the mission in the event of lost connection with their remote controller.
It will also be necessary because of the sheer numbers of drones involved in the Ukraine war. There simply won’t be enough pilots.
Obviously, autonomy already exists. Iron Dome operates autonomously, because attackers have the initiative, the robot is required for fast-enough response.
The fuckingcapitalists and goddamnedfascists will render genocidejoe unelectable and there will be more death chaos and destruction at their insistence.
Iran-Israel (not entirely sure how that’ll work since they’re not directly adjacent)
North Korea-South Korea
I see the world coalescing into two major axes of power: “the West” and Western aligned/allied nations comprising US/UK/EU/Australia/Israel/Japan/S. Korea on one side. Largely Democracies or Parliamentary systems.
On the other: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran. Largely Autocracies, and one Autocracy with Chinese Characteristics™. All four have beef to pick with Western countries. They might press their advantages if they see that Western support for each other wavers (Ukraine and Israel). We’re already seeing them warm in relations with each other (Putin/Kim visit, arms deals between Russia/China and Russia/N. Korea). They might form their own NATO style Bloc which would be stronger than the paper tiger that is the CIS. Combined, they may very well have the ability to split the West’s priorities if internal division is strong.
I think it’s going to get even more tense the further this decade goes on. The dice that is the US Presidential election may decide the next big moves of these nations.
Don’t forget Pakistan and India and their weird alliances. Though I think the possible war part is on hold because of the floods.
As for China they are probably shitting their pants when they saw what corruption did to the Russian military. They have to crack down on corruption, make sure their military is up to actual snuff, which pushes back any invasion hope.
China invades Taiwan and the US helps defend them.
China’s president Xi Jingping’s remarks about taking Taiwan back over during his address to the nation this year.
I work with someone who is currently high ranking in a corporation and is a retired submariner who was also in intelligence and is currently in the reserves. He has mandatory federally protected training upcoming this year over this exact scenario (basically, not all of their training is federally protected, meaning an employer can’t retaliate over taking time off to do mandatory training). The military is obviously convinced it’s a real possibility.
If recent history is any indication (it’s not, but it’s fun to think about), the craziness won’t even start for a few weeks/months:
March 2014: MH370 disappeared. March 2015: Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 is intentionally crashed in the Alps. April 2016: The Panama Papers are leaked/published. February 2017: The Oscars’ presenters forget how to read. February 2018: Parkland, Florida school shooting. March 2019: The Boeing 737 Max is effectively banned from flights after a string of crashes. March 2020: Covid doesn’t start, but finally comes to a breaking point and restrictions are implemented across the US. March 2021: The container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal. February 2022: Russia invades Ukraine. February 2023: US Air Force shot down a Chinese spy balloon.
Actual aliens will land and just be like “y’all need to chill the fuck out.” And then quarantine the whole planet so we don’t fuck up the rest of the galaxy until we get our collective shit together.
I feel like if aliens rolled in it’d be violent somehow. Either some QAnon type schizoid takes shots at Intergalactic Franz Ferdinand and we get absolutely fucked in the war, or they land solely to tell us they’re taking over.
But maybe I’m just looking at Earth’s history of colonization of the various countries a bit too closely.
You might be joking but a lot of indications are pointing at this. There has been a lot of buzz in the UAP community for the past three or four years and even some members of Congress are now starting to ask questions.
A congressman was interviewed a couple of days back and he was talking about a debriefing that he got from two Air force pilots that were flying just off the coast of Florida. They recently upgraded their radar systems and they’ve been detecting a lot of anomalies and have encountered craft that are behaving in ways that as of now we don’t consider possible. He said with no quibble in the interview that the US or other foreign Nations have no equivalents of these crafts.
Now whether we’re talking aliens, extra dimensional beings or non-human intelligence is anyone’s guess but something is coming down the pipeline.
Yeah they shot down like 3 UFOs and a Chinese spy balloon. One of the UFOs was likely a hobby craft (the one in Alaska was likely a middle school science project). But the other two remain to be explained.
A year later and we’re back to just not talking about any of this, like usual.
They flew across the boundary between parallel universes, and if you can’t think of a reason to visit another civilization I hope you never get put in charge of planning the family vacation.
Now whether we’re talking aliens, extra dimensional beings or non-human intelligence is anyone’s guess but something is coming down the pipeline.
With how, just… Uncool everything turns out once it’s scientifically explained, that thing is probably nothing more than sasquatch. Instead of something that would change our very perceptions of reality, we just get a new species of primate that has somehow eluded capture for a long time.
Yup, the radicalized ones became radicalized through the Internet - there is no specific place in the country that is “safe” because literally anywhere may house a zealous believer ready to get pushed over the line.
Like tens of thousands of little terrorist sleeper cells.
The lack of snowpack in the US plus ocean temps that are already 6σ over historical averages are probably going to make for an “interesting” summer. As a result, I suspect crop failures are going to get a lot more coverage this year.
This is the real scenario, right here. Everyone is so focused on increased disaster occurrences that it feels like this is invisible - until its not. Last summer Alberta was under drought conditions, and overall crop yields were 67% of the 5-yr average.
Less and less snowpack means less and less water to deal with worse and worse drought conditions.
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