Civil War Erupts in Russia between FSB & Russian Oligarchs

the situation inside of russia is deteriorating very very fast russian moms are now turning against putin openly complaining about the special military operation that keeps killing their sons and if history is any proof this one particular group is the one group you do not want speaking up in russia the russian government should be terrified and it's not just russian moms the mayor of moscow russia's main city has now publicly gone against putin's mobilization plan and even russian propagandists the war bloggers are now very openly calling putin a weak leader so to stop all this dissent putin is turning to the one organization that cannot betray him his good old kgb successor the fsb he has handed them unprecedented power and that decision has quietly started a civil war of sorts between the fsb and the russian elite and of course how can i forget there is something mysterious going on in moscow residents just heard something yesterday all over the city from the city center to the outskirts but no one in the government will say what it was this has led to some speculation and one physicist is claiming that it might be something nuclear so what was this was it a nuclear test that went horribly horribly wrong well let's get into all that and of course i want to show you that sound that everyone heard in moscow but before that let me show you everything that went boom inside of russia here's our new segment last night ukraine continued its strike campaign on russia's wildberries logistical facility in moscow this is where the attack took place this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow this is where the attack took place in moscow and that's because before these drones take off from ukraine or wherever they are getting launched from from from ukrainian operators actually program their ukrainian operators actually program their ukrainian operators actually program their drones to drones to drones to go in a specific way so they can avoid go in a specific way so they can avoid go in a specific way so they can avoid air defenses and the anti-gun fire that air defenses and the anti-gun fire that air defenses and the anti-gun fire that we can hear in the background here and we can hear in the background here and we can hear in the background here and now this drone is just flying around now this drone is just flying around now this drone is just flying around flying around it falls right there and flying around it falls right there and flying around it falls right there and here we see the second strike and if we here we see the second strike and if we here we see the second strike and if we go back earlier in the video we can hear go back earlier in the video we can hear go back earlier in the video we can hear the anti-air defense gunfire basically the anti-air defense gunfire basically the anti-air defense gunfire basically talking about drones let's look at the talking about drones let's look at the talking about drones let's look at the most recent innovation that ukrainians most recent innovation that ukrainians most recent innovation that ukrainians have done on the front lines now as you have done on the front lines now as you have done on the front lines now as you guys know drones have been used very very heavily not just in the long range strikes but also on the front lines. On the front lines they're mainly using FPV drones but even then we have seen innovations as to how they're being operated. Before these drones were just being connected using some kind of signal whether it be wi-fi or something else but that led to the other side jamming that signal they would do some counter electronics warfare where you just could not communicate with the drone and this is when Russians were the first ones to come up with the fiber optic solution where they would connect the drones directly to the operator with the fiber optic cable that way you cannot jam it. Now Ukrainians also copied it and there's been multiple different innovations that Ukrainians have come up with where they can either cut the fiber optic cable so the drone falls down or like this new one where Ukrainians have a drone that's flying around with a net equipped on it and that net does something interesting when it sees a Russian drone take a look. So the thing you see in front of you is a Russian drone and we're watching the POV from the Ukrainian drone. There's the net. The net basically makes it impossible for the wings to keep flying or keep circling I guess rotating so the drone cannot fly and just falls down. Definitely interesting but what's even more interesting at least to me is that this is one of those innovations where Ukrainian drone is not getting destroyed during the mission it's still flying even after so they can reuse that drone a lot. Now I doubt this is a very expensive drone maybe a few hundred dollars so I don't think Ukrainians care that much if they lose the drone but nonetheless definitely something that's interesting. And in this next look we can see that the Ukrainian drone is flying around with a net so that's a very interesting thing. Now in this next look we can see the aftermath not technically aftermath but rather the fire that burns at a Walbury warehouse after a strike. And take a look this fire is intense. Now of course these these warehouses are massive they're like multiple football fields some of them are like 50 football fields in one warehouse so when the whole thing gets destroyed that fire that's not easy to put out and sometimes that fire goes on for days and that has led to some Ukrainian attacks. So in this next look we can see the aftermath not technically accounts making some memes. And this is the funniest one I have seen, where they have a new suggestion for a Russian flag. The top of the flag will be replaced with all the refineries and everything else that Ukraine is hitting. And it just brightens up the Russian skyline, as you can see here. Now, as I promised, I want to show you guys the aftermath of what this facility, aka warehouse, looks like after the fire has been put out. It's not a pretty sight. So here's the satellite imagery. In this first image, you can see the before. This is on August 1st. So before the strike. And you can see the warehouse just standing like any other warehouse. The strike takes place on August 4th and 5th. It takes place in the night, and that's why we have two different days. But this is what it looks like after. Pretty much the whole thing has burnt away. And this was in the city of Tula, which was a recent strike. Now, this next image we have is from Moscow, the Moscow region. And this warehouse in Elekterstal was the biggest warehouse that Ukraine has hit so far. This is the second biggest warehouse that the company has, Walburys. But this is the biggest that has been hit and destroyed. And take a look at what the aftermath looks like. This strike took place in July 18th. And now from the satellite, pretty much everything is burnt down. There's some segment here that's not burnt down, and there's some here. But outside of that, I would say at least 85% of the facility is now pretty much unusable. They have to rebuild it. And of course, Ukraine's logistical lockdown campaign is also ongoing, meaning Russia is having a very hard time resupplying Crimea and also resupplying troops on the front lines. And here we have more clips from the official defense of Ukraine account that shows us what has taken place in the last few days. Let's just watch some of these. Here we can see a supply truck getting hit by a drone. Then we can see another one from the back. And then here we have a fuel tanker or fuel truck getting hit by a drone. Now, in the last video, we talked about how often now Russians are sending air defense trucks. So there are air defense units with the same type of equipment that we have in Ukraine. And in this video, we're going to talk about how many air defense units we have in Ukraine. And in this video, we're going to talk about how many but sound doesn't travel through a vacuum. So the sound from there couldn't have reached us. That's my only assumption. I don't know anything else. - Now, then on top of all this, we have a Russian physicist who also heard this sound and he has a theory of his own and it's a scary one. So I wanna let you guys know that there's no evidence that this guy provides. He's just pontificating, you know, he's just coming up speculating. Now he says that since there was no smoke, it could be a nuclear sound or a nuclear blast. And he has a historical comparison to Russia's Tsar bomb that he uses to back up his fact. Take a listen. - Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to scare anyone regarding today's blast wave in Moscow, but as a physicist, something tells me that if nothing hit us, nothing caught fire and there was no smoke, then perhaps it was something nuclear. But again, I'm not going to claim that this is definitely the case. I'll just remind you that during the Tsar Bomba test, the shock wave circled the earth several times. - Now, hopefully Russians do get some kind of real confirmation on this very soon. But honestly, even if this turns out to be nothing, Putin has a much bigger problem on his hand. The worst of the worst case scenario for him is starting to become a reality. And to understand why I say this might be the worst case scenario, we have to understand how the Soviet Union's last war actually ended. And that war actually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Here's a brief recap. When the Soviet Union went into Afghanistan, it got stuck there for 10 years. And the reason it finally had to shut down that war was because Russian mothers started protesting against the government. Guess what? Something similar is happening against Putin. He's stuck in the same kind of quagmire. Take a listen. Now, I remember last time I said, we're not going to bleep any F-bombs in the video, but, the editor ended up bleeping it anyway. But don't worry. That's not going to happen this time. I've already asked the editor to not bleep it. So take a listen. It's uncensored. Now here's the clip. - Morons who support this fucking war. The ones who are waiting for the goals of the SMO to be achieved. All of you who want this war, go fucking die there. A missile just flew over my child's kindergarten. First, the missile alert went off. My child knows what the siren means. I already don't like that my child is forced to live in a world where they know the words missile threat. We didn't even make it into the kindergarten before a missile flew low overhead. Maybe it was flying to kill Ukrainian children. Maybe it was flying to kill ours. My child fell down the stairs and got terribly scared. He had a panic attack. He didn't know what to do, but he understood that it wasn't a little airplane. It wasn't a helicopter. It was a missile. He recognized the sound. He rushed to the steps outside the kindergarten. He started crying uncontrollably. He was terrified. There is nothing in this world, fucking nothing, that is worth my child's tears. I'm calling on everyone who still supports this. Everyone who still wants this fucking bloodshed. You are not only damaging children's mental health, you are ruining their lives. My child has a good childhood. He has a little bicycle. We go swimming in the river. Besides those warm childhood memories, he will also remember lying down on the ground. He will remember lying down on the steps in fear, because a missile was flying through the sky above his kindergarten. To those who started this, be cursed. But even more, I curse those who continue it. Those who pick up their weapons every fucking day and go kill other people. I've already made it home. The missile threat alert has ended, but I'm still furious. This has been happening to us for close to five years. Two people, just two, cannot resolve their little issues through diplomacy. And they are sacrificing the lives of children and innocent children. And I'm talking about people on both sides. I live 100 kilometers from Ukraine, you understand? I was lucky that I saw a missile for the first time in five years. People living in the border areas on both sides have probably seen much more. I try to share this with people here in my town, but no one supports me. It's easier to blame me, the one who is unhappy with what's happening, than to blame those bastards who started this and keep it going. And it's a small town. There aren't even 18,000 people here. Because I run a blog, people here know me quite well. And most of them have stopped talking to me. I am deeply outraged. I was outraged, and I will continue to be outraged. I will call a war a war. I will say that it is wrong, that it is grief, pain, and filth. And I will always call on people to choose peace. One moment, we hope it will all be over soon. Other times, we feel completely hopeless. I tried so hard to stay close to my parents and not have to leave for somewhere else. How am I supposed to leave? Am I supposed to keep exposing my children to this? Where my child is crying because he knows a missile is flying overhead? I simply say no to war. Now, as I mentioned before, mothers are a very powerful group in any country. But in Soviet Union, they actually have a track record of forcing the state to bend. It starts with the Soviet Union. When the mothers started protesting against the Afghanistan war, then they created this organization called the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers. And that organization had a very big impact. They became the first civilian rebel against the state that was actually successful because the state did change its policy because of those protests. The same thing actually happened in Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. When Russia went into Chechnya for the first Chechen war, this Committee of Soldiers' Mothers actually became active again. It started protesting against conscription. And then Yeltsin's government actually bent once again. They stopped conscripting young people. They stopped conscripting students. And guess what? During this time, Putin was actually active. In Russia's politics. So he saw this personally and he remembers all this. And this is exactly why ever since he has gone into Ukraine, he has been very careful not to let a movement like this ever start again because he knows what it can lead to. So whenever we see clips like this one, we have to watch out and understand what it really means. For Putin, this could lead to something much, much bigger. But unfortunately, this is not the only problem little Vladimir has to deal with. Powerful people inside of Moscow are also speaking up. And when I say powerful, I really mean it. I mean the mayor of Moscow. This is a guy that many people have speculated may be the successor to Putin. And now he's publicly saying that he does not support the mobilization plan that many people in the Kremlin are already speculating about or talking about. And this is something we covered before where many people, many experts believe that after the elections in Russia, which will take place I think late September, Putin has a plan to mobilize at least half a million men to send them to the front lines. Well, the mayor says this is actually the wrong plan. It's going to ruin the economy. And it's going to make sure that Russia loses this war. Take a listen. We constantly hear talk about the need to mobilize everything, to put the entire economy on a war footing and so on. But the modern economy is structured differently. If there is no peacetime economy, if there are no taxes, no personal income, and the political situation is completely different, we will not succeed in the war. And to kill life, to kill a normal economy is to kill the country itself. That's why these are pointless talks that come from people who don't understand how a modern economy or modern warfare is conducted. Modern warfare is fought on two fronts. First, the actual battlefield. And second, the country's healthy, stable economy. Without this, victory is impossible. Now, I will be honest, this was a war. And I will be honest, this was a war. that i don't know if he's just saying this publicly for propaganda for the domestic audience but we know one thing the reality does not match up with what putin has been saying now since late last year he has done this thing multiple times where he dresses up in military clothes and then he gives this big speech about how russia just captured a new city in ukraine and then you actually look at the front lines you realize that he's lying it's either one of the two things that have happened first is of course some russian soldier put up one flag in a new city one guy and putin claims that russia now controls the city when in reality that's not what's happening as soon as that flag goes up a ukrainian drone comes in and takes care of that russian soldier and russia doesn't control anything in the city anymore even though according to putin the city is under russian control so either that's happening or sometimes even worse russian soldiers are still outside the city they're fighting in the gray zone and putin claims that hey city is under russian control he's just straight up lying now every time something like this happens russian propagandists always blame people around putin they never want to criticize putin directly they always say that hey this is because people who are giving information to putin they are lying or this is because people are giving him bad advice he just doesn't know better but they never want to criticize the czar directly but this guy has given up all that pretension he's just going directly after putin saying publicly that he's a weak leader he's not running this war properly and of course let's not forget this guy is not someone who's against the war he wants russia to take over ukraine he wants putin to go even harder just like start killing as many civilians as putin can but he doesn't think putin has what it takes to run a war and that's why he's criticizing him now guess what the weakness part is actually true putin's rule has become weaker and putin himself knows this he can feel the position he's in and that's exactly why he's actually giving up more and more power to the fsb to make sure that he stays in power and this is actually creating a very problematic situation with the russian elite let me show you what i mean this is a new report that bloomberg just came out with take a look putin looks to fsb hardliners to keep wartime elites in line according to this report many of russia's elites increasingly fear that the fsb is out of control now that putin has tasked the agency with maintaining his grip on power amid growing unease over this war the prime example of fsb abusing its power is the telegram ceo situation he's a russian billionaire he was born in russia telegram i think was founded in russia he was born in russia he was born in russia and now that guy has been charged with terrorism and why did he get this charge well because he did not want to delete ukrainian group chats on telegram telegram is this big messaging app that a lot of people use i think they have over a billion users and that means there are ukrainians and russians who use it in fact during this war the use of telegram has exploded for everyone who's been involved in this war directly or indirectly now putin doesn't want ukrainian group chats on the app that was owned by a russian guy or at least a guy who was born in russia so putin tried putting pressure on this guy to delete those group chats but when he said no he was charged with terrorism now of course it wasn't putin directly who made this decision it was the fsb but it makes sense why putin is trusting this organization so much everyone remembers that putin used to be a kgb agent before he got in politics but what people forget is that after he got in politics kgb was transformed into fsb so kgb basically became fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and putin became the president of the fsb and FSB just gaining more power and there being no checks on its power. There's no like checks and balances, no other organization or other institution that can control what FSB says. They basically now have unlimited power inside of Russia. Take a look at this specific comment from a Russian source. This talks about FSB's second department. This department is responsible for combating terrorism and upholding Russia's political order and they've been now given free rein to investigate anyone with little or no accountability. This was the directorate or this was the group that went after the Telegram founder. The same directorate jailed Ilya Remslov. This is a pro-Kremlin war blogger that we have covered before. He called on Putin to be tried for war crimes or even hanged for war crimes and now he's in jail just for that comment. And on top of that this is the group that's responsible for anti-war politician Boris Nazadin who just left the country. This guy ran against Putin in 2024. And then few weeks after that he was convicted of extremism because he put up a picture of Alexei Navalny and then he was declared a foreign agent just this month or just last month. And then when he feared for his life he went to France so he can be safe and he can continue his criticism and his opposition to Putin from someplace where he doesn't have to worry about the FSB. The same second directorate is going after business tycoons. It's confiscating property from other people and sometimes even distributing it to loyalists. So if there's a billionaire who's pissing off Putin and there's a billionaire who's like supporting Putin, his money will just go to that guy because he's supporting the regime. And of course they're going after normal people too. That means physicists, researchers, actors, anyone who's speaking out. Now for Russian elites this is not a good situation because even though they're profiting from a war they don't really have anywhere else to go because of sanctions and they don't want to live in a country that's becoming more and more authoritarian. More and more like the Soviet Union. And that's why some of these elites are now giving interviews to Western media talking about how much power the FSB has actually gained under Putin. Especially now that this war is not really going according to plan. So more and more people are criticizing Putin and in return Putin is just giving more power to the FSB to calm down the criticism if you know what I mean. Now moving on, on this week's Battlefield Breakdown episode we had Houston's own David Stevens. He's a former US Navy commander, a former strike operations officer for the Persian Gulf and now an author. He's been following this Ukraine war very closely ever since his begin. 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So if you would like in-depth analysis while helping us continue the work, you can click the first link in the description. To sign up or you can head over to basicsinsider.com. We would love to have you. Now let's get into the segment. This is very impressive. It's a it's definitely a look at what I would consider almost a micro aircraft carrier. A drone that has the ability to launch other drones, evade targets and it can even be a kamikaze, something that a carrier does not like to do. Just go straight in and they didn't have anything like that right? That's the coolest part I'm sure for you too because you probably followed the Navy stuff a lot closely than most people. They had no Navy at the start of this invasion and now. And relatively inexpensive. You'll notice in some of the footage that they launched the drones and then they put up a mast, an antenna mast to actually direct them. They also have option of fiber optics for reduce the chance of jamming. One thing that really struck me, we'll probably see it in some of the other video clips. They actually have rocket launchers mounted on this thing and they have mounted an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on one of these things. That's what I used to carry on the F-18. The F-18 wingtips, you have two Sidewinder missiles designed to shoot down other aircraft. That's pretty incredible. And they have, as I understand it, shot down two aircraft. Yeah, that's insane. Just recently, I think U.S. confirmed something, Joint Chiefs of Command. Is that right? phrasing he confirmed an f-16 shot down su-35 which is russia's highest level of aircraft absolutely but this was this barracuda drone that actually shot down a russian aircraft from the drone for these naval drones do they still rely on fiber optic or no no fiber optic from the c drone to the fpv drones that it launches now i don't i don't think they need that because you see that giant mass that comes out of the deck yeah that's i'm sure the transmitting receiving and then they use satellite of course to go from the ship back to the controllers yeah that's insane and also i'm sure you have seen all the operation that ukraine is carrying out hitting all the tankers in black sea and sea vaza something interesting i just learned is like not a single sailor is being put at risk from the ukrainian side and they have taken down nearly 200 tankers now absolutely and you'll notice in these video clips that uh first of all they're evading gunfire uh and they've been dropping bombs but they're targeting the rudder and the propulsion system of these tankers and that's very important because you really don't want to punch a hole in the side of a tanker especially if it's in your your own area of water you don't want to create giant oil spills and fires i mean that's a massive explosion though yeah yeah it probably doesn't always work obviously the tankers do catch on fire but you really don't want to have them leaking especially if that's uh coastal waters that you share yeah no ukraine has uh has it clarified that they're not trying to they're just disabling these tankers so they can't operate anymore not trying to damage the oil inside or anything yep and oh this is uh some iranian clips which i guess you'd be able to share more on this since you were there for a while uh u.s naval suicide drones hitting iranian docks and this is oh a month old yeah that's a fairly new technology that we're using um and we're not the u.s military and fencing is not a new technology we're not using a new technology it's not a new technology it's not a new technology it's not a new technology it's not a new technology is not too proud to learn from ukraine and other countries including uh iran a lot of the drones that we're now uh putting in theater are basically shahed drones that we've upgraded and improved and sending right back at them do we know what what is the upgrades by any chance most of it is autonomous systems ability to completely ignore jamming and higher speeds maneuverability and stealth barracuda yep that's like the micro aircraft carrier now there you can see the launching racks on the back of it not all of them have it but they can fire unguided rockets but they've also like i said mounted heat-seeking missiles that we normally carry on fighters so it can go that high this might be a stupid question so they can hit a fighter jet that's like in air or just on it oh well they've used uh it's kind of like mad man pad systems you've seen the shoulder launch missiles yeah there's a whole series of them they've used a kind of like man pad systems you've seen the shoulder launch missiles there's a whole series of them both russian american and others these things can be fired from the shoulder they have limited range they can only hit aircraft that are fairly low altitude the aim 9 is even more powerful and longer range it's also a lot more sophisticated oh also we can see a drone getting launched from here right now after this clip i'm sure that's what it says there now you're seeing the rockets firing from the back of the ship yeah that's its defensive system there's the antennae mask and camera and there's a drone coming out yeah off they go so those drones are being linked back to the mothership and then the mothership is satellite linking back to the operator that's crazy because i i don't know if you remember we covered how china was trying to build something like this like a year ago and ukraine was able to do it before anyone else yeah when uh when it's your life at risk in your country you're highly motivated you innovate a lot faster oh by the way i don't know if you saw this we covered this recently they're approving two new drone designs per day for 2026. that's insane no that's incredible that really is nice and that's the stuff the stuff that we need to learn from but that's also so hard because uh us was also innovating i mean this we're still innovating right but during cold war the innovation was like at an extreme level even during world war ii that's so hard to replicate when you're not at war would you say that or would you disagree with that no absolutely there's no question about it um and we tend to have a lot more momentum in our military industrial climate complex but under the current secretary of defense he's been running around to defense contractors and basically poking him to do exactly that yeah and this is i guess this is getting into a little bit the business side but i've seen some ceos from these companies talk about it's like for them the biggest reason to like you know go more heavy in production is just like if government actually starts putting in orders instead of just saying hey we need an increased production because for these ceos they have other incentives too they don't want to spend too much money on a new factory if they don't have a guaranteed money like a return on investment no that's pretty much the way it works um i don't think it's a problem right now we're going through quite a bit of ordinance incredibly fast yeah that's true which is insane okay this next clip is a fpv terminal guided drone that goes into a russian boat this is important um you've got the human operator acquiring the target and then passing it off to an ai expert system to continue the the prosecution and when there's jamming the system is now completely autonomous oh wow and you can see it's very effective the target is maneuvering i assume it probably knows it's being tracked but uh you know ai system is faster so this is something actually i want to learn more about too did you see recently cia director ratcliffe also confirmed that a russian lifespan on the front line is 20 30 minutes i saw and he said it's because of ai so how else are they using so this one makes perfect sense when the pilot loses control ai takes over okay is that what it is go ahead you explain because i don't know that's very true if you notice most of the fpv video footage you see as it gets closer to the target movements get kind of jerky it looks kind of unstable and it's not going to be able to move it's going to be able to move it and then of course everything goes blank that's because for a human operator think about this from any aircraft carrier pilot will tell you this half mile out it's no big deal you're off by a bit who cares the closer you get to land on that aircraft carrier the smaller your corrections have to be and the faster they have to be and a human is only capable of so much speed that's why landing on a carrier at night is the stupidest thing i've done more than once the same thing happens though when you're trying to guide something to a target you're trying to literally fly it to the target the corrections get tinier and tinier and faster and faster so a lot of the fpv videos it's all over the place and you're thinking holy cow is it going to hit and then it makes a last minute dive and maybe it hits and maybe it doesn't by adding ai to the system you can tighten that out because it can respond faster now it's not acquiring the target it's doing just the terminal guidance phase but that's a whole other discussion we are moving towards target acquisition by ai and that brings in a whole bunch of other factors yeah the debate is still ongoing okay that makes sense i guess that same thing that you just explained could be applied on the front lines too right where the last second ai just takes over it doesn't really have to be interference or electronic warfare it just takes over just because it's easier for ai to do than humans it is and i don't know what the trade-off is operators may still feel that they can do a good job and may not turn it over the trouble with doing ai acquisition and by the way ai acquisition has only really become possible fairly recently you know people look at 20 30 years ago ai was able to beat the best chess masters but they couldn't catch a baseball or drive a car well guess what today you can drive a car all the way across the united states optimist robots can throw and catch a baseball that type of ability allows autonomous acquisition but now you're potentially taking the human out of what they call the kill chain the decision to prosecute or not there's some concerns there for sure i'm sure there's going to be a heavy debate here in the united states and people try to find right answers right even if they disagree the goal is to get the right answer other countries may not have that debate like doesn't it we don't even have to talk about like china or russia i don't know if ukraine can have that debate especially with like the man-in-law and the man-in-law and the man-in-law manpower they have compared to russia's manpower they need to embrace it a lot faster than like other countries oh absolutely um and they're facing an opponent that doesn't have hardly any moral limits by the way we do have some of these autonomous systems they do operate even autonomous fighters but they're still really in the prototype stage like i said there's some concerns about turning over kill decision making and sending something off to a prosecuted mission we're not backed by billionaires corporations or political parties we don't get funding from anyone with an agenda everything you hear is made possible only because of people like you who actually care about the truth unlike the legacy outlets we don't have donors telling us what we cannot talk about we call it like it 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