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How long until this headline means what I considered it might, being already familiar with the backstory?

That an earth first movement decides a line has now been crossed and the gloves are coming off, and e.g. uses a swarm of cheap disposable kamikaze drones to sink a few hundred ships in one 3:10am coordinated unattributed assault?

KSR's The Ministry for the Future evokes this scenario, and makes plain the ethical reasoning behind it...

...we are all just waiting for someone with the resources to e.g. fly their personal 787-8 overhead, to decide that watching from the sidelines is not patriotic, for some value of patriotism.

I place my chip on within four years.




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