Replying to Avatar Peter Todd

Really interesting stats from Ukraine's Unmanned System Forces (aka drones).

The big one: the marginal cost to kill or seriously injure a Russian with drones is just $911 USD.

https://nostr.download/1cbe7c1ab49ff8d539b3b3f54a3269da359d30e2901659408a03e5bf4929ba1a.mp4

I've personally spoken to quite a few soldiers at different units (units have fundraising and recruiting booths at basically every big event in Ukraine), and they all say the same thing: a remarkably high percentage of their drone funding comes from private donations. A big problem is Western military aid tends to be tied to specific weapons systems – not money – so the overall resources can't be spent optimally.

Of course, it's not like the war itself costs $911/Russian casualty – there's lots of other costs and investment necessary to get there. But the fact that units are still short on drones even though relatively little investment would fix this is absurd.

Also, I don't keep track. But I wouldn't be surprised if just my personal donations – anonymously with Bitcoin – have resulted in the deaths of a few Russians. You can easily make a difference.

https://x.com/414magyarbirds/status/1952644301793456560

Fuck you Peter! You warmongering piece of shit.

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One of the military units I donated to recently was fundraising to develop and build interceptors to take down Russian Shahed drones. I've heard that particular unit has been quite successful at it, and it (hopefully!) won't be long before a significant % of Russian shaheds are stopped by interceptors.

There's a non-zeeo chance a Russian Shahed will kill me on one of my trips to Kyiv – closest I've been to a hit on an apartment building is only a few kilometers.

So my donation waa improving my own safety in a very direct way.

Now tell me, was _that_ "warmongering"?

there a more chances that you will be killed by russian chekists than a drones, I hope you understand that. because I'm quite scared for you when I see how you doxxing yourself

Someone has to take the risk to publish this stuff and normalize it.