The Continued Collapse Of The British Empire

It is somewhat amazing to realize that even just 100 years ago, the sun still did not set on the British Empire. But the costs of two world wars was enough to kill the Empire. But Empires generally do not just disappear overnight. The Roman Empire wound down over the course of a centuries with the eastern half (the Byzantine Empire) holding out for many centuries longer. Even the sudden collapse of civilizations in the Bronze Age Collapse played out over 100 years or more. So it is interesting to see the U.K. continue to shuffle toward dissolution with this latest bit of news: "Scottish parliament backs call for new independence referendum."  The article reports:

    The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of a motion calling on the UK Government in London to approve a fresh referendum on independence.

    Lawmakers in the devolved legislature in Edinburgh backed the proposal by 72 votes to 55 on Tuesday. The body holds powers over policy areas including health, education, justice, transport and the environment.

    The motion was introduced by First Minister John Swinney, who leads the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP). 

    "With the mandate of parliament, I will now take that forward to dialogue with the UK government to make sure that parliament’s wishes, which, of course, are the wishes of the people, are properly put into effect,” he said.  

An unsuccessful referendum had been held in 2014, and a 2022  ruling from the UK Supreme Court held that any new independence referendum could only take place with the consent of the UK Government. Interestingly, though, this referendum isn't driven for a desire for more freedom, but less:

After Tuesday’s vote, Swinney said Scotland needed to gain independence before the next UK general election, expected in 2029, citing the threat that Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration, anti-EU Reform UK party could win power.   

The College Fix: More Legal Scholars Now Agree With Trump On Birth-Right Citizenship

 Here's the article: "Growing numbers of legal scholars support Trump’s order on birthright citizenship." The key takeaway is that Trump was able to shift the Overton Window as to who is entitled to birthright citizenship. Trump's order "prohibits federal agencies from recognizing citizenship for children born in the United States after Feb. 20, 2025, if their mother is unlawfully present and the father is neither a citizen nor a lawful permanent resident, or if the mother’s presence is temporary and the father lacks that status." 

Belgium's Gulag Archipelago

In 2012, the Institute For Public Affairs published an article entitled "The Soviet Origins of Hate-Speech Laws." It outlines how the initial efforts of Western countries to enshrine free speech into international law was opposed by the Soviet Union and other tyrannical countries which, over the years introduced restrictions on speech, often set out as restrictions on hate and discrimination. Yet, as the authors observe:

... But we must not take them at face value. The concept of ‘hate speech’ (and the concepts which are drawn from it, such as group defamation) was deliberately and explicitly political. Article 20 has its origins in a clash between two worldviews—that held by Western capitalist countries which supported individual rights and liberties, and that held by the Communist bloc, which did not.

It did not end with the declarations and agreements on human rights. Over objections from Western powers that it was inappropriate and unnecessary to use speech laws to legislate morality, the protections of speech under international law was whittled away. The article notes, for instance, that "[t]he same occurred during the drafting of the International Convention for the Elimination of all Racial Discrimination. Here the restriction on freedom of speech is even more strident. All signatories must ‘declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial discrimination.’"

    The article wraps up:

    In 1948, as the Soviet Union was trying to place restrictions on speech in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Gulag system held 2.2 million people. The year the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was approved by the United Nations, 1966, was the same year that two satirists, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, were put on trial, sparking the late Soviet dissident movement. ‘It is a sad reflection on Europe’, writes the Danish human rights advocate Jacob Mchangama, ‘that the increasing emphasis on criminalizing words that wound, offend, or hurt is the brainchild of the very totalitarian states with which Western European states were locked in an ideological battle during the Cold War.’ The human rights movement to restrict hate speech and racial discrimination was an ideological power play by the Communist Bloc that was looking for human rights law to approve the suppression of political dissent. The adoption of hate speech restrictions was not intended to liberate minorities (as so many contemporary human rights advocates claim), but to restrain democrats.

    In the decade following the two conventions, Western countries adopted their own forms of racial discrimination laws which prohibited, to varying degrees, ‘hatred’ or ‘discrimination’. The United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Europe adopted prohibitions to protect racial or other groups. Of the major Western nations, only the United States now has no prohibition against hate speech.

Understanding the origin of hate speech laws and their purpose--to protect dictators and tyrants--is key to understanding the prosecution and conviction of former Belgian politician "Dries Van Langenhove of hate speech for a lecture in which he presented data and arguments about racial differences, migration and gender."According to the article:

Van Langenhove was found guilty on two counts under Belgium’s 1981 Anti-Racism Law: Incitement to hatred or violence against a group on grounds of nationality, so-called race, skin colour, origin or ethnic descent (charge A), and dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or racial hatred (charge C). He was acquitted on the gender-related charge (B). 

And what were the grounds for this.

• "Van Langenhove argued that differences between groups are not primarily the result of structural racism but rather stem from inherent group differences, a perspective that was presented as part of a broader critique of multiculturalism and progressive policies."
• "He made the observation that people of colour generally are worse off than white people, something his political detractors also claim, though they disagree about the root causes."
• "Van Langenhove also linked mass migration to declining school standards, insecurity, prison overcrowding and strain on social security."
• "He dismissed the prevailing explanation of structural racism, stating: 'You can almost not blame them for thinking that way, because their most fundamental premises, their framework, that of egalitarianism. Once you start with that, you can’t build anything on it, because it’s already wrong from the start. These people are not equal, they are not equal and they will never be equal'."

This was too much for the judges presiding over the case:

    In its verdict, the court stated that Van Langenhove’s arguments were not merely controversial but crossed into criminal territory by promoting hatred and racial superiority.

    The judges wrote that “For an act to be punishable, it is not necessary for the defendant to have openly incited others to commit specific acts of hatred or violence… It is sufficient that others are incited to adopt a general attitude of intolerance or aversion towards the targeted group of persons.”  

    The judges acknowledged that political speech enjoys strong protection under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Belgian Constitution, but ruled that Van Langenhove’s remarks were criminal.

    They concluded he had the specific intent to incite hatred, dismissing his disclaimers (such as welcoming everyone to his youth projects regardless of background) as attempts to shield himself from prosecution. The court held that his overall message promoted a hierarchy of groups and attributed societal problems to the presence of certain populations. 

You will note that the court was not saying that Van Langenhove incited violence against immigrant groups, but incited his listeners to have thoughts and beliefs other than those approved by the government.

    But, again, the purpose of hate speech laws is not to protect people but to protect governments. In this case, to protect government programs and policies concerning immigration, criminal justice, and so on, from public criticism. The question that needs asking is why such a critique not allowed. Is it because there is some nefarious plot that requires Western nations to be overrun by migrants or is it more banal such as protecting politicians and government workers from losing their jobs? Or just a general practice of reflexively squashing dissent not matter what form it takes?

    Paul Joseph Watson also has some thoughts about this case in the video below. But as he notes, the prosecution was not required to prove that anything that Van Langenhove asserted was false. "Under the law, merely suggesting that increased diversity leads to anything other than wondrous benefits to society is a criminal offense. For Van Langenhov to have committed a crime, it is not necessary for him to have incited concrete acts of hate or violence. It suffices that others are incited to take on a general attitude of intolerance or disapproval regarding a group protected under the criteria of the anti-racism law. Yes, in Belgium, it's literally a crime to say that diversity isn't our greatest strength." 

 VIDEO: "He Said The Unspeakable"
m o d e r n i t y (7 min.)

Who Let The Dogs Out?

A couple stories from earlier this week of the same incident where a dog shot a woman with a shotgun:

• "Dog Accidentally Shoots Woman In Nebraska"--Financian. 
• "Dog fires off multiple gunshots, hits driver near Nebraska gas station: cops"--New York Post.

The New York Post article relates:

    The pooch, its owner and a passenger pulled into Short Stop, a baseball-themed gas station and convenience store, in Scottsbluff just before noon — when the owner popped into the store. 

    The curious canine quickly started to rifle around in the back seat and came across a shotgun. Somehow, the pooch popped off several shots straight through the passenger side door, according to police reports obtained by KNOP.

    The truck’s passenger who had lingered near the truck while waiting for the driver, watched in apparent bewilderment as the dog opened fire. 

    One shot soared across the gas station and reportedly struck a woman waiting at a nearby traffic light.

    Scottsbluff police were originally told that someone had fired a BB gun, but realized the severity of situation when they found the shellshocked dog and a smoking shotgun.

    The lone victim was shot in the arm and hospitalized with a non-life-threatening injury, the outlet reported. 

The other article relates:

    According to police, the dog moved across the truck and accidentally triggered the firearm, causing it to fire through the passenger-side door.

    At that exact moment, a woman waiting at a nearby red light had her arm resting outside her car window. One shotgun pellet struck her upper arm, and she was taken to Regional West Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

    Authorities said the investigation is ongoing and reminded residents that transporting a loaded shotgun inside a vehicle is illegal in Nebraska.

The article from the Post seems to have exaggerated the situation, making it sound like several shots were fired whereas it was probably just the single shot described in the second article. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. But leaving a cocked weapon with a loaded chamber in the back of the vehicle is irresponsible, in my opinion. I've seen articles of similar incidents in the past where dogs have stepped on or dragged a shotgun or rifle causing it to discharge with tragic results. Although the article is silent on this point, it does not seem that the shotgun was in a case or scabbard of any sort, either, which might have prevented the incident. 

Canada And Godwin's Law

Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." But sometimes such comparisons are appropriate. Take, for instance, Canada. 

    The Kupferberg Holocaust Center has an article concerning the murder of the disabled in concentration camps that relates: 

    The Nazis considered people with disabilities to be “useless eaters” and a burden on the Aryan race. In order to purify German society, Hitler authorized the secret killing of psychiatric patients beginning in October 1939. The Nazi Euthanasia Program became known as Aktion T4 (named after the coordinating Chancellery office at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin) and marked Nazi Germany’s first campaign of mass murder. T4 initially targeted developmentally disabled infants and toddlers in Germany, but later included adults with disabilities all across Europe.

    German doctors and nurses played key roles, killing 250,000 people in a program that was euphemistically labeled as euthanasia. Many of these murders occurred even after Hitler publicly suspended the operation in August 1941. Physicians evaluated patients in asylums, hospitals, and nursing homes where anyone deemed unable to work or harmful to German society was taken to remote killing stations. Many were murdered in specially constructed gas chambers, while others were killed by lethal injection and systematic starvation. ...  

     Canada may not have the concentration camps, but it has its Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program, which the Canadian government describes thusly:

    Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is a process that allows someone who is found eligible to be able to receive assistance from a medical practitioner in ending their life. The federal Criminal Code of Canada permits this to take place only under very specific circumstances and rules. Anyone requesting this service must meet specific eligibility criteria to receive medical assistance in dying. Any medical practitioner who administers an assisted death to someone must satisfy certain safeguards first.

    Only medical practitioners are permitted to conduct assessments and to provide medical assistance in dying. This can be a physician or a nurse practitioner, where provinces and territories allow. 

And the Canadian government will pay for it, to boot. 

    It was sold to the public as a program only for the worst cases among those nearing the end of life, but it has not remained that way. In their 2025 essay, "The Cautionary Tale of Euthanasia in Canada," by Levi Minderhoud and Daniel Zekveld, they relate:

    Euthanasia [under the program] was first intended only for those nearing the end of their lives. Now, Canada has one of the most permissive euthanasia policies in the world, revealing a rapidly increasing culture of not just accepting death, but actively promoting it.

    Veterans have called the Ministry of Veterans Affairs looking for help and been offered euthanasia instead. Those with suicidal ideation have gone to the hospital for help, only to be encouraged to consider euthanasia. A woman was even asked if she was aware of the option of euthanasia before going into cancer-removing surgery. 

They continue:

    MAiD was first legalized in 2016 for Canadians whose death was “reasonably foreseeable.” At the time, a person had to have a grievous and irremediable medical condition which caused enduring physical or psychological suffering to qualify for euthanasia. Think of someone with a terminal cancer prognosis.

    In 2021, just five years after legalization, MAiD was expanded to include those whose “death is not reasonably foreseeable.” With this expansion, people with disabilities or non-terminal illnesses could choose to have a doctor end their lives. Think of someone who is wheelchair bound.

    The next expansion has already been passed into law, but implementation has been delayed until March 17, 2027. This would allow Canadians suffering solely from a mental illness to be eligible for euthanasia. Think of someone suffering from depression.

    Since legalization, the number of euthanasia deaths in Canada has steadily grown every year and showed little sign of slowing down. Between 2016 and 2023, over 60,000 Canadians have been euthanized, with over 15,000 in 2023 alone. Euthanasia now accounts for 4.7% of all deaths in the country, a rate second only to the Netherlands. Euthanasia is now the fifth most common cause of death in Canada. Compare these numbers with Oregon, the first American state to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. In 2023, 367 people died by assisted suicide in Oregon, or just 0.8% of all deaths in the state.

• See also "Why is Canada euthanising the poor?"--The Spectator. 

Well whether the implementation for mental illness is not supposed to be until 2027 is probably a moot point as it seems to already be a de facto criteria. Thus, we read in the Daily Mail this week: "Canadian doctor met man, 45, suffering from IBD and depression outside Tim Hortons and took him to be EUTHANIZED." The article recounts: 

    A Canadian doctor euthanized a man suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and depression after assessing him outside a Tim Hortons, according to officials. 

    Dr James MacLean has been placed under mandatory clinical supervision for six months following allegations that he improperly administered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to two patients.

    MacLean was investigated after he approved Thomas Dillon, who had Crohn's disease, for euthanasia. 

    Dillon, 45, was deemed eligible for MAID by MacLean and a nurse practitioner due to his condition, which led to persistent complications with a colostomy bag, according to medical records obtained by the Globe and Mail. 

    He also had a history of alcohol abuse, suicidal ideation and depression, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) report.

    MacLean conducted the MAID assessment outside a Tim Hortons in June 2023 and he was found eligible for the procedure under 'track 2', designed for patients who are not expected to die imminently but who will suffer grievously from an incurable condition.

    He then exchanged dozens of text messages about plans for him to be medically euthanized, records showed, which culminated in the doctor personally driving Dillon to a morgue facility in London to undergo the procedure.

    The doctor administered a lethal cocktail of drugs into Dillon's system in January 2024, inside a holding facility room in an industrial unit where human cadavers are prepared for funeral homes, officials said. 

    Well, some will argue, you can't really compare Canada to Nazi Germany on this issue because Canada's MAID laws require the person to be an adult (i.e., 18 years or more older). But even that is under discussion, with some medical professionals asserting it should be extended to "mature minors" and "the Quebec College of Physicians (CMQ) has raised the idea of extending current MAiD practices to cover infants under one year old in cases of 'severe deformities.'" 

    And I've discussed before the racist nature of MAID in that even the Canadian government acknowledges that 95.6% of the people being killed under the MAID are white.  

    In the end, what will be the real difference between Germany's Aktion T4 and Canada's MAID? That one government was comprised of national socialists and the other is international socialists? That just means that one government favored Germans and the other hates Canadians. 

The Whisperer In Darkness

This is creepy. From Modernity: "Disembodied Human BRAINS Being Kept ALIVE for Drug Tests – But Are They CONSCIOUS?" From the article:

    In a development straight out of science fiction, a Connecticut-based startup called Bexorg is using technology to maintain functioning human brains outside the body for extended periods. 

    These disembodied organs, sourced from recently deceased donors, are being employed to test experimental drugs aimed at neurodegenerative diseases. 

    The work has ignited fresh debate: could these brains possess some form of consciousness?

    The company’s BrainEx system pumps synthetic blood through the brain’s vascular network, delivering oxygen and nutrients while maintaining appropriate temperature and conditions. 

    This allows the brains to remain metabolically active for up to 24 hours or more, providing a realistic platform for observing how drugs interact with human neural tissue at a cellular and molecular level.

    Unlike traditional animal testing or lab-grown organoids, these intact human brains carry decades of real-world exposure to medications, environmental factors, and aging processes.  

A Video Lecture On The Chemistry Of Pyrotechnics

I haven't had the chance to watch these videos yet, but they looked like they might be interesting, particularly to those interested in or working in the fields of chemistry, civil engineering, or mining engineering. From the description, the presentations appear to be based off the book Chemistry of Pyrotechnics - Basic Principles and Theory 2nd Ed by John A. Conkling & Crhis Mocella (2011). The Second Edition is out of print and can be pretty expensive, depending on the seller, but it appears that Amazon has the Third Edition for $83 for the print edition (which isn't too bad for a text book). It appears that the video producer has other videos on the same topic on his YouTube channel. 

 From the video description: "**Watch Addendum for corrections: Sucrose formula is incorrectly given as Glucose, both of their end valences are +24 and were unintentionally exchanged**"

 VIDEO: "Advanced Explosive Design [ p1 ]"
Dug (45 min.)

 

 VIDEO: "Advanced Explosive Design [pt 2]"
Dug (17 min.)

Canada Experiences Cultural Enrichment From Its Indian Immigrants

From The Bureau: "Foreign Gun Squads Rock Toronto Suburbs: 17 Arrests in Peel Expose Canada's Diaspora Extortion Pipeline, From Student Visas to Shootings-for-Hire." The article reports:

    Peel Regional Police have arrested 17 men tied to an international criminal network known as For Brothers, targeting what investigators describe as a coordinated campaign of intimidation, threats, and escalating violence aimed at South Asian business owners across Canada and the United States — in what police called one of the largest extortion cases the region has ever seen, and the latest enforcement strike against a crisis that The Bureau‘s investigations have traced to the wholesale exploitation of Canada’s immigration and international-education systems.

    The network operated mainly out of Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga, touching Surrey, British Columbia, with ties extending well beyond Ontario into India and California.

    At a news conference Monday, Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah said the investigation was international in scope. “This investigation is far beyond Peel; it has ties to British Columbia, as well as the United States and India,” he said, noting that one of the accused has been linked to an attempted homicide in India. The violence, he reiterated, was deliberate: “(Victims) were specifically targeted and escalated over time.”

    In all, the 17 accused are connected to 24 incidents. Investigators linked 16 of those — including arson and multiple shootings — to For Brothers, accounting for 324 rounds discharged. Deputy Chief Nick Milonovich said members of the network are believed to be responsible for roughly half of the 620 rounds fired from illegal firearms in Peel Region this year.

    At Monday’s news conference, police underscored the brazenness of the campaign by sharing surveillance footage of the attacks. In one nighttime clip, set against snowbanked suburban driveways, figures move between parked vehicles firing multiple shots at a home; in another, recorded on a residential street, a person in a red hooded sweatshirt is seen with an arm extended toward a home, a flash visible in the dark. 

    The investigation, led by Peel Regional Police’s Extortion Task Force, began in December 2025 as a Joint Forces Operation drawing in the Ontario Provincial Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, the Surrey Police Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. Several businesses — among them restaurants and trucking companies — were repeatedly targeted after refusing to meet extortion demands. In one incident, two of the accused are alleged to have carried out a shooting and arson at a residential address in Caledon, followed minutes later by a second shooting targeting a business in Brampton.

    The network's reach extended into the drug trade.

    Police seized illicit drugs alongside six firearms, cell phones, SIM cards, and fraudulent identification cards — a haul that places For Brothers within the same currents of narcotics and violence The Bureau has traced across Indian transnational smuggling networks linking Canada, the United States, and India, with alleged ties to Mexican cartel proxies in Canada. The Bureau has reported how Ryan Wedding, an alleged Canadian cartel proxy indicted in major U.S. prosecutions, exploited Indian long-haul trucking networks running out of Peel Region and across Greater Toronto to move cartel narcotics.

    Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said none of the 17 accused are Canadian citizens.

The article goes on to note that British Columbia "has become a major hub for transnational organized crime" and that "that Ottawa lost control of its borders during a massive increase in immigration under the Trudeau Liberals, and now lacks the capacity to counter rampant scams tainting sectors of the economy tied to immigration, foreign-student education, and the job placements that lead to citizenship." And we can't forget China:

It is a pattern long documented in Chinese diaspora communities, where human smugglers known as snakeheads built underground parallel economies; the same phenomenon, government sources confirm, is now proliferating across Indian communities in Canada. 

And the task force charged with policing the extortion rackets is overwhelmed by the shear volume of the crime. One of the crime groups--the Lawrence Bishnoi organization--is described in the article as an "India-based mafia that a classified RCMP assessment has described as a tool of state operations for the Government of India."

VIDEO: Improving Grappling Rules In D&D

Dash Rendar is back with a short video with some ideas to improve grappling in D&D together demonstrating in the real world what he is discussing.

VIDEO: "Grappling in DnD is Broken!!!!" -- Dash Rendar 

David Strom Asks If Russia Is Losing Its War Against Ukraine

Writing at Hot Air, David Strom observes that with Ukraine suddenly being able to operate with fewer constraints placed on it by the United States, it is able to strike deeper into Russia and inflict more damage on critical infrastructure. He writes:

At the same time that Trump reduced American aid, he also allowed Ukraine to take the gloves off and to put Russian assets in Russia at risk, and the results are stunning. Not only have the tactical battle lines extended into Russia, making logistics infinitely harder, but Ukraine is now systematically dismantling key parts of Russia's economic engine and weapons production facilities. 

And he cites the following from a Reuters article:

    "Virtually all major oil refineries in central Russia ‌have been forced to halt or scale back fuel output following Ukrainian drone attacks in recent days, according to official data and sources.

    The combined capacity of refineries that have fully or partially halted operations exceeds 83 million metric ⁠tons per year, or around 238,000 tons per day. That accounts for around one quarter of Russia's total refining capacity, according to data and sources who spoke on condition of anonymity...

    One of Russia's largest refineries, Kirishi, with capacity of 20 million metric tons per year, has been fully shut since May 5, according to the ⁠sources."      

And, according to the Washington Post, "Russia’s losses from Ukrainian strikes have already exceeded $7 billion, while oil production has reportedly dropped by around 400,000 barrels per day."  So, even as oil prices have sky rocketed due to the conflict with Iran, Russia cannot take full advantage of price surge. Moreover, it places Russia in the position of increasingly becoming a vassal to China. 

    While this sounds good for Ukraine, unmentioned by Strom is the acute manpower shortage faced by Ukraine. For instance, in an article assessing Ukraine's opportunities and challenges in the next several months, Reuters reports:

    Assessing the military situation, John Helin of the Finland-based Black Bird conflict-analysis group echoed Biletsky in saying ‌fatigue was ⁠a problem for Russian forces, while Ukraine's war effort is hampered by a manpower shortage.

    "It does seem like, four or five months into this year, it's much more likely that the Russians will get exhausted before the Ukrainian problems come to a breaking point," he told Reuters. 

The Reuters article continues:

    Russian troops are bearing down on eastern Ukraine's "Fortress Belt" where fighting is raging inside the strategic city of Kostiantynivka, its southern end.

 

    The constellation of heavily fortified ​cities anchors Ukrainian defences. Capturing it would position ​Russia to threaten the rest of the Donbas.

 

    Biletsky, ⁠whose forces hold over one-tenth of the total front line, said his troops were firmly holding the flank around Sloviansk, the belt's northern bastion, and forcing Russia to attack the city head-on.

 

    Such costly assaults have helped drain Russian forces and led to heavy losses of field commanders, he said, in what ​he described as a professional degradation of Moscow's military.

 

    "The lack of personnel no longer allows them to advance the way they did, for example, ​a year ago," said Biletsky.

 

    Biletsky ⁠said it was too early to draw conclusions from Kyiv's recent success, but that Ukraine could capitalise on it by continuing mid-range attacks and advancing "carefully".

 

    Moscow is "radically losing" in battlefield communications because of Musk's crackdown on use of Starlink, Biletsky said.

 

    But he described the sides at parity in evolving technology - with Ukraine leading in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and heavy bomber drones, and Russia winning the race for fibre-optic drones, which cannot be jammed.

 

    A ⁠potential blueprint for ​a modernised Ukrainian army, his corps has led efforts to transform training and integrate new technology such as UGVs as ​an important part of its battlefield strategy.

 

    Biletsky's units lead the way in deploying stealthy kamikaze drones and robots armed with machineguns or rocket launchers to replace significant portions of infantrymen, aiming for 30% by 2027, he said.

 

    The next "revolution" will allow commanders ​to stage more "creative" combined assault operations while conserving precious troops, Biletsky said.

 

    "It will happen this year, and I think we'll show how our corps is a vivid example of it," he said.