As a reminder from Grok:

In 2011 Iran captured a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone largely intact. Washington called it a malfunction; Tehran claimed electronic warfare.

The loss mattered more than one aircraft. It gave Iran a look at stealth design and sensors, sped up its own UAV program (Shahed copies followed), and showed how even advanced drones can be vulnerable to jamming and spoofing.

That episode helped set the stage for today’s cheap, mass-produced drone warfare.

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Remember how the US government denied this and then said that Iran did not have the ability to reverse engineer the technology. Compare that to the government’s current denial of Anduril’s underwater drone’s capture and technology.

Also consider how many times that Trump said he destroyed Iran’s navy. If they have no navy, how did they capture the drone? As the administration unravels through war, debt, Israeli influence and loss of the people’s support, what should our course of action be to secure a future for our children?

I wonder how many people know the correlation between the cost of energy and the amount of freedom people have? The higher the cost, the less freedom they are allowed.

I wonder if this undeclared war in Iran is Israel’s plan to create Greater Israel or misdirection by the New World Order. Whatever is the cause, the effect is known: destruction of the middle class, inflation and increased tyranny. Suppression of the Epstein files makes the Israel theory more plausible.

The Democrats want high gas and diesel before the midterms. The Republicans want the diversion in the news. Or maybe they don’t know how to extract themselves from Israeli blackmail and money. Or maybe there is only one Uniparty.

The questions we should be asking ourselves is want we need to do to survive the coming war. I know they want us dead which both limits and clarifies our options.

I posted this for its content but that was not the main reason. I think that if Trump orders a tactical nuclear strike on Iran that our military leaders will ignore it and take a different strategy under consideration to save our country.

You would think a failsafe would be built into this type of advanced weaponry/technology.

It is hard watching the empire fall due to greed, arrogance, blackmail and narcissism. Is there a path forward? Without morality, courage, honor and faith, we will continue this descent into evil and elimination.

The only hope we have are the companies and successes of Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey. I am sure that the government will destroy those two lights also. Hope without the intangible nouns listed above is not a strategy.

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Jess Elofson is a South Dakota potter, welder, and 3D artist from a family farm established in 1876 who discussed art’s role in culture, self-sufficiency, ancient technologies, and critiques of modern leadership.