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Ukraine's Cunning Drone Strikes Turn Putin's Imperialist Dream into Enduring Nightmare
By Tom Kagy | 02 Jun, 2025
The innovative drone strategies devised by Ukraine will freeze imperialist hearts everywhere for generations to come.
Ukraine has been inspiring the free world since Putin launched his full-scale invasion in February of 2022. Its astounding feats of courage and cleverness under immense pressure will be the stuff of war movies for generations to come.
Last weekend's brilliant drone strike on Russia's long-range bomber fleet, including those based over 3,000 miles from the front, has seriously weakened Putin's ability to carry on his vicious attacks on civilian centers. More significantly for the rest of the world, it has shown that our civilization and technology have now reached the point of giving the oppressed the means to inflict severe and lasting damage on their oppressors.
By nesting drones under the remote-controlled roofs of pre-fabricated houses carried on trucks originating inside Russia, the Zelensky-directed attack was able to get close enough to four major Russian bomber bases across the vast expanse of Russia to launch attacks that couldn't have been stopped. The fear that kind of attack inspires is perhaps its most enduring and important impact on the course of the war — and on all prospects of imperialist aggression in every major capital of the world, including Beijing.
The resulting destruction or damage to about 40% of Russia's long-range Tupolev bombers will immediately diminish Putin's capability to inflict the civilian casualties in which he seems to have delighted as a means to pressure Ukraine into accepting unacceptable terms. Not only does Putin have far fewer air assets to deploy, he must now incur the cost of trying to protect them, having been deprived even the safe haven of vast distances.
Of course Ukraine has already severely handicapped Putin's ability to operate its navy in the vicinity of the war by using sea drones to carry out a series of successful attacks on major Russian naval assets. Russian naval vessels no longer sail within a couple hundred miles of Ukraine.
Now that Ukraine's secret service has irrefutably proven sufficient cunning and resources to organize ambitious strikes from deep inside the Russian homeland, Putin knows that no Russian official, especially himself, is entirely safe. This has already been proven by a series of clever assassinations. And this dread will inevitably cost Putin some of the inside support on which he relies to continue his self-destructive assault on Ukraine.
And of course the Russian people now no longer feel safe anywhere, if they ever did. Now even the uneducated masses who had provided most of Putin's support will begin to question whether trying to restore Russia's Soviet-era empire is a good idea. If the support of the hoi-polloi weakens significantly Putin will find it nearly impossible to replenish the troops suffering disproportionate casualties in their front-line brute-force attacks.
On a more global level the knowledge that drones, and remote-controlled devices, are now sophisticated and global enough to be deployed anywhere in the world to destroy or kill anything or anyone will instill some enforced morality in the hearts of those whose ambitions tend toward subjugating people, be they citizens of their own nations or those of nearby states.
Now that Ukraine's secret service has shown sufficient cunning and resources to organize ambitious strikes from deep inside the Russian homeland, Putin knows that no Russian official, especially himself, is entirely safe.
An AI artist rendering of a Ukrainian drone strike on Russian Tupolev bombers.
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