a) I wouldn't know. But I defer to your insight, as I guess wildly that you're not in the U.S.
b) If you are right, kudos to the European tyrants. For European tyrants are a small minority. And thus their interests are the interests of the small minority. What this accomplishes is to grant the priorities of this exclusive minority the weight of democratic support.
Engineering that politically, electorally is nothing short of sorcery, no matter how evil or detrimental their motive or outcome.
The competition continues.
The difference is,
- a steed mounted knight might slay 5 or 10 opposing knights a year, and be considered a legendary hero.
- a predator drone remote pilot can slay 10 or 20 "terrorists" before breakfast, and lapse into eternity anonymously. Sarah WHO?!
Extrapolate the curves of the ratio of on-board jet fighter U.S. military pilots, and U.S. drone pilots, and we see those lines cross.
What some don't know is, those lines crossed years ago. The U.S. military has graduated more remote pilots than U.S. military pilot-aboard fighter pilots for years.
It's a new millennium.
Even the fringe rebels / criminals understand synergy.
"There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer's orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else's employee."
Excerpt from Unabomb Manifesto: author convict Theodore Kaczynski; sentenced to Lifetime imprisonment without possibility of parole
Either way, people will suffer the consequence.
European tyrants were always careful about the wording and the time. No bloody 'sensible choice' about their good patriotic bullshit.
