The Ukraine war is the first major war of the European Union. Russian Ukraine is the object of its attack (President Bill Clinton having placed and held the football for kickoff of Ukraine conflict under British direction). The U.S. military is the best weapon in the E.U. arsenal for the time being. The EU and its military Department of War- N.A.T.O., is a little uncertain and lacks a little confidence in the reliability of its American weapon so it is building up its own.
The Ukraine war is stimulating a conventional weapons arms race. Virtually everything with a motor can be converted into a weapon of war- potentially even toasters. Finding applications for remote controls and AI to pilot and aim weapons carried aboard platforms from ATVs to self driving mobile bridges, remote control drive trucks and trailers, self-loading trucks with pallets on rollers, thousands of atvs carrying weapons and driving across rivers and up the banks to the other side, Drones following roads and guided by terrain association, drone submarines carrying drone atv landing craft able to launch hundreds of 4-wheelers with weapons racing up a beach in the night; the war is a stimulus for a cornucopia of mass-produced, low cost weapons and fore multipliers that may, with the anti-providence of the EU, restore a global Cold War configuration and revolutionary battles to Africa and the rest of the world that don’t even want it.
The European Union emergence has occurred in the same space-time continua as the rise of artificial intelligence and chips able to support the independently disruptive technology. Virtually any machine or electronic device may be joined with AI and AI agents and applied to new uses. The West and even the world have rarely examined seriously, with circumspection, contemplated potential ramifications of fielding new technologies beyond theoretical market effects. Just market potential and inherent risks of a new technology in-itself (such as flammable underwear and night clothes) are considered-only the proximal dangers. A.I. however, while the risks it poses as a terrorists risk for-itself directly harming individuals and civilization, is a science fiction trope and have been extensively considered and dismissed by market draft and financial power, hasn’t been considered as a secondary catalyzing agent for innovating and inventing a cornucopia of new devices synthetically upgraded with AI.
Synthetic A.I. upgrades of existing technology; the recombinant packaging of materials for inventions, are so numerous and plentiful in war and peace technologies that the disruptive capability is transcendent and beyond the capacity of reasonable levels of consumer product review or Department of War research lab overview of potential latent threats to U.S. security. A.I. chips with A.I. agents will create the blooming of a vast range of applications to existing machinery and electronic devices such that are presently unforseeable. It is unfortunate that the EU’s Ukraine war is leading the way for the disruptive, transcendent technology that is a value added phenomenal upgrade to all existing human technology of the toolkit of civilization.
Europeans have never resisted the urge to war. Intense national rivalries over borders is natively European tradition like a Down’s Syndrome morphed into the dark side of the force to Satanism. Their peace movement was fueled by the U.S. and Russian victory in the Second World War for more than a half century, yet with the Cold War end and the emergence of the EU concurrent with the post-communist Russia, traditional European hell bent for war boundary and political power contention is find a new birth in the form of the European Union and its first adolescent test of strength; its horns of mating as it were urging it to but heads with a rival, is more or less a world war with Russia. Russia in turn may be required to field emp air defense weapons to protect oil refineries. If it is possible directed emp pulses pointed skyward might stop drones in flight, and with drones, the war may stimulate mass use of electro-magnetic pulse blasts launched from mobile drone land attack platforms on Ukraine and European cities.
The U.S. military industrial complex and those of others are weapons producers that need a war to sell weapons. It hasn’t a real logic about U.S. national interests, instead it is a matter of units and profit and requires a general objective other enemy that was Russia and China for the better part of the last century. It will not seek opportunities for peace and civilian infrastructure and cultural progress.
President Trump may prefer peace, and Russia and China may prefer mixed free enterprise since even China has learned that free enterprise works far better than state operated business, yet the EU and the military industrial weapons manufacturing complex requires Russia and China to be either Imperial or Soviet restorationists, or simply new economic era Geo-political expansionist mirroring the latent, emergent policy oif the EU. The Ukraine war is necessarily the EU’s first world war as the conflict in Ukraine is a test of it emergent, independent military strength free of U.S. control that existed since 1945 over it.
