It helps that Dune part two wasn’t a sequel but the second part of a big movie. Much like The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a huge movie in three parts and not just a follow up because the previous one made a lot of money.

Dune part one is amazing but the narrative is incomplete without the second one.

That’s Secretary of Raw Milk RFK to you, buddy.

German conspiracy wackos and American ones have a lot in common.

During COVID their bullshit ven diagram was a flat circle.

That’s better but not that by much. A few years ago Germany raided some very rich and very well-armed wackos who wanted to bring back the Kaiserreich.

I’ve updated my comment to clarify they, it’s the vehicle with the cannons they’ve kepted. Not much need for the radar against the Taliban air force.

Most autocannons are. Soviets took the guidance radars off their Shilkas (older equivalent to Guepard but with quad cannons) and called the radarless AAA vehicles “Afghanis”.

The “Help! I’ve fallen and can’t get up!” commercial pops to mind.

A stainless steel monstrosity, perfect camouflage.

The link between conspiracies and ads is way stronger than that. The ad industry really went into high gear following WWII when the people working on pumping out propaganda to drive their own side of the war stepped up the game by applying psychology, new media, and a bigger budget.

Those people and techniques then moved to the commercial market when the war ended and applied their trade to peddle us the crap their customers wanted to sell. Make us feel bad if we don’t buy product X and go on an endless consumption treadmill to try to feel good and adequate about ourselves.

It is despicable and even worse with ads targeting children.

“Very good” is an understatement for The Bear.

And recent seasons just keep stacking up the talent.

Russia has extensively been using a similar system to bomb children Ukraine.

And some can be recalled if they don’t find a target.

Post-WWII put propaganda/advertising to the next level. Social media turned that to 11.

Check out The Nuclear Power Trio. They rock.

The French version is called SCALP and the Brit Storm Shadow. Same missile as I understand it. People were amused to see pictures of both together on the same aircraft flying for Ukraine.

Not to ruin your joke but the missile and aircraft are originally French.

Yeah, French PR for weapon and nuclear sales was awkward during the 70s-80s.

Or my colleagues trying to fill every possible slot in my daily schedule.

Sadly the lines don’t disappear when filled :-(.

The asymmetry between the cost of defense vs. offense here is absurd.

The operation of air defense networks, missiles, and fighter jet interceptions, all to try to down kit aircraft costing less than the average Porsche sports car. Fancy-pantsy capabilities that required billions not long ago can be had for cheap. It’s no longer the exclusive realm of low-flying supersonic or stealth aircraft to strike the heart of the enemy. What required billions of R&D can be somewhat achieved on the cheap.

Such a system can shoot at a maximum range of 30km. How many refineries and ammo depots does Russia have to protect? It’s a huge bloody country which makes it very hard to cover with radar and air defence.

The edge that allowed Russia to win against powerful invading armies bites them in the ass here. So much real estate is hard and expensive to protect.

During the height of the Cold War, a kid flew across Europe in a small, slow plane and landed on the damn Red Square. Another guy landed a helicopter on the White House lawn.

The fuel is (relatively) nothing. Interceptors have to haul ass and that means going full throttle for periods which translates into countless hours of maintenance on those planes. This immobilizes the aircraft after the mission and the ground crew to work on it. It also consumes spare parts and reduces the overall lifetime of the airframe.

China does this to Taiwan by playing chicken at the edge of their defensive zone, forcing a smaller air force to keep up with the interceptions.