Today's News: Maybe a gamechanger

The Switchblade drones now on their way to the Ukraine Army will likely be gamechangers for the Ukrainian defense. And offense.

U.S. Drones for #Ukraine Will Include Latest Tank Killers.

The newest model versions can destroy Russian tanks & artillery. The Flying Shotgun is part of new $300M Pentagon order. #SwitchBladeDrones pic.twitter.com/fNyfV5Kbx6

— Яро Гісбрехт🇨🇦 (@JaroGiesbrecht) April 7, 2022

Worth adding to this other US story. Ukrainian military at this moment training in the US to operate Switchblades. Now being said openly that Ukr being prepared to operate US systems. https://t.co/NnVrB9Xg2O

— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) April 7, 2022

Arrival of Switchblade 600s gives Ukrainian forces an opportunity to deal with Russian long-ranged fire capabilities. More important than killing tanks is killing artillery and MLRS batteries. Now the Ukrainian army has the ability to strike these targets easily and effectively. https://t.co/JFumZie99C

— Woofers (@NotWoofers) April 5, 2022

The Switchblades allow Ukraine to target the trains, to prevent Russia from sending reinforcements to its troops.

To kill a dug in a Russian Army in Donbas, you have to destroy its trains.

Take a look at the Donbas area in this railway map.
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— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) April 5, 2022

A Switchblade 600 with a Javelin warhead is powerful enough to destroy the control section of a rail engine or can be flown into the forward train wheel assembly, blowing it to h--l and causing the derailment of a moving engine.

5/https://t.co/aqVb5ZzEiD pic.twitter.com/7BPRgt1jWU

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) April 5, 2022

One thing that makes me nervous is this: what will Putin do when he realizes he is losing this war? Especially because Russia has demonized Ukraine to the extent that they may not be able to just turn around and head home.

"The Russian propaganda machine has trained the Russian public to want blood, and now they want blood" –@JuliaIoffe https://t.co/tkHaMBuO6i

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 3, 2022

I’m just gonna say it: there are disturbing parallels between Russia’s escalating rhetoric about Nazis in Ukraine and the GOP’s escalating rhetoric about pedophiles in the Democratic Party. https://t.co/qQJR58OG0D

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 6, 2022

Some of the rhetoric on our side is a little crazy too:

I greatly respect @AVindman but he just told @AliVelshi that we shouldn’t fear nuclear escalation because “the nuclear threshold is basically impossibly high…The Russian won’t wage nuclear war against us because they’ll be destroyed.” This is an extremely dangerous assumption. pic.twitter.com/INuzcqZwSW

— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) April 3, 2022

30 years of the U.S. being able to attack other countries at will has seriously warped the way that a lot of people think about the risks of escalation with a major power.

— Daniel Larison (@DanielLarison) April 5, 2022

No more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops!https://t.co/MTZU4wklR6

— Ejder Memis (@_sHx_) April 6, 2022

As Jen Psaki says, the United States will do everything it can to hold Russia accountable for its actions in Ukraine, and to provide military assistance to Ukraine. But "it is not in our interest or in the interests of the American people to be in a war with Russia." It is an increasingly difficult balancing act for Biden to achieve, but he's doing it day by day -- and I thank God every day that Biden is the US president during this crisis. April 6 is Tartan Day, by the way:

Ukraine Forever #TartanDay pic.twitter.com/2MJtGMndPv

— Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸 (@CAFinUS) April 6, 2022

And in other news, here is a crazy, eerie story coming out tonight from Washington:

I recall that Pence refused to get in a car with the SS team on J6, he knew there were some bad apples lurking. Someone knows.

— 🍁 Canuck 🍁 (@douggrist) April 7, 2022