Ukraine inflicts the faintest little sliver of retaliatory damage against Russia (drones against some Moscow area), and the US is suddenly back.<p>Merely a suspicion, but this feels very potentially like Musk in 2023, disabling Starlink in Crimea during a Ukraine attack. "No, you may not hurt the aggressor." <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264</a><p>This feels likely to end up being trying to keep Ukraine from causing any inconvenience to Russia. Again.<p>Also, it's got to be such an incredibly awful thing to have c6isr (command, control, communications, computers, cyber-defense and combat systems and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance just up and disappear. It's unclear how much the defense-net the US ran, would be so interesting to hear what happened during this past week.<p>And especially curious to know, how many different weapons systems depended on the US's presence to even function at all? I can't help but expect a bunch of weapon systems basically didn't work at all or became utterly ineffective after the sudden & total abandonment of our ally that happened here, that this was like a nightmare case for the US defense industry showing that all these weapons systems are software dependent, tied whether the now volatile we'll-take-Canada-by-force USA is working with you or not.<p>Maybe your F-15 can get in the air, but without a battle net, it's not going to be effective at anything. But radars, missile systems... Did they even have basic functionality still intact with the US abandonment?