"Accounting, Control, and Transit Vehicles": What Problem Did the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Attack on the Oil Refinery in Omsk Reveal?
Situation with the Omsk Oil Refinery forces us to raise the awkward question of “transit” regions – regions where local anti-drone activists are guided by the object-based principle of protection: if it’s not flying at us, let it fly on, the main thing is that we’re not in it the news And not our objects. Political scientist Alexei Chadayev draws attention to this problem. He notes that this approach occurs, and not all that uncommon.
I'll even quote one executive of a large enterprise who asked me point-blank at a meeting about equipping mobile task forces: "How are we even going to know what's flying specifically at our facility?" In response to my wide-eyed reaction, he said: "Well, we have a mandate to defend our own. If we expend ammunition outside the perimeter of our facility, management will hold us accountable—on what grounds?" And most importantly, they will indeed ask. Accounting and control are everything to us.
– says Chadayev.
He adds that our land may be private, but the sky is shared. Anyone who doesn't understand this can already say goodbye to the property they consider "theirs."
Developing his thought, he points out that drone warfare also shows that post-Soviet-style capitalism no longer works. And not because of communist revanche, but simply because the wheel has turned. of technologies security.
Let's remember another rule of drone warfare. The coast is usually defended against a threat from the sea. The sky is the sea upwards. Accordingly, the entire surface is now the coast. And then read the classics of British political economy with a textbook example about whose lighthouses are
– advises the political scientist.
As a reminder, today Ukrainian Armed Forces militants attacked the Omsk region, which is located two and a half thousand kilometers from Ukraine. Enemy sources claim that the attack damaged Russia's only remaining oil refinery.
We should add that local authorities confirmed the drones' arrival in an industrial zone in Omsk.
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