change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
4.5 million drones.
Is a lot of drones.
And it’s the ‘elves’ government’s.
New production target.
For 2025
—solely from ‘elves’ factories.
“Ukraine is now.
The world leader.”
“The world leader.
In drone warfare.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ boasted.
He’s not wrong.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
‘Orcs’ own target.
For drone production.
In 2025.
Is between 3 and 4 million.
With certain important exceptions.
‘Elves’ drones are.
Better-made.
More reliable.
And more resistant.
To the main defense.
Against drones:
Radio jamming.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
Explosive FPV drones.
Weighing just a few pounds.
And flown as far as.
Six miles.
By remote operators.
Wearing goggles.
That display feeds from.
The drones’ own cameras.
Now account for more than.
Two-thirds of casualties.
Now account for more than.
Two-thirds of casualties.
On the 800-mile front line.
Of ‘Mordor’’s.
37-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
That means the tiny.
Maneuverable drones.
—each costing just.
A few hundred dollars—
Have killed or maimed.
Potentially hundreds of.
Thousands of ‘orcs’.
And ‘elves’.
And destroyed.
Thousands of vehicles.
Drone deployments.
Are uneven.
Both sides concentrate.
Their best drones and operators.
In the sectors where they believe.
The impact will be greatest.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
For the ‘elves’.
The priority areas.
Include the devastated.
No-man’s-land.
No-man’s-land.
Around the ruins.
Of Chasiv Yar.
In eastern Ukraine.
“The main reason.
For the lack of success.
Remains the enemy’s.
Air dominance.”
An ‘orc’ military blogger.
Around Chasiv Yar complained.
“Their reconnaissance drones.
Are in the sky 24/7.”
“And any movement.
On our part is immediately.
Met with a massive wave of.
First-person-view drones.”
‘Orcs’ infantry can’t.
Leave their trenches.
When they do.
“We just lose people.”
“Without achieving anything.”
The blogger wrote.
Any armored vehicles.
That break cover and.
Expose themselves.
To the ever-present drones.
“Essentially operate.
In a one-way manner.”
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
But ‘elves’ forces.
Are equally vulnerable.
In the sectors.
Where ‘Mordor’ has deployed.
Its own best drone groups.
On 25 February.
A flurry of accurate.
‘Orcs’ drone strikes.
Knocked out dozens of.
‘Elves’ vehicles.
Along the main road.
To Sudzha.
The town that was the main base.
For the ‘elves’ force then.
Occupying a significant salient.
In Kursk Oblast.
What, art mad?
A man may see
how this world goes
with no eyes.
Look with thine ears:
see how yond justice rails
upon yond simple thief.
Hark, in thine ear:
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
In a chaotic two weeks.
The ‘orcs’ Rubicon Center of.
Advanced Unmanned Systems.
Wrecked hundreds of ‘elves’ vehicles.
Clogging the road.
Starving the garrison.
In Sudzha.
—and compelling the survivors.
—and compelling the survivors.
To retreat.
To retreat.
On Monday or Tuesday.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
Given their decisiveness.
It makes sense that.
Both sides would prioritize.
The production of small drones.
It makes even more sense.
For Ukraine.
For Ukraine.
For which drones also.
Offer a high degree of.
What German chancellor-elect.
Has described as.
“Strategic independence.”
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
Yes, ‘elves’ drone factories.
Import components.
—in particular.
Chinese components—
And they also depend.
In part on foreign financing.
Even so.
The largely nationalized production.
The largely nationalized production.
Of unmanned aerial vehicles.
In Ukraine.
In Ukraine.
Partially liberates the country.
From dependence on.
On-again, off-again allies.
Such as the United States.
‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
With a simple executive order.
The U.S. President can.
Freeze U.S. aid to Ukraine.
—and has done so.
The U.S. President halted.
Aid for two weeks.
After a disastrous Oval Office.
Press conference on 28 February.
During which he and.
His Vice President berated.
‘Gandalf the Green’ for purportedly.
Being insufficiently grateful.
For past U.S. aid.
To Ukraine.
Past aid that both of them.
Opposed at the time.
Nothing, my lord.
Nothing.
Nothing, my lord.
Nothing.
American fickleness.
Can deprive Ukraine.
Of certain boutique weapons.
That ‘elves’ industry.
That ‘elves’ industry.
Doesn’t yet produce:
The best long-range.
Air-defense missiles, for instance.
But with the massive expansion.
Of the ‘elves’ drone industry.
Likely the world’s.
Best and biggest.
The Americans can’t deprive.
The Americans can’t deprive.
Ukraine of its most.
Casualty-inducing weapons.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
The UAV ramp-up.
Has been exponential.
‘Elves’ factories expected.
To produce.
Around 1 million small drones.
In 2024.
In fact, they produced.
2.2 million.
This year’s production target.
Is more than double that.
Production figures for 2026.
Could be even higher.
change places;
and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice,
which is the thief?
*Because I read “4.5 Million Drones Is A Lot Of Drones. It’s Ukraine’s New Production Target For 2025.” by David Axe on 12 Mar 2025 on the Forbes, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, led by ‘KING LEAR’ written by William Shakespeare and ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
4.5 Million Drones Is A Lot Of Drones. It’s Ukraine’s Goal For 2025.
