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Ukraine's shelved plan to swarm Moscow airports with autonomous AI drones reveals a threshold democracies are approaching one technical fix at a time.
Ukraine seriously considered handing target selection over to software, then paused — but the pause is not the same as a decision.
The story reads as a thriller about a thousand-drone swarm, which obscures the more consequential question: what precedent gets locked in by whichever autonomous operation happens first at scale.
Thresholds in warfare rarely get crossed by decision. They get crossed by accumulation — one jamming workaround, one paused operation, one dismissed minister at a time.
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