Candid Talk About Drone Technology from a NATO Arms Salesman Scott Pinsker

A few months before these drone sightings began, MIT Technology Review released a policy paper, “Why China’s dominance in commercial drones has become a global security matter.” 

And not to get all Rumsfeldian, but of all the “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns,” four key questions remain:

1. If China is willing to sail a big balloon over our military bases, why wouldn’t it be willing to use drones?
2. If drone technology is scalable and replicable en masse in Ukraine and Russia, why couldn’t that technology be exported here?
3. Is it entirely coincidental that there’s been a dramatic increase in drone activity during the “lame duck” period before Trump takes over and there’ll be consequences once again for anti-American actions? (I tell ya, if Joe Biden were still alive, this wouldn’t be happening!)
4. And furthermore, since our intelligence services have gotten every major prediction wrong over the past 30 years — from missing the collapse of the USSR to guaranteeing that WMDs were in Iraq to misjudging the security of Americans during our disastrous Afghan withdrawal — why the hell should we be confident that they’ll get this one right?