The Past is Future Tense, Always

by | Feb 21, 2025

The Past is Future Tense, Always

by | Feb 21, 2025

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The Wayback Machine reminds us of all past tense showing us the future. The base in Balakliya, near Kharkiv, is around 100km (60 miles) from fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern oblasts (2017).

2017: “The Ukrainian SBU – the equivalent of the FBI – now believe that the destruction of a giant arms depot at Balakliya in eastern Ukraine in March was carried out by a small drone. The spectacular explosion and fire destroyed some seventy thousand tons of munitions with damage estimated at a billion dollars, though only one person was killed. This destruction is a graphic illustration of the threat posed by small drones, as many other high-value targets may be equally vulnerable. Balakliya was said to be the largest ammunition dump in the world.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20170801064637/http://scout.com/military/warrior/Article/Small-Russian-Drones-Do-Massive-Damage-WIth-Grenade-Weapons-103103172

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Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world.

He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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