A horrible news story caught my attention that gives profound insight into the cruelty of future warfare. “Our little boy was here, in the playpen, walking around,” the one-year-old’s grandmother told the local Ukrainian outlet Podrobnosti. “I heard the wind and the drone buzzing so much, I turned my head, and it flew right there. I flew like crazy to the child. I shouted: ‘Baby, baby, run!’ [The father] had already jumped up and taken him in his arms, but he was already dead.”
Pictures of the toddler’s dead body were published along with the destruction caused in the backyard in southern Ukraine. It is hard to comprehend, but a Russian operator directed the drone to hunt and kill the toddler. Ukrainian officials say he was “mercilessly and deliberately” executed by a Russian drone attack in an area where residents are being hunted in a gruesome game of “human safari.”
I have a one-year-old, and images and reports such as these are heart rending. Children have always been victims of war, but never have the killers been so detached from their cruelty.
On June 1, Ukraine used 117 first-person-view drones to target several air bases deep in Russian territory. The drones were launched from within Russia in a covert operation and targeted strategic aircraft designed to carry nuclear bombs.
This war between Ukraine and Russia has raised fears that drones could be used in a surprise attack against the U.S.
“Does anyone believe if a country wanted to try to do to us what the Ukrainians did to Russia that they wouldn’t have a decent ability to be successful?” asked Christian Brose, chief strategy officer at the American defense technology company Anduril. “Do we think it’s impossible that a willing adversary couldn’t sneak nefarious drones into the country?”
The New York Times wrote on July 10:
The audacious and creative use of drones by an Israeli intelligence agency to mount strikes from inside Iran, and Ukraine’s so-called Operation Spider’s Web, which knocked out Russian strategic bombers with drones launched from inside Russia, has made clear that the threat to the U.S. military is not just overseas, but also at home.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that “cheaper, one-way commercially available drones with small explosives represent a new threat.”
Many fear the U.S. is not adequately prepared for this threat.
Defense tech contractor Epirus is using high-powered microwaves to protect against individual drones and large swarms of drones. The company leaders warn that the U.S. military is not prepared for a “guerrilla war of machines.” When you add advances in artificial intelligence, it’s clear how military surprises are increasingly unpredictable.
“What we saw in Russia will play out here,” said Epirus ceo Andy Lowery. “Operation Spider’s Web should be a real wake-up call to us, to the whole world, that this is very, very serious. … We’re watching with our jaws dropped down on how fast the Ukrainians adapt to new technologies.”
Experts fear a surprise attack will catch the U.S. off guard. “This is a September 11-style problem, and we are still operating in a September 10 mindset,” Brose said. “On the day after a catastrophic attack, there is going to be a string of evidence that we should have seen this coming.”
1 Thessalonians 5:3 reads: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
In a March 11, 2014, co-worker letter, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote: “Even as the dangers in this world visibly escalate, people—especially our leaders in America and Britain—talk about how the world is becoming safer and more peaceful! Sudden destruction is coming—and God warns them that they will not escape!”
The U.S. is investing heavily in modern drone defense systems, trusting in its military superiority. But the Bible reveals all its defense mechanisms will fail.
Ezekiel 7:14 prophesies, “They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.”
Mr. Flurry wrote in “AI and the End of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’”:
In other words, the missiles, airplanes and drones will not fly! Since the 1990s, I have believed this could refer to the effects of a cyberattack. With recent advances in AI, such a crippling attack becomes much more likely.
In another article, he warned that the weapons described in Revelation 9 as swarms of locusts could be “various aircraft coordinating their flight patterns through AI.”
Are Americans ready to have their fighter jets destroyed by a surprise drone attack and their toddlers hunted by AI-guided drones? Given the rapid pace of developments, many military surprises will catch even the most seasoned analysts off guard. No matter how much the U.S. invests in defense, it can not prevent such attacks because God’s “wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.”
We need to take this warning seriously. Although the horror will hit this world suddenly, Paul wrote: “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-6).
Mr. Flurry wrote:
We all must take that admonition to heart. We must follow Christ’s example and work the works of our great God “while it is day”—in the short time we have left to do so—because “the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4). Yes, very soon—and very suddenly—this world is going to be plunged into the darkest night in its history! God commands us to work furiously to warn people while we can!
Preparations for a surprise attack on America are ongoing. The Bible reveals that the vast majority will be caught off guard, but God is giving everyone a chance to heed this message and turn to Him.
To see what the future holds, read “AI and the End of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’” by Gerald Flurry.