The hellscape concept is fascinating strategically becuase it flips traditional deterrence from high-cost platforms to volume-based attrition. The Ukraine lesson about cheap drones causing 60-80% casualties should be a wake-up call, but most militaries are still structured around expensive legacy systems. The blurred line between rehearsal and actual threat is the real danger here, you can normalize incremental escalation until nobody remmebers where the red line was. That desensitization mentioned with the rocket thresholds feels like boiling a frog slowly.
The hellscape concept is fascinating strategically becuase it flips traditional deterrence from high-cost platforms to volume-based attrition. The Ukraine lesson about cheap drones causing 60-80% casualties should be a wake-up call, but most militaries are still structured around expensive legacy systems. The blurred line between rehearsal and actual threat is the real danger here, you can normalize incremental escalation until nobody remmebers where the red line was. That desensitization mentioned with the rocket thresholds feels like boiling a frog slowly.
This is SO much more important than waging war on Venezuela, Canada, Greenland, Mexico etc.