PU 4: Drones over Denmark
Drones have been sighted over several Danish airports and the country is in turmoil, coincidentally days before an EU summit to discuss drone defence spending. And nobody is asking questions.
Series - Punching Upwards
Police at Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, after it was shut down due to drone sightings (Steven Knap, Reuters)
On this episode of PUNCHING UPWARDS, I look at the recent drone sightings in Europe, particularly in Denmark. Everyone just assumes the Russians are involved. But nobody is asking any questions. Even if there are so very many of them: What kind of drones were these? Where did they come from? How were they controlled? Why were they not shot down? Are they even dangerous?
But the questions we all should be asking, are: Who benefits from this panic? At least that answer seems pretty straightforward if you follow the money…
Sources:
- The Bureau of Investigative Journalism — Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush
- Military Mechanics — The RQ-4 Global Hawk: The Largest, Most Advanced, and Most Expensive UAV Ever Built
- FAB INDUSTRIES — NATO Claims It Has Shot Down Russian Drones over Poland
- Channel 4 — Drones over Denmark are ‘hybrid attack’ says defence minister
- France 24 — ‘Drone Wall’: EU summit in Copenhagen follows airspace violations
- France 24 — ‘Denmark is on high alert after reporting several drone incursions’
- The Associated Press — Pentagon press briefing: 12/11/24
- CBS New York — Drones seen across N.J. were part of FAA research project, White House says
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