What we are doing with tools and cultures is a mirror of our own
   evolution.
   Do we think it helps one stay influential, to have powerful weapons and
   thick armor, like the bee or the crab, or the dinosaurs?
   The people who can outlast all others in every environment, are those
   who invest in community, and in intellect, like the human genome did
   with our bodies.
   Millions of years of experiment have given us the gentle challenges of
   weak senses instead of sharp hearing and smell, of losing our hydration
   to embarrassingly visible tears and odorous sweat rather than holding
   it like a camel, and of atrophied fur, claws, and incisors readapted
   for cuddling over protection.
   These experiments have proven in every land environment on earth that
   nurturing and connecting investments eventually outpace surveillance,
   control, and weaponry, from birth of the tiniest infant, to death of
   the frailest elder.

   On Sun, Sep 6, 2020, 11:24 AM Zenaan Harkness <[1]zen@freedbms.net>
   wrote:

     This one's really sweet, cute in fact - I promise I'll go straight
     to bed and have a nap after this, but really, how cute is this true
     storys - firstly I'll just lightly paraphrase it for y'all:
     <paraphrase>
        Our American intelligence traps are the best!
        In fact, our bear traps are just the greatest - with our $104
     million dollar
        B-52B StratoFortress cavorting the Black Sea, we got EIGHT
     Russian fighter
        jets sidling up and EXPOSING their radar signatures.
        Did I mention our intelligence traps are the best?
        No one does intelligence traps like us!
        We showed those Russians!
        We have B-52 StratoFortresses, and they great - they are just so
     good!
        They have "Fortress" in the name.
        They are strong.  They are like a fortress in the sky!
        Our StratoFortresses are the BEST StratoFortresses in the world!
        And we literally ATE up the Russian radar signatures!  We are
     awesome, and
        our intelligence traps are the best intelligence traps ever!
     </paraphrase>
     True story muffas, enjoy:
        The Pentagon Has 'Staged' Black Sea B-52 Intercepts As An
     "Intelligence Trap" For The Russians

     [2]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-has-staged-black-
     sea-b-52-intercepts-intelligence-trap-russians
           ... The report describes that at the very moment the Russian
     fighters were coming extremely close to the B-52, even reportedly
     limiting its movement and coming within a mere 100 feet, two US
     RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic-intelligence planes were nearby
     scooping up useful data on the Su-27 aircraft.
           Ultimately the "trap" netted valuable intelligence on the
     Russian anti-air response and technology. ...
     Sorry if that's a little too lighthearted folks, it's just, I dunno,
     we need to lighten things up, and this one just tickles the funny
     bone.  Let me just say for the record though, "Oh, dear me, those
     Russians must be just licking their wounds, they just gave up all
     that huge, huge sigint data to our glorious StratoFortress - yes, we
     are really awesome and those silly, silly Russians must be feeling
     so, so sad."
     There, I'm sure that improves our essential propaganda situation.

References

   1. mailto:zen@freedbms.net
   2. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-has-staged-black-sea-b-52-intercepts-intelligence-trap-russians