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Strange invitations, a killer at large. Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson star in the seductive crime thriller, as a hacker must solve a murder in the Arctic before it's too late.
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Almost from day one, Russia has found Ukraine a formidable adversary and has been itself on the receiving end of a number of ignominious strikes including the loss of its Black Sea Fleet flagship, the Moskva, and much of the Black Sea Fleet itself at the hands of a country which effectively lacks a navy. But there are wider messages the world can take from Operation Spiderweb, too, the first being that this war has now moved well beyond the parameters of its early days. With every month that passes in the conflict, the capacity for it to escalate into a new dangerous realm intensifies. Russian military assets wherever they might be, are now fully in Ukraine's crosshairs. Ukraine's own civilian population meanwhile have never been off limits to Russian forces and Moscow appears hell-bent on doubling down on them at every turn. Every war has its tipping points, and you can't help but feel that it would only take one serious overstep or miscalculation between these two protagonists for this to move into the unthinkable and Russia's use of its nuclear capability which in turn could drag in Ukraine's allies in an unprecedented way. But there are other messages also to be taken from Operation Spiderweb. As The Economist magazine pointed out in its aftermath, the world must wake up to the fact that 'new technology, deployed inventively, can be disproportionately lethal. The other is that the battlefield now stretches deep behind the front line, overturning the assumptions of the past quarter century'. In all of the visits I've made to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022, I've been struck by the hybrid or new methods of warfare coming out of the conflict. As I once described it to a friend, what you encounter is like a cross between the Battle of the Somme and something out of the movie Bladerunner. 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Every war has its tipping points, and you can't help but feel that it would only take one serious overstep or miscalculation between these two protagonists for this to move into the unthinkable and Russia's use of its nuclear capability which in turn could drag in Ukraine's allies in an unprecedented way. But there are other messages also to be taken from Operation Spiderweb. As The Economist magazine pointed out in its aftermath, the world must wake up to the fact that 'new technology, deployed inventively, can be disproportionately lethal. The other is that the battlefield now stretches deep behind the front line, overturning the assumptions of the past quarter century'. In all of the visits I've made to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022, I've been struck by the hybrid or new methods of warfare coming out of the conflict. As I once described it to a friend, what you encounter is like a cross between the Battle of the Somme and something out of the movie Bladerunner. 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Listening also to UK Defence Secretary, John Healey, talk as if war with Russia was just around the corner was likewise enough to give anyone sleepless nights. God knows I'm no fan of this Labour Government – anything but – but when all is said and done it's impossible to get away from the fact that the world in which we live presents ever-increasing threats by the day. Those who would argue that by chucking more money and effort at preparedness and upgrading the UK's military might only make things worse do have a point. But only the most naive would assume that other nations, perhaps Russia or China, or even non-state actors, would not seek to take every advantage were Britain and its European allies to drop their guard. Some in fact might argue that for too long now that guard has been dropped and complacency set in hence the sudden realisation of vulnerability. Not being prepared for crises is not only stupid but a sign of poor government and whatever Starmer says there remains the glaring gap between ambition and money when it comes to defence. That said, the review is right in its warning that 'emerging technologies are already changing the character of warfare more profoundly than at any point in human history'. I'm sure we all wish it were otherwise. I'm sure too we would much prefer it were every single diplomatic effort made to reduce tensions across the globe to avoid the need to harness such technology for warfare. I wish the world was full of pacifists, but it's not, that is the inescapable evidence of history. After 40 years as a correspondent witnessing wars up close, I for one need no convincing of how much better it is to deter war than wage it.
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