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The last two paragraphs: "According to the Interior Ministry, 599 smugglers’ balloons and 197 drones have crossed into Lithuanian airspace this year, disrupting 320 flights, affecting 47,000 passengers and causing nearly 60 hours of airport closures.
Weather balloons launched by cigarette smugglers in Belarus have disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport more than a dozen times in recent months and once at Kaunas Airport."
You'd think that large drones would be a lot more useful for smuggling via air than balloons.
I assume that the balloons can broadcast their position so that their cargo can be picked up wherever they land, but they aren't controllable. Drones are.
I'm not in the smuggling business at all, but I guess a drone capable of carrying the same payload as a balloon is a lot more expensive.
Also you want the drone back, which increases the risk of being discovered. Balloons are fire and forget, and you don't need to stick around.
Feel like a combo would be slickest, drone dirigible type deal
I'll link this video I watched a while ago Moscow's Belarus Land Bridge Is Gone–Millions Panic as Lithuania Shuts Down All Border Crossings (published 3 weeks ago) which goes into the issue and response of closing borders and Belarus being blocked on their main transport route to the sea. Lemmy post
I find the thumbnails so cringe. "Putin is done", yeah Im very sure I already read the same headline 2 weeks after the war started, and the arguments also made some sense at the time, but here we are. It's just click bait, nobody knows what happens next but "shits gonna happen very soon, believe me!" Videos are published day by day just for that sweet ad revenue.
In this video I found it felt AI padded with repetition and no coherent direction across the entire video.
I've seen more of this channels videos in my recommended videos, and one or two were briefly interesting, but ultimately, all felt padded and unfocused, and yeah, the clickbait titling and thumbnails is horrendous (may have gotten worse even). I evade them now; no interest in recommendations like that.
Nevertheless, I linked this video here because the first half or third was interesting to me when I watched it and I haven't seen an alternative resource for this info and overview of it myself.