Sometimes television interviews play out well and in the several minutes on air I get to present without interruption a script I prepared based on questions submitted in advance. My answers typically go well beyond the intentions of the questioner. I strive to set out a point of view that I know is being overlooked in media, whether mainstream or alternative media. My media hosts kindly see this as a fair trade-off that brings in many new viewers.

Sometimes, like last night, the interview is handled by journalists unfamiliar with me and with our little trade-offs, so that my planned programmatic statement does not get aired. So be it. In the given case, I use this space to deliver the message manqué about the Russian use of drones in their ongoing military campaign in Ukraine.

My questioner was particularly interested in my view of the legalities of Russian deployment of…