
Drone Strikes on Moscow Signal Dangerous New Phase of Ukraine War. Plus: One of Russia's Most Notorious Spies—a Whale—Resurfaces | SYSTEM UPDATE #91
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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The Russian Navy Has Begun Training Beluga Whales for Military Purposes
In the 1980s soviet russia a program saw dolphins recruited from military training their razor sharp vision stealth and good memory making them effective underwater tools for detecting weapons this mammal program closed in the 1990s. A 2017 report by tv's vedva revealed that the russian navy has again begun training beluga whales seals and bottlenose dolphins for military purposes and polar waters. The idea that this is some kind of nefarious scary army of whales that the kremlins obtain train to be spies and to attack Norwegian boats is lunacy lunacy.
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