From flying bombs to intelligent machines: The deadly evolution of drones
An aircraft no larger than a dinner plate can now locate a tank, guide artillery, inspect a bridge...
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Category: HISTORY
The UDBA Culture of Governance
An essay on historical trauma, fear, and networks of loyalty
By Aleksandar Ivanov We often hear claims in public debate that some invisible “UDBA” mechanism...
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The sirens of “brotherhood and unity”
The long shadow of a "soft" dictatorship – Josip Broz Tito, the legacy
By Xhabir Deralla I grew up as one of Tito’s Pioneers (Titov pionir), wrapped in an ideology where...
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The Blood Brotherhood They Want the World to Forget
The Nazi–Soviet alliance was buried, tolerated, and weaponized – a hard look at how the Kremlin erased Stalin’s alliance with Hitler and how the West learned to live with the lie.
By Xhabir Deralla I grew up under the “soft” dictatorship of Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia. Soft, at...
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Republic of Kosovo at 18: The Coming of Age of Europe’s Youngest State
By Xhabir Deralla On February 17, 2026, Kosovo marked 18 years since its declaration of...
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After the Divide: Intelligence Beyond Ideology
(AI History, Part 3) As the walls of the Cold War fell, the separate dreams of artificial intelligence began to intertwine — merging science, philosophy, and human aspiration into a shared global story.
By Jabir Deralla When the Iron Curtain lifted, the world’s scattered efforts in computing and...
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THE IDEOLOGICAL ABYSS: How the Cold War Rewrote the Dream of Intelligence
(History of AI, Part 2) From Cold War paranoia to digital utopias — how power, ideology, and ambition shaped intelligence and its histories.
By Jabir Deralla Continued from: The Mirror We Built: When Machines Learned to Dream CIVIL Today,...
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The Mirror We Built: When Machines Learned to Dream
(History of AI, Part 1) From the first circuits flickering in Philadelphia and Kyiv to the vast neural networks of today, the story of artificial intelligence is a human odyssey — a mirror of our imagination, ambition, and desire to understand ourselves through the minds we create. Welcome to a short history of AI
By Jabir Deralla AI was born from the minds of scientists, visionary thinkers, and artists — and,...
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