The “you are replaceable” thing is older than everyone currently alive. It hasn’t been invented by the AI tech bros.
Also, the library is still out there. You still can ignore the rent-seeking middle men and use it directly with your own natural neural network.

They literally have a direct railway to North Korea. So if they can fit it on a flatbed wagon, they can send it per rail (oddly enough, they don’t seem to have a road connection).
Guess, it didn’t fit or is some old thing, the Russians really don’t care much about.

There are a lot of more or less covert operations going on against shipping right now. Someone even decapitated Iran’s government and since then the Strait of Hormuz is sort-of closed…

Grats.

That thing has a lot of radomes. Looks like a spy ship to me. Maybe it’s helping Iran keeping an eye on the strait.