• Aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch
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    1 year ago

    Now, I’m all for the freedom of defending your country… But am I the only one thinking that this is presented in a bit too much of a good light? Like, what is the title supposed to make me feel? If the nationalities were reversed, would this have been posted here still?

    I genuinely thank you for sharing this info, but I can’t help feeling uncomfortable reading about atrocious killing devices in a technology thread.

    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I defend Ukraine against Russia, but war is war, and war never changes. It’s been 2 years of full fighting and I can’t pretend to be okay with a continuous war even against Russia and Putin who are awful.

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        So you would rather Ukrainians lay down their weapons and we’ll have 20 years of Bucha and Holodomor, again? I somehow doubt you would prefer that to continued warfare, more likely thinking “war is awful” is taking precedence over “not fighting it would be a hell a lot worse”. But that’s why wars are, by and large, fought: Because people think that not doing it would be worse. Some because they’re nuts, some, like Ukrainians, because they’re spot-on.

        The only party which can lay down their weapons and not get absolutely kicked in the face for it is Russia. Every minute it continues is on them.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m right there with you. My first reaction to the video in the article was “well that’s terrifying”.

    • Toribor@corndog.social
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      1 year ago

      I take no delight in killing but Russian forces could leave Ukraine at any point and put an end to it.

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            1 year ago

            Maybe, but I’ve seen plenty of videos of Russians attempting to surrender to drones, and getting killed anyway.

            • littlewonder@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              I have some questions you might ask yourself:

              What is the count of those vs. the number of surrendered Russians being treated well?

              Which one is more likely to be in the news?

              Which one is more likely to be spread around by Russian bots?

              Which will be more likely to be suppressed?