Eyes darting like he’s afraid of getting droned right there - or fragged for speaking out.
Maybe don’t invade your neighbors.
Why dont you think of the poor oligarchs !?
The PTSD of surviving a battlefield like this will be a unique kind of horrific. Like, don’t get me wrong - all PTSD is bad. But when the war ends and the Ukrainians and Russians have left their trenches, they’re going to take with them the experience of being hunted by machines day and night. Any little sound of an electric motor, like from their kid’s RC toy car, might be the thing that brings back memories of hiding in trenches, fox holes, abandoned & bombed out buildings from somebody hunting them with a drone.
It just feels so personal, in a way. Having someone fly one of these things around, looking for you. Having them hover right over you, trying to figure out if you’re already dead so they don’t have to waste the drone & explosives. Having them taunt you as you scramble for safety.
And yeah - the Russians definitely brought that shit on themselves. But they have drones too, now. And so will every army in the world after this war. It’s just all so “Black Mirror”.
Alas very few back home hear this. Probably even Putin doesn’t get all these stories.
The entire Russian command structure is just people lying to their superiors in order to save themselves. By the time any info gets to Putin it ends up saying something completely different altogether.
This is kind of horrifying. We’re back to body carts?
We need proper flak tanks again. Bring in the ostwind
dont russia have thier own drone factories?
