• @Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2717 days ago

    What the human mind does during existential terror is amazing and self-preserving.

    What an invading terrorist nation does is use casualties as chaff.

    I guess we will never know.

  • snooggums
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    1316 days ago

    It’s like in the movies where a sailing ship’s crew throws stuff overboard to lighten the load.

    • RubberDuck
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      215 days ago

      Or push someone off the raft in the hope the shark goes for that target.

  • @ddplf
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    1216 days ago

    I always wonder when I see these kind of videos - is there anything these guys can do to save their skin? Is there a way to communicate surrender, or were they given the ultimate death sentence?

    Anyhow, this bit of curiosity in itself is much more compassion than what this invasive species ever deserved

    • DarkThoughts
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      1816 days ago

      Staying within their own borders. But yes, there’s plenty of drone surrender videos out there too, but of course there’s no guarantee that a surrender to a drone is going to work out for a variety of reasons, including getting potentially shot / shelled by your own guys for trying to surrender.

    • Getting thrown out of the car which is about to get blown up is a way to save your skin, but there is not much for oneself to do to make it happen.

    • @x00z@lemmy.world
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      114 days ago

      Yes, you put your hands up. Ukraine is known to use drones to bring Russian soldiers to a place where they can be captured.

      In a car like this though your best bet would be to jump out of it before doing that.