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‘The frontline is like Terminator’: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war with Russia
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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Anyone cheering this on is a bad person btw.
edit: 7 years ago it was uncontroversial to say robots should not be used to kill people. We are in the dumbest timeline. I actually do hope this spreads so the people downvoting my point understand how bad of an idea this is when their kids are determined to be valid combatants by automated weapon systems and are obliterated in order to win a war no one but the robots are still fighting.
It is a bad idea, but Pandora's box cannot be closed. We must remember that developments within technological warfare has been the reason colonization and imperialism spread.
I hate the "good guy with a gun" position, but in regards to invading forces, it's best to be prepared for what may come. Sun Tzu said "he who wants peace must prepare for war".
What we're seeing in the theater of war in Ukraine right now is how warfare will be waged currently as well as in the future and as such we want rather to lose robots than trained personnel, or even civilians.
The new war of attrition will be one of chips and metal. There's nothing we can do about that really, except build defense systems, drones and robots made to counter or even cancel out invading drones and robots.
But make no mistake: Pandora's box cannot be closed again. All the evils have been released - and you can't shove them back in the box.
We're not losing robots though. that's the thing. This isn't drone on drone warfare. This is drone on civilian and soldier warfare.
And that's the exclusive future for this technology.
That's what we decided was better than simply stopping all wars by enabling nuclear proliferation.
That's also why Ukraine got invaded and why Cuba got sanctioned to death - because they gave up their nuclear armament. That's why they call it a nuclear deterrent.
What you're suggesting is that Ukrainians should stop developing these drones and robots so that Russia can get ahead of them, which will lead to even more civilians dying - because Russia sends drones to destroy apartment complexes, hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure all the time - because Russia is a terrorist state. Heck, Russia kills their own soldiers on the battlefield once said soldiers are deemed expendable - all for their glorious emperor Putin.
Your type of thinking is inherently defeatist and would bring about the fall of Ukraine. You're not against war. You're for successful invasion and takeover of entire nation States. You're in effect an enabler. You're against people, cultures and countries protecting themselves from invaders, fascists and imperialists. You live in a fantasy world predicated upon your feelings.
Either that, or you're a Russian sympathizer and collaborator. I'd rather give you the benefit of the doubt and call you ignorant and blind to the realities of the world.
Again: imperialism isn't dead and one wonders if it ever will be. In any case, the promise of modernity must be kept - of no more shifting borders - be it through treaties or a defense industrial complex.
And also, the US is nuts. They'd gladly let Russia take Lithuania, Poland and Finland. Europe sees this and we're not here to be a footnote in the history book of whatever conqueror gets to rewrite it.
Everything in this paragraph also applies to Ukraine. Stop pretending their war crimes don't exist, and if you believe they don't, expand your media consumption so you actually see truthful reporting.
The rest of your fearmongering brainwashed nonsense shows you have no objective media consumption. You are fully subject to whatever your corporate owners want you to believe, and you happily believe it.
Here's a hint: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, AND PEOPLE DO NOT DO THINGS JUST TO BE EVIL.
Why is Russia invading Ukraine?
Why does the entirety of the corporate world back Ukraine?
Why is the fact Ukraine has been sending children to die in the front lines against their and their parent's will just not come up in these discussions?
Why do none of you people question anything your governments tell you?
I get it, you've been brainwashed for decades that Russia is magically Nazi Germany (despite their government and economy just being the United States') and that they want to exterminate all [[insert whoever is getting a new starbucks here]]. And they're bad, but they're no worse than the US. They're no worse than Hungary. They're no worse than Turkey. They're no worse than Ukraine or Israel.
They're all the same flavor of fascist. This is just fascist infighting to see which fascist gets monetary control of land. Not people, the people don't enter into the equation. Ukraine doesn't have a people anymore, an entire generation exterminated because death was better than paying taxes to Putin.
3 day old account spreading Russian propaganda, how original
That's the brainwashing I'm talking about. Nothing I've said is propaganda, and nothing I've stated is being stated by Russia.
You people are as bad as zionists, anything that even suggests your holy land might not be heaven incarnate and your brain shuts down.