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At least they specified "teenager" because after reading "children" my first thought was:
New Russian drone design document!
Hey it "worked" for Tesla.
Ender's game kinda shit
Not really. A normal thing for most functional states 50 years ago. A comprehensive pipeline of training and preparation for various industrial and military roles.
From first aid to orientation on terrain to radio knowledge to flag signals. Flight clubs, other relevant sports, small arms disassembly and assembly. What to do in case of an emergency. Chemistry, electric engineering, mechanical engineering.
Computer games weren't a thing, and cheap small drone planes too. But this is pretty normal, except nothing is official, because today nation-states prefer gray schemes.
Russia will soon have the children pilot the kamikaze drones directly by riding them.
The correspondents posed as reporters from state-controlled media outlets. Independent journalism has essentially been outlawed in Russia since the state of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with most of those still working forced into exile.
By posing as state-controlled journalists still in the country, the reporters hoped their interviewees would feel more comfortable sharing sensitive information with them.
Does this put the kids at risk of retaliation? I suppose they're counting on there being so many teens doing this that they can't narrow it down, but this approach doesn't seem very responsible...
I didn’t RTA but I assume they hide their identities?
You can still narrow down who it may have been through other means, such as security footage or asking around if any of the kids have been wandering, talking to strangers, or were absent when they normally wouldn't be.
Given that Russia is at war and they have a history of surveillance and intimidation of their own people, even scientists working on top secret projects, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that these teens are not safe now.
This is all true. If the teens are found out, hopefully any punishment will not be too harsh as also the reporters posed as state media, which the teens can say they thought was sanctioned by the government. (Maybe they even believed that themselves.)
Ender warned us.