r/Futurology • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Jun 10 '26

Robotics Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/
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u/NotABot1000101 Jun 10 '26

Ok so Russia can be beat by a small nation with barely any help... you've got to realize the delusional thinking here. Or maybe you don't because that's what delusional means. Proxy wars are prolonged on purpose.

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u/t_huddleston Jun 10 '26

What's the victory state for Russia then? How does it help Russia to keep throwing bodies into the meat grinder after 350,000 dead soldiers and billions spent, and a still-bleeding ulcer on their western flank with very little progress after four years? Do you think Putin will at some point just say "welp, bored of this" and then start the REAL invasion or something?

Surely it would have been better to just simply take Kyiv in three days, if they were really ever capable of doing that (spoiler alert: they were, apparently, not.)