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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Happy Halloween

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

this is already second time this happens

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they marked their vehicles with a red cross or equivalent they would be protected under the Geneva Conventions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boy do I have news for you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That war crimes happen? Yeah...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but likely not the purpose of this action

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you think they thought it would be like a lizard dropping it's tail? The drone would get distracted?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I assume they believe it makes them go faster? I have seen videos where they drop bodies out of a truck, apparently in an attempt to get lighter and therefore faster. It's not particularly smart, but other people have just offed themselves after seeing a drone nearby. So there is a spectrum of reactions.