Here's another worry. Once the war is over regardless of who wins you now have a large number of people specialized in drone warfare re-entering civilian life.

Going by previous wars over many years some of them will inevitably go down the mercanary route and sell those skills to the highest bidder.

Do they realize how fucked they would be if we all agreed to not go to work tomorrow?

I'm pretty surprised we haven't seen any assassinations of public figures using quadcopters yet.

These things are almost as easy to obtain and weaponize as a rifle.

I can't overemphasize how much I wish we didn't have to do this. I hope the history records we aren't making murder drones for shits and giggles, but rather because it's the only way to not be overwhelmed by the meat wave.

IDF troops have been killed by FPV drones. Incredible sums of money will be spent to find countermeasures that Ukraine and Russia havent been able to make work yet. Hopefully the shield will become cheaper and more effective than the sword again.

The 20 minute claim is definitely shady, it is explored here on More or Less from 6:32 20 mins claim

Considering Trump absolutely bums Putin does that mean the true figure of Russian casualties is higher?

There hasn’t been much conscription on the Russian side (though recently that’s changing) because conscription is tremendously politically unpopular, most people joined the war on that side by willingly signing a contract because they’re offering huge sums of money compared to what Russian people outside of the biggest cities can make.

The Russian people need to start saying “no”. Putin is dweeby little nothing of a creature, not a powerful sorceror. Without people to do the evil for him there is nothing.

This, in fact, is a message to all the people in the world who are just thugs for their own nasty piece of shit “leaders”.

yeah I can't help but read all this as very bad news indeed in the longer term. There's nothing stopping Russia, North Korea, or indeed any random manchild billionaire deploying this tech within the coming months or years and deciding who they think should die. It's not like nukes which are difficult to get material for and difficult to build. Most of the advanced stuff is the software, which can be easily copied.

but not so hot for the future of warfare.

Maybe the future of warfare is to figure out a better way for people to settle their differences.

That would, of course, mean we would first have to figure out how to prevent narcissistic megalomaniacs from being in positions of power.

Cause if you think about that statement for a few seconds, it is unclear what it is even saying. 30 minutes in Ukraine? By what definition of Ukraine borders? The international ones? No matter how bad it is, that seems impossible. The Russian ones? Well, yes. Being behind the front lines is hella dangerous. Not sure how they would even get there. The de-facto controlled Ukraine territory? In that case, you are just saying soldiers that charge Ukraine defenses tend to die, which duh.

Yeah, they said they kill 200 Russian soldiers for every kilometer they claim. That's a steep price to pay for a little bit of territory, but it sounds like Russia is willing to pay it, and it's working. Not for the soldiers, but for "Russia," I guess.