I can’t help but wonder if these are really “deep fakes” as in trained models replicating that specific face and mapping it on other video, or just one of these shitty filters, that makes the eyes and head move slightly like in thw balenciaga memes.
Poor sod is 72, I wouldn’t blame him if that was enough in connection with a little bit of social engineering
if CMs weren’t effective, they wouldn’t be using them.
Well as i wrote, they pledged yesterday not to use any. So uhh
Yeah sry i jumped the gun on hitting post.
I meant to add: it’s tragic enough that mines are deployed so much in this conflict.
I personally think saying cluster munitions will end it quicker ergo result in less uxos is a bit simplified a->b thinking that rarely works out in reality.
I think UA should absolutely aim to limit uxos from their side as much as realisticly possible, and i dont know if CMs are as big of a power swing as you make em out to be.
Fortunately (in my eyes), they pledged not to use these measures already
How does that relate to it?
“there are already mines so spreading more is good”?
Generations of having a chance to blow up children. vs maybe a short term push of the front, maybe.
Idk if I’d take the trade. With conventional weapons UA is already kicking ass.
I live in a city where 500-1000kg WWII bomb finds are a common occurrence. Every few weeks at least a whole block gets evacuated for a day. And those are easier to find, less randomly spread, more reliable.
Thats not the issue here. I mean fuck russia, yes.
But cluster ammunitions indiscriminately cover an area, military and otherwise. Impossible to track what ends up where, when it comes to UXOs.
Decades from now, innocent civilians, often kids, may dig up random ordnance and die due to the nature of the weapon.
Thats not news though its a well known fact that gets reported on plenty.
However, do you want to have headlines like “this issue is still the same, nothing changed, there are no news”?
I haven’t done that, but when looking something up from a long text on paper, I get the same feeling I do when I hit ctrl+f. Like theres no keyboard obviously, but i feel ctrl+f