• macniel
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    1 month ago

    they could have surrendered just like the other Russians did.

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      1 month ago

      That’s not really how wars work in the 2020s. There’s no opportunity to surrender when you get droned in a truck miles away from the front lines or hit by a glide-bomb in your barracks hundreds of miles from the front. We saw the same thing in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

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        1 month ago

        Okay call it not surrendering then but deserting and then surrender.

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          Between deserting and surrendering is sneaking across miles of territory, through the front lines, in hopes that the other side accepts your surrender and puts you in a POW camp instead of droning the guy in an enemy uniform sneaking towards their position.

          We’ve seen plenty of videos of both sides droning people trying to surrender.