• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      4 months 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.

        • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          13
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          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.