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Now that is a good explosion.... and I am not trying to center this on russian troops here, but it is easy to see why in general UGVs can mitigate some of the brutal chaotic deaths that come from war. Yes they enable others, but in the past this would have been a lowliest of the low grunt who was treated like shit and told to sprint across a field with explosives tied to their back at the center of that explosion...
Again, not really sympathizing here, more like pointing out how the narrative that unmanned vehicles necessarily make war MORE brutal is complicated. Yes they do, but also... this would have been a VERY brutal scene before UGVs started regularly being used for munitions logistics. Now instead there are russian soldiers who don't receive the ATGMs in the first place and now the impetus to surrender is far more existentially direct for them then if they actually had the rocket launchers in their hands and thought they had any chance at all.