Now veterans play video games to cope, I cannot imagine these new "bonus points" warriors ever be able to hold controller to play a regular video game with their son without flashbacks, once back to civilian life. But guessing long term effects and reintegration into civilian life is the last priority for Ukrainians now, and just a nice controlled psych experiment for the west.
Ucraine is the forerunner, next wars will go with robots, and might even have a LLM "Brain, or remote and here we go again.
Age is just a number, as you see it works for them. War is not about fine and nice.
War is also the driver of tech.
nice controlled psych experiment for the west.
I bet the "other side" has a similar set up, or worse.
The article said as much, in the past, say Vietnam, how soldiers given were given some metal orden for: How many life he took.
It appears to be so with the robots. The only things that gives me any kind of hope is that robots will get so advanced that us meatbags will become obsolete on the frontlines like horses. Superpowers will be protected by nukes and MAD, but these proxy wars can be fought exclusively with robots, until we enter the Terminator scenario, that is.
I don't hold any illusions on this, Russia is trying to defend it's sphere of influence, if this new technique proves to be effective Russia will most definitely adopt it. Thus the evolution of sword and shield, neither side gets to enjoy any tech advantage for a long periods of time. If anything, I expected Russia to implement something like this first and EU/US to push back and take higher ground on this, unfortunately it appears that the west just plays double standards rather than actually adhere to any higher morals these days.
Sure, armies always incentivized killings, after all that's what they are used for. It's just this feel like a new low in this evolution to dehumanize warfare. We had that video where after losing close combat fight on knifes, Ukrainian soldier congratulated Russian soldier, said he was a great warrior and requested to die in peace, Russian soldier obliged, granted him his final wish and left. Now with these drone operators for points system it'll be few years of service and then the psych ward for life once realizations kicks in