In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones

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• lupusblackfur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Russia will soon teach high school students how to build and fly drones, which have become a key weapon in the war between Moscow and Kyiv.

  Russia last year launched a nationwide project called Unmanned Aerial Systems to promote both the domestic production of drones and preparation of drone pilots and other specialists starting with high school students.

  Seems to remind me of Hitler Youth for some reason… 🤷‍♂️

  🤡 🖕 💩

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thats what soviets did too. There were classes for gun assembly and shooting practice and its not a new thing.

    I don’t think military skill prep is a bad thing for small countries but coming from current ruzi administration is certainly is a bit on the nose. As in “training kids to terrorize country they invaded with semi-autonomous remote weapons” just doesn’t ring the same as “military prep in case of invasion”

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    • ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are we forgetting that the US has JROTC in schools? Literally training kids for the military…

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Teaching kids war is good in any case. Teaching kids that war is good is bad.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gave me brave brew world vibes since they are essentially raising them up to be the foot soldier class. It would be even easier to draft them

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gotta wake up to the reality that USA is doing the exact same thing.

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• ChidiAnagonye@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unfortunately that’s useless, the people needing to be hit are all kinda distributed over all of Russia, and the punishment is severe.

    But teaching children to build tools for modern war is an absolute positive. Possessing an AK is no good for a revolution today anyway, while with small drones you can do a lot.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Radio Free Europe is literally US propaganda. This is like thinking the National Enquirer is “News You Can Trust”

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Kidnap Ukrainian’s children and put them into sweatshops building drones to kill their families, real class act this civilization

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Positively dystopian.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Positively american.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No. We have our own dystopia, our kids get shot in the classroom. We don’t have them assemble the guns to kill other people.

      Big difference.

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    • HelterSkeletor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s literally Russian you clown.

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• VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Links to Radio Free Europe articles get posted way too often on Lemmy. It’s just RT for the US government.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It really is not cause nothing is as blatant as ruzi media

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    • VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Propaganda is propaganda.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It only looks that way from inside the imperial bubble.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s a completely fair comparison. They are both state tools for establishing power through narratives. They are both heavily biased.

    But RT is Orwellian in that it just makes shit up and has no respect for even appearing credible. While RFE/RFL tends to be biased towards publishing pro-western stories, but they don’t tend to make shit up from scratch.

    Of course, who knows what the fuck is happening there right now, my analysis is pre-Trump 2024.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Some other sources covering this:

      forbes.com/…/russian-schoolchildren-are-learning-…

      www.kyivpost.com/post/49543

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• PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When American kids enter the fight expect the coolest under fire mother fucking soldiers you ever seen

  An entire generation of kids raised in a war zone of school shootings

  They’re already trained

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a tasteless take.

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    • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s bitter, not tasteless.

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  • romantired@shibanu.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lmao yeah)

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh noooo!!! Scary Russians!!! jfc.

  The indoctrination system in USA is completely controlled by the MIC. Almost all of the R&D is funded for violence. This starts way before college. Probably every kid will be working for the military at some point.

  • mavicpilots.com/…/drone-program-in-highschool.141…
  • crossflightskysolutions.com/starting-a-high-schoo…
  • www.thedronegirl.com/2024/…/high-school-drone/
  • www.airgineers.co.uk

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hey guess what? Both of these can be bad. I’d argue that the case in “Russia” is a bit worse, seeing as this is Crimea, but both are fucking awful.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

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• ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.

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