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[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Imagine living in a 1950's time bubble. You are being constantly told through propaganda that your military force is cutting edge and that it can easily overwhelm any enemy.

Then you are being sent to fight on a battlefield where everyone has better gear than you, where you are confronted to weapons that are so far advanced beyond anything that you've ever seen they might as well be magic. Then you see said weapons completely obliterate your comrades without giving you a chance to even see the enemy who operates them.

You only obeyed so far because you feared what your government might do to you if you didn't. Now you've found something that you fear even more.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

imagine them seeing the drone for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

For the first and last time 😟

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Hey (pointing skywards), is that a dro....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

you are confronted by* weapons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago

Novel? As in a book of fiction? This is happening right now. I am sure some video of this will come out of this sad story and maybe in a few years some of these people who surrendered will be able to write their own story first hand. (I am assuming they will not want to go back to nk).