Posted on 04/17/2026 3:28:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Ukrainian military captured a Russian position using only ground robots and aerial drones — completely unassisted by any infantry, for the first time in the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
No lives were lost when the robot force went into highly dangerous enemy-occupied territory and forced the soldiers there to surrender, he said in a video address to defense workers this week, without revealing additional details about the mission.
“The future is already on the front line — and Ukraine is building it. These are our ground robotic systems,” Zelensky said, according to Business Insider.
Over the last three months, Ukrainian ground robots have carried out more than 22,000 missions on the front lines, according to the president.
“In other words, over 22,000 times, lives were saved,” he said.
“This is about high technology protecting the highest value — human life,” he continued.
Ukraine reportedly has used a record number of land robots to fend off invading Russian forces, as the war-torn country continues to ramp up its use of killer droids on the battlefield.
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I went to a government-run conference on port security ten or twelve years ago. I remember one speaker said “you won’t believe how quickly the enemy advances its use of technology.”
As the saying goes, “Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.”
Ukraine has access to the latest western tech. Russia doesn’t. Except maybe what China manages to reverse engineer.
The Ukies have perfected how to use robotics and drones to overcome Russia’s advantages in troops and Soviet war materiel. Ukraine now has the advantage in the conflict, and they are slowly taking out Russia’s industry with drones far away from the front.
“In other words, over 22,000 times, lives were saved,” he said.
and yet again, here, I ask “why?”
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I believe such a rogue version will not make any differentiation between versions and will connect to any it finds.
Thus...
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Saving lives is good, it also helps even the odds against the Russian and North Korean Army forces conducting the invasion.
AI can’t reliably clean up a voter roll.
My neighbors from Ukraine can hardly wait to get home. Such nice people, I hate to see hem go. If I died, I’d entrust my precious cat to them, but I had to make other plans.
“AI can’t reliably clean up a voter roll.””
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That would be a bug, not a feature.
To the progs...
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What can't they go home now? It's not as if the war has engulfed the whole country of Ukraine. People are going to work, shopping, going to nightclubs, etc., which they are, what is their reason for staying in the U.S. Do they live in one of the regions where the action is?
What = Why
“ AI can’t reliably clean up a voter roll.”
So what’s your point?
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That helps explain the extremely unreliable results coming back from Claude these days. AI just imitates code that humans originally wrote but does it in a way that tends to cause problems. This is especially true when AI is trying to mimic the results of itself and other AI bots which keep recycling the same snippets with more and more errors introduced.
In about two years the world has gone from watching President Trump rudely dismissing the Ukrainian leader on television in the Oval Office, "you have no cards," to world leaders now half seriously joking among themselves if a surging Ukraine would actually accept association with NATO. History is vindicating Zelinski, not Trump.
It is noticeable how less and less frequently the disparagements of President Zelinski and of his courageous country are appearing in this forum.
Perhaps the inevitability of Russian victory is no longer so clear. Maybe the exaggerated costs of support of Ukraine are being understood as the propaganda they were when falsely uttered by the president. Could it be that the revelations by DOGE of endemic corruption in America and the revelations of corruption in Minnesota, California, Maine, and elsewhere are causing some conservatives to gain a less hypocritical perspective about the inflated allegations of corruption in Ukraine? Perhaps the diminutive size of President Zelinski is not as relevant as it was even a few months ago. Perhaps resourcefulness and ingenuity at a tactical and strategic level have caused President Zelinski to grow a few inches.
Maybe, just maybe, the extraordinary valor of Ukraine, its courageous struggle for its very existence in the face of great odds, its steadfastness in the face of desertion by America, is causing some conservatives here to question our misplaced arrogance?
Another (an even more unlikely maybe), maybe the resourcefulness of NATO and Europe in uniting and coming to the support of Ukraine in the wake of abandonment by America, will cause some conservatives to reassess our hubristic dismissal of NATO and Europe. Maybe we will begin to acknowledge that we consciously estranged NATO, rather than the other way around, even as we abandoned Ukraine, as we recognize that NATO and Europe did not abandon Ukraine. Perhaps we will see that Europe and NATO are in fact reforming and that maybe NATO could actually become one of our great assets and bulwarks against very dark forces.
They have children and grandchildren here in town. Gorgeous, well-dressed, well-mannered children of their son. Teen boy looks like Cary Grant and wore a three-piece suit on Easter, the day I met him. Financially totally secure.
In Ukraine, they have a daughter who just had a baby, her husband is young, might need be in army soon. They think that daughter and her family need more help than the group here.
I hate to see them go. I really have fun with her, great sense of humor. My cat likes her too, which is saying something. Daisy hates everyone but me and sometimes me too.
I really couldn’t ask for better neighbors.
Well then, I can't blame them for wanting to stick around. Sorry to hear their daughter, her husband and baby are stuck there. What a spot to be in, being split from your family like that. I hope it all works out for them.
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