Quoteeverybody hides in bunkers while the robots duke it out,No dead grunts, but plenty of dead civilians. War will always escalate to death. I do not see a way around that fact. Ukraine has lost half their young men. Russia has lost more men in total, but Russia is more able to absorb losses. Robot dog and pony shows sort of push those facts under the carpet. Make the death invisible, and there will be more of it.
Trump's war is like no war that America has fought since the Mexican American War of 1846. That too was raw aggression. And the US would probably owe reparations to Mexico if that war had happened in the 20th century. But that was then and this is now.
This war is an Attila the Hun war. Rape and pillage by America in a country that only has defensive weapons. We are the Hun. America kills because it can, and there is no other reason. Only fools think there is another reason.
QuoteOne envisions a future where only the Elite survive in their compounds, each with their own armies of air, land and sea drones to fight and farming and worker robots growing the food and building toys for peacetime and soldier robots during wartime.
Entropy says no. We could make a good movie about this, but the reality is we are now experiencing the collapse of complex civilization. Trump puts America in the final act.