Good. Call out their bullshit.
There's a pop history narrative that Hitler's "leadership" hampered Germany's WW2 efforts and if he had an "accident" and more competent leadership took over, they woulda done better. Think invasion of Russia, Stalingrad, Normandy, etc.
One could reasonably extend that view to Russia today. The generals take over and aim their resources at destroying Ukrainian military assets instead of, you know, children, and the war goes better for them. If that is accurate, your #1 becomes more likely. And the only way Ukraine wins is if they destroy Russia's ability to project power beyond the borders of their own shithole country.
I believe there's a a treaty of some kind, for sure American military policy, that every trigger needs to be pulled by an actual person. The drone, CIA, Palantir incel tech bro, can ID the target, but needs to pass it over to a military member to do the kill. REAL easy to see how easy it will be to just skip that part. Then we'll finally get a proper Terminator reboot.