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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
What you're saying is true, but you don't seem to be drawing a conclusion to this, what does 'a problem over time' mean? Yes shooting down drones is expensive... so... pretty soon Ukraine won't be able to afford to do it? What is the natural conclusion from this $1m vs $20k fact? The war itself is costing Ukraine and its allies billions. Some millions of that is going into air-defence, this is true. Hundreds of millions more are going into equipment procurement... so... what? Say it.
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You're imagining arguments
That's the whole point, there's nothing I'm not saying about that.
No one is saying it's some major war defining issue on it's own, and how that issue plays out depends on a ton of things. That's all I'm saying about drones, there's an issue there. Just an issue.
One overall point the video was making was that it's possible air defense does become a problem for Ukraine at some point, that they've lost a bigger portion of their air defense than Russia, that stockpiles of surface to air missiles aren't unlimited etc. But that's it. It doesn't say it will define the war, it's just a thing.
Sorry for breaking internet rules and not hyping every issue into some gamechangning world defining thing.
Overall I was just commenting that I think people have been getting carried away by recent Ukrainian successes and ignoring the numbers game of it all, assuming that a victory is all but guaranteed when Russia still mostly has the numbers on their side.
If there's a thing I'm saying it's that I think people should make less sweeping declarations about what's going to happen.