[slightwinder]

> Western Europe still thinks that if a war breaks out, it'll be tanks and soldiers going into the Baltic states, and we'll crush them with our advanced arsenal.

Drones are not for conquering, but destruction. We see this in Ukraine now, where Drones are not making the whole war, but are just one gear of the machinery. And Western leaders know this, they are preparing Drones, but refitting the western machinery takes time. Probably one reason why they seem busy to bind Russia in Ukraine.

[Yokolos]

> Drones are not for conquering, but destruction.

Yes, and we have plenty of infrastructure to destroy. It's a target rich environment.

> And Western leaders know this, they are preparing Drones

I've seen zero indication that this is true. Do you have sources that we're in any way preparing for a large-scale drone war?

[slightwinder]

> Yes, and we have plenty of infrastructure to destroy. It's a target rich environment.

Yes, but how is that relevant? Everything is always open for terror. Russia itself is not safe either. Or are you assuming Russia is out for pure blind destruction? Degrading themselves to become lousy terrorists? Just spreading destruction for no reason?

I would assume they at least will have some aim and reasoning behind their targets, which would mean they will come with soldiers and tanks, and conquer land, or destroy the highest profile-targets. In the first case, they will have very limited resources to spare for attacks on middle European targets. For the second case, you only need to focus your defence on those targets.

> I've seen zero indication that this is true.

May you are following the wrong sources? Building up drones-defence is in progress for a while now. Whether it's going well is a different story, but I would assume that they will not talk very openly about those things for obvious reasons.

[red-iron-pine]

there was literally an article just the other day about the US buying a million drones and building the capacity to continue that level of To&E