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Ukraine’s Warning to the World’s Other Military Forces: Expensive planes, tanks, and ships can be destroyed on the cheap.


Expensive planes, tanks, and ships can be destroyed on the cheap.

The attack showed how much audacity, ingenuity, and effectiveness the Ukrainians can bring to their own defense when Western leaders aren’t pressuring them to hold back. In many cases, they seem to have been flying courses preprogrammed via the open-source software ArduPilot, which has proved effective in navigating unmanned aerial vehicles for hundreds of miles and precisely reaching targets. For three years, the Biden administration simultaneously supported Ukraine and discouraged major attacks on Russian soil, for fear of provoking Vladimir Putin too much.

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