A fresh arms race. The Alliance does not have inexpensive and effective weapons

"The usage of Russian drones against Poland has shown where NATO's biggest defence gap is. Putin will grow more intensively and more frequently check whether there truly is simply a will to defend all inch of the square territory of the alliance. Mobilizing NATO fighters to shoot down unmanned drones is, however, like firing sparrow cannons. Who fights inexpensive and fast drone production with millions of air-air missiles, has a problem! Moscow sends all their swarms to Ukraine to defeat the air defence by overloading. NATO would not be able to defy specified an attack as Kiev has experienced many times if the attack took place in Warsaw or Berlin. The West must realise that Putin has started a fresh arms race, in which Europeans, left to themselves by Trump's unconscious reality, are far behind. "Kreml builds 1 drone mill after the another not only to bomb Ukraine", estimated Berthold Kohler, publisher of the "FAZ" paper on 13 September.