I think Western intelligence needs to do as much of this as possible through Ukrainian actors. There are a lot of ultra poor Russians that could likely be bought as well. As you noted, Russia is a massive country and with so many of it's assets dedicated to the Ukrainian front, all kinds of it's infrastructure is vulnerable from within. Destroying as many targets from within the country as possible is an excellent (although difficult to execute) strategy. It also serves to terrorize the people and keep them from feeling safe, which brings attention to the war. That would be fantastic.Its extremely hard to defend against a swarm of small drones, especially since Russia is a large country and you don't know where they come from, certainly nobody expected it to come from inside Russia and so deep in Russia.
Some drones will surely penetrate and do damage.
So I don't think Russia showed they are incompetent in this regard, I think they certainly showed they are incompetent in other regards tho.
Considering how long the war is going on and considering that drones are increasingly more valuable on the battlefield and the new era of warfare, its quite shocking and incompetent to have such high valuable assets such as strategic bombers in the open like that, to be target practice for drones.
Certainly they have had enough time and realization to be able to build bunkers/shelters for the strategic aviation.
But seems like not lol.
Although Russia's population is in what seems to be an irreversible decline, focusing on killing individual people is fairly fruitless. Russia has plenty of populous. Where Russia is most vulnerable is that the longer this war goes on, the more they hold their economy together with glue and popsicle sticks. Focusing on the destruction of the vital infrastructure that their civilians rely on for quality of life should be the goal (along with military targets, of course). Forcing Russia into a post war reality in which the Russian people continue to fall behind the rest of the 1st world because their Government bankrupted them in a war, is ideal. Make the people supporting this invasion suffer by subjecting them to a lifetime of hardship. Their suffering is our advantage.
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