Shashan: War is never about a kind of wonder weapon that changes the fight by itself. It's a constantly evolving back and forth contest where each side gets a new system, they find somea antage, then the other side gets an advantage and gets the edge. I think russia is not going to simply sit back and take this punnelling. It's going to find a way to try and take the fight back to ukraine in a really serious way.
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