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  "textContent": "\n\nOne Patriot missile costs enough to buy about 150 Iranian Shahed drones. Ukraine already showed that a $2,000 drone can take out a $5 million tank. The arithmetic doesn't improve just because the United States is the one spending.\n\nJames Fallows, who spent 45 years covering military decision-making for _The Atlantic_ , writes in his Substack that the past nine days of fighting amount to \"the most wantonly self-destructive\" stretch for the country he can remember. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Iran's $2,000 drones vs. America's $5 million missiles appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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