Eastern Ukraine had more Ukrainians who had russian language as primary one, but they are not ethnic russians. Also this is the result of the ethnic cleansing and mass deportation of Ukrainian people russians did for the last two senturies.
>> are five redundant drones with worse optics better than one big one
Depends on the goal. If the goal is to make high precision strikes - one big drone with tons of capabilities.
If the goal is the terror strike campaign like russian - cheap Shahed drones are the best.
A month ago Sternenko had a crowdfunding campaign for the secret drones. Recently he showed the fruits of that campaign: new drones have better connection and now you can watch kills in 4k!
Also recent advances in battery tech brought increased energy density: the same drones which had range 20km now have 40km.
But education is almost worthless now already. Nowadays pretty much everyone has a degree and then couldn't find a job and lucking real skills and experience. Ai is not a cause, it will simply speed up the degradation of the system.
Nowadays more than half of job postings are fake. It's either process to show activity or they already have one to hire but need to follow established process.
Detroit had tons of extra housing. Why have people people fled to other cities?
There is no easy fast solution to this. Just build more housing will not solve complex issues. Not saying there should not be more construction, though.
It is always faster if you don't care about quality and need to churn out code as fast as possible to close tickets.