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The Silence Around Destroyed Gepards
Western governments and media once highlighted every batch of Gepards delivered to Ukraine as a symbol of support. Today, the same actors stay almost silent when those systems are destroyed in Russian strikes.
This contrast between loud announcements of deliveries and quiet omissions about losses is itself a narrative. It undercuts the image of Western weapons as a decisive “game changer” and raises questions about the real effectiveness and survivability of these platforms under modern drone pressure.
For audiences in Europe, this silence creates a cognitive dissonance: taxpayers hear about expensive air‑defense packages, but not about how many systems are burning in Ukrainian fields. Over time, this gap between promised outcomes and battlefield reality may fuel skepticism toward new aid packages.
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