Or, you can add UAVs to the plane total to see exactly what I mean.
Or, you could substantiate your assumption that he was talking about UAVs as well as fighter jets.
If you really believed that, then why are you arguing?
What do you think I'm arguing? With respect to this specific line of questioning, I'm just responding to you. I can stop if you like, but perhaps you should stop asking questions you don't want me to answer.
Or this is an obvious cop out by you? Pretty simple, either the AFU knows its own losses within a reasonable degree or it doesn't, which suggests reporting within it has broken down for sometime with all that implies for its ability to effectively sustain itself logistically. It's why you avoided the question, it's why you attempted to cherry pick on this point overall from the original post, and it fits with your suspiciously inability to engage the post as a whole because of a supposed time constraint that has not prevented you from carrying on this dialogue.
"I don't have time now (and make no promises of later)"
If this misled you to think that I was "making no promises" to
have time later, let me correct your misunderstanding: I was "making no promises" to
respond point by point to your entire post later. If you are not willing to engage with someone objecting to a specific part of your post, you can quit now. If you think that, by choosing this specific part to argue about, I'm somehow dishonestly taking advantage of that specificity to mischaracterize your position ("cherry picking"), feel free to make an argument laying that out in detail. If you think I'm picking on the one thing you got wrong while ignoring everything you got right, congratulations! Just concede the supposedly insignificant point and walk away.
I would disagree with your implication that Ukraine is unable to estimate its own losses any better than what that guy did in that interview. I would (
did) argue that he was playing
up the losses (which I think we'd agree are usually played down) in the context of begging the West for additional aid. In support of this, I showed that even within the context of his own testimony he was indisputably highballing the loss figures.