"What should Poland have done?"

Deployed a cheaper SHORAD system. Shooting $10K drones down with F-35s firing AIM-9X at $300K a pop seems uneconomical to put it mildly, and it won't scale up if Russia is serious about attacking NATO.

Which they may very well be. They've lost the Ukraine war at this point—it's a stalemate—their economy is about to topple over, and they've got a war machine: this is a desperate time, and their leadership is demonstrably reckless and evil.
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