Various parts of Europe keep announcing extraordinarily expensive new drone defense systems, so you'd hope so (or that the announcements are a bluff)

Government buying more fire trucks is a poor measure for increased incidence of actual fires. They might just be signaling, fall for marketing, and lots of other things. Governments are run by people, and they are as fallible as any rando on HN.

There is a real drone issue, yes.

If you make a confident claim with no evidence, in a discussion that is rooted in everyone wanting to believe something, then the rational response is to doubt harder.