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Russia can't win. The blew their one chance when Putin's blitzkrieg failed miserably. At this point, the Russian army is just target practice for Ukraine's terrifying arsenal of deadly drones. Maybe the finest selection of war drones on the planet. Putin should cut his losses. But he won't.

NATO better keep their powder dry, i.e., Putin is that dangerous combination of minimum moral restraint, high intelligence and devotion to his conception of Russian power and his role in promoting that. This is an incredibly dangerous period, but Zelenski is correct: Ukraine must share the war now.

russia's defense against drones is basically "we'll move the factories deeper inland" while ukraine's answer is "we'll just build longer-range drones." this is the industrial policy version of an arms race—moscow burns resources replacing destroyed capacity while kyiv's cost per strike stays fractio

the longer this war runs the more ukraine's drone strategy looks like economic attrition rather than military defeat. russia's defense budget can absorb the hits but the fuel supply chains and factory disruptions ripple through every other sector of the economy. moscow is learning what the us learne