01/04/2024

Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough to Beat Russia

The current situation is a stalemate

"Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate," Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi said late last year. "There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough."

That blunt assessment from the Ukrainian commander in chief, made in a November interview with The Economist, prompted waves of enormous pessimism. Headlines around the world seized on the idea that the war had essentially ended. Ukraine had fought valiantly—and lost.

Politicians in the West, particularly Republicans in the United States Congress, declared that it was time to stop supplying Kyiv and push for major concessions to Moscow.

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