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Berlin Threw a Working Party for Europe's New Defense Builders
Hundreds of founders brought their prototypes to the European Defense Tech Festival and tested them against the only standard that now counts: Ukraine.
The Perfect Russian Spy Has a Mortgage
Moscow spent decades building people who could live inside your society without belonging to it—and the Cold War ended thirty years ago, but the illegals didn't.
MIL-TECH TUESDAY: What Does Erik Prince Want From Ukraine?
PLUS: Kyiv Holds a Robot Parade
“It Is Not About Whom You Believe. It Is About What You Know.”
Voices of the Fight No. 26: Cemil Kerimoğlu, Azerbaijani-born scientist, data analyst, and writer based in Germany whose work examines Russian imperialism
INTELLIGENCE THURSDAY: From a Distance, It's Always Someone Else's Fire. Until It's In Your Face.
Europe hasn't understood the threat because it's reading Russian signals in a language it doesn't speak.
Europe Investigates. Russia Operates.
Plots in Poland. Semtex at a German airport. A derailment plot on the line to Ukraine. One campaign.
MIL-TECH TUESDAY: Russia’s Shaheds Got Faster. Ukraine Is Building a Jet to Catch Them.
Plus: a €700 interceptor that flies at 200km/h; an unmanned aircraft carrier for the Black Sea; and a drone built to put Siberia in range
Aid Went East. Now Technology Goes West.
Germany now builds Ukrainian drones—under Ukrainian license.
“Don't Send Drones. Buy Ukrainian.“
Voices of the Fight No. 25: Perry Boyle, the Idaho investor who crawls through the rubble on his mission to fund Ukrainian mil-tech
Ukraine Cut Off Russia's Starlink Access. Now Moscow Is Building Its Own.
Today's key insights
INTELLIGENCE THURSDAY: The Next Pearl Harbor Won’t Come From the Sky
It will come through the water supply, the food chain, and the cables under the sea. Meanwhile Kyiv has no interceptors left, and the companies profiting from that are lobbying to keep it that way.
Time Is About to Go Faster
What does a solar eclipse teach our tumultuous world?
Russia's Newest Weapon Against Ukraine Is a Telegram Job Ad
Telegram job ads, a few hundred dollars, and a handler. Russia has found that it doesn't need loyal agents — only expendable ones.
The French Organ Thundered. My Phone Said: Air Raid in Kyiv.
As I listened to an organ built to shake the heavens, I saw that Russia was shaking Kyiv to its core.
Moscow Said It Wants to Save Odesa. It Is Burning the City.
Russia cannot take Odesa by land, so it is trying to make the city unlivable one night at a time.