The Military and Technology Side of the War in Ukraine

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There's this astonishing energy and innovation on the military side from the bottom up. European generals are looking at some of this envious, but a counter-offensive is looming. I met with foreign technology companies who were helping put AI capabilities on Ukrainian weapon systems that just don't exist at scale in any serious European army. It's society-driven. On the other hand, it's the war that is changing the nature of that society.

Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.

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