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Why Rheinmetall and the West still don't understand Ukraine's defense tech revolution
Opinion

Why Rheinmetall and the West still don't understand Ukraine's defense tech revolution

When evaluating military technology, it helps to distinguish between two domains: the industrial and the battlefield. Rheinmetall is unquestionably a large company that produces effective weapons systems that actually work on the battlefield. This is a fact that does not require emotional amplification or denial. But those two domains carry different kinds of authority, and conflating them leads to poor analysis. The statement by Rheinmetall's CEO, Armin Papperger, about Ukrainian drones goes
Ukraine's parliamentary dysfunction, explained
Politics

Ukraine's parliamentary dysfunction, explained

Ukraine's parliament is in gridlock as relations have broken down between the legislative and executive branches of government. The parliamentary crisis, as some have rushed to describe it, has been ignited by the President's Office's weakening influence over the legislature and a lack of communication between parliament and the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, lawmakers and analysts have told the Kyiv Independent. "(Svyrydenko) works only with the President's Office and does not wo
Ukraine used Storm Shadow to strike Russia's most irreplaceable weapons factory — and why it matters
Opinion

Ukraine used Storm Shadow to strike Russia's most irreplaceable weapons factory — and why it matters

As you read this, somewhere at a TSMC fab in Taiwan's Hsinchu a robot is moving a silicon wafer packed with transistors measuring 2 nanometers — 20 atoms in a row. Mass production of chips using the 2-nanometer process began in late 2025, and TSMC's entire 2026 capacity is already sold out — Apple, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and AMD are all in line. Samsung has launched its own 2-nanometer Exynos 2600 processor. Intel is advancing its 18A node (1.8 nm). We are talking about the kind of density and effi
Ukraine war latest: Russian glide bomb attack on Kramatorsk kills 3, including 13-year-old boy, governor says

Ukraine war latest: Russian glide bomb attack on Kramatorsk kills 3, including 13-year-old boy, governor says

Key developments on March 28-29: * Russian glide bomb attack on Kramatorsk kills 3, including 13-year-old boy, governor says * Pro-Ukrainian partisans disable electronic warfare equipment in Russia's Novgorod Oblast, group claims * 'Explosion in production area' — Ukraine confirms Flamingo missiles hit explosives plant in Russia's Samara Oblast * Russian strikes kill 2 Naftogaz employees in 3 days * Russia strikes maternity hospital, educational institutions in Odesa, killing 2, injuring 1
War in Iran, war in Ukraine: Europe must act where it counts
Opinion

War in Iran, war in Ukraine: Europe must act where it counts

"Flying balalaika" or a "death moped with wings" is how Ukrainians refer to the Iranian-Russian Shahed drone. On March first, one of these crude, cheap, but devastatingly effective killing machines struck a US military operations center in Kuwait, killing six American soldiers. The youngest was twenty years old. In the first week of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, more than 1,000 of these murderous balalaikas were launched by the Revolutionary Guards and regime-aligned forces, targeting everyth