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West Admits Ukraine is Losing, Encourages Ukrainians to Fight on Anyway
West Admits Ukraine is Losing, Encourages Ukrainians to Fight on Anyway
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July 21, 2024
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- Western media admits Ukraine is losing ground and suffering from growing manpower, arms, and ammunition shortages;
- After US-European pledges to increase artillery shell production, both have fallen far short of their targets and will be producing less ammunition in 2026 than Russia is producing now;
- Western policymakers promoting claims that robots, automation, and simplifying manufacturing can allow the West to match Russian and Chinese production are unrealistic;
References:
SITREP
BBC - Europe must brace for decade of Ukraine war - Nato chief (July 19, 2024):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c03l9eky1p9o
Politico - Top NATO general praises Ukraine’s ‘great’ war strategy (July 19, 2024):
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-has-great-war-strategy-but-needs-to-be-able-to-prosecute-it-top-nato-general-says/
CNN - The West finally allowed Ukraine to strike back at Russia — and it seems to be working (July 15, 2024):
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/europe/western-weapons-ukraine-russia-intl-cmd/index.html
Artillery Shells
RFE/RL - EU Shell-Production Capacity, Supplies To Ukraine Fall Far Short Of Promises (July 8, 2024):
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-weapons-shells-european-union-eu-war-russia-investigation/33025300.html
Reuters - Years of miscalculations by U.S., NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine (July 19, 2024):
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-artillery/
Drone Warfare
Forbes - Supply Chain Drones: Novelty Or News? (June 20, 2024):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinomarah/2024/06/20/supply-chain-drones-novelty-or-news/
Phys dot Org - AI-enhanced model predicts wheat health across diverse soils using drone data (December 2023):
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-ai-enhanced-wheat-health-diverse-soils.html#google_vignette
Business Insider - Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt quietly created a company called White Stork, which plans to build AI-powered attack drones, report says (January 2024):
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-ai-attack-drones-white-stork-2024-1
Business Insider - Eric Schmidt is poaching from Apple, SpaceX, and Google for his secretive AI military drone project (June 2024):
https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-poaches-apple-spacex-google-ai-drones-report-2024-6
Politico - ‘Our Oppenheimer moment’ — In Ukraine, the robot wars have already begun (May 2024):
https://www.politico.eu/article/robots-coming-ukraine-testing-ground-ai-artificial-intelligence-powered-combat-war-russia/
Guardian - AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield (July 14, 2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/14/ais-oppenheimer-moment-autonomous-weapons-enter-the-battlefield
Robots and Skilled Labor
Statista - China Leads Growth of Global Industrial Robot Stock (November 2023):
https://www.statista.com/chart/31337/new-installations-of-industrial-robots-by-country/
European Commission - World Robotics Report 2020 by International Federation of Robots (January 2021):
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/rtd/items/700621/en
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