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Kasparov: Ukraine's drone revolution is the equivalent of gunpowder ending feudalism. A townsman trained with an arquebus could take down a knight from 50 meters — and the entire medieval vassal system collapsed. What we're witnessing now is a shift of the same magnitude. 1/

Kasparov: The head of Rheinmetall mockingly said a Ukrainian housewife on a 3D printer can make a drone. He didn't realize he was signing the death warrant for the entire military procurement system A drone for $1,000 that destroys a $10 million tank, that changes everything. 2/
Kasparov: Dictatorships cannot sustain a serious technological race. The war in Ukraine proves this Russian war bloggers themselves ask why Ukraine has such an advantage, it's mobility, a different system. It's not that Putin is bad. The system is broken. 3/
Kasparov: Russia was always saved by its vast territory against Napoleon and Hitler. Now territory works for Ukraine — nobody is going to invade, but you can't defend everything along the perimeter. All that dispersed infrastructure is under drone strikes. A historic reversal. 4X
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Tymofiy Mylovanov
President, Kyiv School of Economics; Minister of economy, Ukraine, 2019-2020; Associate professor, University of Pittsburgh
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