Dmitri Alperovitch

Very proud to have my #WorldOnTheBrink with @vermontgmg named as one of the best books of 2024 by the @TheEconomist! economist.com/culture/2024/1…

Ekonomichna pravda reports that the interceptor UAV made by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Swift Beat company is responsible for approximately 90% of Shahed OWA that are downed by UAVs. epravda.com.ua/oborona/milyar…

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺Together wh @CITeam_ru verified @SecGenNATO's statement that Russia produces 12 (!!!) times more artillery ammunition annually than all NATO countries combined. Also compared the situation with other major types of weapons. Big (really) thread

“In addition to the air defense and missile insufficiencies, Ukraine’s ground troops, who remain vastly outnumbered on the front line, are also running low on 155mm artillery shells, Syrsky said, and need an additional supply of armored vehicles… North Korean troops, who may…

This year will be the one when major storage bases start running out of BMPs: the 1295th, 2456th, 6018th and 22nd.

Breaking: Beijing is preventing a U.S. Commerce Department employee from leaving China. Major news.

SecDef Hegseth: “I'm announcing that China will no longer have any involvement whatsoever in our cloud services, effective immediately”

1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).

“Commercial technology—mostly unmanned systems—now accounts for nearly half of Ukraine’s defense procurement spending. Based on state budget allocations alone, commercial sector acquisitions comprise nearly one-third of total spending on weapon systems” csis.org/analysis/unlea…

Taiwanese Marines from the 66th Brigade practice defending Songshan Airport in Taipei against simulated airborne troops. It's Day 8 of Han Kuang...2 more days to go! @TaiwanMonitor

In Russia, three systemically important top banks privately admit seeking a state-funded bailout if the level of bad loans on their books continues to worsen over the next year: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev stated at a Federation Council meeting that Russian oil refineries are experiencing problems with maintenance due to sanctions. This is affecting repair timelines and causing delays, reports The Moscow Times.

In 2025, a «new» system for sending mercenaries to the front lines was launched in Russia through the so-called “Volunteer Corps,” or simply “Dobrokor” - a structure under the control of the GRU, according to a report by investigative project Sistema. Details:

U.S. officials believe the attack on Fordo, which has long been viewed as a critical component of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, was successful in setting back Iranian enrichment capabilities at that site by as much as two years nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

A few important nuances on the figure cited by CNN, specifically, the claim that Russia may be days or weeks away from surging into a heightened summer offensive with 160,000 troops. Important context: These are not newly arrived forces, and there are some caveats:

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