Helen Walters

They ended pretty inconclusively, it seems.

Do you think peace talks, new peace talks will happen as a result of this?

Or what kind of negotiations do you think we should look for in the coming weeks?

That is indeed attention.

So at TED 2025, back in April, we heard from Palmer Luckey, who's the founder of Anduril.

Anduril, US defense firm.

And he actually shared a story in which there was a drone operated operation.

He was talking about China and Taiwan as the antagonists in that story, but he was basically laying out the vision

that unless militaries take drone capabilities and ai seriously they are essentially being irresponsible to their nations because this technology is available we should use it for deterrence and we should we should be serious about it and we should use it now i wonder if you're to take a step away from russia and ukraine and think about militaries more generally do you see any militaries that are really taking that seriously or that

actually are kind of setting stock into that type of thinking, because it's just so astonishing to me that these $300, like super cheap drones are able to cause such massive damage on the kind of the old system.

And how does, let's take the US, how does the US respond to that?

So what are you watching as we wrap this up?

What are you watching that we should also be watching for?

Like what signs are the most important as we head into the next era of this conflict?

We also had a talk from this architect Slava Balbek, who is a Ukrainian architect.

He had a small operation in Kyiv that was designing cafes and

you know, commercial buildings and things like that.

And he shared a talk he now also works going to the front line every one week in every month.

And he shared this talk about this kind of dual reality that he lives in.

And he shared the phrase war, work, life balance, which is just this kind of chilling phrase that has become a reality for so many Ukrainians of having to mix reality or work and life and family and