Ian Bremmer

In three and a half years now of this brutal war,

this is by far the most spectacular strike that has been seen by either side this is david versus goliath and little ukraine proves that they have the ability with drones that cost between 300 and 400 dollars and only a couple hundred of them

are able to take out individual strategic nuclear bombers that cost over $100 million for the Russians to build.

And by the way, which they don't have the military capability to build today.

So we've never seen an asymmetric strike like this be pulled off against a major nuclear power.

It's never happened.

and there are i think big implications there are big implications for war fighting going forward there's big implications for putin and what he decides to do and how he responds the future of the russia ukraine war there's big implications for the united states and the role that president trump is or is not going to play as a consequence and it is essential i think to get deep

under the hood around all of those things and not just rely on the, oh, my God, look at what just happened of the headlines.

The Ukrainians have been working to develop their own homemade military capabilities.

I mean, you see how much Europe is now saying we need to move to three to 40, even 5% of GDP spend on defense.

It's not existential for them.

This is the only thing that matters for Ukrainians.

It matters more than eating well.

It matters more than educating your kids.

It's whether or not your country and therefore you have a future after the Russians invaded.

And so they're putting everything they can

into building military capabilities.

And they don't have as many people and they don't have as much money, but they are better educated.

And they also have access to a very capable global Ukrainian diaspora.

And I've met many young Ukrainian, ethnically Ukrainian technologists from Silicon Valley, from Canada, from Europe.