1/9 Europe isn’t ready for war.
@BohdanKrotevych warns the continent is playing at war instead of preparing for it.
Billions are spent on buzzwords like “AI” and the “drone revolution,” feeding an illusion of control.
Real war demands structure, discipline, and trained people
2/9 At a Kyiv event on the “drone wall”, Krotevych asked: Can you shift what does not exist?
Europe’s front line is imaginary.
Europe is not ready for real war. If Russia attacks the Baltics tomorrow, most European armies would collapse under their own illusions
3/9 His core point: equipment does not fight on its own.
A drone, a tank, a fighter jet are tools, not solutions.
Without trained people, logistics and command systems, they are just expensive metal
4/9 An army is not a pile of hardware.
It is a living system:
C4ISR, logistics, infantry, artillery, intelligence, medicine, communications.
Without this connectivity, even the best tech fragments into isolated pieces
5/9 Krotevych reminds Europe of the principles of war:
Objective, Offensive, Mass, Economy of Force, Maneuver, Unity of Command, Security, Surprise, Simplicity, Sustainability.
Without these, technology is just decoration
6/9 Money does not equal readiness.
Stark Defence raised $100M. All four test strikes failed.
Watchkeeper cost Britain £1B. Drones crashed before combat.
Concepts born without frontline experience die on first contact with reality
7/9 Finland is the exception. It shows what preparation looks like:
900k reservists, 280k mobilizable immediately. Ammunition and fuel stocks, shelters, fortifications, mobilization lists.
For Finland, war is an engineering task calculated by the hour
8/9 Europe’s biggest mistake is listening to theorists, not practitioners.
Generals who fought from offices, not trenches, shape policy.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officers with real combat experience are ignored.
That experience could save Europe if Europe cared
9/9 Victory will not go to the side with the most tech but to the side that stops playing at war and starts preparing for it.
Invest in people, training and systems, not illusions.
Use Russia’s frozen assets. Step up military aid.
Every delay helps Moscow. Time is running out
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