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JP Lindsley | Journalist

@JPLindsley

Sep 2 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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1/ From a coffee break in Copenhagen they just steered a killer robot in war-zone Ukraine.

An incredible new tech enables real-time, zero-lag control, even from 2,000km away.

War from home is the new work from home. 🧵⤵️

2/ At DALO EXPO 2025—Denmark's premier defense exhibition, held in August—visitors witnessed something both encouraging and chilling, as reported by @DefenderMediaUA.

With a simple interface controller they could operate an actual combat robot deep in Ukraine, in real-time. ⤵️

3/ The company behind this breakthrough?

Ark Robotics.

They have a damn cool motto: "Collaborative autonomy for democracies."

🇪🇪🇺🇦 A Ukrainian-Estonian startup founded just one year ago, they've already armed 20 combat brigades with their tech. ⤵️

4/ Their secret weapon: The Frontier System.

It's an AI-powered platform for managing robotic fleets with minimal human input from afar.

Air, land, and sea. All controlled by operators who are nowhere near the danger zone.

Works with ANY manufacturer's drones. ⤵️

5/ Here's what makes this terrifying, if you're the enemy:

⦿ Encrypted real-time video
⦿ Unified interface for commanders
⦿ AI-powered fleet management
⦿ Operators stay alive (many countries away)⤵️

6/ Still a prototype? Yes. Already battle-tested? Also yes.

When your "beta test" is an active war-zone and you're already trusted by 20 brigades, you know you've built something extraordinary.

This is a great value Ukraine can offer to the USA, by the way⤵️

7/ It's safe to say you can expect more of this:

Ukraine just launched K4 Startup Studio—$250,000 grants for AI defense startups.

Read about Arc Robotics from @DefenderMediaUA: thedefender.media/en/2025/08/ark…

Visit Arc Robotics here: ark-robotics.com

and ... ⤵️

8/ And if you made it this far, I invite you to subscribe to my Substack newsletter, delivered at 9:05 am ET every day from Ukraine. . 🧵🎬 lvivnow.substack.com

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Dec 12

🇪🇺 Europe is choosing not to be great.

The US has rewritten its National Security Strategy for a harsher world.

Europe’s answer so far? Sprouting more Brussels lectures.

So we decided to write the missing answer ourselves. Here's a European Security Strategy ⤵️🧵 1/10

2/ 🇦🇹 As our Austrian UFN team member Nikolaus Muchitsch (@foxofreason) writes, the new US strategy is brutally clear:

—a more transactional approach to allies, with a focus on borders, sovereignty, reindustrialisation, and great-power competition.

Here's my summary⤵️

3/ In Europe, they still believe these 1990s delusions:

⦿ peace is permanent
⦿ prosperity is automatic
⦿ borders are optional
⦿ the US will always bail us out ⤵️

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JP Lindsley | Journalist

@JPLindsley

Dec 2

1/ Ukraine isn't just fighting for its own survival.

It's building the defense tech that could determine whether Taiwan survives a Chinese invasion.

Here's why Washington will want to care—and what the White House still doesn't know 🧵THREAD ⤵️

2/ While the Western defense industry focuses on what SELLS, Ukraine has become the world's leading lab for low-cost, rapidly-developing defense tech THAT WORKS.

No other democracy has anything like it, as I see here every day, and as Daniel Runde writes at @TheNatlInterest ⤵️

3/ Here's what the White House misses:

Ukraine is building the world's only near "CCP-free" drone supply chain.

Neither the United States nor Israel can claim this level of Chinese supply-chain independence.

What if China cut off supplies needed for F35s? ⤵️

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@JPLindsley

Nov 28

Russia is running a jihadi-style recruitment operation inside Europe. Not metaphorically. Structurally.

It's from the Islamist psychological playbook—target the vulnerable, escalate slowly, create dependence.

And it only cost €50 per recruit to destabilize Europe ... 🧵⤵️

2/ This is a structured Russian operational model: civilians recruited to carry out sabotage, arson, and destabilisation as part of a deliberate hybrid warfare campaign inside Europe.

A report by @GLOBSEC has uncovered the sordid details. ⤵️

3/ The recruitment system mirrors the playbook once perfected by jihadi terrorist groups.

Target the vulnerable. Offer meaning or money. Escalate slowly. Create dependence.

Kremlinism and Islamism are indeed close cousins in bed together ⤵️

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@JPLindsley

Nov 27

1/ I am an American in Ukraine. Reporting here every single day of the full-scale invasion, I have seen the heroes of a great resistance.

On this Thanksgiving Day, I want to toast the following groups of humans.

Please add the names of those you wish to thank— 🧵⤵️

2/ To the Ukrainian defender-warriors who hold the line, whether they volunteered freely or dutifully submitted to conscription, whole or wounded.

They face a hell most don't even want to consider. One day, the world will see they held the line for Europe and the USA. ⤵️

3/ To the Ukrainians, civilian and soldier, who resist Russian occupation any way they can.

It's not easy to see, but if Ukrainians had been like, say, Belarusians, they would be fully a part of Russia's expansionist war machine unleashing hell on Europe. Not a chance.⤵️

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@JPLindsley

Nov 25

1/ Ukrainian warriors call American combat drones "irrelevant."

Not because the quality is bad. But because the ecosystem is wrong—slow, rigid, & expensive.

Ukraine is building what the Pentagon can't obtain.

Facing China, here's what the White House needs to know🧵⤵️

2/ The critique, straight from the battlefield:

US drones like iFlight's BumbleBee were "a good solution at the start of the invasion."

But now?

→ Can't adapt fast with Ukraine's military
→ American pricing doesn't fit an ecosystem racing to out-innovate the enemy ⤵️

3/ What Ukraine built instead, from the grassroots with @BRAVE1ua and others to clear the bureaucratic path:

A networked ecosystem of small manufacturers—competing AND collaborating—iterating at wartime speed.

Feedback loops measured in days. Not budget cycles.⤵️

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@JPLindsley

Nov 25

1/ Russia's strongest weapon against Europeans isn't nukes or gas pipelines.

It's European guilt.

And it's time to stop letting Russians use it, because Europe, when it is true to its soul, is Greater than Russia ever could be.

Here's why— 🧵⤵️

2/ Writing on Substack, Cemil Kerimoglu @cemk_cemil, says that at this dark hour Europe needs MORAL rearmament.

It's time—both internally and externally—for Europe to recall and restore its Greatness, not as a museum-piece of the past but as hard-earned useful virtue. ⤵️

3/ Every time Europe stands up to Russian aggression, Moscow plays the same card:

"You colonized Africa. You were Nazis. Who are you to judge us?"

Europe, though it is the definition of civilization, feels guilty. Russia, which never was great, counts on this. ⤵️

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