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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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But the country that will shape what China can or can’t do next is Ukraine.

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1/ The most credible warnings about Western readiness for the next war are not coming from think tanks.

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And they’re all saying the same thing: We’re not ready.🧵⤵️

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Putin isn’t the problem.

Russia itself is the problem.

Sounds extreme? Well, keep reading 🧵 ⤵️

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Russia didn’t fall into error—Russia IS the Error that was foretold in the Fatima prophecy of 1917, no less. ⤵️

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• The Bolsheviks were a tragic detour.
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“Europeanized” Russia was the blip. ⤵️

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1/ This is one of the clearest explanations I’ve heard of the mental machinations Russia uses to exert power.

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3/ Davis, an American Yale-trained MD/PhD, married to a Ukrainian, is a frequent volunteer in Ukraine and a lifelong student of Cold War geopolitics.

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1/ Europe is playing at war, not preparing for it.

A former Ukrainian Azov officer just delivered the most brutal assessment of European defense I've read.

Western elites think saying "drone" makes them innovative.

He explains why they're catastrophically wrong.🧵⤵️

2/ At a recent Kyiv drone event, people were asking, Can Russia shift Europe's drone wall?

You can't shift what doesn't exist, replied Lieutenant Colonel @BohdanKrotevych, a survivor of Russian captivity.

But Europeans are clueless, assuming enough drones will save them. ⤵️

3/ "Europe speaks the language of progress but thinks in the language of comfort."

Every buzzword—"game-changer," "AI," "drone revolution"—creates an opiate sense of control, replacing actual preparation for war. ⤵️

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1/ Wounded behind enemy lines, you crawl into an armored coffin.

Hit by mines and drones, this robot safely evacuates you through dozens of miles of enemy fire.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized medicine in the first Crimean war. Ukrainians are doing it again. 🧵⤵️

2/ For 33 days, a Ukrainian soldier lay wounded in a Ukrainian settlement under the invaders' control.

Six rescue attempts had failed.

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The designers? Frontline medics who realized with the new drone warfare, they needed a better evac solution.⤵️