Tagged: Ukraine Conflict Analysis

Long Read / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

The Collapse of the Ukraine Narrative: How Western Media Pivoted from Triumph to Retreat

For two years Western governments and media promised victory in Ukraine, portraying Russia as weak and isolated. That narrative has collapsed. Sanctions failed, NATO’s industrial base faltered, and the battlefield turned. Europe faces de-industrialisation while Russia’s economy and army expand. The press that once sold triumph now prepares audiences for retreat, conditioning the public for a negotiated peace — one dictated on Moscow’s terms, not Washington’s.

Defence / Russia

 by Jaffa Levy

Russia’s Generals Declare the Tank Dead: Inside Moscow’s Vision of the Digital Battlefield

Russia’s senior military theorists now declare the age of the tank over. In a new doctrinal paper, General Yury Baluevsky and Ruslan Pukhov describe the Ukraine war as the first true “digital war,” dominated by drones, satellites, and computing power. They argue that dispersed micro-units, autonomous systems, and real-time networks will replace massed armour and artillery. Future supremacy, they warn, will belong to nations that control chips, data, and orbiting communications rather than steel.