West Admits Ukraine is Losing, Encourages Ukrainians to Fight on Anyway

– Western media admits Ukraine is losing ground and suffering from growing manpower, arms, and ammunition shortages;

– After US-European pledges to increase artillery shell production, both have fallen far short of their targets and will be producing less ammunition in 2026 than Russia is producing now;

– Western policymakers promoting claims that robots, automation, and simplifying manufacturing can allow the West to match Russian and Chinese production are unrealistic;

References:

SITREP BBC – Europe must brace for decade of Ukraine war – Nato chief (July 19, 2024):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c03…

Politico – Top NATO general praises Ukraine’s ‘great’ war strategy (July 19, 2024):
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukrai…

CNN – The West finally allowed Ukraine to strike back at Russia — and it seems to be working (July 15, 2024):
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/eu…

Artillery Shells RFE/RL – EU Shell-Production Capacity, Supplies To Ukraine Fall Far Short Of Promises (July 8, 2024):
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-weapo…

Reuters – Years of miscalculations by U.S., NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine (July 19, 2024):
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/…

Drone Warfare Forbes – Supply Chain Drones: Novelty Or News? (June 20, 2024):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinoma…

Phys dot Org – AI-enhanced model predicts wheat health across diverse soils using drone data (December 2023):
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-ai-enha…

Business Insider – Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt quietly created a company called White Stork, which plans to build AI-powered attack drones, report says (January 2024):
https://www.businessinsider.com/googl…

Business Insider – Eric Schmidt is poaching from Apple, SpaceX, and Google for his secretive AI military drone project (June 2024):
https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-…

Politico – ‘Our Oppenheimer moment’ — In Ukraine, the robot wars have already begun (May 2024):
https://www.politico.eu/article/robot…

Guardian – AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield (July 14, 2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Robots and Skilled Labor Statista – China Leads Growth of Global Industrial Robot Stock (November 2023):
https://www.statista.com/chart/31337/…

European Commission – World Robotics Report 2020 by International Federation of Robots (January 2021):
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/rtd/ite…