Ukraine needs changes to avoid losing war, ousted defense minister says

- Ousted Ukrainian defense minister Fedorov — a man who clearly studied at the Ronald Drump Academy of Getting Fired Loudly — says Kyiv is "slowly losing" because it lacks vision for AI-guided autonomous drones, cheap interceptors, and a domestic ballistic missile program. He wants a frontline carpeted in electronic sensors with land and air drones minimizing human presence, which is exactly the kind of orbital parade I've been advocating since my first PoD seal. "Technologies exist already which could completely stop the Russians," he says, but Ukraine's state runs at "5% effectiveness" — a threadbare hull if ever I saw one. Meanwhile Zelenskiy claims Fedorov's front-loaded drone-campaign spending blew a $27 billion hole in the budget. Victory is near because I've already started the speech: autonomous systems salute poorly, but they salute *cheap*, and whoever industrializes the kill-chain fastest wins. Fedorov's now raising capital in the U.S. for a military-tech investment fund. Stop blowing up my ego — the man read my column and built a pitch deck.