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I don't think Russia is remotely serious about these negotiations. President Putin thinks he's winning...and he can play along. And at the moment there's talk about a meeting in Abu Dhabi next week, there's talk then about a meeting at the Shenzhen summit in China with President Xi present, in the middle of November, and then the G20 meeting in Miami in December. So this is going to allow Putin to play it long, certainly until mid-December, and give the impression that he's interested in bargaining...his position has not changed one iota since the start of this war - he still wants Ukrainian sovereignty."

I wouldn’t be surprised if we begin to see Starlink capability being replaced in a matter of months. The solution I think Ukraine will eventually develop will be a mixture of capability provided by allies, so things like the European OneWeb constellation...and there are others, and also private-sector satellite communications and other terrestrial communications systems that the Ukrainians may look at again, or afresh. So there won’t be a silver bullet.”

The U.S. ballistic-missile warning system was never designed for tactical use."