Eric Schmidt is helping build Ukraine's war machine

And despite the early concerns at Google over participation in Project Maven, some of the industry's most prominent figures are at work on national security issues, underscoring how the United States is harnessing its competitive advantage in technology to maintain superiority over Russia and China in an era of renewed superpower rivalries. Tellingly, those figures now include Eric Schmidt, who spent 16 years as Google's chief executive and is now drawing on lessons from Ukraine to develop a new generation of autonomous drones that could revolutionise warfare. But if Russia's brutal assault on Ukraine has been a testing ground for…