What Ukraine has that Japan and Taiwan lack

Six weeks before Karp’s name entered the picture, Fedorov had been Ukraine’s youngest-ever minister. The day after his July dismissal, Italy’s defence minister invited him to Rome as an adviser. Karp, whose firm is worth US$440 billion, reportedly soon called him to discuss working together. Neither was calling for Ukrainian hardware. What they presumably wanted was harder to manufacture: what Fedorov had learned running the system that produced that hardware. That system was a loop: battlefield, failure, feedback, redesign, test, back to the battlefield. Brave1, the defence-tech cluster that was essentially Fedorov’s brainchild, is known for fast procurement – more…