Amid speculation about what was communicated during @CIADirector Ratcliffe’s trip to Moscow this week, it’s worthwhile to recall what Director Ratcliffe said publicly last month during @SenMcCormickPA’s Defense & Innovation Summit on July 14-15. It may have been the most important message the Director sent Russia this summer. Message is that another “inferior force”, say a Baltic state, could do the same. Director Ratcliffe: "Our intelligence is consistent with some of the open-source reporting you may have seen in Ukraine: the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now, arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes. And that's because AI-powered drones have gotten to be such specialised, low-cost killing machines. So it's why an inferior force, 4 and a half years later, has held off the superior force of Russia against Ukraine. The pace of their advance has stopped as Ukraine's mastery of emerging technologies, and in this case, drone warfare, asymmetric warfare, is such a great equalizer," the Central Intelligence Agency chief said at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.