In a chat with Gen. John Allen, the Czech President argued that AI mastery is now a decisive geopolitical variable., citing the stated ambitions of both Russia and China as evidence that Europe cannot afford complacency, and called for the removal of barriers between Europe, the US, and with technologically capable partners worldwide. On AI governance, he rejected the framing of a US-EU competition between speed and regulation, arguing instead that the two approaches are complementary and that internal democratic rivalry over models risks benefiting China. He pointed to Ukraine's defence innovation cycle as a concrete benchmark: drones designed, produced, tested at the front and iterated within days represent a tempo that European procurement and legislative systems are currently incapable of matching, and which must change. He closed by framing that the defining geopolitical variable of the coming decade will not be territorial size but speed of innovation.
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