It’s now been over four years since Vladimir Putin launched the attack he expected to conquer Ukraine in a week — and unexpectedly created a high-tech military juggernaut that continues to humiliate him.

“For the first time in the history of this war, Ukrainian warriors captured an enemy position using exclusively unmanned platforms,” President Volodymyr Zelensky boasted to defense workers the other day.

Actually, it was the first time in history, period, that entirely remote-controlled robotic systems captured an enemy position, with no help from human infantry.

Needs must when the devil drives; Ukraine’s defenders have invented an entirely new way of war that’s costing Russia massively in blood and treasure to advance even a few yards at a time — and Kyiv’s “robot” forces are getting ever better.

Putin’s hubris unleashed something his minions have no way to handle.

Zelensky says autonomous systems have participated in over 22,000 frontline missions — sparing human casualties — these last three months, a period that’s seen Moscow driven back on multiple fronts.

Vlad’s answering “innovations”? 

Throw convicts, conscripts, mercenaries into the buzzsaw, and deceive Third Worlders into coming to Russia to be sent to the front.

Ukraine still needs major support from the rest of the civilized world, but the much-smaller nation is fundamentally facing down a former superpower all on its own.

Putin bit off more than he can chew, and he still has no idea what to do except keep bleeding his own nation rather than eat his pride and admit his fundamental defeat.