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Ukraine is non-negotiable.

Executive Summary:

Ukraine is stepping up international cooperation in defense manufacturing to maximize production, drive innovation, and protect critical industrial infrastructure from Russian strikes.

Kyiv launched the “Test in Ukraine” platform to allow international defense companies to learn from Ukrainian innovation and test their new weapons and technologies in real combat conditions.

Ukrainian companies have also scaled up production and created numerous new prototypes of weapon systems and cruise missiles. Their effectiveness, however, will depend on Ukraine’s ability to mass-produce them and Western assistance in sourcing components.

In the past year, the ruling Georgian Dream party has used violence against public protests with striking regularity. It has jailed opponents and paralyzed Georgia’s civil society using draconian legislation inspired by Russia. Can the United States and its allies help Georgia reverse course with legislation such as the MEGOBARI Act and a better-tailored sanctions regime? And is there anything the Georgian opposition could do differently to be more effective?

Executive Summary:

Moscow is using drone incursions in Romania and Poland to test the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) readiness and resolve, seeking to highlight divisions over how to respond to this new form of aggression.

Moscow’s simultaneous moves in Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a Norwegian archipelago with special status under the terms of a 1920 treaty granting Russia and more than 40 other countries economic rights, show that Moscow is engaged in a broader strategy against NATO.

This broader strategy does not mean that Putin is about to send bombers or tanks into NATO countries, but suggests the Kremlin leader is seeking to sow doubts about NATO mutual defense commitments, weakening Western diplomatic cohesion and military support for Ukraine.