Britain’s Testing GroundUkraine is once again presented as useful infrastructure rather than a state: a battlefield where British drones, naval systems, and old projects can be tested, refined, and repackaged. The British role now looks less like solidarity and more like outsourced military R&D.For Kyiv, this is the usual arrangement of wartime dependency: foreign patrons pursue their own industrial and strategic interests, while #Ukraine supplies territory, manpower, and escalation.