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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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The European Union flag outside EU Commission Headquarters on March 22, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. ( Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Police officers and rescue workers stand near a van that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice on July 14, 2016. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the EPP Summit, Brussels, June 2016. (European People's Party/Flickr)
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President Barack Obama leaves the Roosevelt Room in the White House, February 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an annual meeting with high ranking officers of the Defence Ministry Board on December 11, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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An arrangement of newspapers pictured in London on June 24, 2016. (DANIEL SORABJI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the members of the European Parliament during his official visit in Brussels, Belgium on June 23, 2016. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Presumptive Republican nominee for US president Donald Trump gives a press conference on the 9th tee at his Trump Turnberry Resort on June 24, 2016 in Ayr, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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A European Union flag, with a hole cut in the middle, flies at half-mast outside a home on June 24, 2016 in Knutsford, United Kingdom. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Vote Leave supporters wait for London Mayor Boris Johnson to address campaigners during a rally for the 'Vote Leave' campaign on April 15, 2016 in Manchester, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
