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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
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Karol Nawrocki attends an event after the second round of the presidential election in Warsaw, Poland, on June 1, 2025. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen of a mobile air defense unit fire a Soviet-made ZU-23 anti-aircraft twin autocannon toward a Russian drone during an air attack near Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on July 19, 2025. (Roman Pilipey via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump talks to the media as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf club on July 28, 2025, in Turnberry, Scotland. (Christopher Furlong via Getty Images)
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A Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft climbs with afterburners engaged during a flight demonstration at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in England on July 19, 2025. (US Air Force photo)
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement inside No. 10 Downing Street on the day the cabinet was recalled to discuss the situation in Gaza on July 29, 2025, in London, England. (Toby Melville via Getty Images)
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Leaders of nine nations applaud the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 14, 1995. (Peter Turnley via Getty Images)
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A general view of protesters during a rally against a law that would restrict the independence of anti‑corruption institutions on July 22, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Dan Bashakov via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2025. (Allison Robbert via Getty Images)
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The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky maneuvers during a routine armed air escort exercise on April 24, 2025. (US Navy photo)
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Workers collect glass and debris after a Russian Shahed drone strikes the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 30, 2025. (Francisco Richart Barbeira via Getty Images)
Experts
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
