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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)
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A Ukrainian soldier during a tactical and live-fire exercise on November 30, 2023, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Roman Chop/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference following his bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping ahead of the G20 summit on November 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers work on an Avenger AN/TWQ-1 anti-aircraft missile system on November 28, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/ Libkos via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attending a meeting of leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the Belarusian capital Minsk on November 23, 2023. (Valery Sharifulin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen check their Sweden made CV90 armored infantry combat vehicle on a position pointing in the direction of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region on November 27, 2023. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)
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American flags and United States Capitol building are seen in Washington D.C., United States on December 28, 2022. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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An Orthodox priest collects religious objects as others clear up glass and debris inside the Holy Intercession Cathedral damaged after missile strikes, in Zaporizhzhia on October 18, 2023. (Andriy Andriyenko/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers open fire from a large-caliber machine gun to suppress enemy shelling on November 3, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pose for a group photo with other leaders at the Third Belt and Road Forum on October 18, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Suo Takekuma/Pool via Getty Images)
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The flags of Russia, China, and North Korea on a viewing tower on the border between the three countries in Hunchun, China, on June 25, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via 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
