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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers participate in military training in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, on June 5, 2024. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers operate at an artillery position on June 9, 2024, near Kharkiv Region, Ukraine. (Nikoletta Stoyanova/Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping attend a concert in Beijing on May 16, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Ryumin/AFP via Getty Images)
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Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media on June 2, 2024, in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
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A view of cabin of M142 HIMARS launcher on December 29, 2023 in Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian infantrymen during training in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on May 28, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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M142 HIMARS launches a rocket on December 29, 2023 in Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin gestures during his press conference on May 17, 2024, in Harbin, China. (Photo by Contributor via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian serviceman tests an anti-drone gun in the Lviv region on May 28, 2024. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin attends the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2024. (Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through the scope as he shoots a Chukavin sniper rifle during a visit to the military Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on September 19, 2018. (Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
