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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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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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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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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)
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Servicemen march during the Victory Day military parade in Rostov-on-Don on May 9, 2023. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky participate in a bilateral meeting in the East Room of the White House September 21, 2023. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
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Luke Coffey at Hudson Institute.
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Ukrainian soldiers fire RPGs at enemy positions as the special military unit "Kurt & Company group" hold the first line of the front line on November 3, 2023, in Bakhmut District, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/Libkos 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)
