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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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Vladimir Putin waves while visiting the Victory Day Red Square Parade on May 9, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin greets nuclear weapons developer Yuri Barmakov during the State Awarding Ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace on June 12, 2022, in Moscow. (via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers the keynote address during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in the Loy Henderson Auditorium of the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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US soldiers from the NATO peacekeeping mission KFOR at a checkpoint on September 1, 2022, in Leposavic, Kosovo. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin oversees the training of the strategic deterrence forces in Moscow on October 26, 2022. (Alexei Babushkin/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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A destroyed building of a medical facility, the site of a Russian missile strike that killed at least two people, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on May 26, 2023. (Vitalii Matokha/AFP via Getty Images)
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Joe Biden shake hands at the start of the first plenary session of the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images)
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People shelter in a subway station during Russian missiles attack on May 29, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden delivers a brief update of the ongoing negotiations over the debt limit in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 17, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev, and Nikol Pashinyan attend a tripartite meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the oval office on National Security on March 23, 1983. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Experts
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
