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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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Members of the Wagner Group prepare to depart from the Southern Military District's headquarters and return to their base on June 24, 2023, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A screen grab captured from a video shows Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin making a speech in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. (Wagner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Visitors walk past China's second nuclear missile on display as they visit the Military Museum in Beijing, on July 23, 2007. (Teh Eng Koon/AFP via Getty Images)
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Members of Wagner group looks from a military vehicle with the sign read as "Brother" in Rostov-on-Don late on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko during the Supreme Economic Eurasian Council at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands in front of a Puma infantry fighting vehicle of the Bundeswehr while visiting the Bundeswehr army training center in Ostenholz on October 17, 2022, near Hodenhagen, Germany. (David Hecker via Getty Images)
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Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting at Konstantin Palace on June 16, 2016, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov via Getty Images)
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An instructor from the Trident Defense Initiative gives instruction about a DJI drone during the training session for the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 13, 2023. (Sofiia Bobok/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The North Atlantic Council meeting room where the most important meetings of NATO members are held in the NATO Headquarters building on April 27, 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)
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Bayraktar Kemankes, the mini smart cruise missile developed by Baykar, is introduced during TEKNOFEST in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 27, 2023. (Arife Karakum via Getty Images)
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Soviet-made T-72 tanks on review during Republic Day parade. (Robert Nickelsberg via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher toward Russian positions near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on June 13, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/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
