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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 servicemen evacuate people from the flooded village of Afanasiivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, on June 9, 2023.(Genya Savilov via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier with rifle walks in a residential district damaged by shelling on May 31, 2023, in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov via Getty Images)
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A B-1B Lancer takes off at Royal Air Force Fairford, United Kingdom, on June 7, 2023. (Josiah Brown via DVIDS)
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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)
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
