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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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A Ukrainian solder says goodbye to his family on February 27, 2022, in Przemyśl, Poland, just over the border from Lviv, Ukraine. (Wikimedia Commons)
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A Russian T-72 tank fires during joint military exercises between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Iran, Pakistan, and Myanmar at the Raevsky range in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020, during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, on August 26, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US soldiers coordinate boat movement during a wet-gap crossing operation as part of joint military drills Dęblin, Poland, on May 13, 2022. (Army National Guard Photo)
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Ukrainian solders conduct squad battle drills as part of Operation Fearless Guardian II, an initiative to increase Ukrainian defense compatibility with NATO forces, in Ukraine on December 15, 2015. (US Army Photo by Adriana M. Diaz-Brown)
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An Azerbaijani soldier keeping guard by the Aras River, which forms much of Azeri-Iranian border, in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan, on December 7, 2020. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth in Lusaka, Zambia, on August 1, 1979. (Getty Images)
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A Russian RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile complex during the Victory Day Parade main rehearsals on May 7, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
