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Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (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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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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Soviet-made T-72 tanks on review during Republic Day parade. (Robert Nickelsberg via Getty Images)
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Cuban capitol building in Havana, Cuba. (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 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)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
