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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)
Russia
Russia
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Wang Yi meets with Vladimir Putin in Mosow, Russia, on February 22, 2023. (Cao Yang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Russian diesel-electric Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosphorus Strait on its way to the Black Sea on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Ozan Kose / AFP via Getty Images)
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Damage from a Russian rocket strike on a state administration building in Kherson, Ukraine, on December 19, 2022. (Wikimedia Commons)
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(Screenshot via YouTube)
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Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)
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(Screenshot via Newsmax)
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Ukrainian soldiers fire an artillery shell on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine, on December 4, 2022. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The crew of a Leopard 2 main battle tank waiting for Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his visit to the Bundeswehr army training center in Ostenholz, Germany, on October 17, 2022. (David Hecker via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden disembarks Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, January 16, 2023. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with Joe Biden in the Oval Office on December 21, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP 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
