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Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
Russia
Russia
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2015 (Host photo agency / RIA Novosti via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Kremlin.ru)
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's soeajs during the unveiling ceremony of the Berlin Wall monument, during the NATO summit in Brussels, May 25, 2017 (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
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Workers pack chocolate products in factory on June 19, 2016 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine (Vitaliy Holovin/Corbis via Getty images)
Commentary
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President Donald Trump is seen through a window speaking on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House, January 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with his envoy to the Volga Federal District, Alexander Yevstifeyev (not in picture) in the Kremlin. (Mikhail Klimentyev\TASS via Getty Images)
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USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile April 7, 2017. (Robert S. Price/U.S. Navy/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech during an Iftar (fast-breaking) dinner the at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2016. (Photo by Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency/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
