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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on September 27, 2023, in Simi Valley, California. (Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)
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A serviceman launches a drone during a press tour to demonstrate the integration of AI into the process of humanitarian demining in the Zhytomyr Region, northern Ukraine, on September 20, 2023. (Kirill Chubotin/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh are evacuated on September 26, 2023, in Kornidzor, Armenia. (Astrig Agopian via Getty Images)
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President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting in Moscow on September 14, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is carried by Pall bearers from the Queen's Company at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on September 19, 2022, in Windsor, England. (Jonathan Brady via Getty Images)
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-eighth session on September 19, 2023. (UN Photo via Flickr)
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting with President Joe Biden in the White House on September 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets virtually with Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi on September 28, 2021. (NATO via Flickr)
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Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives for a Central Europe's so-called Visegrad Four group meeting in Brussels on December 14, 2017. (John Thys/AFP via Getty Images)
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Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
