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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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The flags of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine are seen prior to talks on March 11, 2025, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Salah Malkawi via Getty Images)
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A Boxer wheeled armored infantry vehicle of the German armed forces drives across the Rheinmetall site on May 2, 2024. (Philipp Schulze/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers get training in case of a gas attack on March 13, 2025, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a press conference in Paris, on March 27, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 28, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Traditional Greenlandic housing is seen from the Myggedalen viewpoint on March 28, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. (Leon Neal via Getty Images)
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German designated chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, speaks to the media the day after the Hamburg city-state election on March 3, 2025, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier fires an M2 Browning machine gun during training near Donbas, Ukraine, on March 20, 2025. (Thomas Krych/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint press conference at the Vahdettin Mansion on July 8, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Ozan Guzelce via Getty Images)
Experts
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
