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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)
Europe
Europe
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A tank sits outside Lysychansk, waiting to move into the city on June 19, 2022. (Photo by Madeleine Kelly/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands in front of the Chancellery in Berlin on Jan. 19. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army march on Red Square during a military parade in Moscow on June 24, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to guests during a visit to POET Bioprocessing on April 12, 2022 in Menlo, Iowa. Biden announced that he would ease restrictions on ethanol use to help ease soaring gas prices. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Russian Navyâs lone aircraft carrier, the Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, is towed to the 35th squadron shipyard for maintenance and repair works in Murmansk, Russia on May 20, 2022. (Photo by Semen Vasileyev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Smoke rises on the horizon following missile strikes on Lviv on April 18, 2022. The missile strikes come in the wake of the sinking of the Russian Navy Flagship, Moskva, in the Black Sea. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher via Getty Images)
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George Soros addresses the assembly on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks on stage during the closing campaign session of the FIDESZ party, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on April 1, 2022. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/ AFP via Getty Images)
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Field artillery cannoneer emplaces M777A2 Howitzer during Artillery Relocation Training Program 21.1, at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, April 26, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Michael Jefferson Estillomo)
Experts
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
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
