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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
Russia
Russia
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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) steams in formation during a multiple large deck event in the Pacific Ocean on June 8, 2023. (US Navy photo)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via CTV)
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Rustem Umerov speaks in the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on September 6, 2023. (Andrii Nesterenko/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu at a meeting ceremony in North Korea on July 25, 2023. (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons)
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A destroyed Russian tank sits in a snow covered wheat field in Kharkiv region amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine on February 22, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the new toll section of the M-4 Don highway at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 15, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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
