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A photo shows US and Israeli flags projected on the historic walls of the Old City near Hebron Gate in Jerusalem on June 22, 2025. (Getty Images)
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
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An oil refinery in Wilmington, California, on September 21, 2022. (Allison Dinner/Getty Images)
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A destroyed Russian tank stands by the road in front of an orthodox temple in the liberated town of Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, on November 30, 2022. (Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian solder says goodbye to his family on February 27, 2022, in Przemyśl, Poland, just over the border from Lviv, Ukraine. (Wikimedia Commons)
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A Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen E jet fighter flies over Gotland in the Baltic Sea on May 11, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
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German and Baltic NATO ships arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2022. (Frankie Fouganthin via Wikimedia Commons)
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Russian MIG-31k fighter jets carrying Kinzhal-class hypersonic missile systems fly at a Victory Day parade in Moscow on June 24, 2022. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A man pushes a bicycle as he walks past a building of Mashgidroprivod plant, which was destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv on June 29, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/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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Refugees fleeing Ukraine arrive at the border train station of Zahony on March 10, 2022 in Zahony, Hungary. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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European Union flags fly outside the European Commission building in Brussels, on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Mihaly Orban arrives for an EU Summit at European Council on June 28, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
