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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
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A general view of the city Baku, Azerbaijan, on September 25, 2023. (Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Landing Craft Utility 1659 enters the well deck of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall in the Atlantic Ocean on January 26, 2024. (Danielle Serocki via DVIDS)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with Commonwealth of Independent States officials in Minsk on May 28, 2021. (Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nakhimov Square in Sevastopol, Crimea on March 19, 2023. (Vladimir Aleksandrov via Getty Images)
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
