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The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning prepares for sea trials at Dalian shipyard on February 29, 2024, in Dalian, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
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Nakhimov Square in Sevastopol, Crimea on March 19, 2023. (Vladimir Aleksandrov via Getty Images)
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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)
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
