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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier walks around a snow-covered training ground in Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine on December 27, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago on December 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Getty Images)
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Türkiye's first-ever unmanned fighter jet takes flight on September 26, 2025. (Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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Ukrainian soldiers practice building assault tactics on October 16, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Recruits crawl a designated distance with combat gear during the zero day of basic combined arms training in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025 (Getty Images)
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The Ukrainian flag and the Motherland Monument in Kyiv on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and General Franz von Epp leave the Munich Airport on September 30, 1938, for the Four Power Conference in Munich to decide the question of Czechoslovakia.
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European leaders, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a family photo on December 15, 2025, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (Getty Images)
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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
