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President Donald Trump during a news conference in the White House briefing room on Monday, April 6, 2026. (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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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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Bridges are seen crossing the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in February 2017, with a road bridge in the foreground and rail bridge in the background. (Wikimedia Commons)
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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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Organization of Turkic States Secretary General Ambassador Kubanychbek Omuraliev attends a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, on June 19, 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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Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Ken Moriyasu
Senior Fellow
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
