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A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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The flag of the European Union flies from the European Parliament information office in the European Quarter on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on November 9, 2014 in Beijing, China. (How Hwee Young - Pool/Getty Images)
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Syrian opposition members inspect the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack by Assad regime forces in Jobar region of Damascus, Syria on November 13, 2014. (Lokman Sair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of States John Kerry (R) beside of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) after the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting in Munich on February 12, 2016. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Russia's president Vladimir Putin give a press conference in Istanbul on December 3, 2012. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
