Caption
The United States and United Nations flags. (Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
Header image
Caption
A Ukrainian serviceman fires a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on January 6, 2025, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Roman Chop via Getty Images)
Caption
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk walks prior to the start of the European Union Summit on February 2, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Monasse via Getty Images)
Caption
European Union flags outside the European Central Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 12, 2024. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
Caption
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze holds a briefing in Tbilisi, Georgia, on December 4, 2024. (Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images)
Caption
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images)
Caption
Ukrainian soldiers prepare artillery in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on December 10, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Caption
Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (Chesnot via Getty Images)
Caption
Giorgia Meloni in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi before a meeting on December 4, 2024, in Rome, Italy. (Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images)
Caption
Ukrainian soldiers prepare the BM-21 artillery in the direction of Kurakhove, Ukraine, on December 4, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Caption
Riot police stand on the sidelines of a protest in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia, on November 29, 2024. (Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP via Getty Images)
Caption
Fireworks launched explode along police lines amid ongoing mass demonstrations against the Georgian government's decision to suspend European Union membership talks in Tbilisi, Georgia, on December 1, 2024. (Giorgi Arjevanidze via Getty Images)
Caption
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping attend an official welcoming ceremony in Beijing on May 16, 2024. (Sergei Bobylov/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
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
