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Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
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Europe
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A tea vendor stands by stalled vehicles near the closed Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Torkham on October 19, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham looks on on July 22, 2026, in Bath, England. (Getty Images)
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A China-Europe train prepares to depart from the China-Kazakhstan Logistics Cooperation Base in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, on January 16, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off from a base in the US Central Command area of responsibility on June 18, 2026. (US Air Force)
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Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
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People attend a rally to protest the dismissal of Defense Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 20, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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Relatives of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide pray at the graves of their loved ones at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on July 11, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A view of the Presidential Palace, the venue for the NATO Summit on July 8, 2026, in Ankara, Turkey. (Getty Images)
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US-made F-35 aircraft of the Polish Air Force on the tarmac at the 32nd Tactical Air Base in Lask, Poland, on June 12, 2026. Getty Images)
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A technician launches a Ukrainian Raybird (ACS-3) UAV from a catapult during an aerial reconnaissance mission in the Oleksandrivka sector in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, on June 22, 2026. (Getty Images)
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)
