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Tech leaders sit as they testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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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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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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(Screenshot via Danube Institute)
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Soldiers from an artillery unit watch a drone flying above the caponier of their artillery weapon during a combat mission in the Pokrovsk direction in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on December 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A view of NUSRET-2025 Invitation Military Drill held at the Gulf of Saros in Canakkale, Turkiye, on October 30, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting at the Chancellery on December 15, 2025, in Berlin, Germany. (Getty Images)
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A US tank staged during the Iron Spear Tank Competition in Adazi, Latvia, on November 19, 2025. (US Army)
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on December 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee in the National Diet in Tokyo on December 15, 2025. (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
