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The logo of Japan's largest steel manufacturer Nippon Steel corporation is seen in front of the company's head office in Tokyo on January 7, 2025. (David Marueil/ via Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, on August 26, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US soldiers coordinate boat movement during a wet-gap crossing operation as part of joint military drills Dęblin, Poland, on May 13, 2022. (Army National Guard Photo)
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Ukrainian solders conduct squad battle drills as part of Operation Fearless Guardian II, an initiative to increase Ukrainian defense compatibility with NATO forces, in Ukraine on December 15, 2015. (US Army Photo by Adriana M. Diaz-Brown)
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An Azerbaijani soldier keeping guard by the Aras River, which forms much of Azeri-Iranian border, in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan, on December 7, 2020. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth in Lusaka, Zambia, on August 1, 1979. (Getty Images)
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(Office of the President of Ukraine)
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A Russian RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile complex during the Victory Day Parade main rehearsals on May 7, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via Trinity Broadcasting Network)
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A Ukrainian soldier fires a US-made MK-19 automatic grenade launcher towards Russian positions in less than 800 metres away at a front line in Donetsk, Ukraine, on October 12, 2022. (Dave Clark/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via The Hugh Hewitt Show/YouTube)
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A fire at a power station in Kyiv, Ukraine, after Russian shelling on October 18, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons)
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
