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Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks on stage during the closing campaign session of the FIDESZ party, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on April 1, 2022. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/ AFP via Getty Images)
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Field artillery cannoneer emplaces M777A2 Howitzer during Artillery Relocation Training Program 21.1, at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, April 26, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Michael Jefferson Estillomo)
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EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen speaks to the press in the Berlaymont, the European Union Commission headquarters on April 27, 2022, in Brussels, Belgium. (Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier with an anti aircraft missile system near Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine on May 11, 2022. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
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Leaders representing Russia, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, and Kyrgyzstan attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Bishek in 2019. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev greets Russian President Vladimir Putin during their bilaterlal meeting at the Russian-Kazakh Regional Forum on November 7, 2019 in Omsk, Russia. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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A RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile vehicle during the rehearsals for the Victory Day Military Parade, on April 18, 2022 in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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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
