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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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A U.S. soldier on a Stryker takes part in a joint Romanian-U.S. military drill, in a military base, on March 10, 2022, in Smardan, Romania. (Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 15, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Refugees fleeing Ukraine arrive at the border train station of Zahony on March 10, 2022 in Zahony, Hungary. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videolink in Moscow on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Protesters hold signs expressing their opinion during a protest against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine at the Liberty square in Taipei. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A pedestrian walks amid debris following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 7, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/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
