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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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A Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen E jet fighter flies over Gotland in the Baltic Sea on May 11, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
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German and Baltic NATO ships arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2022. (Frankie Fouganthin via Wikimedia Commons)
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Finnish Defense Forces train with a RAKH light rocket launcher. (Puolustusvoimat / The Finnish Defence Forces)
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A train from Kaliningrad enters Lithuania on April 16, 2022, in Kybartai, Lithuania. (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)
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Russian Navyâs lone aircraft carrier, the Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, is towed to the 35th squadron shipyard for maintenance and repair works in Murmansk, Russia on May 20, 2022. (Photo by Semen Vasileyev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MP of the Finland's Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen holds a bible as she speaks to media ahead of a court session at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland on January 24, 2022. (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto/AFP via Getty Images)
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Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Church of St. Baudille on February 21, 2019 in Nîmes, Provence, France
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
