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A monument to the historic battle of Guningtou, which took place in 1949, on February 3, 2021, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Getty Images)
Nordic-Baltics
Nordic-Baltics
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Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Leaders' Summit in Oslo on May 9, 2025. (Alastair Grant via Getty Images)
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Soldiers take part in the combat shooting exercises of the Lithuanian army and the French-German brigade in Pabrade, Lithuania, on May 6, 2024. (Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Photo via Gitanas Nausėda on X.)
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A Finnair Airbus A350-900 takes off in Amsterdam on May 4, 2022 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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A Swedish CB90-class fast assault craft approaches the well deck of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall during exercise Steadfast Defender 24 on March 6, 2024, in the Norwegian Sea. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Danielle Serocki)
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Radar domes in Svalbard, Norway, on March 15, 2013. (Bernt Rostad via Flickr)
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US soldiers from the NATO peacekeeping mission KFOR at a checkpoint on September 1, 2022, in Leposavic, Kosovo. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via BBC)
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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)
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
