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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
Russia
Russia
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A soldier fires a third-generation Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile system during a professional training session in Ukraine on January 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the end of a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier walks around a snow-covered training ground in Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine on December 27, 2025. (Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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Ukrainian soldiers practice building assault tactics on October 16, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Recruits crawl a designated distance with combat gear during the zero day of basic combined arms training in Ukraine, on December 12, 2025 (Getty Images)
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The Ukrainian flag and the Motherland Monument in Kyiv on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Bridges are seen crossing the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in February 2017, with a road bridge in the foreground and rail bridge in the background. (Wikimedia Commons)
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European leaders, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a family photo on December 15, 2025, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (Getty Images)
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and General Franz von Epp leave the Munich Airport on September 30, 1938, for the Four Power Conference in Munich to decide the question of Czechoslovakia.
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(Screenshot via Danube Institute)
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Soldiers from an artillery unit watch a drone flying above the caponier of their artillery weapon during a combat mission in the Pokrovsk direction in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on December 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
