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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)
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President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on August 18, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (Saul Loeb via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Fourth Eurasian Economic Forum in Minsk, Belarus, on June 26, 2025. (Sergei Bobylyov via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian military personnel control the unmanned ground vehicle platform Rys Pro equipped with a remote-controlled machine-gun turret during training on April 18, 2025, in an unspecified area of Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a flag-raising ceremony for the latest Project 955A (Borey-A) strategic nuclear-powered submarine Knyaz Pozharsky in Severodvinsk on July 24, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump listens to questions from reporters after speaking on economic data in the Oval Office on August 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
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The Kerch Bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea is seen on October 13, 2022. (Stringer via 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
