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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Russia
Russia
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Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China's President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 16, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Bobylov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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The B-21 Raider at a public unveiling ceremony on December 2, 2022, in Palmdale, California. (US Air Force)
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Vladimir Putin on February 10, 2023. (Kremlin)
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Members of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army prepare to fire a rocket propelled grenade while testing weapons systems on February 25, 2023, in Donbas, Ukraine. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 27. 2023. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev after signing the New START treaty in Prague on April 8, 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)
In the Media
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Wang Yi meets with Vladimir Putin in Mosow, Russia, on February 22, 2023. (Cao Yang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Russian diesel-electric Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosphorus Strait on its way to the Black Sea on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Ozan Kose / AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
