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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)
Russia
Russia
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A man looks on at a snow-covered security checkpoint that marks the entrance to Logar province, beyond the southern gate on January 17, 2022, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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Nancy Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 3, 2022. (Chien Chih-Hung / Office of the President)
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Vladimir Putin, together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, observed the main stage of the Vostok-2022 strategic command post exercise at the Sergeyevsky range in the Primorye Territory. (Kremlin)
In the Media
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Signed shells lie on the ground in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, on July 28, 2022. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signing the arms control agreement banning the use of intermediate-range nuclear missiles, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Reduction Treaty, in Washington DC on December 8, 1987. (Bettman via Getty Images)
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An oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
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The IAEA Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhya (ISAMZ) arrives at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine on September 2, 2022. (IAEA Imagebank)
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A service member working with Command Task Force 66 unloads a Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft into the Port of Uskta during exercise Baltic Operations 2025 (BALTOPS 25) on June 8, 2025. (US Navy photo)
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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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Mikhail Gorbachev and George HW Bush hold a joint press conference in the White House's East Room, Washington DC, June 3, 1990. (Ron Sachs/CNP/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
