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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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President-elect Donald Trump arrives at a news conference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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US President-elect Donald Trump answers journalists questions during a press conference on January 11, 2017 in New York. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
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A soldier of the Polish Army sits in a tank as a NATO flag flies behind during the NATO Noble Jump military exercises of the VJTF forces on June 18, 2015 in Zagan, Poland. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news cenference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. This is Trump's first official news conference since the November elections. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Exxon Mobil Corporation CEO Rex Tillerson and Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L-R front) during a meeting at Novo-Ogaryovo residence, April 16, 2012. (Alexei Nikolsky\TASS via Getty Images)
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news cenference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Vice President-elect Mike Pence and President-elect Donald Trump talk during Trump's press conference at Trump Tower in New York on January 11, 2017. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the USA Thank You Tour 2016 at the Giant Center on December 15, 2016 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama waves after he spoke during the SelectUSA Investment Summit March 23, 2015 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Alex Wong/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
