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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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Russian Topol-M ICBMs drive across Red Square in a Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2008. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an annual meeting with high ranking officers of the Defence Ministry Board on December 11, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Israeli navy vessels patrolling the Mediterranean Sea, July 9, 2014. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during an awarding ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, on July 31, 2014. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow on February 26, 2014. (MIKHAIL METZEL/AFP/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
