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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)
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A view of NUSRET-2025 Invitation Military Drill held at the Gulf of Saros in Canakkale, Turkiye, on October 30, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A US tank staged during the Iron Spear Tank Competition in Adazi, Latvia, on November 19, 2025. (US Army)
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(Screenshot via YouTube)
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Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Leaders' Summit in Oslo on May 9, 2025. (Alastair Grant via Getty Images)
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Soldiers take part in the combat shooting exercises of the Lithuanian army and the French-German brigade in Pabrade, Lithuania, on May 6, 2024. (Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Photo via Gitanas Nausėda on X.)
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A Finnair Airbus A350-900 takes off in Amsterdam on May 4, 2022 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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A Swedish CB90-class fast assault craft approaches the well deck of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall during exercise Steadfast Defender 24 on March 6, 2024, in the Norwegian Sea. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Danielle Serocki)
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Radar domes in Svalbard, Norway, on March 15, 2013. (Bernt Rostad via Flickr)
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US soldiers from the NATO peacekeeping mission KFOR at a checkpoint on September 1, 2022, in Leposavic, Kosovo. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)
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Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
