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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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Europe
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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier fires an M2 Browning machine gun during training near Donbas, Ukraine, on March 20, 2025. (Thomas Krych/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint press conference at the Vahdettin Mansion on July 8, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Ozan Guzelce via Getty Images)
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Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attend a plenary session at the BRICS summit, in Kazan, Russia, on October 24, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shmetov/AFP via Getty)
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A view of a destroyed hospital building after a Russian drone attack on March 19, 2025, in Krasnopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Pavlo Zarva/Kordon.Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier holds an FPV drone at arm’s length during military exercises on March 15, 2025, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Roman Chop via Getty Images)
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives at the Special European Council in Brussels on March 6, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
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A screen grab from a video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in military uniform, visiting a command post in Kursk, Russia, on March 12, 2025. (Kremlin Press Office via Getty Images)
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives at the Special European Council in Brussels on March 6, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
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Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian military walk through the destruction after a large scale Russian attack on a residential complex on March 10, 2025, in Dobropillia, Ukraine. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
