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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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Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (Chesnot via Getty Images)
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Giorgia Meloni in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi before a meeting on December 4, 2024, in Rome, Italy. (Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers prepare the BM-21 artillery in the direction of Kurakhove, Ukraine, on December 4, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Riot police stand on the sidelines of a protest in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia, on November 29, 2024. (Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP via Getty Images)
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Fireworks launched explode along police lines amid ongoing mass demonstrations against the Georgian government's decision to suspend European Union membership talks in Tbilisi, Georgia, on December 1, 2024. (Giorgi Arjevanidze via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping attend an official welcoming ceremony in Beijing on May 16, 2024. (Sergei Bobylov/AFP via Getty Images)
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A local resident stands outside of a destroyed building following a missile attack in Odesa, Ukraine, on November 17, 2024. (Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen of the mobile air defense unit fire a machine gun at Russian drones during night patrol on December 2, 2024, in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Maksym Kishka/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden and Antony Blinken participate in a meeting of the Central Asia 5+1, in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Jim Watson via Getty Images)
Experts
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
