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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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Smoke billows over Lviv after a Russian cruise missile strike on an oil storage depot in the city, March 26, 2022 / James Barnett
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 15, 2022. (President of Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons)
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NATO leaders during a summit on Russia's invasion of Ukraine on March 24, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Henry Nicholls - Pool/Getty Images)
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Moskva guided missile cruiser participating in a Russian military Navy Day parade near an important navy base in the Ukrainian town of Sevastopo on July 31, 2011. (Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Protesters hold signs accusing Putin of war crimes as demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square calling for unity against Russia on March 20, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)
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People remove rubble following the shelling of a residential area on March 14, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)
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Members of the Ukrainian military wait at a forward position on the eastern frontline near Kalynivka village as Russian forces advanced on March 08, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Experts
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
