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A photo shows US and Israeli flags projected on the historic walls of the Old City near Hebron Gate in Jerusalem on June 22, 2025. (Getty Images)
Russia
Russia
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Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference at the Rus Sanatorium on October 31, 2022, in Sochi, Russia. (Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via House Foreign Affairs Committee/YouTube)
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Vladimir Putin on in the Kremlin on November 2, 2022. (Kremlin)
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(Screenshot via Fox Business)
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The shale gas tanker JS Ineos Intuition passes under the Forth Bridge en route from the Scottish port of Grangemouth to Houston on March 2, 2022. (Ken Jack/Getty Images)
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(Kremlin)
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A Ukrainian soldier fires a US-made MK-19 automatic grenade launcher near the front lines of the conflict in the Donetsk region on October 12, 2022. (Dave Clark/AFP via Getty Images)
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An oil drilling platform waiting to be repaired in Cromarty Firth near the port of Invergordon, Scotland, on May 29, 2010. (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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A Russian T-72 tank fires during joint military exercises between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Iran, Pakistan, and Myanmar at the Raevsky range in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020, during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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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
