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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
In the Media
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Ukrainian soldiers comb through wreckage after Russian shelling in Kyiv on June 26, 2022. (Kyiv City State Administration via Wikimedia Commons)
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A man looks on at a snow-covered security checkpoint that marks the entrance to Logar province, beyond the southern gate on January 17, 2022, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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Nancy Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 3, 2022. (Chien Chih-Hung / Office of the President)
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Vladimir Putin, together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, observed the main stage of the Vostok-2022 strategic command post exercise at the Sergeyevsky range in the Primorye Territory. (Kremlin)
In the Media
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(Screenshot via Newsmax)
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Signed shells lie on the ground in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, on July 28, 2022. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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
