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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)
Europe
Europe
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President Donald J. Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured during the meeting with Li Keqiang (not pictured), Prime Minister of China, on July 09, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Florian Gaertner/Getty Images)
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French President Emmanuel Macron (C) gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
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China's President Xi Jinping attends a Business Forum with Italian and Chinese businessmen at Quirinale Palace on March 22, 2019 in Rome, Italy. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Getty Images)
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) talk to each other prior to pose for a family photo on March 22, 2019 in Brussels at the end of an EU summit focused on Brexit. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media at the conclusion of a two-day EU summit on March 22, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a bilateral meeting, on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, on December 01, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Flags of NATO member states are seen ahead of the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on December 04, 2018. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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An armed gendarme stands guard at Strasbourg's Christmas market, on its reopening day, on December 14, 2018, one day after French police shot dead the gunman who killed three people there. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump meets with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 20, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/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
