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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers practice firing a Browning heavy machine gun on February 20, 2025, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Roman Chop/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Drone operators are seen working near the front line in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, on February 12, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a ceremony for signing bilateral agreements at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye, on February 18, 2025. (TUR Presidency/Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and then US president-elect Donald Trump shake hands after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, on December 7, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the Economic Leaders' Meeting in the Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017.(MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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A tank participates in a live fire exercise of Leopard 1A5 crews in Ukraine on February 5, 2025. (Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian Army soldier stands on an American Bradley Fighting Vehicle on January 15, 2025, in Sumy, Ukraine. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers operate an American Humvee fitted with Soviet era Grad launcher in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on January 23, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Recruits of the Alcatraz assault battalion prepare for medical and trench training in Donetsk Oblast on January 31, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers work on a Soviet era Pion self propelled howitzer in the direction of Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on January 27, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Founder of the Georgian Dream Party Bidzina Ivanishvili speaks to the media on October 26, 2024, in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Diego Fedele via 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
