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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)
Russia
Russia
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Mikhail Gorbachev and George HW Bush hold a joint press conference in the White House's East Room, Washington DC, June 3, 1990. (Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images)
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Natural gas is flared off during an oil drilling operation in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022, in Stanton, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Finnish Defense Forces train with a RAKH light rocket launcher. (Puolustusvoimat / The Finnish Defence Forces)
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Ukrainian artillerymen fire the M109 self-propelled howitzer during training at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, on May 12, 2022. (US Army photo by Sgt. Spencer Rhodes)
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Vladimir Putin in Moscow on June 30, 2022. (Kremlin via Wikimedia Commons)
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Ukraine-bound M777 Howitzers staged at March Air Reserve Base, California, on April 22, 2022. (US Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Austin Fraley)
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Airmen of the 721st Aerial Port Squadron load pallets of Ukraine-bound ammunition to a C-130 Hercules at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on August 7, 2022. (US Air Force photo by Capt. Emma Quirk)
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A Ukrainian soldier walks along a trench at a position along the front line in the Donetsk region on August 15, 2022. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
