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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
Russia
Russia
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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets U.S. President Joe Biden during the U.S.-Russia Summit 2021 at the La Grange Villa near the Geneva Lake, on June 16, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian servicemen stands in a trench at the contact line near the village of Svitlodarsk, in Ukraine's Donestsk region on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Manu Brabo/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during a ceremony to present the highest state decorations at Moscow's Kremlin. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin\TASS via Getty Images)
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A B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing flies at a high altitude during a mission over the Baltic Sea, Oct. 23, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt. Trevor T. McBride)
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U.S. troops deploy for Europe from Pope Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on February 3, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Chinese Leader Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting on November 13, 2019 in Brasilia, Brazil. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
