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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)
Europe
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23, 2015 in central Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama answers a question on Syria during a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister in Stockholm on September 4, 2013. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Flags of the European Union member states hang inside the Council of the European Union's Lex building on February 18, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses citizens outside his residence at Kisikli Neighborhood following the failed coup attempt, in Istanbul, Turkey on July 16, 2016. (Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and US Secretary of State John Kerry talking during an International Syria Support Group meeting at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel. (Valery Sharifulin\TASS 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
