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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 15, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Refugees fleeing Ukraine arrive at the border train station of Zahony on March 10, 2022 in Zahony, Hungary. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videolink in Moscow on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Protesters hold signs expressing their opinion during a protest against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine at the Liberty square in Taipei. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A pedestrian walks amid debris following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 7, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian navy sailors hold the flags of participating countries in Exercise Sea Breeze 2021 in Odesa, Ukraine, July 4, 2021. (U.S. Navy)
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A man looks on at a snow-covered security checkpoint that marks the entrance to Logar province, beyond the southern gate on January 17, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
Experts
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
