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Ukrainian soldiers open fire from a large-caliber machine gun to suppress enemy shelling on November 3, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pose for a group photo with other leaders at the Third Belt and Road Forum on October 18, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Suo Takekuma/Pool via Getty Images)

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The flags of Russia, China, and North Korea on a viewing tower on the border between the three countries in Hunchun, China, on June 25, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

Servicemen march during the Victory Day military parade in Rostov-on-Don on May 9, 2023. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky participate in a bilateral meeting in the East Room of the White House September 21, 2023. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)

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Ukrainian soldiers fire RPGs at enemy positions as the special military unit "Kurt & Company group" hold the first line of the front line on November 3, 2023, in Bakhmut District, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)

Turkish Minister Osman Askin Bak with his Azerbaijani counterpart Farid Gayibov and Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS Kubanychbek Omuraliev during the Seventh Working Group Meeting of the OTS in Basgal, Azerbaijan, on November 9, 2023. (Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A self-propelled howitzer in Ukraine in November 2023. (Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, via X)

United States Air Force Airmen assigned to Ramstein Air Base in Germany guard a C-17 Globemaster III at Nevatim Base, Israel, on October 15, 2023. (Edgar Grimaldo via DVIDS)