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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Chinese-made Pakistan Air Force J-10C fighter jets perform at a rehearsal ahead of Pakistan’s national day parade in Islamabad on March 21, 2024. (Getty Images)
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A Sailor directs a Rafale Marine (F4) fighter jet, assigned to the aircraft carrier FS Charles De Gaulle on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Philippine Sea on February 12, 2025. (US Navy photo)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov at the Kremlin on May 7, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on February 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Winston Churchill shows off his famous “siren suit” to General Dwight D Eisenhower during a tour of Allied invasion forces in Kent, England, on May 12, 1944 (Wikimedia Commons).
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Protesters attend a rally in Hong Kong on December 22, 2019, to show support for the Uyghur minority in China. (Getty Images)
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Soldiers drive a British Challenger battle tank as they take part in an urban combat exercise during a United Kingdom–French joint military maneuver near Reims, France, on April 22, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Quad Alliance Foreign Ministers pose for a group photo at the Japan's prime minister office in Tokyo, Japan on July 29, 2024. (Zuma Press / Rodrigo Reyes Marin / Pool/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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A screen shows images of China's President Xi Jinping in Shanghai on February 27, 2025. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Marshall Billingslea
Senior Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
