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)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) is flanked by Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers and ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh, August 29, 2013, Beijing, China (Adrian Bradshaw-Pool/Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside the Kremlin in Moscow on June 22, 2012 (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/GettyImages)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping shake hands at the meeting of the BRICS delegation heads, in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 5, 2013. (Igor Russak/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)
A Syrian man casts his ballot in front of a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a polling station in Damascus on February 26, 2012 (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-Russian activists guard a barricade set at the Ukrainian regional Security Service building on the eastern city of Donetsk on April 7, 2014 (Alexander KHUDOTEPLY/AFP/Getty Images)