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President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan in the Oval Office of the White House October 22, 2015, Washington, DC. (Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images)
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Sub-Saharan African migrants are rescued by the Libyan coastguard after their inflatable boat started to sink off the coastal town of Guarabouli, November 20, 2014. There were 108 people rescued from the sinking raft. (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian protesters hurl rocks at an Israeli armoured vehicle (background) during clashes next to the Jewish settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah on October 19, 2015. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Silhouette of Challenger tank crewman in turret, circa 1991. (Roger Ryan/Crown Copyright/IWM via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
