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Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
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Chinese sailors stand next to a submarine rescue ship Hongzehu from the PLA Navy as it is docked on April 23, 2024, in Qingdao, China.(Kevin Frayer via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after delivering press statements before an official dinner in Jerusalem, on May 22, 2017. (Ngan Mandel/AFP via Getty Images)
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A screen grab from a video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in military uniform, visiting a command post in Kursk, Russia, on March 12, 2025. (Kremlin Press Office via Getty Images)
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives at the Special European Council in Brussels on March 6, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
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Somewhere in North Vietnam- US Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Allen Stratton waters vegetables in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp on Christmas Day, 1968. (Bettmann via Getty Images)
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Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat readiness ahead of Lunar New Year holidays at a military base on January 11, 2023, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih via Getty Images)
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Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Security forces reporting to Syria's transitional government patrol the streets of Dummar, during an operation to seize weapons and hunt down armed supporters of the ousted Assad leadership on January 15, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
Marshall Billingslea
Senior Fellow
