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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)
Security Alliances
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Brahim Ghali, president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) salutes the SADR flag on January 13, 2023. (Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office at the White House on February 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, in Strasbourg, France, on October 4, 2023. (Getty Images)
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Demonstrators hold military and Israeli flags during a protest in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 2, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
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A serviceman of Security Service of Ukraine escorts Chinese prisoner of war in Kyiv on April 14, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier conducts training on April 8, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A Pakistani soldier in the South Waziristan District on October 18, 2017. (Getty Images)
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A batch of fiber-optic drones are seen before being handed over to the Ukrainian armed forces in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 1, 2025. (Mykhaylo Palinchak via Getty Images)
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
