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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Alexander Khvtisiashvili attend a press conference after a ministerial meeting on Trans-Caspian connectivity in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

On his first state visit to the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with five US governors to discuss clean technology and economic development on September 22, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Matt Mills McKnight-Pool/Getty Images)

Soldiers from the Ukrainian 63rd Brigade hide an artillery unit in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on April 13, 2024. (Wojciech Grzedzinski via Getty Images)

Pill bottles in a raided fentanyl lab in Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a naval exercise from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser in the Black Sea on January 9, 2020. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Vehicles drive under a massive billboard that is displays an illustrated image of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps missiles in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

US Marines disembark a Norwegian CB-90 class fast assault craft during a bilateral exercise in Narvik, Norway, on August 16, 2023. (US Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aziza Kamuhanda)

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The national flags of the Maldives and China flutter at Tiananmen Square on January 9, 2024, in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

American troops participate in exercise Steadfast Defender 24 in Poland on March 5, 2024. (DVIDS)