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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ukraine-bound M777 Howitzers staged at March Air Reserve Base, California, on April 22, 2022. (US Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Austin Fraley)
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Ukraine-bound M777 Howitzers staged at March Air Reserve Base, California, on April 22, 2022. (US Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Austin Fraley)
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Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Airmen of the 721st Aerial Port Squadron load pallets of Ukraine-bound ammunition to a C-130 Hercules at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on August 7, 2022. (US Air Force photo by Capt. Emma Quirk)
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A Ukrainian soldier walks along a trench at a position along the front line in the Donetsk region on August 15, 2022. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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The China-donated Gwadar Technical and Vocational Institute in southwest Pakistan's Gwadar on October 1, 2021, just after the building's completion. (Photo by Str/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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People pay their condolences to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association office in Taipei on July 11, 2022. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin attends a Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on July 31 2022. (Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting on November 13, 2019, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japan, https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/98_abe/actions/201906/28g20.html)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
