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)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
People pass by a congratulatory billboard showing elected United States President Donald Trump on November 7, 2024, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amir Levy via Getty Images)
Georgian opposition supporters protest results of the parliamentary elections in central Tbilisi, Georgia, on October 28, 2024. (Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images)
The flag of Somaliland is seen during a campaign rally of the main opposition party in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on November 8, 2024, ahead of the 2024 Somaliland presidential election. (Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk walks prior to the start of the European Union Summit on February 2, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Monasse via Getty Images)
On June 28, 2019, Xi Jinping shakes hands with Donald Trump before a bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit in Osaka. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
European Union flags outside the European Central Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 12, 2024. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)