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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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Protesters take part in the rally for the beginning of Occupy Central movement outside Central Government Offices in Central, Hong Kong on August 31, 2014. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)
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Thousands of young East Berliners crowd atop the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. (GERARD MALIE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow on February 26, 2014. (MIKHAIL METZEL/AFP/Getty Images)
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Bombed police checkpoint, Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq, June 9, 2014 (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images).
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Egyptian demonstrators clash with Egyptian police in central Cairo during a protest to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and calling for reforms on January 25, 2011. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/GettyImages)
Experts
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
