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)
A woman and child run through the smoke after an air-strike staged by Syrian regime forces in Duma district, Damascus, Syria on September 28, 2015. (Mohammed Khair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Russian President Valdimir Putin during the 70th annual UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters, September 28, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras celebrates after his party's victory in the Greek general elections at his campaign headquarters in Athens, September 20, 2015. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Center-2015 Military Drills at Donguzsky Range in Orenburg, Russia, September 19, 2015. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)