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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)
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Russian Navy's diesel-electric Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosphorus Strait on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)
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US Army National Guard Soldiers with Battery C conduct pre-mobilization training exercise America’s Shield on May 15, 2022, at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina. (Tim Andrews via DVIDS)
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An Azerbaijani checkpoint at the entry of the Lachin corridor on May 2, 2023. (Tofik Babayev/AFP via Getty Images)
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John P. Walters takes part in a debate at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)
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Servicemen belonging to the Ukrainian storm brigade take part in military exercises outside Kyiv on April 20, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a joint a press-conference following their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 20, 2023. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers fire targets on the front line in the direction of the city of Ugledar, Donetsk, Ukraine as Russia-Ukraine war continues on April 18, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The People's Liberation Army and the PLA Navy conduct a live-fire drill in Zhangzhou, China, on August 24, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian sailors kept on their ship by Russian servicemen as Russian forces without insigna invide Crimea in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on March 5, 2014. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)
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An aerial view of the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2021. (DOD photo by Brittany A. Chase)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
