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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (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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A Taliban fighter stands guard as Muslim devotees offer Eid al-Fitr prayers outside a mosque in a street in Kabul on May 1, 2022. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II conducts a flypast over HMAS Sydney during Exercise Tasman Shield on March 28, 2023. (Photo via Australian Government Defense)
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The signing of the visitor book of Prime Minister of Japan H. E. Mr. Fumio Kishida on March 20, 2023. (MEAphotogallery via Flickr)
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Fishing boats in a harbour on Pingtan island in China's southeast Fujian province on April 15, 2023. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden speaks with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the G20 on November 15, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. (Adam Schultz via Official White House)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a joint press availability at the US. Department of State in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2023. (State Department photo by Freddie Everett)
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Taiwan's AAV7 amphibious assault vehicle surfaces from the sea during the Han Kuang military exercise, which simulates China's People's Liberation Army invading Pingtung, Taiwan, on July 28, 2022. (Annabelle Chih via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
