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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
Politics and Government
Politics and Government
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People cast their ballots for the general election in Howell, Michigan, on November 3, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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A 1912 illustration from Puck magazine shows Theodore Roosevelt passing between two rows of kings, emperors, military leaders, statesmen, and others. (Udo Keppler via Library of Congress)
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Stickers sit on a table during in-person absentee voting on November 1, 2024, in Little Chute, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson via Getty Images)
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A television news screen in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2023, shows a picture of North Korea's test-firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former US President Donald Trump points to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as he speaks on October 17, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
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Russian infantry in the trenches during their battle against the Austro-Hungarian army on the eastern front in World War I in August 1914. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a press conference a day after Japan's lower house election on October 28, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Kim Kyung-Hoon via Getty Images)
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State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speaks on the Iranian missile attacks on Israel on October 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
Experts
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
Rachel Mackey
Fellow and Executive Director, Hudson Institute Political Studies
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
