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)
French President Emmanuel Macron greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Antoine Gyori-Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
A small boat transfers a Romanian boarding team from Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) ship ROS Regele Ferdinand to SNMG2 flagship HMS Duncan on February 7, 2018. (NATO photo by GBRN LPhot Paul Hall)
A protestor holds a Taurus missile sign at a demonstration to show support for Ukraine in Cologne, Germany, on January 6, 2024. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Retired M41 “Walker Bulldog” light tanks, which served the Taiwanese Army for 63 years, are on display by a beach on October 7, 2023, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Alexander Khvtisiashvili attend a press conference after a ministerial meeting on Trans-Caspian connectivity in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)