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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump arrives for a Rose Garden at the White House on May 11, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Mary Kissel appears on The John Batchelor Show to explain why a strategic decoupling and realistic planning, rather than hoping for fair trade or stability from the current Chinese regime, is the way forward in the United States’ relationship with China.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks during the Twenty-Third IISS Shangri-La Dialogue at the Shangri-La Hotel on May 30, 2026, in Singapore. (Getty Images)
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A processor embedded with a NVIDA chip is seen during the artificial intelligence exhibition AI EXPO 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 25, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation exhibit panel at the President's House Site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Wikimedia Commons)
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet prepares to launch from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln during Operation Epic Fury on March 29, 2026. (US Navy)
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US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a new group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site on August 26, 2025, in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. (Getty Images)
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