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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson to the alliance's headquarters on Monday June 27, 2022. (NATO via Flickr)

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on September 28, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian serviceman stands on a German-made Flakpanzer Gepard, a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, after military exercises in the Odesa region on October 17, 2023. (Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images)

A fire on the Kerch Bridge following a truck bomb attack on October 8, 2022. (Photo by Vera Katkova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A compression station of the Balticconnector marine gas pipeline in Inga, Finland, on November 5, 2019.

Missiles are launched from a helicopter of Ukraine’s 18th Army Aviation Brigade on September 19, 2023, in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Libkos via Getty Images)

A convoy of Israel Defense Forces soldiers drives along a road near the outskirts of Netivot and near an Artillery position on October 11, 2023, in Netivot, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)

Service members prepare to board evacuees onto a C-17 Globemaster lll on Aug. 22, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. ( Kylie Barrow via DVIDs)

The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade fire from Soviet-era artillery in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on September 16, 2023. (Photo by Libkos/Getty Images)

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on September 27, 2023, in Simi Valley, California. (Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)