Foreign Policy

Russian Navy's diesel-electric Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosphorus Strait on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)

A view from Nakhimov Square as daily life continues in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 19, 2023. (Vladimir Aleksandrov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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An Azerbaijani checkpoint at the entry of the Lachin corridor on May 2, 2023. (Tofik Babayev/AFP via Getty Images)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomes Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov in the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2023. (Oliver Contreras/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

John P. Walters takes part in a debate at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)

Trident Juncture 18 takes place in Norway and the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, including Iceland and the airspace of Finland and Sweden, on November 7, 2018. (NATO via Flickr)

US State Secretary John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on January 14, 2015, in Geneva. (Rick Wilking/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol shake hands during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)

Joe Biden welcomes South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to the White House during an arrival ceremony on April 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Pool via Getty Images)

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