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Finnish, NATO, and US flags during a NATO foreign ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on April 4, 2023. (Johanna Geron/AFP via Getty Images)

A Lithuanian Mi-8 helicopter participating in the NATO Iron Wolf military exercises on October 26, 2022, in Pabrade, Lithuania. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)

US and Ukraine flags fly at the Joint Force Headquarters in Sacramento, California, on February 22, 2023. (US Army National Guard photo by Amanda H. Johnson)

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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Hudson Institute President and CEO John P. Walters at Hudson's Global Leadership Award ceremony in New York on March 30, 2023. (Andrea Hanks/Hudson Institute)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on March 17, 2023. (Yoshikazu Tsuno via Getty Images)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress on March 11, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

The expedition cruise ship Polar Pioneer at Gnålodden in the Hornsund in Svalbard, Norway, on July 15, 2015. (Wolfgang Kaehler via Getty Images)

Iranian and Russian navies attend a joint military exercise in the Arabian Sea on February 17, 2021. (Iranian Army/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)