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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Global Economy
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German and Baltic NATO ships arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2022. (Frankie Fouganthin via Wikimedia Commons)
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Natural gas is flared off during an oil drilling operation in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022, in Stanton, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian artillerymen fire the M109 self-propelled howitzer during training at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, on May 12, 2022. (US Army photo by Sgt. Spencer Rhodes)
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Vladimir Putin attends a Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on July 31 2022. (Getty Images)
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Stewards of China Railway Kunming Bureau Group in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, on June 2, 2022. A landmark project under the Belt and Road Initiative, the railway connects Kunming with Vientiane, Laos. (Photo by Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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An Afghan woman begs for money from passing cars in the snow, with her child huddled beside her, on the Kabul road south to Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan, on January 17, 2022. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on September 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Senior Fellow
