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President Donald Trump delivers a speech about the economy at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in Suffern, New York, on May 22, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Voting booths are set up for early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on September 27, 2012 in Waterloo, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Syrian opposition members inspect the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack by Assad regime forces in Jobar region of Damascus, Syria on November 13, 2014. (Lokman Sair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Candles burn above a poster of Albert Nisman following a 'Silent March' on February 18, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of States John Kerry (R) beside of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) after the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting in Munich on February 12, 2016. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Christopher Hitchens poses during a portrait session on May 22, 2010 in Australia. (John Donegan/Getty Images)
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Then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Russia's president Vladimir Putin give a press conference in Istanbul on December 3, 2012. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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Damaged icons inside the church of the monastery of Saint Takla in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, May 14, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad (L) during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on October 20, 2015. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
