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Two F-35B combat aircraft from the United States Marine Corp depart after re-fueling from an RAF Voyager aircraft over the North Sea on October 08, 2020 in flight, above Scotland.
A Chinese Navy submarine attends an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy on April 23, 2009 off Qingdao in Shandong Province. (Guang Niu/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Chinese Navy submarine attends an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy on April 23, 2009 off Qingdao in Shandong Province. (Guang Niu/AFP/Getty Images)
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Thomas Moriarty
Thomas Moriarty
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A protestor holds a sign outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on opening night of the opera, 'The Death of Klinghoffer' on October 20, 2014 in New York City. (Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
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A protestor holds a sign outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on opening night of the opera, 'The Death of Klinghoffer' on October 20, 2014 in New York City. (Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
This handout image supplied by the Iran International Photo Agency shows a view of the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bushehr, southern Iran.  (IIPA via Getty Images)
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This handout image supplied by the Iran International Photo Agency shows a view of the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bushehr, southern Iran. (IIPA via Getty Images)
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Lee Smith
Former Senior Fellow
Lee Smith
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