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A member of the Civil Disobedience Movement Wai Yan makes drinks at a restaurant after fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand to avoid conscription by Myanmar's military junta, in Bangkok on June 4, 2024. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a commemoration ceremony for soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war in Jerusalem on July 16, 2024. (Abir Sultan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Figure of a Kuomintang soldier looking across at the Chinese city of Xiamen on February 4, 2021, in Lieyu, Taiwan. (An Rong Xu via Getty Images)
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Flags of Ukraine and NATO are seen outside a press conference of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 29 2024. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the NATO Summit on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon and President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol attend a meeting during the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Bryan Wells, Steve Walker, Rand Waldron and Bryan Clark at the NATO Public Forum on July 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)
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Ken Weinstein and President Yoon Suk Yeol at the NATO Public Forum on July 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nada Schadlow at the NATO Public Forum on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)