Security Alliances

Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

A soldier launches a kamikaze drone at Russian positions on January 26, 2024, in Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)

Retired M41 “Walker Bulldog” light tanks, which served the Taiwanese Army for 63 years, are on display by a beach on October 7, 2023, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Alexander Khvtisiashvili attend a press conference after a ministerial meeting on Trans-Caspian connectivity in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Soldiers from the Ukrainian 63rd Brigade hide an artillery unit in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on April 13, 2024. (Wojciech Grzedzinski via Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a naval exercise from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser in the Black Sea on January 9, 2020. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

US Marines disembark a Norwegian CB-90 class fast assault craft during a bilateral exercise in Narvik, Norway, on August 16, 2023. (US Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aziza Kamuhanda)

A member of a Ukrainian artillery brigade during a training session near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is saluted by members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force during an International Fleet Review on November 6, 2022, off Yokosuka, Japan. (Photo by Issei Kato/Pool/Getty Images)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers remarks during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Israeli soldiers secure an area near the northern Gaza Strip on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)