Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Russian President Boris Yeltsin and American President Bill Clinton sign the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe agreement in Budapest, Hungary, on December 5, 1994. (David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images)
A Lithuanian Mi-8 helicopter participating in the NATO Iron Wolf military exercises on October 26, 2022, in Pabrade, Lithuania. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian infantryman takes cover on the frontline facing Russian troops on March 5, 2023, outside of Bakhmut, Ukraine. (John Moore via Getty Images)
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Hudson Institute President and CEO John P. Walters at Hudson's Global Leadership Award ceremony in New York on March 30, 2023. (Andrea Hanks/Hudson Institute)
A Mi-24 helicopter takes off for a combat mission against Russian forces on March 25, 2023, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Taras Ibragimov via Getty Images)
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends a ceremony to confer the "City of Military Glory" title to five Russian towns at the Kremlin on June 22, 2015, in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia, March 21, 2023. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via Getty Images)