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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting with President Joe Biden in the White House on September 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
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Firefighters push out a fire as police experts look for fragments of missile at a crater on an industrial area of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, after a massive overnight missile attack to Ukraine on September 21, 2023. (Sergei Supinkey/AFP via Getty Images)
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US army soldiers assigned to the 10th Mountain Division stand security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15, 2021. (Isaiah Campbell via DVIDS)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside US President Joe Biden in the White House on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu at a meeting ceremony in North Korea on July 25, 2023. (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons)
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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng pose for photographs before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 29, 2023. (Andy Wong/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, US President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio arrive for a joint news conference following three-way talks at Camp David on August 18, 2023, in Camp David, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
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Masashi Murano
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Satoru Nagao
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Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Tom Tugendhat
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