Richard Fontaine is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security. He worked on the National Security Council staff and at the State Department during the George W. Bush administration.
An Orthodox Christian priest wearing gold robes waves an incense burner as he speaks to a small audience gathered at a funeral. Three caskets covered in velvet fabric and flowers sit on stands in the snow-spotted yard behind the ruins of the house where the deceased died while the funeral attendees, mostly wearing black coats, hold prayer candles.
A weathered U.S. flag drapes across the green-painted railing of a front porch in South Carolina. Flat sheets of plywood are also propped against the railing, and a motorcycle stands in the patchy grass of the yard in front of the porch.
Demonstrators set up a mock customs checkpoint to protest against potential trade restrictions due to Brexit in Killeen, Northern Ireland, on Feb. 18, 2017.
Security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on May 13, 2017. (Wang
Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo arrives to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on April 12. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
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