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SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Crew of US Navy destroyer Mcfaul ‘extinguishes a fire’ on the board during of USA-Ukrainian Navy exercises ‘Sea Breeze-2008’ in Odessa on July 15, 2008. Some seventeen countries joined to take a part in the peacemaking exercises on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine.
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Crew of US Navy destroyer Mcfaul 'extinguishes a fire' on the board during of USA-Ukrainian Navy exercises 'Sea Breeze-2008' in Odessa on July 15, 2008. Some seventeen countries joined to take a part in the peacemaking exercises on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine.
Crew of US Navy destroyer Mcfaul ‘extinguishes a fire’ on the board during of USA-Ukrainian Navy exercises ‘Sea Breeze-2008’ in Odessa on July 15, 2008. Some seventeen countries joined to take a part in the peacemaking exercises on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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