Moscow is trying to play it cool, but its military moves hint at growing concern over NATO's newest member

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A border guard officer walks along a fence marking the boundary area between Finland and Russia.
A border guard walks along a fence marking the boundary between Finland and Russia near Imatra, Finland in November 2022.

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The loser of a rare submarine vs. submarine battle was found 80 years after being sunk

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An undated photo of British Royal Navy submarine HMS Torbay.

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The US's B-29 bomber was more expensive than the nuclear bomb it dropped on Japan at the end of World War II

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A B-29 drops bombs on Formosa on October 18, 1944.

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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'

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US soldiers exit an LCVP and head ashore at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

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Russia and Ukraine's deadliest battle is starting to look like Stalingrad 'without the importance,' expert says

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Soviet soldiers on the attack in Stalingrad in February 1943.

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Hitler's nephew fought in the US Navy in WWII, but he had to get special permission from the president and FBI to do it

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William Patrick Hitler, 34-year-old nephew of the late unlamented Nazi dictator, is shown (left), as he received his discharge from the U. S. Navy in the Fargo building Separation Center at Boston.
William Patrick Hitler, 34-year-old nephew of the late unlamented Nazi dictator, is shown (left), as he received his discharge from the U. S. Navy in the Fargo building Separation Center at Boston.

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Putin's plan is to 'out-suffer' Ukraine and win by sending hundreds of thousands of Russians to die, retired US general Petraeus says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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As US planes bombed Japan in World War II, the Japanese sent balloons across the ocean to try to set the US on fire

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A Japanese Fu-Go balloon with bombs attached near Bigelow, Kansas, on February 23, 1945.

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As Ukraine war drags on, Russian lawmakers told to compare it to the bloody (but ultimately victorious) WWII Battle of Stalingrad

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Captured German soldiers, make their way in the bitter cold through the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, in 1943.
Captured German soldiers make their way in the bitter cold through the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, in 1943.

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Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 78 years after its liberation

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An aerial view of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp on December 19, 2019 in Oswiecim, Poland.

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