In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
South Korean activists during a rally denouncing Abe's speech at the US Congress, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on April 30, 2015. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
Rescued migrants wait to disembark of Italian Guardia di Finanza vessel Denaro at the Sicilian harbour of Catania on April 23, 2015. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Armenians at the genocide monument to their kin killed by Ottoman Turks during World War I in Yerevan late in on April 23, 2012. (KAREN MINASYAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Jean-Marie Le Pen (R) and Marine Le Pen (L) listen to a speech, on November 29, 2014 in Lyon, during the 15th French National Front (FN) congress. (JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images)