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)
President Joe Biden talks with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm during a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Flatirons Campus in Arvada, Colorado, in September 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
Sailor mechanics filling a plane with gasoline at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, in August 1942. (Universal History Archive via Getty Images)
The No.1 Gas Processing Plant operated by China National Petroleum Corporation at Bagtyyarlyk contractual PSA territory on December 5, 2020, in Lebap Province of Turkmenistan. (Zhao Junchao/VCG via Getty Images)
Crude oil tanker at a terminal operated by China Petrochemical Corporation or Sinopec Group in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China. (VCG via Getty Images)