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)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 23, 2019 in Davos, Switzerland. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their meeting at the Kremlin on October 4, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
U.S. Marines drive an M1 Abrams to take part in an exercise to capture an airfield as part of the Trident Juncture 2018, a NATO-led military exercise, on November 1, 2018 near the town of Oppdal, Norway. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro delivers a speech during the appointment ceremony of the new heads of public banks, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 7, 2019. (EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images)
British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a family photo during the G7 Summit in in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS / AFP) (Photo credit should rea
French President Emmanuel Macron walks a street of Paris on December 2, 2018, a day after clashes during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs. (Photo credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)