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)
A mix of ethnic Uyghur and Han shopkeepers hold large wooden sticks as they are trained in security measures on June 27, 2017 next to the old town of Kashgar, in the far western Xinjiang province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Vice President Mike Pence addresses delegates at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2019. Photo by Ralph Alswang/State Department/Public Domain.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers opening remarks during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, at the Department of State, July 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
February 01, 2019. Citing Russia's violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Pompeo announced the U.S. will withdraw in 180 days from the treaty. (Getty Images)
Afghan security forces gather at the site of a powerful truck bomb attack (claimed by the Taliban) a day after it detonated near a foreign compound in Kabul on January 15, 2019. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AGetty Images)