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)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press in the newly inaugurated Cathedral of the Nativity Christ, in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, on January 10, 2019. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a break in talks at their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
China launches Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the US military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, December 26, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, along with members of their delegation, hold a dinner meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the end of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, on December 01,
Donald Trump looks at Vladimir Putin at the meeting center of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on November 30, 2018 (Photo by Ralf Hirschberger/picture alliance via Getty Images)