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)
Prime Minister Manasseh Damukana Sogavare of the Solomon Islands meets with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on October 9, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Parker Song-Pool/Getty Images)
Bishop Stephen Chow waves to church members at the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Reverend Stephen Chow in Hong Kongs Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on December 4, 2021. (Photo by Bertha Wang/AFP via Getty Images)
Yoon Suk-yeol, then presidential candidate of South Korea's main opposition People Power Party (PPP), speaks during a news conference at the party's headquarters on January 24, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 15, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)