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)
An Egyptian raises a cross made of palm leaves, originally intended for Palm Sunday celebrations, as he is being lifted by others at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria, April 9, 2017. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he walks to Marine One at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 18, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/Released)
Russia's president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with his envoy to the Volga Federal District, Alexander Yevstifeyev (not in picture) in the Kremlin. (Mikhail Klimentyev\TASS via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Syria from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)