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 US B-52 Stratofortress (R) is escorted by a South Korean F-15K fighter jet (L) as it flies over the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on January 10, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
A satellite image shows what CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative says appears to be concrete structures with retractable roofs on the artificial island Fiery Cross reefs in the South China Sea in this image taken February 7, 2017 and released on Fe
Pakistani devotees gather outside the shrine of 13th century Muslim Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar a day after a bomb blew up at the shrine in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, February 17, 2017. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn (2ndL) attends a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House February 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
The body of killed Russian opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, covered by plastic, seen on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral, Moscow, Russia, February 28, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)