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)
Workers remove a poster-banner for 'The Interview' from a billboard in Hollywood, California, December 18, 2014 a day after Sony announced was cancelling the movie's Christmas release due to a terrorist threat. (Michael THURSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani soldiers provide security during a mass prayer for the victims of a school massacre, in Peshawar on December 21, 2014. (A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani children arrive at their school in Peshawar on December 20, 2014, after three days of mourning for the children and staff killed by Taliban militants in an attack on an army-run school. (A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images)
Workers remove a poster-banner for 'The Interview' from a billboard in Hollywood, California, December 18, 2014 a day after Sony announced was cancelling the movie's Christmas release due to a terrorist threat. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani civil society activists pray during a vigil in Lahore on December 18, 2014, for the children and teachers killed in an attack by militants on an army-run school in Peshawar. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
US navy warship, forward-deployed Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65), docks at the Sydney Harbour in front of the Harbour Bridge on October 4, 2013. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)