Residents collect water from tanker trucks and carry containers through the streets amid widespread shortages, as seen in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
China's liquid-fueled intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles DongFeng-5C, which have a global strike range, pass through Tian'anmen Square during the V-Day military parade on September 3, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a new group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site on August 26, 2025, in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden on May 15, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
This French Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Le Temeraire is seen during President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the Île Longue base in Crozon, France, on March 2, 2026. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump talks to the media as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf club on July 28, 2025, in Turnberry, Scotland. (Christopher Furlong via Getty Images)
Palestinian Hamas militants gather at the site of the handing over of the bodies of four Israeli hostages in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. (Eyad Baba via Getty Images)
Leaders of nine nations applaud the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 14, 1995. (Peter Turnley 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