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 protester raises flags during the clashes between Egyptian police and protesters after declaring the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group in Alf Maskan district of Cairo, Egypt, December 27, 2013. (Getty Images)
Trucks carrying armed police officers run towards the residential area of Uighur people on July 8, 2009 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, China. (The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks as a security staff member stands guard in foreground during a rally of Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Ankara, Turkey, on March 28, 2019. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Egyptians perform the sunset prayer after the first fasting day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Ahzar mosque in Cairo on July 10, 2013. (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
An armed gendarme stands guard at Strasbourg's Christmas market, on its reopening day, on December 14, 2018, one day after French police shot dead the gunman who killed three people there. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)