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)
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) speaks during a news conference October 7, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Iran nuclear agreement August 5, 2015 at American University in Washington, DC. (Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., on Nov. 5, 2015, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,on Feb. 1, 2016. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu via Getty Images)
Anti-government protesters destroy a statue of Russian communist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin on December 8, 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)