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 1912 illustration from Puck magazine shows Theodore Roosevelt passing between two rows of kings, emperors, military leaders, statesmen, and others. (Udo Keppler via Library of Congress)
A television news screen in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2023, shows a picture of North Korea's test-firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
Former US President Donald Trump points to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as he speaks on October 17, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
Russian infantry in the trenches during their battle against the Austro-Hungarian army on the eastern front in World War I in August 1914. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a press conference a day after Japan's lower house election on October 28, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Kim Kyung-Hoon via Getty Images)