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)
Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech in virtual format at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, June 22, 2022. (Photo by Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
An oversized Android figure seen on Google's corporate campus in Mountain View, California, USA, 16 May 2017. (Photo by Christoph Dernbach via Getty Images)
The Taiwanese container ship Ever Greet next to a vessel of China's state owned COSCO shipping company in the Rotterdam harbor on March 2, 2022. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
Migrants wait in line to be processed after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. on May 03, 2022 in La Joya, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Shahbaz Sharif waves to supporters outside of the Pakistan Embassy during a protest by the Pakistan Muslim League on November, 7, 2007 in London, England. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks alongside Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore in the East Room of the White House on March 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)