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)
Vice President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue gestures while arriving at the inauguration of Incumbent South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 25, 2019 (MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images)
An office building in central London which is reported to be owned by Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, on October 05, 2021 (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the need for Congress to raise the debt limit in the State Dining Room at the White House on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Fumio Kishida poses for a photograph following a press conference after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on September 29, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan (Photo by Du Xiaoyi - Pool/Getty Images)
American and British transportation planes supplied food to Berlin's Western sector, which was isolated by the Soviet's blockade (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)