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)
US President Joe Baden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pose prior to the US-South Korea-Japan trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit on May 21, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade stands outside the town of New York on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine on July 28, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Joe Biden and Mohammed bin Salman at the Jeddah Security and Development Summit in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with Commonwealth of Independent States officials in Minsk on May 28, 2021. (Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)