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)
Trucks carrying armed police officers run towards the residential area of Uighur people on July 8, 2009 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, China. (The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images)
F-35 Lightning IIs from the 388th Fighter Wing and 419th FW stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, perform aerial maneuvers during as part of a combat power exercise over Utah Test and Training Range, Nov. 19, 2018. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. C
30th April 1952: The newly-appointed US ambassador to Moscow, diplomat and historian George Frost Kennan, walking in London before leaving for Moscow. (Keystone/Getty Images)
U.S. Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan hosts a multi-lateral meeting with Asian nations, at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2019, Singapore, May 31, 2019. (Lisa Ferdinando)
U.S. President Donald Trump inspects a guard of honour, during his Ceremonial Welcome in the Buckingham Palace Garden on day 1 of his State Visit to the UK on June 3, 2019. (Indigo/Getty Images)
Hon. Elan S. Carr, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism at the U.S. Department of State, delivers remarks at Hudson's release of its National Survey of Anti-Semitism in America, June 5th, 2019.