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)
King Charles III and Queen Camilla appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6, 2023, in London, England. (Samir Hussein/WireImage via Getty Images)
Father Matthieu Jasseron, priest of Saint Jean-Baptiste de Joigny Parish, records a video at home for his social networks in Joigny, on February 24, 2023. (Arnaud Finistre/AFP via Getty Images)
Smoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023. (Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Russia's Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova holds a press conference on activity in captured Ukraine territories in the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on April 4, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed and Hudson Senior Fellow Joshua Meservey at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)