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)
Immigrants wait to be transported by US Border Patrol agents after crossing the US-Mexico border on January 20, 2025, near Sasabe, Arizona. (John Moore via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One enroute to New Orleans, Louisiana, on Febrary 9, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
Asylum seekers are transported to a shelter at El Chaparral port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on January 20, 2025. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)
Border patrol officers pull barbed wires as immigrants wait at the United States border on March 20, 2024, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press as he and first lady Melania Trump prepare to depart the White House on January 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura via Getty Images)
A passenger is looking at the flight board at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, on April 17, 2024. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaking at National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on June 14, 2024. (Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/LightRocket via Getty Images)