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)
Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak (L) leaves after a foreign policy speech by Republican US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump at the Mayflower Hotel April 27, 2016 in Washington, DC.(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Soldiers from Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and US participate in the opening ceremony for the international exercise "Saber Strike”, Adazi Training Area, Latvia, June 8, 2015.(Gatis Diezins, RYC/Flickr)
A general view of the signage above the entance to the Trump Tower, located on 5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, New York City, 21st January 2017. (Epics Getty Images)
(L-R) U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talk during the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on March 26, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)