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)
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)
Demonstrators sit during a moment of silence at a rally against fentanyl near the White House in Washington, DC, on September 17, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Fentanyl pills at the Mexican attorney general’s office in Tijuana, Mexico, on July 28, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
One of the largest outdoor legal marijuana grow operations in Santa Barbara County is in full view from heavily traveled Highway 246 on August 23, 2022, just outside Buellton, California. (George Rose via Getty Images)
United States President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about countering the flow of fentanyl into the United States in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 21, 2023, Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
A bag of evidence containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl disguised as Oxycodone is shown during a 2020 news conference at the Fresno County Sheriff Office in Fresno, California. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)