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)
An Iraqi woman displaced from the city of Fallujah carries a child at a newly opened camp where hundreds of displaced Iraqis are taking shelter in Amriyat al-Fallujah on June 27, 2016, south of Fallujah. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on June 28, 2016. (RONEN ZVULUN/AFP/Getty Images)
President Barack Obama deliver remarks with Vice President Joe Biden in Orlando, Fla., on Thursday, June 16, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama makes a statement on the mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, DC on June 12, 2016. (YURI GRIPAS/AFP/Getty Images)