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)
Women activists of Pakistani right wing religious party Jamat-e-Islami shout slogans and hold placards in Karachi on August 31, 2023. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images)
Armed Taliban security personnel near the closed gates of a border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on September 6, 2023. (Shafiullah Kakar/AFP via Getty Images)
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra bows to a portrait of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana at Don Mueang International Airport on August 22, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Lauren DeCicca via Getty Images)
Pakistan's soldiers pay tribute to their comrades as they take part in a ceremony to mark the country's Defence Day at Yadgar-e-Shuhada in Lahore on September 6, 2022. (Arif Ali/ via Getty Images)
Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan shout anti-government slogans during a protest outside the press club in Quetta on August 5, 2023. (Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
A security member stands guard at the site of a suicide attack in Bajaur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan, on July 31, 2023. (Xinhua via Getty Images)
People shout slogans at a rally in support of the Pakistani Army following the violent protests that erupted after the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on May 9, 2023. (Hussain Ali via Getty Images)