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)
Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia after a truck exploded near Kerch on October 8, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference following his bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping ahead of the G20 summit on November 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pose for a group photo with other leaders at the Third Belt and Road Forum on October 18, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Suo Takekuma/Pool via Getty Images)
The flags of Russia, China, and North Korea on a viewing tower on the border between the three countries in Hunchun, China, on June 25, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
Turkish Minister Osman Askin Bak with his Azerbaijani counterpart Farid Gayibov and Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS Kubanychbek Omuraliev during the Seventh Working Group Meeting of the OTS in Basgal, Azerbaijan, on November 9, 2023. (Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu via Getty Images)
United States Air Force Airmen assigned to Ramstein Air Base in Germany guard a C-17 Globemaster III at Nevatim Base, Israel, on October 15, 2023. (Edgar Grimaldo via DVIDS)