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 Iranian long-range Ghadr missile displaying "Down with Israel" in Hebrew is pictured at a defence exhibition in city of Isfahan, Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Morteza Salehi/Tasnim News/AFP via Getty Images)
SpaceX, Twitter, and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Gary Gensler Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission arrives to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs oversight hearing to examine the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside US President Joe Biden in the White House on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)