An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Oana-SilviaȚoiu speaks during a joint press conference with the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine on August 7, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 15, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The warship formations of China and Russia sail through the Tsugaru Strait during the naval exercise Joint Sea-2021 on October 18, 2021 in the Western part of the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Sun Zifa/China News Service via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the United Russia Party Congress, on August 24, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)