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)
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)
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)
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks during the daily White House briefing November 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 14, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)