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)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un during a mass military parade at Kim Il-Sung square on October 10, 2015 in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Liu Xingzhe/VCG via Getty Images)
China's President Xi Jinping (C) flanked by US President Barack Obama (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) during the opening ceremony of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images)
A Tunisian woman wearing a 'burkini' walks in the water with a child on August 16, 2016 at Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, north-east of the capital Tunis. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)