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)
Tigray People's Liberation Front fighters prepare to leave for another field at Tigray Martyr's Memorial Monument Center in Mekele, Ethiopia, on June 30, 2021. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
Vehicles drive past an anti-Israel urban artwork constructed and implemented by the municipality of Tehran in downtown Tehran on October 12, 2023. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden joins Israel's Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian serviceman stands on a German-made Flakpanzer Gepard, a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, after military exercises in the Odesa region on October 17, 2023. (Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel, on October 12, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A young boy holds up a Hamas flag in between Palestinian Hamas militant during a military show in the Bani Suheila district of Gaza on July 20, 2017. (Chris McGrath via Getty Images)