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)
US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump arrive for the "Salute to America" Fourth of July event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019. (Getty Images)
Christians offering prayers for the departed souls of their loved ones on the occasion of All Souls Day, at a cemetery on November 2, 2016 in Bhopal, India. (Hindustan Times/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi deliver joint statements in the Rose Garden of the White House June 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, held a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, on Monday, June 26, 2017. (NurPhoto/Getty Images)
March 19, 2015 the unveiling of a poster in the courtyard of the City Hall in the southwestern French city in honor of Asia Bibi (NICOLAS TUCAT/Getty Images)
S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems of the Russian Southern Military District's missile regiment on combat duty. (Sergei Malgavko/Getty Images)