A protester looks on during a rally against the military rule following the last coup, in Khartoum, Sudan on September 13, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)
A boy watches fireworks from a military range weapon, marking the Defender of the Fatherland Day celebrations, at the Artillery Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, February 23, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)
Commandos of the “Underwater Defence” (SAS), the special operation unit of the Turkish Navy take part in a military training in Istanbul, Turkiye on June 13, 2022. (Photo by Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Drinking from a helmet at a graduation ceremony held by the Military University of the Russian Defence Ministry at Moscow's Victory Park in Moscow, Russia on June 15, 2019. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/TASS)
Military Chaplain Nikolay Medynsky blesses a Ukrainian soldier before he goes into battle, as Russia's attack on the Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 13, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)
Fighters of Wagner private mercenary group pull out of the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to base, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
Revelers participate in J'Ouvert, an overnight celebration the night before the West Indies Day Parade in Brooklyn, NY on September 3, 2018. Violence in past years led NYPD to shut down the parade route until 2am. (Photo by Stephen Yang)