A comprehensive investigation by the Wall Street Journal and the Stanford Internet Observatory reveals that Meta-owned Instagram has been home to an organized and massive network of pedophiles. But what separates this case from most is that Instagram's own algorithms were promoting pedophile content to other pedophiles, while the pedos themselves used coded emojis, such as a picture of a map, or a slice of cheese pizza.  Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests, the Journal and the academic researchers found. ... The pedophilic accounts on Instagram mix brazenness with superficial…

While the U.S. military is congressionally required to each year assess where it needs to position its assets to address U.S. defense priorities, the U.S. Department of State lacks a process to assess and communicate how it will execute the president’s national security goals. While there have been efforts made in the past to undertake such a process, Congress has never required compliance and no regular practice has been established. To remedy this situation, Congress should consider mandating a Diplomatic Posture Review. INTRODUCTION The historian John Lewis Gaddis wrote of military strategy that the “[e]nds and means have to connect…

Beijing’s drive to modernise its military weaponry compels Washington to ‘maintain deterrence’ alongside allies and partners, says Ely Ratner ‘It’s my firm belief right now that the forces of stability are outpacing the forces of aggression and coercion,’ adds Indo-Pacific specialist   As China and North Korea dramatically increase their nuclear weapons capabilities, the US has come under pressure to respond by modernising its own atomic arsenal and mapping out an expanded nuclear umbrella and contingency planning, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday. China, which has declined to join non-proliferation talks, could have 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035, up from some 400 managed by the People’s…

   This is a part of John F. Kennedy inaugural Address   " To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that he is afraid of a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House in 2024, before begging for more American-made Patriot missile systems. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted he has concerns about the possible re-election of Donald Trump next year, saying that he was unsure how exactly the Republican leader would have reacted had Russia invaded during his presidency. The Ukrainian head-of-state also praised the response of the Biden administration, which has regularly handed over billions of dollars worth of weapons aid to the Eastern European nation since Moscow’s…