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While Meta is mired in antitrust proceedings threatening to lead to its dismantling, Mark Zuckerberg is desperately tightening his ties with the Trump administration, which he has been trying to seduce for several months in the hope of securing highly lucrative military contracts.

New: Meta is recruiting former national security officials to bolster its military ambitions, months after allowing its Llama AI model to be used for military use.www.forbes.com/sites/davidj…

— David Jeans (@davidjeans.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T15:47:51.450Z

Mark Zuckerberg has made one strategic rapprochement gesture after another towards Donald Trump, combining financial initiatives, internal decisions and political signals: a million-dollar donation at his inauguration in January, a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the dismantling of Facebook’s fact-checking program, the removal of Meta’s diversity team, the appointment of people close to Trump to the board of directors, and the purchase of a house in Washington D.C.

All the indications are that he is now focusing all his efforts on winning military contracts to promote his own artificial intelligence technologies, in direct competition with those of OpenAI.

According to Forbes, Meta has recently recruited former Pentagon officials to support Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions: to win lucrative government contracts by directing Llama artificial intelligence towards military intelligence uses.

Meta, which is leading this sustained recruitment campaign, is banking in particular on its Llama artificial intelligence model, initially designed for civilian use, but now oriented towards military applications in order to appeal to defense and intelligence agencies.

Clearly in seduction mode, Meta is also looking to recruit policy experts linked to national security, including a position specifically designed to manage relations with the White House. The company would preferably target profiles with security clearance and Pentagon experience.

Meta recently hired Francis Brennan, a former advisor to Donald Trump, to head up its strategic communications in Washington.

Kashmir, a region already marked by more than seven decades of tension, plunged back into conflict.

Kashmir crisis live: Pakistan PM authorises armed forces to undertake ‘corresponding action’ after India strikes kill 26

— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-05-07T10:51:34Z

In just two weeks, the deadly April 22 attack on a tourist bus in Pahalgam, a popular tourist resort in India’s Kashmir region, has rekindled historic tensions between India and Pakistan.

New Delhi’s reaction was swift: India launched the military operation « Sindoor », targeting so-called « terrorist » sites in Pakistan and Islamabad-controlled Kashmir.

This series of strikes, described as « targeted and non-escalatory » by the Indian authorities, was perceived by Pakistan as outright aggression.

Since then, firefights, casualties and threatening rhetoric have intensified on both sides of the Line of Control. According to Islamabad, Pakistan deplores 26 dead and 46 wounded. India, for its part, claims that 15 civilians were killed and 43 wounded by Pakistani artillery fire.

While, according to The Guardian, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh hailed the operation as « Victory to Mother India », Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif denounced the strikes as an « act of war ». Faced with this rise in tensions, the international community fears a rapid deterioration in the situation that could lead to a major crisis.

According to many observers, the fear of a major military confrontation between these two nuclear powers has never been greater.