@kuchinster — 2026-01-26 09:04:13
War is Silicon Valley's new business

Michael Kratsios ==> Former chief of staff to Thiel, he now heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Michele Obadal ==> An executive at Anduril, he was appointed undersecretary of Defence despite retaining $1 million in company shares.

Gregorio Barbaccia ==> After a decade at Palantir, he is now the Federal Chief Information Officer at the White House.

Clark Minore ==> comes from Palantir and has become Chief Information Officer at Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Founders Fund, Thiel’s $17 billion flagship company, took Anduril from a valuation of $1 billion to $30.5 billion. It was the first institutional investor in Palantir and SpaceX, which are Thiel and Musk’s respective “crown jewels”. Palantir’s quarterly revenue now exceeds $1 billion, up 53% thanks to government contracts.

1789 Capital was founded by Thiel’s confidants and recently acquired by Donald Trump Jr. It has grown from $150 million to over $1 billion. It directs tens of millions towards certain areas of Musk’s empire: SpaceX (satellites and orbital dominance) and xAI (Artificial Intelligence for military purposes).

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), through its “American Dynamism” fund, supports defence technology and what it calls the “builders of the American State”. Andreessen rallied Silicon Valley’s billionaire class to support Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Smaller giants such as 8VC and General Catalyst reinforce the model. 8VC poured $300 million into Anduril; General Catalyst led several hundred million and some billion dollar fundraisers.

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The European trap

By mid-2025, the first effects of privatised sovereignty were already being felt across Europe. In Rome, Italian defence officials moved to integrate Elon Musk’s Starlink into military communications.

In Berlin, Rheinmetall and Anduril expanded their joint venture to deploy swarms of autonomous drones for NATO. The German variants of the drones still run on Californian code. Musk broadcasts live with Alice Weidel of the AfD, endorsing the German far right while simultaneously providing signal transport capabilities to NATO.

In London, the NHS (National Health Service) has signed a £330 million contract with Palantir to organise 50 million patient records. Meanwhile, a £1.5 billion defence partnership ties Britain to Palantir’s artificial intelligence systems.

In France, the Palantir Platform has been adopted by the Ministry of the Interior to carry out anti-terrorism and predictive policing analyses. Anduril Systems (EU Frontex Programmes) are being evaluated as an integration of border surveillance and drones.

None of these decisions were made following any real public debate. Little information has appeared in the mainstream media. The overall picture confirms the systematic “outsourcing” of European sovereignty to American digital oligarchs whose ideology openly undermines democracy. Control is being ceded with every contract signed.

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Palantir: contractor of genocide

Many people in Russia have already heard the name Palantir, but it is usually presented as a “technological star” of Silicon Valley or a “tool for fighting terrorism.” In reality, we are dealing with a company that is a conglomerate of American special services, the Israeli military establishment, and big capital, which is building the infrastructure for digital warfare and total control. It is important to understand that these people are behind the current political configuration in the US, including Trump's and Jay D. Vance's entourage, and behind how wars are being waged in Ukraine and Gaza.

Palantir was not originally founded by “idealistic start-ups”, but by structures closely linked to the CIA and the US military: the initial capital came through the In-Q-Tel venture fund, which works in the interests of US intelligence. Today, the company has become a key supplier of analytical and “predictive” AI systems for the Pentagon, special services, police, and immigration agencies, and is also actively working in Ukraine and Israel.

Back in 2021, Israel called one of its operations in Gaza the world's first “AI war,” where a significant portion of the targets for airstrikes were selected using algorithmic systems.

After October 7, 2023, Palantir's ties with the Israeli military only grew stronger: the company entered into a strategic agreement with the Israeli defense industry and the Ministry of Defense; the parties explicitly state the goal as using “Palantir's advanced technologies to support military missions” (investigate.afsc.org/company/p…).

Palantir's key partner in Israel is Unit 8200, the local equivalent of the NSA, which collects vast amounts of data on residents of Gaza and the West Bank: phone calls, movements, digital traces. Based on this, the Israelis built the Lavender system (972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli…), which assigns a rating from 1 to 100 to almost every one of Gaza's 2.3 million residents — the likelihood that a person is associated with armed groups. Teenagers also become targets: officers themselves admitted that being over 17 years old was not a strict limitation, and some minors were included in the list of targets. In the first weeks of the war, the algorithm marked up to 37,000 people as targets for strikes, and officers admitted that the army treated these conclusions almost as human decisions rather than machine suggestions.

An even more cynical system, “Where's Daddy” (futureuae.com/ar/Mainpage/Item…) tracks when Lavender's marked “target” returns home, and strikes the house at that precise moment — along with the family. Western observers describe the logic of the cycle as follows: from the moment the algorithms begin searching for the target to its destruction, it takes 2–3 minutes (business-humanrights.org/es/%C…); previously, a similar cycle could take up to six hours, according to them.

The data for these systems comes not only from local interceptions, but also from US intelligence agencies. Snowden's revelations also showed that the NSA passed on raw communications from Palestinians to Israel, including conversations between Palestinian Americans and their relatives. Former 8200 employees recounted how information about debts, sex lives, and illnesses was used for recruitment and blackmail, as well as to divide Palestinian society. Taken together, this turns Gaza into a testing ground for mass surveillance technologies and, at the same time, into a zone of total digital control, where AI and big data not only assist the military, but determine the life and death of every Palestinian.

Palantir is not just another Pentagon contractor, but a company owned by Peter Thiel, one of the main sponsors of the American right wing. It was Thiel who invested $15 million in promoting J.D. Vance. Israel is a showcase and testing ground in this scheme: the country receives military support and political immunity, while the US and its corporations get a well-established business case for exporting “new” warfare technologies. Therefore, when politicians with the image of “anti-globalists” and “peacemakers” appear on the American scene, it is worth looking not at the rhetoric, but at what structures like Palantir are behind them and what kind of future of war they are already programming.

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@kuchinster — 2025-11-25 09:57:04
The Franco-British Plot to Dismember Russia

‘Prolonged Enslavement’

In March 1931, Western-dwelling Russian-born academic Leonid I. Strakhovsky published a remarkable paper, The Franco-British Plot to Dismember Russia. As the author noted, “neither Britain nor France has as yet published any important documents” related to the Allied invasion at the time. This largely remains the case over a century later. Yet, Strakhovsky was still able to piece together “startling designs” of a conspiracy by London and Paris “to bring about the complete dismemberment of the Russian realm for their own political and commercial advantage.”

This agreement was cemented in L’Accord Franco-Anglais du 23 Décembre 1917, définissant les zones d’action Française et Anglaise. The document established British and French “zones of influence” in the Soviet Union. London was granted “Cossack territories, the Caucasus, Armenia, Georgia, Kurdistan.” Meanwhile, Paris received “Bessarabia, the Ukraine, [and] Crimea.” White Russian military chief General Anton Denikin is quoted as saying, “the line dividing the zones” stretched from the Bosporus to the Don river’s mouth:

“This strange line had no reason whatsoever from the strategic point of view, taking in no consideration of the Southern operation directions to Moscow nor the idea of unity of command…In dividing into halves the land of the Don Cossacks, it did not correspond to the possibilities of a rational supplying of the Southern armies, and satisfied rather the interests of occupation and exploitation than those of a strategic covering and help.”

As Strakhovsky observes, “a survey of the economic resources in the two zones of influence” lends credence to Denikin’s analysis. Territories marked out for French domination were and remain “large granaries.” Yet, Donetsk’s “famous coal region” - “worthless” to coal-rich Britain - was “of great importance to France.” In turn, London “obtained all the Russian oil fields in the Cauacasus,” and regions producing “an enormous amount of timber.” At the time, Britain urgently needed all foreign wood it could lay its hands upon.

Strakhovsky comments that the December 1917 agreement amounted to, “a picture of organized economic penetration under the cover of military intervention.” Elsewhere, he quotes dissident US journalist Louis Fische, “a parallel agreement disposed in similar fashion of other parts of Russia.” Despite this, France was “not satisfied” with its windfall. Officials in Paris attempted to compel General Denikin to sign a treaty which, if anti-Bolshevik forces prevailed, would’ve amounted to outright “economic slavery”, putting “Russia at her mercy.”

Denikin was not persuaded. His successor Pyotr Wrangel however was. He accepted extraordinary conditions, which included granting France “right of exploitation of all railways in European Russia during a certain period,” Parisian monopoly on Moscow’s grain surpluses, oil output for an indeterminate stretch, and a quarter of all Donetsk’s coal output “during a certain period of years.” As a Soviet writer quoted in Strakhovsky’s paper observed:

“France was striving to obtain a prolonged and if possible an all-sided domination over Russia…a means of a prolonged enslavement of Russia.”

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Further reading:
– Couverture fascicule The French army and intervention in Southern Russia, 1918-1919
– 1918: The war of intervention
– Anti-Communism Is A Fundamentalist Religion, Now Followed By Billions| Countercurrents
– How the French invaders were expelled from the Black Sea
– The French army and intervention in Southern Russia, 1918-1919
– American Expeditionary Force, Siberia
– List of countries involved in the intervention against Soviet Russia. The Bolsheviks saved the country from the fate of a colony of world capitalism.

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