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Silicon Valley (Palantir, SpaceX, Maxar) and NATO's Delta Are Guiding, Controlling, Enabling US, UK, NATO, "Ukraine" attacks on Russia: "“Palantir’s software processes raw intelligence from sources including drones, satellites, and Ukrainians on the ground, as well as radar that can see through clouds and thermal images that can detect troop movements and artillery fire. AI-enabled models can then present military officials with the most effective options to target and enemy positions. The models learn and improve with each strike.” "Silicon Valley’s military AI Ukrainian testing ground Kiev is on hook for a range of killer apps while big tech hoovers up the data and casts a shadow over the country’s future" "Starlink is not the only Silicon Valley behemoth to have made a profound difference to the course of the war. Peter Thiel’s Palantir, the data analytics, AI and data integration platform, provided its Gotham platform free of charge to Ukrainian forces, allowing them to process live drone video, satellite imagery, intercepted communications, radar data and crowdsourced civilian tips (through Ukraine’s eVorog chatbot). This was all turned into battlefield targeting information: identifying Russian logistics and troops. Targeting cycles collapsed from days to minutes. By September 2022, Ukraine had struck more than 400 Russian targets with HIMARS rocket artillery directed, in large part, by Palantir-enabled targeting pipelines. Big data has also played a key role in Ukraine’s air defenses. In January, Palantir and Ukraine launched the Brave1 Dataroom, a secure AI training environment that uses live battlefield data on Shahed-type drones to develop autonomous interceptor drone algorithms. According to analysis by the website Defense Mirror, integration with Palantir AI has raised hit rates for Saker reconnaissance drones from less than 50 percent for skilled human manual pilots and 10 percent for new recruits to 80 percent...." "When Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky offered his country up as a testing ground for Western weapons, he wasn’t just talking to Boeing and Lockheed Martin: he was handing Ukraine’s sovereignty to Silicon Valley on a platter. Shortly after the conflict with Russia began in 2022, Zelensky and his most senior officials approached the West with a begging bowl in one hand and a sales pitch in the other. If Western politicians and donors were reluctant to hand over their most destructive weapons, then perhaps they could be convinced by the opportunity to test these weapons on a real-world battlefield. “Ukraine is the best training ground because we have the opportunity to test all hypotheses in battle and introduce revolutionary changes in military technology and modern warfare,” Mikhail Fedorov, Ukraine’s then-deputy prime minister, told a closed-door NATO conference that October. “For the military industry of the world, you can’t invent a better testing ground,” then-Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov told the Financial Times. Karp in Kiev: Putting Palantir in service of the West Palantir CEO Alex Karp had already jumped at the chance to get involved. Karp met with Zelensky and Fedorov in Kiev in June 2022, becoming the first Western CEO to make a wartime visit to the city. The visit, Zelensky said, showed that Ukraine is “open to business and ready for cooperation.” Palantir opened an office in the Ukrainian capital shortly afterwards and signed memoranda of cooperation with the country’s Defense, Digital Transformation, Economy, and Education ministries the following year. As of 2026, Palantir provides the Ukrainian military with software that is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine,” according to Karp. Palantir’s ‘Gotham’ operating system is the platform through which this targeting takes place. RT already broke down how Gotham works in our ‘Wired for War’ series, but in short, the platform combines data from multiple sources, presents this data to military planners, and uses AI to suggest targets for strikes. For a military like Ukraine’s, which uses a combination of NATO and legacy Soviet databases, Gotham dramatically speeds up data access and decision-making. “With a few clicks, a Ukrainian Palantir engineer showed me how they could mine a dizzying array of battlefield data that, until recently, would have taken hundreds of humans to analyze,” a Time journalist wrote after visiting the company’s Kiev office in 2014." "Karp in Kiev: Putting Palantir in service of the West Palantir CEO Alex Karp had already jumped at the chance to get involved. Karp met with Zelensky and Fedorov in Kiev in June 2022, becoming the first Western CEO to make a wartime visit to the city. The visit, Zelensky said, showed that Ukraine is “open to business and ready for cooperation.” Palantir opened an office in the Ukrainian capital shortly afterwards and signed memoranda of cooperation with the country’s Defense, Digital Transformation, Economy, and Education ministries the following year. As of 2026, Palantir provides the Ukrainian military with software that is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine,” according to Karp. Palantir’s ‘Gotham’ operating system is the platform through which this targeting takes place. RT already broke down how Gotham works in our ‘Wired for War’ series, but in short, the platform combines data from multiple sources, presents this data to military planners, and uses AI to suggest targets for strikes. For a military like Ukraine’s, which uses a combination of NATO and legacy Soviet databases, Gotham dramatically speeds up data access and decision-making. “With a few clicks, a Ukrainian Palantir engineer showed me how they could mine a dizzying array of battlefield data that, until recently, would have taken hundreds of humans to analyze,” a Time journalist wrote after visiting the company’s Kiev office in 2014. Silicon Valley’s vultures descend Palantir is not the only Silicon Valley corporation that smelled opportunity in Ukraine. SpaceX provides satellite internet to the Ukrainian military, which is used for communications and drone guidance. Maxar Technologies, Planet Labs, and BlackSky Technology supply satellite reconnaissance. PrimerAI and Recorded Future provide intelligence analysis tools. Clearview – funded by Palantir founder Peter Thiel – supplies facial recognition software that the Ukrainian military uses to identify Russian soldiers and alleged ‘collaborators’. Ukraine plans to make Clearview a permanent tool in its policing arsenal, despite civil rights activists in Kiev warning that it will inevitable be “used to persecute activists or civil society.” While all of these tools bolster the Ukrainian war effort, Kiev is left in a vulnerable position. The Ukrainian military’s access to Gotham is entirely dependent on Alex Karp’s generosity, and on the US government continuing to waive export restrictions on Palantir’s software. In the event that Karp pulls out, or a new administration in Washington imposes export controls, the Ukrainians cannot take the data collected by Gotham and export it to their own platform, as Palantir’s software is closed-source. What does this mean for Ukraine’s sovereignty? With its foreign policy already crafted in Brussels and London, its land and resources parceled up by Blackrock and Donald Trump’s mining cronies, and its military now dependent on Silicon Valley subscription services, Zelensky’s relationship with his Western benefactors is looking more and more like a one-way deal." -Spectator, Russia Today

Nobody is telling you how limited the actual results were from Trump’s China trip, despite all the photos and CEO presence. Everyone saw Musk, Huang, and Cook in Beijing. Everyone heard Trump say “fantastic trade deals.” Nobody is talking about what actually moved and what didn’t. → China agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets — below some pre-trip expectations → New dialogue board created, but no binding structural changes → Trade truce continued, but no resolution on the core economic model differences → Tech access signals given, but advanced chips remain blocked → Personal relationship improved, but Taiwan and strategic competition untouched This wasn’t a breakthrough. It was managed competition with better optics and some specific sector signals. The bigger reality is that both sides got the minimum they needed: stability and face for now, while the fundamental rivalry stays in place. Bookmark this. The real test comes in the implementation phase over the next 6–12 months. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: The Russians are losing five times as many soldiers a month as the Ukrainians are. The Ukrainian army at the moment is the strongest army in Europe.

🇺🇸 Tucker & Kevin O’Leary faced off over America’s wars abroad. Tucker slams endless wars bleeding America. Kevin fights for U.S. global power. Who’s right?