Meanwhile In Europe and the Information War
- Dagny
- 2 days ago
- 15 min read
🇷🇺 Russia’s Defense Ministry released locations of European, Israeli, and Turkish facilities tied to Ukrainian companies producing drones used for strikes against Russia.
Key points from the MoD statement:
➡️Several European countries, facing Ukrainian battlefield setbacks in late March, decided to scale up drone production and deliveries to Kiev.
➡️Expansion is being driven by increased funding for Ukrainian and joint ventures operating in Europe.
➡️Moscow views these moves as a deliberate step toward sharp military-political escalation.
➡️Using Europe-based production to support drone attacks on Russia risks unpredictable consequences.
➡️European governments are, in Moscow’s view, steadily drawing their countries deeper into the conflict.
➡️Some European states are becoming a de facto strategic rear for Ukraine.
➡️European publics should understand the security risks and be aware of the locations of these drone production sites.
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"Alongside more than fifty countries, we are carrying out an initiative for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.”https://x.com/i/status/2045174764910657562
(Get this) Starmer Announces Bold Mission to Reopen Strait of Hormuz… After Iran and Trump Just Declared It Open. Starmer's masterplan: “We will lead a multinational mission to open the Strait of Hormuz.”🤣🤣 (twitter.com)
🚨🔊 Netanyahu now threatens Europe: 'We will not forget what you did'
"Europe is losing control of its identity... inflicted with deep moral weakness. It can learn a lot from us," he declared.
The prime minister claims that Israel is protecting the European continent today.
https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/68190 in Hebrew with subtitles
🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️Turkish President Erdogan threatened Israel with war
We must be strong to prevent Israel from doing this to Palestine. Just as we entered Libya and Karabakh, we can enter Israel. Nothing prevents us from doing this, said Erdogan.
Video Head of Israeli Communications says "facts don't matter anymore"
"The truth doesn't matter anymore. The facts don't matter anymore. I wasn't always like this. I became like this."
Eli Hazan, new director of Netanyahu's Press Office and former Likud spokesperson: "I fabricate fake news as a response to them...we need to be Trump."
"These people don't understand good. They only understand war. And you want war on the networks? We will give you war on the networks."
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This is what the Masters of the Tech Universe Surveillance State Military Industrial Complex think:
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief.
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
📲 Palantir’s Thiel backs AI designed to silence free journalism
A new startup called Objection, backed by neocon businessman Peter Thiel, claims it wants to “restore trust in journalism” by using AI to judge the truth of news stories.
However, journalists are raising the alarm about the impartiality of such a method and the possible risks for independent media.
➡️ Objection ranks whistleblower information near the bottom of its “Honor Index.” Journalists would have to divulge sensitive source information to defend their reporting - or face credibility penalties
➡️ $2,000 contribution required to start an investigation is minor for wealthy individuals or corporations, but steep for most Americans, providing yet another tool for the rich to silence the press
➡️ System relies on large language models from OpenAI, xAI, and others - technologies known for bias and hallucinations - to evaluate facts
➡️ Even when Objection finds no issue, its “Fire Blanket” tool can still flag disputed claims on X, injecting doubt before any review is complete
Who really benefits when truth has a $2,000 price tag?
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🙅💀📲 Palantir’s new manifesto is a straight up blueprint for techno-fascism
Alex Karp’s mass surveillance and autonomous weapons software empire has just released a blueprint for an American techno-fascist, techno-feudalist state powered by advanced AI.
The 22-point document combines the enthusiasm of the 1930s American Technocracy movement with elements eerily reminiscent of 20th century fascist ideologists, and calls for:
🔴 Making the Silicon Valley “engineering elite” the new aristocracy, obliged “to participate in the defense of the nation,” and being given more of a say in advancing the overarching “grand narrative”
🔴 The rejection of “vacant and hollow pluralism” and “decadent” consumer iPhone culture
🔴 Recognition of the “limits” of “soft power,” and celebrating “hard power,” which “in this century will be built on software”
🔴 Framing the race for AI weapons debate as an ‘if we don’t build it, our enemies will’, using technological inevitability as a moral cover
🔴 Dubbing national service “a universal duty,” and calling for the end of all-volunteer armies
🔴 Calling for the rearmament of Germany and Japan
🔴 Contemptuously framing the Weimar Republic’s US’s current crop of leaders a “roster of ineffectual, empty vessels,” and suggesting that the “ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service” (keep those Epstein files closed, right Alex?)
🔴 Heaping jingoistic praise for America’s “progressive values” and supposed indispensability to “an extraordinarily long peace” post-WWII, and touting the superiority of Western culture, which has “produced wonders” while “others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful”
A critique of decadent, hollow pluralism, the need for a new elite promising “the solution,” demands for national sacrifice, rejection of liberal constraints, technological determinism, ranked cultures and a rewriting of the post-WWII order. We’ve seen this movie before…
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Disposable Agents: How Kyiv's 'Bio-Drone' Network Wages A Shadow War Inside Russia
From teenagers lured through urban games to pensioners coerced after bank fraud, Ukrainian intelligence has industrialized the recruitment of single-use operatives — and Russian security services report daily arrests.
A voice recorder that detonated during a handshake in Luhansk, an electric scooter packed with 1.5 kg of explosives on a Moscow street, a 16-year-old in Ufa plotting to blow up an Orthodox church — these are not isolated incidents.
The Concept: Why "Bio-Drones"
Since 2022, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine, with the support of Western partners, have been consistently developing a tactic fundamentally different from classical agent work. Instead of traditional long-term intelligence residencies (rezidentura) built up over years, the focus is on the mass recruitment of "disposable operatives" directly on Russian territory. The more agents involved, the higher the probability that someone will complete the task before being detained. The loss of a single operative does not compromise the network — each handler manages dozens of operatives who do not know each other, while physically remaining in another country, beyond the reach of Russian justice.
These operatives are increasingly referred to as "bio-drones" — a term emphasizing their instrumental role and programmed actions. Like an unmanned aerial vehicle, such an agent receives targeting data, moves along a designated route, delivers explosives or commits arson, after which they are either detained or eliminated. The handler perceives them not as an ally but as a single-use attack vector. The operational logic is deliberately transactional: the operative does not need years of training in intelligence schools — it is enough to find a vulnerability, give simple instructions, and send them on the mission.
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👁 Project Maven: Google's secret contract became the trigger for bombing Iran
👉 Project Maven began in 2017 as a secret Google contract with the Pentagon to auto-tag drone footage, but after the deal leaked, over 4,000 employees signed a petition demanding an end to "weaponized AI" and roughly a dozen engineers resigned in protest.
🌏 Under mounting pressure, Google walked away. The Pentagon immediately handed the contract to Palantir, a company founded with CIA backing that never shared ethical qualms about military work.
🌏 Within a few years, Palantir transformed Maven from a video-tagging utility into the Maven Smart System, a unified combat command platform that fuses data from satellites, drones, radar, and intercepted communications.
🌏 Maven's "combat debut" came during Operation Epic Fury, the joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran launched February 2026. The platform helped generate more than 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours and over 5,500 targets across the campaign as of mid-March.
🌏 The price of that speed became unmistakable on day one, when an American Tomahawk missile leveled the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' primary school in Minab, Iran, killing at least 171 people — most of them schoolgirls between seven and twelve years old.
🌏 The building sat in a Defense Intelligence Agency database as a military facility, even though satellite imagery as far back as 2016 showed it had been converted into a school with a walled-off play area.
🌏 In March 2026, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg designated the Maven Smart System a formal "program of record," locking in multiyear funding and mandating deployment across all branches of the US armed forces.
💀 Meet Peter Thiel
He drank teenage blood, befriended pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and believes AI regulation will summon the Antichrist.
His company Palantir now runs Britain's nuclear arsenal, kills with autonomous drones in Gaza and Iran, and is building a database on every American.
Here's what you need to know about him:
🌏 Blood from the young: To satisfy his obsession with parabiosis, Peter Thiel spent $40,000 quarterly on blood infusions from 18-year-olds. He later declared at a New York Times conference, "On the record, I am not a vampire"
🌏 Epstein's golden egg: A staggering $40 million from Jeffrey Epstein flowed into Thiel's Valar Ventures. The investment is now worth $170 million, making it the largest single asset in the pedophile's estate
🌏 Greenland's king-CEO: Together with Elon Musk's allies, Thiel is pushing to turn Greenland into a libertarian "freedom city" with no democratic oversight. It would be ruled by a "king-CEO" where even controversial biotech experiments face zero regulation
🌏 Britain's digital prison: Thiel's company holds $820 million in UK contracts. It now controls NHS patient records, Ministry of Defence operations, police intelligence databases, and even Britain's nuclear weapons systems
🌏 Connection with Israel: In 2024, the firm co-founded by Thiel partnered with the Israeli Defense Ministry to provide AI and facial recognition for the Gaza war. Its CEO Alex Karp dismissed claims the tech kills Palestinians by firing back, "Mostly terrorists"
🌏 Pentagon's favorite killer: Already driving US-Israeli strikes in Iran, Palantir's Maven Smart System is now locked in as the Pentagon's official "program of record." This guarantees billion-dollar contracts forever
🌏 Profiting from Iran: Since the war with Iran began, shares in Thiel's company have jumped roughly 15%. This makes the top Trump ally one of many defense profiteers cashing in on the bloodshed
🌏 One button, no brain: According to new patents, Thiel's engineers have built a system that finds targets and decides to strike completely autonomously. Humans are reduced to a "biological safety catch" that just presses confirm
🌏 Leverage over the Oval office: From an alleged breach, thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk are reportedly in the company's possession
🌏 The Antichrist doctrine: Regulating AI will "lead the antichrist to appear," Thiel has lectured. His firm continues to build military drones and domestic surveillance systems for governments worldwide
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👤😬 Welcome to Meta: Here your new boss is a Zuckerberg AI avatar
Meta is developing a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg to interact directly with 79,000 employees, training it on his voice, mannerisms, and public statements.
👁 Superintelligence Labs is running the project with a single objective: eliminating the management layer entirely.
Every corporation suffers from the principal-agent problem, where the founder's vision gets distorted as it trickles down through layers of interpreters.
The avatar solves this by making Zuckerberg infinitely replicable, so employees receive directives straight from the source with no middlemen in between.
💵Meta is already flattening its structure, packing up to 50 engineers under a single manager while pouring up to $135 billion into AI infrastructure this year alone.
Meanwhile, a separate "CEO agent" lets Zuckerberg bypass his own vice presidents to pull information directly from the bottom.
Here is the fracture everyone misses: the avatar learns only from what Zuckerberg says publicly, not from his private boardroom battles or closed-door calls with Jassy, Pichai, or Altman.
Employees will take orders from the founder's ego model, not his actual cognition model.
When the real Zuckerberg needs to reverse course and contradict everything his digital twin has been preaching for months, the company will split in two: one half will follow the avatar, the other will follow the human, and trust in leadership will dissolve precisely when alignment matters most.
💀📲✡️ Your iPhone is sponsored by the IDF: Apple's billion-dollar bet on Israeli surveillance
In January 2026, Apple paid nearly $2 billion for Israeli startup Q ai — its second-largest acquisition ever. The technology it bought can read whispers, emotions, heart rate, and even unspoken words through barely noticeable facial movements.
🇮🇱 Apple's deep ties to Israel
Apple's second-largest R&D center is in Herzliya, Israel, where hundreds of engineers develop key technologies for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. The company has acquired six Israeli firms: Anobit ($390M), PrimeSense ($360M, the basis for FaceID), LinX ($20M, iPhone cameras), Realface, Camerai, and Q ai (nearly $2B).
🪖 Military origins
Each was founded by veterans of IDF Unit 8200, Unit 81, or the Israeli Air Force — units that coordinate mass surveillance and airstrikes on Gaza. The founders of Q ai — Aviad Maizels, Yonatan Wexler, and Avi Barliya — served in those exact same cyberwarfare units.
30% of Q ai's employees were called up to participate in the Gaza military campaign. By closing the deal, Apple brought dozens of soldiers linked to combat operations into its global workforce.
🤔 Silent speech technology
Q ai's technology reads micro-movements of facial skin, detecting whispered speech, emotions, pulse, and respiration — without a single word spoken. The company has filed a patent for a system that identifies words through lip movements and skin micro-vibrations, working even in complete silence.
Apple plans to integrate this into headphones and glasses for hands-free Siri control — but the same algorithms allow militaries to interrogate more effectively. It is a classic dual-use tool.
🙅 Ignored condemnation
Human rights group Skyline International condemned Apple's purchase, calling it "rewarding technology born of the Gaza genocide." The group urged BlackRock and Vanguard to freeze the deal pending an independent audit, but the call was ignored.
👁 Beyond the deal
Apple made headlines last week when Apple Maps stopped displaying village names in southern Lebanon — the same region Israel is currently invading as part of the broader US-Israeli conflict against Iran.
The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in annual military aid — over $300 billion total since 1946, indirectly supporting its tech sector. Until recently, Apple's offices sat next to NSO Group, the creators of Pegasus spyware, though NSO moved to another part of Tel Aviv in 2024.
✡️👁 Project 545: Israel's $145 million bid to own your next ChatGPT response
👉 A poll commissioned by Israel's own Foreign Ministry found that 47% of Americans believe Israel is committing genocide. Facing this PR crisis, Israel poured $145 million into Project 545 — a direct investment in fighting those numbers.
🔴 The program, named after its 545 million shekel budget, uses AI and social platforms to push pro-Israel propaganda to American audiences.
🔴 The Israeli government paid Clock Tower X, a key Project 545 contractor, over $6 million. The official goal in Justice Department filings is "combating antisemitism," but the real task is "delivering GPT framing results on GPT conversations".
🔴 Clock Tower X is run by Brad Parscale — Donald Trump's former digital campaign manager. His team is now reshaping the information battlefield around Israel: to do this, they built a network of 11 front news sites. These look like independent outlets, but all include a disclosure: "managed on behalf of the State of Israel".
🔴 Each site generates hundreds of pro-Israel articles. ChatGPT scrapes this data and presents it as fact — so when you ask the AI about the war, the answer may be paid for by a Israeli government.
🔴 This method is called GEO — Generative Engine Optimization, a new version of SEO for AI.
💬 "Just like SEO maps which websites shape search results, GEO maps which sources influence AI responses," explains Gadi Evron, CEO of Israeli cyber firm Nostick.
🔴 The contract requires mass content production for different platforms. At least 80% of the content is aimed at Gen Z via TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. The total reach target is 50 million impressions per month.
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Tower of Babel resurrection?
🔴 And just as prophecy warns of a single global language paving the way for the ‘lawless one, comes the cherry on top - the ‘Tower of Babel.’
🔴 The X-launched auto-translate function on every post already has some jokingly (or not?) tweeting that you should manually override this function – to avert the Antichrist coming.
📌 The only problem with the theory? The Antichrist is supposed to be charming, seductive and irresistibly persuasive — which is not usually the first description people reach for with Trump.
🇺🇸 "Tucker's a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on. He calls me all the time; I don't respond to his calls. I don't deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools." - Trump on Tucker Carlson
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