An argument frequently made here, especially by the New Right, Koch-funded Quincy Institute, and its partner, The American Conservative magazine, and their partner, the Heritage Foundation, is that Trump/Vance represent “Foreign Policy Restraint.” And foolish people believe that, notwithstanding how the the main backer of Vance, Peter Thiel, is immersed in war against Russia, with Ukraine, and war against Palestinians, Lebanon, and Iran, with Israel. Paradoxically, this support of Trump/Vance is expressed by supposed opponents of these wars, to include former military/intell officers, who prefer believing Heritage Foundation propagandist Tucker Carlson, to their “own lying eyes.” And they join with Heritage and their partners (partially listed in the attached file) with a campaign of “propaganda by omission” of any historical facts of all that Trump did to precipitate attacks by Russia and Hamas. With those attacks obviously having been initially planned during his administration as the “writing on the wall” became clear to both entities that there was in fact, no U.S. domestic opposition to “U.S. Full Spectrum Military Dominance.” That would have come after realizing they too had been deceived by the 2016 Trump cognitive operation campaign conceived by Thiel, Koch, and the Adelsons against an almost equal militaristic Clinton to the Republicans. That is, that it was the “Republicans who were the foreign policy restrainers,” especially the war fanatic “Traditional Conservatives” of Buckley, Burnham, and Kendall, a self-evident Big Lie to anyone who ever followed U.S. domestic politics and ever read books or articles by these “Fascist Conservatives.” That is, to distinguish them from “conservatives” who were in fact closer to what Michael Oakeshott described as: "To be conservative ... is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.” With that description obviously not applying to the “Conservative Revolutionaries” founding the Conservative Movement with National Review magazine, Buckley, Burnham, and Kendall, all with a history of “fascist adoration,” nor to the Conservative Revolutionaries of today of the New Right, with the fanatics listed in the attached article as the leading “Revolutionaries.” For those deficient in factual history, versus the New Right’s historical revisionism, to who want to know more of the war fanatic Republicans who initiated the overseas “Empire” stage of U.S. history, I recommend a book by a former Foreign Service Officer, Warren Zimmerman, First Great Triumph. At a time when both parties are intent on destroying the U.S. with their wars, it is derelict to allow oneself to remain so ignorant of history to be susceptible to propaganda by omission by the even Greater Militaristic party, the Republicans, who’ve always been so. |
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Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, has argued that “the power of advanced algorithmic warfare systems is now so great that it equates to having tactical nuclear weapons against an adversary with only conventional ones.” Palantir would not have invested billions in developing its system if it did not believe in its transformational power. Karp was the first executive of a major Western company to visit Kyiv and meet with Zelensky after the Russian invasion. One idea I heard in London is that warfare may increasingly take place as a complex simulation within algorithmic systems. The process may have some deterrence powers: two opponents might reach the same conclusion about the outcome, preempting any need to trigger a conflict in the physical world. Is this utopian? Probably. The most likely scenario is an algorithmic arms race happening at superhuman speed. Here China rather than Russia is the real opponent. Taiwan rather than Ukraine is where the algorithm takes over. The progress has been striking. In the year and a half since Karp’s initial meeting with Zelensky, Palantir has embedded itself in the day-to-day work of a wartime foreign government in an unprecedented way. More than half a dozen Ukrainian agencies, including its Ministries of Defense, Economy, and Education, are using the company’s products. Palantir’s software, which uses AI to analyze satellite imagery, open-source data, drone footage, and reports from the ground to present commanders with military options, is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine,” according to Karp. |
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