¿Militarism without limits or rules, apology of automation of death of enemies and supremacism Western? OH wake up call to a United States complacent with its enemies? Or even pure marketing?
The American technology company Palantir has caused a real global stir this week with a message on the social network X, which has more than 15 million readings, and which has been interpreted as a militarist manifesto of the new technological era.
He has been criticized for his contempt for non-western cultures, and for a warmongering aligned with the ideology of the new Donald Trump Administration. To the company, which obtains the bulk of its income from contracts with the United States Government and, specifically, the Pentagon, it is also convenient for it to be associated with a stark vision of war, because that helps it to give an image of efficiency and to sell contracts to governments around the world. In 2025, the company earned $1,867 million from its business with governments on total revenue of $3,116 million; 60% of your turnover.
In a 22 point message, The company proposes that Silicon Valley stop focusing on innovation for consumption and assume a role directly linked to the strength of the State. It is not enough to manufacture applications, mobile phones or services for everyday life, like the iPhone or free email, holds the text. The American tech elite is “indebted” to the United States and must get actively involved in the defense of the country against the rest of the world. The “era of atomic deterrence” is over, they argue, and we have entered another dominated by military AI deterrence. “Hard power in this century will be built on software.” The question “is not whether AI weapons will be built, but who will build them and for what purpose”.
“It’s technofascism”
“That’s how they see war. It’s a techno-fascist vision that increasingly reflects what you see in Silicon Valley. They see western supremacy as the only possible path and AI as something inevitable, leaving behind the majority of those who will not benefit from it,” he says for EL PERIÓDICO Antony Loewenstein Freelance journalist and author of The Palestinian Laboratory on Israel’s use of war technology in the occupied territories. “They are not trying to make our lives easier. In fact, their goal is the opposite: enslave us in their vision of the worldwhich means automated violence, even automated genocide. And Gaza is really just the first example of that, but it won’t be the last.”
The CEO of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karphas openly defended the use of his company’s technology by the Israeli Army in the war in Gaza. In the face of criticism, he has stated that his software is used to “kill terrorists, mainly.” At least the 83% of the more than 71,000 dead Gazans in Gaza they were civiliansaccording to research by The Guardian and the Israeli magazine +972after gaining access to a database of classified intelligence of the Israeli Army. Among them there are nearly 20,000 children. Israel has used two artificial intelligence systems (Gospel y Lavender) to systematically and large-scale set human and physical targets during the war against Hamas in the Strip, which has been practically destroyed after more than two years of war.
A book by Alex Karp
The text of post of X are fragments of the best-selling book The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West [La República Tecnológica: Poder duro, creencias blandas y el futuro de Occidente]co-written by Alex Karp.
“They have been exposed the limits of soft power, of mere grandiloquent rhetoric. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires more than moral superiority. It demands hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software,” the letter reads. “Our adversaries They will not stop to indulge in theatrical debates on the supposed virtues of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will move on.”
Free democracies need recover real coercive capacity, he states. “American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace,” the authors say. They attack the idea that all cultures deserve the same respect. “Some cultures have produced decisive advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive…have proven to be mediocre and, even worse, regressive and harmful,” the text reads.
The founder of Palantir, Peter Thielhas given its economic and political support to the most far-right American sectors and has an authoritarian ideology. He believes in a hierarchical order of modern society supported by great fortunes, state power and technology. In 2009 he wrote, for example, that “freedom and democracy are incompatible.”
Universal military service
Palantir’s manifesto also calls for the return of universal military serviceand criticizes militarization restrictions (the “castration“) of Germany and Japan, the two powers defeated in World War II after perpetrating the Jewish Holocaust and the subjugation of China.
It also addresses more cryptic questions of personal development. “The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who search the political arena food for the soul and for your identitywho depend too much on their inner life finding expression in people they may never meet, will end up disappointed,” the text reads.
Civil rights organizations have been warning for years that Palantir It is gaining too much weight within the US administration to control citizens. The text addresses this point of population control: “Silicon Valley must play a role in the response to violent crime. “Many politicians in the United States have practically shrugged their shoulders in the face of violent crime, abandoning any serious attempt to address the problem or taking any risks with their voters or donors to launch solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate attempt to save lives.”
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