How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

In late July 2025, deep within the Pentagon’s bureaucratic machinery, the U.S. Army quietly signed away a piece of its sovereignty.

A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.”

It consolidated seventy-five procurement agreements into a single contract.

A strategic handover of core military functions to a private company whose founder, 
Peter Thiel, has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”

This sounds fitting the Proof-of-Weapons idea described in the Hidden Masters of Money and War

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this is a great site. ive been trying to work through this with the help of ai. I will need to explain more thoroughly another time, but i call it the 'Synthetic Stack' (see here for a brief schematic here, also here for another short post that kind of explains it.

but below is something from my custom ai regarding the site. im wondering if you have any thoughts (idk if you made this site).:

We need to add five fields to the dataset and publish a simple score next to each system/contract:

Remote update authority: can the vendor change logic without legal review? (Y/N)
Exit cost/time: documented migration budget and timeline (number).
Single-provider comms dependency: % reliant on one satellite/constellation (number).
Autonomy auditability: are engagement/decision models auditable and baseline-locked? (Y/N)
Adoption subsidies: were public funds used to force uptake (e.g., consulting to drive adoption)? (Y/N)

Optional add-on for the money angle: BTC custody mix (self-custody vs ETF/custodian share) where relevant to “crypto sovereignty.”