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Sat Jul 19th, 2025 at 01:12:31 PM EST
NATO contingency planning for a quick strike on Kaliningrad Moscow
NATO unveils lightning‑fast Kaliningrad neutralization plan should Russia attack | RBC Ukraine |
As part of the plan to counter Russian threats and enable scalable, global deterrence, the Army and its NATO allies are urgently developing standardized, data-driven systems, common launchers and cloud-based coordination, according to Gen. Christopher Donahue.
Regional plans have been coming together for some time, but the Army, along with NATO, is first focusing on the Baltic states "to try to get to how do you actually make it so that industry and the nations know exactly what the requirements are -- ultimately that is now known as the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line," Donahue said.
"We know what we have to develop and the use case that we're using is you have to [deter] from the ground," he said. "The land domain is not becoming less important, it's becoming more important. You can now take down Anti Access / Area Denial (A2/AD) bubbles from the ground. You can now take over sea from the ground. All of those things we are watching happen in Ukraine."
For example, Donahue noted, Kaliningrad, Russia, is roughly 47 miles wide and surrounded by NATO on all sides and the Army and its allies now have the capability to "take that down from the ground in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster than we've ever been able to do."
"We've already planned that and we've already developed it. The mass and momentum problem that Russia poses to us ... we've developed the capability to make sure that we can stop that mass and momentum problem," Donahue said.
The plan includes a system to share data. NATO has already procured that system, Donahue said, referencing its choice of Palantir's Maven Smart System, an artificial intelligence platform from Palantir that takes a vast amount of data and rapidly analyzes information to help military commanders make decisions.
"We already know exactly what we have to do with cloud and we know exactly the type of actual unmanned systems, brigades, everything else that we need for that," Donahue said.
Specifically, the Army wants these capabilities to be interoperable with NATO partners.
The Suwalki Gap Dilemma
Concerning the Suwalki Gap, NATO has the options to continue pretending that its present countermeasures are adequate to stop and even roll back a Russian invasion or to increase its defence spending considerably.
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Key word Kaliningrad
NATO's military presence in the east of the Alliance | June 2025 |
An important component of NATO's deterrence and defence posture is its military presence in the eastern part of Alliance territory. In recent years, Allies have enhanced NATO's forward presence by establishing multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. They have also sent more ships, planes and troops across NATO's eastern flank. These actions demonstrate Allies' resolve and readiness to defend Alliance territory and populations.
At the 2016 NATO Summit in Warsaw, in response to the increased instability and insecurity along NATO's periphery, Allied Heads of State and Government agreed to establish NATO's forward presence in both the northeast and southeast of the Alliance.
This forward presence was first deployed in 2017, with the creation of four multinational battalion-size battlegroups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, led by the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and the United States respectively. In the southeast, a tailored presence on land, at sea and in the air contributed to increased Allied activity in the region, enhancing situational awareness, interoperability and responsiveness.
Palantir's Maven Smart System
Palantir's Shadow War on Iran | Al-Akhbar - 26 June 2025 |
In the early hours of June 13, 2025, Israel decisively expanded its war on the Axis of Resistance by targeting Iran directly. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the strikes as a blow delivered directly to "the heart" of Iran's nuclear ambitions, and, consequentially, to the regional resistance project. Justifying this aggression was an IAEA report alleging Iran's accumulation of 408.6 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, a claim promptly mobilized as diplomatic cover for escalation and aggression.
Almost immediately, reactions flooded digital spaces. Numerous online accounts highlighted that much of this data was mediated not by traditional espionage alone, but significantly by algorithmic calculations, pointing explicitly toward Palantir Technologies, a surveillance behemoth named after the mythic "seeing stone" from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings universe. Palantir's data-mining capacities have long drawn scrutiny and suspicion, particularly given its extensive entanglements with military and surveillance operations worldwide. Though initially dismissed by some as conspiratorial conjecture, the accusations gained unsettling legitimacy in Palantir's established role within the IAEA's monitoring framework, since at least 2018. Indeed, Palantir emerged as central to the IAEA's sophisticated $50 million analytical system, translating classified intelligence into actionable visualizations of Iran's nuclear activities.
The rise of Palantir is intimately tied to the neoliberal fusion of technological innovation, state surveillance, and the military-industrial complex. Co-founded by Peter Thiel and his cohort from the "PayPal mafia," it emerged as a pivotal tool in the post-9/11 "War on Terror," transforming intelligence analysis from an opaque governmental prerogative into a privatized surveillance enterprise. Thiel, alongside CEO Alex Karp, leveraged connections with the CIA to later expand Palantir's footprint through Pentagon contracts, embedding the company at the heart of the sprawling network of state security.
End Of The World - Flashpoint Zion | 20 June 2025 |
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Palantir, Google & Amazon critical tools for Israel's genocide in Gaza | MEE The Big Picture w Antony Loewenstein |
Privacy, Invasive Software and BIG TECH
Zuckerberg Trial, Data Mining, Cambridge Analytica and End of Democracy by Fraudulent Elections
Mark Zuckerberg Goes On Trial Today In $8 Billion Meta Privacy Lawsuit--What To Know | Forbes |
Cambridge Analytica was a voter-profiling company that obtained data from Facebook users through Cambridge University professor Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, who created a quiz on Facebook that was used to harvest data about users who opted into it and, by extension, their friends.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former COO Sheryl Sandberg and other billionaires tied to Facebook will go on trial in Delaware on Wednesday, as a week-long trial determines whether the company's past and present leadership will be forced to pay $8 billion in damages for knowingly violating a privacy agreement, which led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Defendants in the lawsuit include Zuckerberg, Sandberg and former Facebook Partnerships VP Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, whom the lawsuit alleges knowingly made deals with third-party apps that violated the 2012 FTC agreement.
The lawsuit also names Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings, who were board members at the time and allegedly knew about the non-compliance with the FTC consent order, given their companies were given favorable agreements that allegedly violated it.
Other Facebook board members named in the complaint are former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellman, eBay CFO Peggy Alford and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault.
The lawsuit additionally names two former White House chiefs of staff as defendants based on their roles on Facebook's board: Erskine Bowles, who served during Bill Clinton's presidency, and former chief of staff to President Joe Biden, Jeff Zients, who served on the board prior to his role at the White House.
Donald Trump Campaign Logo MAGA
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Ted Cruz campaign
Ted Cruz campaign logo In 2016,
American senator Ted Cruz hired Cambridge Analytica to aid his presidential campaign. The Federal Election Commission reported that Cruz paid the company $5.8 million in services. Although Cambridge Analytica was not well known at the time, this is when it started to create individual psychographic profiles. This data was then used to create tailored advertisements for each person to sway them into voting for Cruz.
Donald Trump campaign
Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign used the harvested data to build psychographic profiles, determining users' personality traits based on their Facebook activity. The campaign team used this information as a micro-targeting technique, displaying customized messages about Trump to different US voters on various digital platforms. Ads were segmented into different categories, mainly based on whether individuals were Trump supporters or potential swing votes. As described by Cambridge Analytica's CEO, the key was to identify those who might be enticed to vote for their client or be discouraged to vote for their opponent. Supporters of Trump received triumphant visuals of him, as well as information regarding polling stations.
Psychological Operations in Digital Political Campaigns: Assessing Cambridge Analytica's Psychographic Profiling and Targeting | Frontiers In Communication - 3 Sept. 2020 |
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How Cambridge Analytica Used Algorithms To Trawl Through Facebook User Data | Mach | NBC News - 18 March 2018 |
A D D E N D U M
Ron Paul’s “Super PAC” Sugar Daddy: Builds Toys For the. CIA, Spies on U.S. Citizens, Opposes Democracies and Women Suffrage | The eXlied by Mark Ames |
Ron Paul’s seemingly rock-solid principles and radicalism has even drawn some on the left; unlike even left-wing Democrats, Paul has said he wants to abolish both the CIA and the FBI to protect individual “liberty.”
So it should come as a shock and disappointment to his followers that Ron Paul’s single largest donor—his Sheldon Adelson, as it were—founded a controversial defense contractor, Palantir Technologies, that profits from government espionage work for the CIA, FBI and other agencies, and which last year was caught organizing an illegal spy ring targeting American political opponents of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, including journalists, progressive activists and union leaders. Palantir takes its name from the mystic stones used by characters in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to spy on each other.
According to recently filed FEC disclosure documents, Ron Paul’s Super PAC has received nearly all of its money from a single source, billionaire Peter Thiel.
Thiel, a self-described libertarian and opponent of democracy who made his fortune as the founder of PayPal, launched Palantir in 2004 to profit from what the Wall Street Journal described as “the government spy-services marketplace.” The CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, was brought in to back up Thiel as one of Palantir’s first outside investors. Today, Palantir’s valuation is reported to be in the billions.
The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism | The Atlantic - 2024 issue |
Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
If you had to capture Silicon Valley’s dominant ideology in a single anecdote, you might look first to Mark Zuckerberg, sitting in the blue glow of his computer some 20 years ago, chatting with a friend about how his new website, TheFacebook, had given him access to reams of personal information about his fellow students:
zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
zuckerberg: Just ask.
zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
friend: What? How’d you manage that one?
zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
zuckerberg: They “trust me”
zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.
That conversation—later revealed through leaked chat records—was soon followed by another that was just as telling, if better mannered. At a now-famous Christmas party in 2007, Zuckerberg first met Sheryl Sandberg, his eventual chief operating officer, who with Zuckerberg would transform the platform into a digital imperialist superpower.
The new technocrats claim to
embrace Enlightenment values,
but in fact they are leading an
antidemocratic, illiberal movement.
UAE Erik Prince meeting Seychelles Islands Election 2016 and Cambridge Analytica
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The Future of Dynamic Warfare | Hillsdale College - Erik Prince |
Feb 18, 2025 - In this episode of The Larry Arnn Show, Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn interviews Erik Prince, businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and founder of Blackwater. The two discuss Prince's career, strategic failures in the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and how the United States military can prepare for the wars of tomorrow.
From the Seychelles to the White House to Cambridge Analytica, Erik Prince and the UAE are key parts of the Trump story
NATO West-Europe Iron Clad Unity with Israel Security State and AI Warfare
All that is needed to colour-in the gaps in rhetoric, human rights, international law and basic war propaganda. Disinformation, censorship and building conspiracies as deception. Mirror facts with untruths.
