How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War

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News Source : Thenation.com

News Summary

  • Private capital is increasingly desperate to restore its previous era of high returns.
  • The surest avenue for this restoration is the Pentagon budget, recently proposed by Trump at $1.5 trillion.
  • To access this giant slush fund, private capital has launched an unprecedented effort to capture key posts in the military establishment.
  • The Trump administration has invited in as advisers on military priorities longtime investors like Joe Lonsdale and Trae Stephens, the chairman of Palantir and 8VC, a VC firm focused on military tech.
Revealing the dangerous alliance of technofascists with finance capital and the military industrial complex.

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