Yeah… Gaza, and absolutely not the data flowing to the US with no control over it, depending the dependence on a country that has eroded it‘s trust base around the globe.
It’s mind boggling to me that Novartis decided to pay them millions to handle clinical trial data with the Foundry.
Large risk of Palantir is not even its actions but the fact that no one understands what it does or why it’s valued this much. All the big data AI talk or Thiel’s support doesn’t explain it. It can easily be the next Enron and anyone involved with it might end up disgraced once it implodes.
Holy mother of euphemisms…
Supercharged spyware meant to massively intrude on individual privacy, funded by a hostile government and led by literal fascist billionaires who openly say their tools are meant to be used to “kill their enemies wherever they are” is a risky bet?
How could anyone ever have seen that coming? What part of “these people will literally kill us the day they get the chance” can’t you fucking understand? If anyone in leadership had the slightest sense of self-preservation, our army would have been working around the clock for the past few years to purge this fucking software out of every nook and cranny of our infrastructure. The United States are not our friends. They are openly calling for the annexation of sovereign nations. They are deploying their army against their own people. They are collaborating with russia and giving them access to intel that was shared to them by their allies, They are waging russian-style hybrid warfaire against us.
Yet here we are, as always, watching everyone suddenly be shocked at what we have been warning about for years.
And FOR FUCK’S SAKE the Palantir is the tool Sauron used to control and spy on others to deceive them into betraying and destroying their own allies for a chance to sit at his side, only to be later discarded like nothing once he had no use for them. When people give you the luxury of telling you exactly who they are, believe them.
And everybody knows the French take their sovereignty seriously. So, why?
IMO it’s because sadly we don’t yet have real European alternatives to American military software, intelligence and weapons. Let’s not forget the Ukrainians still depend in full from American intelligence – not German or French. It will take years if not decades to be strategically independent.
In the context of Switzerland, this is a good news but it amounts to little more than a political decision to signal to electors that we are going away from US dependence when its exactly the opposite – we are still buying the F35s and still signed a horrible trade deal with America.
Also it leaves an elephant in the room: what is the role and objective of the Swiss army?
It is no secret the Swiss army is obsolete in conception since its doctrine is effectively unchanged since WWII. If Europe overall is not independent from the US, the Swiss army is (at its current state) of questionable use.
Paradoxically, if we wanted to double down on our current defense doctrine, we should drop the purchase of F35s which Switzerland could never use in any type of conflict with neighbors, and invest in drones and other low cost defense systems, which once again the Americans dominate currently. But there is no political will in Switzerland to invest in a domestic or at the very least paneuropean alternative to drones.
People in Europe like to whine a lot about evil US corporations. The reality is that companies, law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies and the military have use cases for tools that Palantir offers. That use case isn’t going to magically disappear.
So either Europe develops a domestic alternative (which I doubt will happen given all the overregulation in the EU), doesn’t use such tools and stagnates even more or simply shuts up.
I’d also add that various US tech firms that have offices in Zurich cooperate with the US military or defence sector (and Israeli as well). If you are not happy with that, all the people whining about Palantir should start getting rid of their Microsoft systems, Google phones and apps and Nvidia graphic cards (Oh no I can’t play my computer games anymore)….
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Yeah… Gaza, and absolutely not the data flowing to the US with no control over it, depending the dependence on a country that has eroded it‘s trust base around the globe.
It’s mind boggling to me that Novartis decided to pay them millions to handle clinical trial data with the Foundry.
Large risk of Palantir is not even its actions but the fact that no one understands what it does or why it’s valued this much. All the big data AI talk or Thiel’s support doesn’t explain it. It can easily be the next Enron and anyone involved with it might end up disgraced once it implodes.
Holy mother of euphemisms…
Supercharged spyware meant to massively intrude on individual privacy, funded by a hostile government and led by literal fascist billionaires who openly say their tools are meant to be used to “kill their enemies wherever they are” is a risky bet?
How could anyone ever have seen that coming? What part of “these people will literally kill us the day they get the chance” can’t you fucking understand? If anyone in leadership had the slightest sense of self-preservation, our army would have been working around the clock for the past few years to purge this fucking software out of every nook and cranny of our infrastructure. The United States are not our friends. They are openly calling for the annexation of sovereign nations. They are deploying their army against their own people. They are collaborating with russia and giving them access to intel that was shared to them by their allies, They are waging russian-style hybrid warfaire against us.
Yet here we are, as always, watching everyone suddenly be shocked at what we have been warning about for years.
And FOR FUCK’S SAKE the Palantir is the tool Sauron used to control and spy on others to deceive them into betraying and destroying their own allies for a chance to sit at his side, only to be later discarded like nothing once he had no use for them. When people give you the luxury of telling you exactly who they are, believe them.
These are very good points, yet the French army just signed a deal with Palantir. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/12/15/us-tech-firm-palantir-extends-deal-with-french-intelligence-agency_6748523_7.html
And everybody knows the French take their sovereignty seriously. So, why?
IMO it’s because sadly we don’t yet have real European alternatives to American military software, intelligence and weapons. Let’s not forget the Ukrainians still depend in full from American intelligence – not German or French. It will take years if not decades to be strategically independent.
In the context of Switzerland, this is a good news but it amounts to little more than a political decision to signal to electors that we are going away from US dependence when its exactly the opposite – we are still buying the F35s and still signed a horrible trade deal with America.
Also it leaves an elephant in the room: what is the role and objective of the Swiss army?
It is no secret the Swiss army is obsolete in conception since its doctrine is effectively unchanged since WWII. If Europe overall is not independent from the US, the Swiss army is (at its current state) of questionable use.
Paradoxically, if we wanted to double down on our current defense doctrine, we should drop the purchase of F35s which Switzerland could never use in any type of conflict with neighbors, and invest in drones and other low cost defense systems, which once again the Americans dominate currently. But there is no political will in Switzerland to invest in a domestic or at the very least paneuropean alternative to drones.
People in Europe like to whine a lot about evil US corporations. The reality is that companies, law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies and the military have use cases for tools that Palantir offers. That use case isn’t going to magically disappear.
So either Europe develops a domestic alternative (which I doubt will happen given all the overregulation in the EU), doesn’t use such tools and stagnates even more or simply shuts up.
I’d also add that various US tech firms that have offices in Zurich cooperate with the US military or defence sector (and Israeli as well). If you are not happy with that, all the people whining about Palantir should start getting rid of their Microsoft systems, Google phones and apps and Nvidia graphic cards (Oh no I can’t play my computer games anymore)….
My shares are up 2000% though
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