Also in today’s wire reports and from Telegram. BREAKING: Three of the four largest Gulf economies — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait — are reportedly discussing withdrawing from U.S. and other international investments as the economic toll from the escalating war with Iran grows, according to the Financial Times.
Officials say “budget strains” are mounting as energy revenues decline and disruptions hit shipping and tourism across the region. As a result, some Gulf governments are considering reassessing major foreign investment commitments, including those in the United States.
Sources described the potential shift as a “precautionary measure,” but the implications could be enormous. Gulf sovereign wealth funds collectively hold more than $2 trillion in U.S. investments, meaning any pullback could send shockwaves through markets and financial institutions.
The move is also being viewed as potential pressure on Donald Trump as the conflict continues to escalate — signaling that the economic consequences of the war may be spreading far beyond the battlefield.
War, financial ruin, famine, disease, it’s all coming home to roost in America Mystery Babylon. Prayed up and prepped up, time is definitely short!
1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. James 5: 1-3
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By Drago Bosnic at Global Research. Reposted with permission.
On the last day of February, the United States launched a truly unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, sparking the largest conflict in the Middle East since the illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iranian Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei was killed, along with his daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and daughter-in-law, while his wife Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh died of her injuries on March 2.
The USAF continued launching virtually incessant airstrikes since February 28, hitting hundreds of targets across Iran. The attacking force also deliberately targets civilians, including schools, hospitals, maternity wards and residential areas. In one primary school in Minab, southern Iran, nearly 200 schoolgirls aged 7-12 were killed, with well over a 100 wounded.Gandhi Hospital in Tehran was also hit, forcing the medical personnel to evacuate prematurely born babies (just like the 1990s NATO aggression on Serbia).
This is only a fraction of the atrocities committed by the warmongers and war criminals at the Pentagon. The full extent of crimes against the people of Iran is far worse. Tehran retaliated with hundreds of ballistic missile strikes on American bases across the Middle East. The mainstream propaganda machine is trying to frame this as an “all-out unprovoked attack on a dozen countries”, but it’s pretty clear that the Iranian military is primarily targeting US military assets. What’s more, in many of these countries, the local populace even cheers on as Iranian ballistic missiles and drones rain down on American occupation forces. The Pentagon keeps trying to hide the actual number of casualties among its troops, claiming it’s less than half a dozen. Although the real figure could already be in the hundreds, we’re highly unlikely to find out the truth anytime soon.
Namely, this actual number would have a devastating effect on the mainstream propaganda machine’s narrative on America’s “invincibility”, while also resulting in severe political damage for President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections later this year. However, embarrassment and humiliation for the Pentagon are certainly not lacking. Namely, the USAF managed to lose three F-15E fighter jets in mere minutes. All three aircraft were shot down over Kuwait, with the US military frantically resorting to damage control, insisting that all three were downed in “friendly fire incidents” involving American-operated “Patriot” SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems. If true, this would be about the only “success” of these grossly overhyped and exorbitantly overpriced US-made air defense systems, as they’ve failed miserably against Iranian ballistic missiles.
This is yet another proof that they’re effectively useless against far more advanced Russian missiles, with even the Kiev regime’s top-ranking military officers admitting they cannot intercept most of the Kremlin’s weapons. Namely, the Neo-Nazi junta failed to provide any credible evidence that a single “Iskander-M”, “Kinzhal”, “Zircon”, “Oniks”, Kh-22 and Kh-32 were ever shot down. Numerous videos of the “Patriot’s” failure to intercept regular Iranian ballistic missiles serve as yet another testament to that. However, the humiliation is ever worse when considering the fact that the aforementioned USAF’s F-15s were most likely shot down by Russian-made Iranian SAM systems, possibly even manned by Russian crews. Tehran acquired some of the most advanced air defense systems from Moscow, including the S-300PMU2 and the more capable S-400 (initially designated as the S-300PMU3).
Such a public loss of multiple F-15s in minutes is a massive propaganda snag for the Pentagon, as the US spent decades building the F-15’s image as “an invincible fighter jet”, insisting that it supposedly has a score of 104:0 and that it has never been lost in aerial combat.
However, the reality is a “tiny bit” different. Namely, there’s a 2018 video of a Saudi F-15SA hit by a Houthi R-27T modified into a SAM. Several more aircraft were hit, with at least one more F-15SA destroyed. There were reports that multiple aircraft were scrapped due to severe damage, although the mainstream propaganda machine keeps hiding facts to maintain the F-15’s “invincible streak” narrative alive for as long as possible. However, the F-15’s performance in previous conflicts makes this virtually impossible. Namely, during the Samurra Air Battle on January 30, 1991, two Iraqi Air Force Russian-made MiG-25PDS shot down two F-15Cs without losses.
The Americans never admitted these losses, but they made sure that no wreckage was ever found. Almost a decade before that, a Syrian MiG-21 shot down an Israeli F-15, with the US and Israel once again doing their best to conceal the loss. However, it was recorded by Syrian and Russian sources. Thus, American claims that the F-15 has a 104:0 victory ratio only works for internal propaganda purposes, as the rest of the world knows the truth. However, even the PR dominance of the pedophile-cannibalistic Satanic elites in Washington DC is now crumbling, as evidenced by their attempts to contact the leadership in Tehran and sue for peace. Encouraged by the illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Trump administration hoped to achieve a “shock & awe” victory against Iran, but it’s now perfectly clear this is no longer possible.
Although hit hard, Tehran is now fully aware that Washington DC is simply not to be trusted in the slightest. The US is simply incapable of telling the truth, while its concept of “diplomacy” boils down to a series of ruses designed to make the opponent relaxed and unprepared for war. However, despite the initial chaos in Iran’s top echelons of power, the Iranian military quickly reconsolidated and struck back, obliterating many of the critical components of American power projection in the Middle East.
The help of multipolar powers such as Russia and China has been invaluable, as both provided strategic, real-time ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), numerous weapon systems (particularly air and missile defenses, fighter jets, attack helicopters, missiles, etc), military advisors, critical resources and commodities for weapons production, etc.
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A formal religious decree has been issued citing Quran 22:39 — granting divine permission to wage war against “Crusader aggression.” What this means:
This is not political rhetoric. This is a RELIGIOUS WAR DECLARATION.
Every Shia militia across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen now has theological authorization to attack U.S. and Israeli targets
Hezbollah. Houthis. Iraqi PMF. All activated under one fatwa.
The document calls on the ENTIRE Islamic world to mobilize This changes everything. A political war can be negotiated. A holy war cannot. We just entered the most dangerous phase of this conflict. If you’re not paying attention – start now. Save this. Share this. This is the moment it escalated beyond return.
The Albert Pike letter is playing out along with Bible prophecy! Prayed up and prepped up, time is short!
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Speaking about the war expanding, what about Russia? Will they get involved in the war? Maybe. While the Russian government has not officially declared military action, senior propagandists and commentators have issued alarming statements.
Vladimir Solovyov, a prominent Russian TV host, claimed on his show Solovyov Live that “it’s clearly time to strike their little house,” referring to European nations, and suggested that Donald Trump had “unwittily untied our hands” for such actions.
As for China, here’s a good Tweet about their stance on Iran.
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸🇨🇳 Iran's Hormuz gambit has one massive problem: it hurts China more than America.
The Strait of Hormuz just closed. Oil spiked 12% in hours. The move looks devastating.
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Where will it take us this time? It’s impossible to say but the mainstream media reports that the US and Israel see this as a 4 day operation after which they expect the Iranian people to rise up and take over the country. I don’t see that working as the Mossad tried to agitate things into a full blown revolution back in December like they did in Syria in 2011, but it failed and afterward they lost a lot of human assets and equipment/weapons in Iran so its not likely they will succeed this time either.
So how long will this war last? I’m not sure but according to wire reports coming in, Trump is already going TACO (Trump always chickens out) less than 24 hours into the operation!
I’m sure Iran told him to pound sand as they consider this attack as a declaration of war by the US and Israel and they plan on seeing through to the end.
🇮🇷Iran considers the US-Israel strikes a declaration of war, not a limited operation – FM spokesperson Baghaei to Al Jazeera
👍 US-Israel-Iran war | @geopolitics_prime
As for all of the “peace talks” between the US and Iran I think we should all be able to see the lies now. The talks were never about peace, they were about seeing if Iran would capitulate and just roll over and play dead so Israel could bomb them with impunity just as they’ve been doing to Syria. Iran isn’t going to capitulate and once the US and Israel realized that then the war began. Bibi just revealed the real goal all along was regime change and the destruction of Iran and all of it’s infrastructure to keep the people weak.
🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that Israel INDEED joined the ongoing American Air Campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying that the goal is to ELIMINATE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC FOREVER from the map!
What happened to simply eliminating the nuclear and missile programs? That was never the goal, the goal was always regime change. Now there are questions about whether or not the US has the capability to actually accomplish that as Tucker Carlson reported yesterday.
Current estimates suggest that the United States is so low on some munitions, partly because we’ve used them in the defense of Israel already in the last 12 months (also Ukraine) But whatever the cause, the United States is so low on certain kinds of munitions that were we to have even a brief but intense engagement with Iran, our military would not be ready for like 10 years to fight a real war against a peer or near-peer adversary.
So is this it? Is this the beginning of the final war of Armageddon before Christ returns? It could be I don’t know for sure as only God the Father knows the day, time and the hour of Jesus’ return. That being said however it is definitely part of the wars/rumors of wars Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:7, and I do believe we are closing in on the END of the Great Tribulation, not the beginning. Why? Because the MOTB is here and the AC was revealed in August of 2019. Those were the 2 biggest markers for me. I’m not expecting everyone to agree with me, I’m just telling you where I’m at with all of this because I get asked a lot.
Leeland Jones has more than a few videos on this war and I will put one below that’s called “The Planned War in Iran, Trump and the Locust army”. I highly recommend Leeland’s videos for a biblical perspective on this war.
As you can see from the Tweet above from NY Prepper, Lukashenko, the President of Belarus left for the Ural mts along with Russian Doomsday planes. Does that mean that this war will expand and go worldwide? Will Russia and China get involved and if so what would have to happen for them to do so? Will Israel use their “Sampson Option” if Iranian missiles overwhelm their defenses? Right now all we can do is wait and see but not in fear. God doesn’t give us a spirit of fear but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. 2nd Tim. 1:7
Now reports are coming in that Iranian leader Khamenei is dead as Netanyahu just announced it to the world in a televised address. If so then they made him a martyr and the Iranians will dig in, not give up as the US and Israel foolishly believe. 🚨🔥Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Khamenei is dead, and all the signs point towards this’. If it’s true it won’t matter as the Iranians announced they were preparing for such a scenario and a line of succession was established in case Khamenei were assassinated. He said it himself.
That’s it for now but I will keep my eyes on things as always. Blessings to you all!
Johnny
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Even China is evacuating their people from Israel and that’s not something they do lightly. The US is doing the same thing in Israel and in Iraq as well.
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The U.S. government secretly pumped “mind control drugs” into millions of vaccines taken by members of the public, according to a newly leaked CIA document.
The U.S. government secretly pumped “mind control drugs” into millions of vaccines taken by members of the public, according to a newly leaked CIA document.
The seven-page document, “Special Research for Artichoke,” is dated April 23, 1952. It describes a series of ideas for how to develop chemicals designed to alter human behavior and thought.
Infowars.com reports: The proposals contained in the document were part of the CIA’s top-secret Project Artichoke, which ran from 1951 to 1956, according to The Daily Mail.
The document, declassified in 1983, recently circulated on social media. However, it was not published in the CIA’s online reading room until last year.
“Some of the suggestions are controversial,” the document states. The proposals included administering drugs in secret as part of a “long-range approach to subjects.”
According to the document:
“This study should include chemicals or drugs that can effectively be concealed in common items such as food, water, coca cola, beer, liquor, cigarettes, etc.
“This type of drug should also be capable of use in standard medical treatments such as vaccinations, shots, etc.”
CIA experimented on humans as part of Project Artichoke
The document also included a special field of research for “bacteria, plant cultures, fungi, poisons of various types, etc.,” that are “capable of producing illnesses which in turn would produce high fevers, delirium, etc.”
This included “species of the mushroom” that “produce a certain type of intoxication and mental derangement.”
Also among the proposals was a suggestion to research “diet” or “dietary deficiencies” on prisoners and on people undergoing interrogation, including using “specially canned foods having elements removed.”
The document included proposals for both short-term and long-term use on humans. Drugs deemed most suitable for long-term use would be designed to produce an “agitating effect (producing anxiety, nervousness, tension, etc.) or a depressing effect (creating a feeling of despondency, hopelessness, lethargy, etc.).”
According to The Daily Mail, the CIA experimented on humans as part of Project Artichoke. The experiments often involved “vulnerable subjects, including prisoners, military personnel and psychiatric patients.” The experiments were usually performed “without informed consent.”
According to Ben Tapper, a Nebraska chiropractor who was included in the “Disinformation Dozen” list in 2021 for questioning vaccine safety, the document exposes “a disturbing reality that government agencies have historically explored ways to manipulate human behavior through chemical and biological means, including concepts involving food and medical interventions.”
“This is not speculation or conspiracy, and it should deeply concern every American who values bodily autonomy and informed consent,” Tapper said.
Precursor to the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control experiments?
The Daily Mail cited CIA documents suggesting that U.S. intelligence agencies were concerned that enemy nations had developed their own mind and behavioral control techniques. This led the agency to prioritize the development of its own methods.
Project Artichoke “served as a precursor” to the MK-Ultra program, which the CIA launched in 1953. That program “broadened mind-altering experiments on a larger scale,” The Daily Mail reported.
Many of the documents related to this type of experimentation were destroyed in 1973, “leaving the full extent of the research and how far it progressed unknown.”
Naomi Wolf, Ph.D., CEO of Daily Clout and author of “The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity,” told The Defender that the documents further confirm a long history of intelligence agency research targeting human thought and behavior.
“Sadly, it’s long been established that our intelligence agencies, and those of our enemies, have sought to alter human consciousness and behavior, often without the subjects’ consent. The existence of MK-Ultra, the clandestine project into which Project Artichoke evolved, is well documented,” Wolf said.
John Leake, vice president of the McCullough Foundation and author of the forthcoming book, “Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions,” said, “Researchers have long suspected that the Church Committee‘s revelation of the CIA’s notorious MK-Ultra mind control experiments, mostly using LSD, had the effect of obscuring the agency’s much larger Project Artichoke.”
Leake cited evidence suggesting that a 1951 mass poisoning in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, in which 250 residents experienced severe hallucinations and seven people died, was a Project Artichoke experiment. The outbreak was officially attributed to contaminated bread from a local bakery.
Leake said the 1952 document is “consistent with the suspicion that the CIA was seeking to discover mind control methods for even large populations.”
In 2024, a Reuters investigation revealed that the CIA operated a secret propaganda campaigninvolving vaccines in the Philippines. The campaign attacked what the agency perceived as China’s “growing influence” in the country by targeting the Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine through the use of phony online accounts spreading “anti-vax” messaging.
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,” said the Project Artichoke revelations “make it clear that the CIA has posed an enormous threat to U.S. citizens, in addition to the horrors it unleashes on non-U.S. target governments and populations.”
Project Artichoke wanted to enlist help from Army’s Chemical Warfare Service
The 1952 Project Artichoke document also included a recommendation to involve the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service in the project’s efforts, citing its experience with “exhaustive studies along these lines.”
This proposal bears a resemblance to recent suggestions that COVID-19 — and the response to the pandemic — were coordinated at high levels of government, military and intelligence agencies.
Last year, former pharmaceutical research and development executive Sasha Latypova and retired science writer Debbie Lerman released the “Covid Dossier,” presenting evidence of the “military/intelligence coordination of the Covid biodefense response in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy.”
According to Latypova and Lerman, “Covid was not a public health event” but “a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks.”
Leake said “it is far from clear” that the Church Committee hearings of 1975 “put a complete end to CIA covert programs.” He cited the possible laboratory development of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as an example.
Experts question similarities between Project Artichoke, COVID vaccines
In a Substack post today, epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher drew a potential connection between Project Artichoke and the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Hulscher cited recent peer-reviewed studies that identified the vaccines’ adverse impact on neurological health and “surging rates of cognitive decline.”
Hulscher wrote:
“Disturbingly, since 2021, over 70% of humanity received a neurotoxic agent masquerading as a ‘vaccine.’ The same goals outlined in the CIA document (vaccines/drugs capable of covertly inducing anxiety, depression, and lethargy) are now being observed in COVID-19 vaccinated populations. …
“… If the CIA was secretly discussing covert methods to alter human behavior in the 1950s, it would be no surprise if similar classified projects emerged in the decades that followed.”
A 2024 paper published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry investigated psychiatric adverse events among over 2 million people in South Korea. The study found that “COVID-19 vaccination increased the risks of depression, anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, and somatoform disorders, and sleep disorders while reducing the risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.”
A 2025 study published in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science found “alarming safety signals regarding neuropsychiatric conditions following COVID-19 vaccination, compared to the influenza vaccinations and to all other vaccinations combined.”
This included increases in schizophrenia, depression, cognitive decline, delusions, violent behavior, suicidal thoughts and homicidal ideation.
“The fact that mRNA vaccines were designed to cross the blood-brain barrier and inflame the brain — or at least, they were known to do so, during their manufacture and distribution — should give us pause in light of this news,” Wolf said.
Wolf said the latest revelations, “while shocking, provide all the more reason for us to be critical of opaque, coercive or untested vaccination programs, additives in food and water, and toxic or opaque geoengineering programs.”
Tapper said the revelations reinforce “the urgent need to protect individual liberty, medical freedom, and ethical boundaries in science and public health.”
“The lesson here is simple: vigilance is necessary when governments claim authority over the human body and mind,” Tapper said.
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We’ve talked about this before but its been awhile. Iran may very well have nuclear weapons and they’ve had them since the early 1990s!
Iranian Army chief says, Iran nuclear technology and the goal of achieving Nukes Cannot be Eliminated through demand of the US or International pressure.
He then confirms reports, “If the US strikes Tehran, then IRGC Will test it’s first nuclear capabilities during war.”
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Guest Post by Drago Bosnik at Global Research. Reposted with permission.
As the political West’s militaries struggle to meet recruitment criteria and face widening technological gaps in new weapon systems (particularly hypersonics), they’re forced to look for alternatives in order to continue their aggression against the world. This is certainly not an easy task, especially as the window of opportunity for the United States and NATO to retain some of their key high-tech advantages is closing rapidly, meaning they must act as soon as possible.
To achieve this, the Pentagon is placing nearly all of its bets on militarizing advanced AI. This has been ongoing for the last decade or so, but is now being supercharged to the maximum. The so-called Big Tech, both legacy (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta/Facebook, etc) and emerging companies (Anduril, Palantir, Anthropic, etc), are heavily involved in this process, blurring the lines between the infamous Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and the civilian sector.
The US government has consistently ignored the multipolar world’s calls to regulate AI, which would prevent the uncontrollable (ab)use of this highly advanced emerging technology, particularly for military purposes. However, Washington DC is now doing the same at home, prompting strong reactions from some AI companies and start-ups, which are calling for the imposition of limits on how far this technology can be used in warfare and surveillance.
Namely, according to multiple sources, the Pentagon and Anthropic are at odds over a contract renewal with regard to the use of the latter’s Claude system. Bloomberg, which quoted “a person familiar with the private negotiations”, reports that Anthropic insists on “stricter limits before extending its agreement” and wants “firm guardrails to prevent Claude from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or to build weapons that operate without human oversight”.
In contrast, the Department of War (DoW) wants far more leeway in integrating these systems into its kill chain. Formally, the Pentagon wants “flexibility to deploy the model so long as its use complies with the law”. In other words, controlling the AI is the crux of the matter. It seems Anthropic wants specific and long-term guarantees that its systems won’t be used without human oversight, while the US government wants to “follow the law” (which can be changed at any time).
According to Bloomberg, the San Francisco-based high-tech company wants to “distinguish itself as a safety-first AI developer”. Anthropic’s specialized government version called Claude Gov is “tailored to US national security work, designed to analyze classified information, interpret intelligence and process cybersecurity data”. The AI firm says it “aims to serve government clients while staying within its own ethical red lines”. And yet, it’s very difficult to reconcile the two.
“Anthropic is committed to using frontier AI in support of US national security,” a spokesperson reportedly said, adding: “The ongoing discussions with the War Department are productive conversations, in good faith.”
Various reports indicate that some Pentagon officials have “grown wary” and view reliance on Anthropic as “a potential supply-chain vulnerability”. According to an unnamed senior official, Washington DC is even contemplating the option of demanding contractors to “certify they are not using Anthropic’s models, an indication that the disagreement could ripple beyond a single contract”. In simpler terms, the US military is effectively blackmailing the AI firm.
This is certainly a disturbing development, as it sends a message to other companies that they should drop even nominal limits to the use of advanced AI in warfare and surveillance. Reports indicate that “tools from OpenAI, Google and xAI are also being discussed for Pentagon use, with companies working to ensure their systems can operate within legal boundaries”. In this particular case, the term “legal boundaries” sounds hypocritical and even comical.
Namely, that’s exactly what the US wants to avoid, so it could then have a free hand in how it uses advanced AI. The Trump administration and its allies are now piling on Anthropic in an attempt to coerce it into changing its policy. This includes Elon Musk, who effectively turned the spat into an ideological matter, calling Anthropic’s AI “evil and misanthropic”, and accusing the company of setting up Claude Gov to “hate Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men”.
Anthropic reportedly raised concerns over the use of its program against Venezuela during the illegal kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, when the Pentagon failed to notify the company that Claude Gov would be included in the operation. Expectedly, Washington DC is furious and is out for blood, with one senior official even saying that “it will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle” and that “we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand”.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei still insists on “guardrails to prevent mass surveillance of Americans or the use of AI in fully autonomous weapons systems without human involvement”. The company’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) explicitly prohibits “the application of Claude for the design or use of weapons, domestic surveillance and facilitating violence or malicious cyber operations”. However, the Pentagon is adamant that “those restrictions are unworkable”.
Anthropic thinks that “these restrictions are not waived for military/government users” unless the contract “includes specific safeguards that the company judges adequate”. However, the US military insists that “military AI tools must be available for all lawful purposes” and that “real-world operations are riddled with gray areas that rigid rules cannot anticipate”. The Pentagon also applies the same standard to all other AI companies.
Reports also indicate that sources familiar with the talks said senior Pentagon officials had “grown increasingly frustrated with Anthropic and seized the opportunity to escalate the dispute publicly”. In other words, Washington DC is deliberately exerting pressure on private companies to militarize advanced AI. Such trends are deeply disturbing, particularly as the world actually needs more regulations to limit the unchecked use of AI in warfare and surveillance.
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Drago Bosnicis an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
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