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It was announced this month that SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril led a bid to build The Golden Dome, a new missile defense system for the United States that President Donald Trump promised during his 2024 campaign.

Plans for the system include building and launching “400 to more than 1,000 satellites circling the globe to sense missiles and track [missile] movement,” Reuters reported, and the system would also include “a separate fleet of 200 attack satellites armed with missiles or lasers would then bring enemy missiles down.”

What was most shocking about the proposal made to the Pentagon was SpaceX offering the Golden Dome as a "subscription service in which the government would pay for access to the technology, rather than own the system outright.” Yes, Silicon Valley wants to build a space-based missile system that is independent of the United States government, rented, not owned, by the US. This leads us to wonder whether or not Silicon Valley intends on renting this system to other countries, such as Israel, as well.

While it is actually in the Unites States’ national security interests to be able to protect itself from a missile attack, the question of what such a system could be used for in the wrong hands must be asked, especially given that a privatized missile defense system has the potential to fall into the wrong hands far more easily than a nationalized one. If the US were able to achieve a state of total missile impenetrability from a project such as this, international relations theory as we know it would change forever. In international relations, the theory of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D) has been the prevailing theory for why nuclear war has not broken out between two nuclear powers up to this point in history. If the United States did not have to worry about a retaliatory strike from another nuclear power because it possessed the means to defend itself from such an attack, that would allow the United States to wield its nuclear arsenal however it chooses, without fear of Mutually Assured Destruction. Furthermore, if such a system was placed in the hands of the Israelis, they could also use their nuclear arsenal to destroy any country they deem to be a threat.

It is not a baseless hypothesis to say that the Israelis could acquire the Golden Dome technology, as Palantir, SpaceX, and Anduril have been in bed with the Israelis for many years. Palmer Luckey, who is a self-described “radical Zionist," is the founder of Anduril, a start-up company which builds AI-powered drones and surveillance software and which was backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Andreessen-Horowitz, a venture capital firm with extensive ties to the Israeli intelligence apparatus. Peter Thiel’s Palantir has provided the IDF and Israeli Intelligence Unit 8200 with facial recognition and AI-enabled targeting systems in Gaza over the past two years, actively facilitating the ongoing genocide. SpaceX has already helped Israeli satellite company ImageSat launch multiple satellites into space. ImageSat provides satellite intelligence to both the IDF and Israeli Intelligence Unit 9900, and has provided satellite details to the IDF of the former Syrian Arab Army’s weapons and military base sites as well as Yemen’s. We covered Musk’s extensive ties to the Israelis as well as his fraudulent political persona in a previous article, which you can find here.

Northrop Grumman, Boeing, RTX, and Lockheed Martin are also expected to be involved in the development process of the Golden Dome, demonstrating that SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril all are a part of the same military industrial complex and for-profit war machine that has put the interests of defense contractors over the American people for decades. What these contractors actually believe politically is not the same as what they present publicly.