EU digital sovereignty submits to Palantir-linked AI initiative

The EU has officially signed itself out of digital sovereignty, instead submitting to the US-imperial ‘Pax Silica’ project to shut out any competition involving Chinese supply chains.

The project, as reported by the Financial Times, is described as:

an American-led effort to bolster AI-related tech supply chains as the west and its allies face rising competition from China.

The initiative has been guided by ex-Palantir operative Jacob Helberg, who now serves as under-secretary of state for economic affairs. It’s typical for US officials to fuse their private enterprise experiences and interests with the neoliberal state structure. The FT calls Palantir’s state asset Helberg “an architect of the security initiative..”

Helberg stated that Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan and Panama are also expected to join imminently, bringing the total involved in Pax Silica to 24 countries. The FT writes:

Helberg declined to say if Beijing was pressing US partners not to join Pax Silica.

EU submits to imperialist Pax Silica project

Imperialism has always fundamentally been about resource control, extraction, and profit-engineering. By the FT‘s own admission, Pax Silica is therefore the archetypical imperial project of resource domination:

The US created Pax Silica last year to secure AI supply chains in everything from chips and critical minerals to energy.

Early on, Palantir was exclusively funded with CIA deep-state money via the Pentagon’s venture fund, In-Q-intel. Its high-value stock index owes almost entirely to US government funding, making it a largely state-engineered company. Advocating for this brand of US-imperial domination, Helberg told the FT:

There’s no grouping that’s purpose-built to manage the AI economy at a time when AI is revolutionising the shape of the global economy.

There is explicit admission that this initiative aims to supplant the UN’s attempts at fostering a global environment of digital sovereignty in the AI revolution. The FT says the Helberg plan will:

“shape” a US alternative to initiatives such as the UN’s Global Digital Compact, which emphasises “digital sovereignty” — a concept [Helberg] argued would result in countries investing in duplicative ways.

Essentially arguing for a US-dominated monopolist approach to AI, in order to ‘combat’ China’s impressive and rapid AI development, Helberg iterated Palantir boss Peter Thiel’s worldview. Thiel has argued for many years that the ultimate aim of capitalist companies, and states, is not competition but monopoly. With competition, Helberg says dismissively:

You’re going to end up in a kind of synchronised mediocrity.

Let’s be clear: it’s an excuse for not allowing other countries to control their digital environment, which is increasingly AI dominated. It’s an argument for monopoly and unitary vertical supply chains.

Zionist coordination behind Pax Silica

Helberg identified Israel, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates as successfully using American technology to create “successful indigenous tech companies,” according to the FT.

Today, Israel’s economy is principally geared for war-making tech. This destructive sectoral complex has boomed throughout the state’s genocidal wars on Palestinians and others.

The UAE is also instrumental in normalising Zionist regional relationships, funding imperialist proxy wars regionally, notably in Sudan, again, a war featuring genocidal atrocities, and in Kenya.

Palantir have been proudly vocal about their support for and entanglement with the Zionist project — now also enveloping the EU. The CIA-funded tech firm is credibly accused of enabling the Zionist genocide through its AI weapons systems. CEO Alex Karp admits that they “kill people.” And they famously bought a full-page New York Times ad stating:

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Prior to the EU joining, the initial signatories were all the countries most vassalised to US-imperial ‘security’ interests. These included Israel, Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea and the UK.

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EU dependence on US-led AI order

China-based French journalist and geopolitical analyst Arnaud Bertrand wrote on X that “it’s over” for the EU since they signed their digital sovereignty over to this project. Bertrand explains on Substack, quoting US government documents from the State Department website:

whoever controls “compute and the minerals that feed it” will run the 21st century, and he [Helberg] wants to form a group of “aligned” countries around Washington in a “new economic security consensus” to make sure they’re the ones who do.

It is in essence eerily similar to the Roman-era “clientela” (patronage) arrangements, whereby Rome bound “client kings” in asymmetric relationships where the clients owed loyalty, alignment, and resources, and in return were admitted to the network. A self-fulfilling prize, since the network each client was buying into consisted of nothing more than the clients who had already joined.

Central to international political economy is an understanding that trade relations are rarely equal or agreed to on fair terms. The US once masked this behind the façade of liberal imperialism but has taken a much more overt flavour since Donald Trump #47. In one regard, this is a grace to the left, since we are no longer so easily deceived.

In all other regards, it has been utter horror for Palestinians, murdered en masse under Biden, but also Iranians, Cubans, Lebanese, Venezuelans, and many others.

The history of that imperialism, beyond overt war, is of resource-chain domination and structural dependency. It’s charted best by Walter Rodney in Africa or Eduardo Galeano in Latin America. Those same unequal trade relations exist today, albeit far more technologically advanced, embodied in the Pax Silica Declaration.

As the US bans AI regulation and gears its entire economic growth model to an AI implementation bubble, we can expect disasters along the way. That is now the EU’s fate, alongside those other eager supplicants to US empire like Britain and Japan. It’s a grave of their ruling classes’ own choosing.

It’s over, Europe has officially given up on its digital sovereignty: they just signed up to Pax Silica, the US initiative to lock other countries in its AI stack.

In case you think I’m exaggerating, Jacob Helberg, the US Under-Secretary of State who architected Pax Silica,… https://t.co/hsGTqhVSj5 pic.twitter.com/E2LYoU3aAG

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 24, 2026