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Evidence that Biden will start an AI-conducted war with Iran on behalf of the new Military-HighTech complex

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About two months ago, we mentioned Joe Biden's terrible response on whether he would lift sanctions on Iran due the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

As we wrote back then, Biden didn't even bother to defend one of the very few positive achievements that the Obama administration - during which he served as vice-president - left behind: the Iran nuclear deal.

Instead, he dropped all the assets he had in his arsenal that would help him attack Trump from the Left. And he did it, just only to make sure that he would not disturb the deep state apparatus with his response because the question was meant to test Biden's loyalty on the deep state agenda.

Connecting the dots, we found something even more terrifying. New evidence shows that key people around Biden and his potential cabinet in case he wins November's election, are deeply connected with the Military-HighTech complex. And that they will not hesitate to make Iran a test field for the first AI war in history on behalf of this new complex. These people will seek to boost profits and serve interests of what appears to be the successor of the classic Military–Industrial complex we knew so far.

Three of the key names here are Michèle Flournoy, Tony Blinken and Avril Haines. A very enlightening article by Jonathan Guyer for The American Prospect, reveals impressive details about their role in previous administrations and their deep ties with the Military-HighTech complex. Some key parts [most important highlighted]:

They had been public servants their whole careers. But when Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, two departing Obama officials were anxious for work. Trump’s win had caught them by surprise. Sergio Aguirre and Nitin Chadda had reached the most elite quarters of U.S. foreign policy.

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Michèle Flournoy had served as undersecretary of defense for policy from 2009 to 2012. Both Aguirre and Chadda had known her well in the Obama administration. Since leaving office, she’d spent several years in consulting and was hitting her stride. With Flournoy as senior adviser, Boston Consulting Group’s defense contracts grew from $1.6 million in 2013 to $32 million in 2016. Before she joined, according to public records, BCG had not signed any contracts with the Defense Department.

Flournoy, while consulting, joining corporate boards, and serving as a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, had also become CEO of the Center for a New American Security in 2014. The think tank had $48 million on hand, and defense contractors donated at least $3.8 million while she was CEO. By 2017, she was making $452,000 a year. 

If a Democrat were to win office, she would likely become the first woman defense secretary.

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He had been Vice President Joe Biden’s right-hand man for almost two decades and finished out the Obama administration as deputy secretary of state. He was known for his unimpeachable ethics. Having written Biden’s speeches for years, he had started to enunciate with the vice president’s drawl when he appeared on CNN. He had never cashed in on his international connections, years of face time with Saudi, Israeli, and Chinese leaders. His name was Tony Blinken. With his commitment to join Flournoy as founding partner, a new strategic consultancy was born. They called it WestExec Advisors.

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WestExec promised to be more boutique than conventional consultancies like Albright Stonebridge Group or RiceHadleyGates. Most clients would have direct access to either Blinken or Flournoy. They also recruited an assortment of former colleagues as contractors to chip in, among them Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, and Deputy CIA Director Avril Haines, who had helped design Obama’s program of using drones for extrajudicial killings.

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WestExec collaborated with the tech company [Google’s in-house think tank, Jigsaw], as first reported by The Intercept, in pitching an artificial-intelligence venture to the Pentagon. That AI initiative, known as Project Maven, led to an insurrection among Google staff upset about collaborating with the military. Though Jigsaw has since been removed from WestExec’s list of partners, the Prospect has learned that Blinken and Flournoy have continued to work quietly and informally with Google engineers and executives, spitballing potential geopolitical threats. Schmidt Futures, Google founder and billionaire Eric Schmidt’s philanthropy, has also hired WestExec.

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At the end of June, the campaign announced who would oversee foreign policy for Biden’s transition team. It was Avril Haines, another former security chief whom Aguirre and Chadda had hired, now aiming to return with her WestExec colleagues back to West Executive Avenue.



It's clear that Blinken and Flournoy are the "pioneers" in getting Google involved with the business of war, in order to take advantage of the new technologies and put AI into the heart of armed conflicts, through Project Maven.

It's unclear whether the project continued, due to its negative reception by Google staff. However, as reported seven months ago, Palantir revived the project:

Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after Google abandoned Project Maven earlier this year over ethical concerns.

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This system would, supposedly, give the government real-time battlefield command and control and the ability to track, tag, and spy on targets without human involvement. The limited, unclassified information available makes it appear as though the project stops just short of functioning as an AI weapons system capable of firing on self-designated targets as they become available in the battle space.

Google previously held the contract but, allegedly due to employee push back, the Mountain View company chose not to renew when it expired in March. At least a dozen employees walked out in 2018 after Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced the company would renew the contract. Subsequent internal pressure lead to Google ultimately declining to bid for the contract again.

The Pentagon didn’t have to look very far to find a company willing to pick up where Google‘s ethics left off. Palantir, the company that powers ICE and CBP’s surveillance networks and builds software for police that circumvents the warrant process, is reportedly chugging away on Project Maven.

At his point, it would be worth to mention that according to a recent report by The Intercept, Palantir "mysteriously vanished" from Avril Haines's biography after she joined Biden's campaign.

A closer look at Michèle Flournoy - who appears to be the favorite for the position of the Secretary of Defense in a potential Biden administration - shows that she was among the toughest hardliners against Iran, when she served as undersecretary of defense during Obama administration. Some of her statements back in 2010, are indicative:

"... we are countering Iran's destabilizing activities and support for terrorism and extremists in the Middle East and around the world."

"... we continue our effort to ensure Israel's qualitative military edge, and we are working closely with the Israelis to develop multi-layered ballistic missile defenses,"

"It's a vital avenue for countering destabilizing Iranian activities, and we believe we are seeing some results,"

"... our efforts in [the Defense Department] have helped to shore up the ability of our regional partners to defend themselves and to counter destabilizing activities from Iran,"

"We have also reassured our partners that the U.S. is fully committed to their security."

The new Military-HighTech complex will take war to a whole new level. HighTech giants will have the chance to maximize profits through both manufacturing advanced AI systems suitable for the battlefield, and, boosting their shares in the stock market through endless wars. And therefore, it is extremely doubtful whether Google will stay out of the race for too long.

A war with Iran would be a good start and it seems that the "suitable" people for the job have already taken their positions and wait anxiously for the last stage: Biden's victory in November.

This whole new generation of warhawks, like Flournoy, Blinken and Haines is about to replace the typical neocons. And the AI systems in the battlefield will make it easier for them and for Biden to sell another big war to the American public. Because it will not involve thousands of coffins with American soldiers inside, this time.

Yet, one thing will never change. Their endless thirst for bloody money. And the enormous human suffering and destruction of entire nations that this thirst will, once again, cause.

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