Just before noon on Saturday, Palantir, the defense-tech company that holds several multi-billion-dollar contracts with the United States military, published a 22-point manifesto on X detailing why Silicon Valley has a moral obligation to go to war for America.

“Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible,” the corporation wrote in a post from its official X account. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.”

California-based journalist Gil Durán called the manifesto a “worship of violence and speed that’s typical of fascism.”

Durán, a former Democratic strategist, has covered Silicon Valley’s hard turn to the right since 2024 in his blog The Nerd Reich. His X account was suspended after he reposted the manifesto with the caption, “TLDR: Fascism,” but he was far from the only one who called out Palantir’s disturbing rhetoric. The manifesto provoked a largely negative reaction on social media and alarmed political leaders abroad; the Guardian reported that one liberal member of the UK parliament compared it to “the ramblings of a supervillain.”

But Palantir has been circulating these ideas for more than a year. The post on X is a summary of several points made in The Technological Republic, the grandiose political book lamenting the “complacency” of the West and glorifying a return to “hard power,” co-written by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and his head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska. The book was published in February 2025.

So, why would Palantir reprise it now?

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