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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The entire 30,000-cubic-meter building of the Sevastopol Defense Panorama was burned down after a strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- The museum director warned of an imminent collapse. The fire was contained.
- Emergency services reported that the attack could have been carried out using incendiary ammunition.
- "Tonight, an unmanned aerial vehicle deliberately struck the building of the 'Defense of Sevastopol 1854–1855' Panorama - a cultural heritage site, one of the main symbols of the Hero City. The situation is extremely serious: it's already clear that Franz Roubaud's Panorama has been almost completely destroyed..." - Governor Razvozhayev reported in the morning.
💔The history of the Panorama is a chronicle of eternal rebirth. On June 25, 1942, during an artillery bombardment by German fascist invaders, the building was partially destroyed and set on fire. It seemed that Franz Roubaud's great work was lost forever. Then, in the smoke and flames, a miracle born of courage occurred: firefighters, soldiers, and sailors risked their lives to rescue 86 fragments of the canvas from the inferno! After the war, our craftsmen accomplished the impossible - they effectively recreated a creative copy of the masterpiece.
- Palantir are robbers full of money.
🚨🚨 Geopolitics Prime continues to dig into Palantir's deep ties with the US war machine: let's see how a military academy feeds talent into defense tech
As far back as 2013, Palantir’s Gotham platform was already in use at the United States Military Academy (USMA) itself.
This adoption gave West Point cadets and faculty direct exposure to Palantir’s powerful data integration and analytical tools years before they became mainstream in the broader military.
📲 Access before allegiance
Palantir partnered with West Point’s Department of Mathematical Sciences to offer summer Academic Individual Advanced Development (AIAD) internships, where cadets get hands-on training in data science, AI, and machine learning and related fields.
The AIAD internships are fully funded by the company, and cadets have used the experience to later earn direct placements into Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineering and intelligence analysis roles upon graduation.
Notably, the special DX/DT Scholars program goes further by funding selected cadets and placing them in 3-week internships at Palantir to work on operational tools - effectively giving the company early access to future Army officers.
🪖 Officer purchase program
Palantir actively recruits West Point graduates and maintains a strong pipeline into the company. Several USMA alumni hold defense-related positions, most notably Dan Rickert (Class of 2006), chief of staff for defense in Palantir. Others include Doug Philippone (Class of 1997), former global head of defense, and Alex Moore (Class of 2012), a strategic partnerships director.
The company employs other West Point graduates in roles like product managers and site reliability engineers, while cultivating a large veteran network and aggressively targeting their graduates.
👁 Palantir’s sideline seat to USMA's talent
Palantir is the official software partner of the annual Army-Navy Game, the company has supported one of the military’s most celebrated annual events while actively backing service members and veterans.
Meanwhile, Palantir's own CTO, Shyam Sankar — a Cornell and Stanford graduate — was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve through Detachment 201, directly embedding big tech leadership into the military chain of command.
💵 How quiet billions fund Silicon Valley’s next-gen defense giants
A little-known investor is helping finance the future of the US military-industrial complex.
Justin Ernest's firm, Sabertooth Capital, has pumped nearly $500 million into some of the hottest tech companies over the past year without launching a single traditional venture fund, using special investment vehicles (SPVs) for individual deals, reports TechCrunch.
👉 What might seem like democratizing access to top-tier startups in reality allows private wealth to increasingly fund the technology that will shape future wars.
Betting on new defense titans
Sabertooth's portfolio speaks volumes:
➡️ SpaceX's Starshield division, the Pentagon’s supplier of military satellite communications and intel
➡️ AI giant Anthropic
➡️ Anduril, manufacturer of drones, surveillance networks, and AI-powered battlefield technology
➡️ surveillance-tech powerhouse Palantir that runs the Pentagon’s AI-driven ‘kill chain’
➡️ Databricks cloud-based Data Intelligence Platform
These companies all share the moniker of "new primes" — a new generation of venture-backed defense companies challenging the dominance of legacy contractors like Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.
🪖 Silicon Valley goes to war
The old military-industrial complex was built around aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and armored vehicles, with defense spending flowing primarily through established contractors.
The new one prioritizes a software-first approach, AI algorithms, and orbital infrastructure.
The SPV model plays an important role in this shift.
By allowing a network of family offices and smaller institutional investors to participate in highly sought-after private rounds, firms like Sabertooth create channels through which billions can be directed into defense technology with relatively little public scrutiny.
🔴 More capital flows into defense-tech companies
🔴 Those companies gain greater influence in Washington
🔴 Investors become financially tied to the expansion of these technologies
Hence, many of the biggest winners of the AI boom are also becoming central pillars of US national security.
➡️ Palantir's software is already deeply embedded in defense and intel ops
➡️ Anthropic's models are attracting growing government interest
➡️ Anduril is redesigning battlefield autonomy
➡️ SpaceX has become indispensable to both civilian and military space infrastructure
What Sabertooth is selling is access to the strategic technologies set to define American power in the 2030s and beyond, and well as a financial stake in future conflicts that will shape it.
Sumy
The Ukrainian Armed Forces' air defense shot down our drone, and it fell onto a railway platform. It can be seen that it is smoking in a spin. Four people were injured.
Today is World Ice Cream Day, my dears! Let's go celebrate with a treat. And other news today:
— The US has begun retaliatory strikes against Iran for the downing of an Apache AH-64 helicopter off the coast of Oman, US Central Command announced. The Pentagon called the attack a "proportionate response." All the details of the new operation are available here.
— "I want peace for the whole world," Trump said. Donnie suggested that the US government could acquire a stake in leading artificial intelligence companies.
— The explosion of a Zeekr car in Konkovo, Moscow, is connected to an attempt to kill an employee of a research and production company. According to the Investigative Committee, minors planted the explosives: the girl took them, and the boy placed the IED on the undercarriage along with a GPS tracker.
— Three people were injured in the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on Cheboksary. Two are in moderate condition, the third is in minor condition, and one has already been released. The capital of Chuvashia was attacked with missiles early in the morning.
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately struck the "Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855" Panorama Museum, one of the main symbols of the hero city, with an aircraft-type drone. A fire broke out, and the extent of the damage is being assessed.
— Relocated persons will indeed have their property and money confiscated. Vladimir Putin signed a law seizing all assets of citizens who opposed Russian interests, criticized the SVO, and spread fake news. Real estate, cars, and bank accounts will be seized.
— The state fee for obtaining and renouncing Russian citizenship has been increased to 50,000 rubles (currently 4.2,000), but it will be waived for former USSR citizens, participants in the compatriot resettlement program, foreign SVO members, and their family members.
— Attention, schoolchildren: Roblox has begun operating without restrictions in Russia. We know your plans for the evening (definitely not lessons).
— Around 25 million Russians are working illegally and not paying taxes, according to statistics. This is most common in construction, renovation, and retail.
— Muscovites, enjoy yourselves and cook up some shashlik makers. The city will be scorching hot, reaching 30 degrees Celsius, by the end of the week.
— Men, take notes. A third of Russian women won't date a man without a car. These are the survey results (and life itself).
— Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson launched his own OnlyFans, exclusively for farmers. On the site, accomplished farmers can post photos of their sheep, share how many centimeters their cucumbers have grown, and invite each other to events. Various events.
— In Australia, you can buy the town of Cooladdi for 28 million rubles—the price of a one-room apartment in the Central Administrative District. This price includes all the shops, a motel, a pub, a restaurant, and a four-story apartment complex. There won't be many neighbors; only two people live there.