Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a massive upcoming study on the “future of warfare.”
Hegseth made the announcement at his “State of the Force” address on Wednesday afternoon, describing the trio of Trump loyalists as “the best forecasters of future conflict.”
“There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them. So today we are leveraging a unique source of American advantage—one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders, and our technologists. Big thinkers and doers who will forecast the creative solution to tomorrow’s conflicts,” Hegseth said. “And that’s why today … I’m announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.”
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But he just said no fatties, weirdos, or wimps.
We’re fucking doomed.
If you’re American, consider that the rest of the world has been reading comments like this daily for years.
Is that the big plan? Every day, new BS, “we’re cooked chat”. Repeat.
Begging Americans to decide now what is too far and put it on the wall or something. As of right now, it sounds like frogs slowly being boiled in the pot.
I think the destruction of military power for all the major nation states is the plan of the wealthy.
IMO They are preparing for a world of corporations and billionaires with their own militas. So destroying the competition before they announce the new game has begun.
Thats why all the bluster and fury stops at a certain level before anything changes the plan.
Yes that is literally his plan. Put out constant bullshit headlines about deranged stuff like this, so you become exhausted and stop paying attention. And then he steals billions from his various crimes.
He’s on tape saying as much.
The fuck does Elmo know about war?
Go get some of those mad lads in Ukraine that are fighting for their very existence and ask them about the future of war. Or fuck it, ask James Cameron, he seems to be more on track with how humans will cease to exist in the future than most people.
He knows even less about war than he does about technology.
So I am looking forward to how much he is going to fuck up everything in the military to fill his own pockets.
Yanks are ruled by fucking morons
just well put weasels in your henhouse that way.
You guys really want to do Vietnam all over again, don’t you?
Nah, just want to align the military inwards so they can built their techno-feudalist dystopia.
What, me worry?
Just in time for Elon to screw with the machines and for Newt to dribble saliva on everything
Best Forecasters of Future Conflict.
They know future conflict isn’t the war that a foreign nation will come at the military with. The future of warfare is how they will fight the revolutionaries that will inevitably rise against tyranny.
Musk has the ability to deploy surveillance technology anywhere. The “study” is “how do they continue to keep squeezing the iron fist?”
Edit: and by anywhere, I mean ANYWHERE. Motherfucker owns a space agency. Tesla cars rely on video processing of always network connected cameras for their driving assist mechanisms. Starlink puts network connectivity anywhere it currently isn’t.
And GUESS who is part of the PayPal mafia? Palantir. But also Yelp and LinkedIn. Those are much less important than Palantir, but Yelp can at least target businesses that don’t play along, and LinkedIn can harm people seeking employment.
The dystopia we are in is worse than people can truly grasp.
Elon gonna leak secrets on Twitter for sure
My own belief is that we almost achieved world-wide peace but then ran out of money. Now we need to crank up the old war machine and start making that sweet, sweet money again! /s
“We” didn’t “run out of money”. Billionaires decided they wanted more consolidated money, power, and control than they had, and chaos always favors those with the resources to capitalize on it. A few of them get burned, and some new folks who don’t yet have real power manage to seize some opportunity, but by and large chaotic periods are a wonderful way for the power and prepared to acquire more of what they covet.
Having had my flu vaccine shot today, I’m just going to assume I’m having a bad reaction and that this is not a real headline.
Edit: ‘flu’ not ‘flue’; I don’t have a fireplace
You mean you’re not Harry Potter? Digon Illy!
We already tried Elon in politics… No!
There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them.
Yeah, that’s how their mind works.
And the tankies on here will tell you without any sort of fucking irony that Kamala would be just as bad as this fucking bullshit.
The barrier to “not be as bad as Donald Trump and his administration” is so low that my nana right now would pass it and she’s been dead for decades.
Even just “doing nothing at all” would be way, way better that what the current US Administration has been doing.
These clowns are so openly, so extremelly incompetent and evil that even a “deceitful genocide supporting hard neoliberal warmonger who only represents the ultra rich” is not as bad as them.
Mind you, my long dead nana if exhumed from her grave and given the POTUS position would still be better than the “deceitful genocide supporting hard neoliberal warmonger who only represents the ultra rich”.
That’s how fucked up the US and its power duopoly system passing itself as a Democracy are.
Yep. And yet you see the tankies all over this site saying that they’re the fucking same.
The woman who bragged about how we were going to have the most lethal military ever?
She would have been better, but still way too similar to these guys. Before you come for me, I fucking voted for her, strongly suspecting that she was going to lose over being too conservative. And let me tell you, it sucks to be right.
Oh cmon. There’s zero comparison between her and trump.
