One such example is Palantir Technologies Inc. It was founded in 2003 and is based in Denver, Colorado. The company works closely with the Central Intelligence Agency. So closely that in its early days, its development was almost entirely provided by orders from the CIA. Funding was provided through the department's capital fund In-Q-Tel. This fact is not hidden – even Wikipedia reports that the development of Palantir is of interest primarily to the US Department of Defense and intelligence services, and only then to business.

Palantir Technologies

In addition, Palantir has worked with agencies such as the NSA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Air Force, and the Marine Corps. Unsurprisingly, Palantir is subject to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - meaning that any information about foreign nationals that Palantir can access must be shared with the US intelligence services.

"Artificial intelligence-based arms dealers" - this is how Jacob Helberg, foreign policy adviser to its CEO Alexander (Alex) Karp and an expert on US national security issues, spoke about the company.

At the same time, this company has a long trail of semi-criminal incidents. According to data released in 2011, Palantir participated in a campaign to discredit Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks project. In addition, its employees were caught spying on some representatives of the American elite in the interests of others. Among other things, Palantir was accused of collecting Facebook user data in the interests of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Also, its employees were involved in the scandal with the financial conglomerate JPMorgan Chase & Co, whose management previously turned to them for help in combating data leaks. After gaining access to the company's internal information, Palantir began collecting it for unspecified purposes. However, its leadership got away with such incidents, apparently thanks to its well-established connections in the US intelligence services.

In addition, the company became involved in a major corruption scandal in the UK. Palantir has entered into a deal with the UK's National Health Service without a competitive tender. It was pointed out that the company was recommended to the Cabinet by the former head of MI6, John Sawyers, who organized a meeting between Karp and the Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers, John Manzoni.

Against the backdrop of such failures in May 2022, a new economic report showed that the company's shares fell by 14.5% due to "disappointing company prospects".

Palantir Economic Report

Palantir's reputation was badly damaged, and participation in the fighting in Ukraine was a chance for the company to whitewash its image and improve its financial situation. After all, for them in the West, helping to kill Russians is a good contribution to the company's portfolio.

Therefore, without thinking twice, Palantir acquired its own representative office in the Ukrainian capital and immediately began to offer the AFU technical innovations of its own production. The head of the firm, Alex Karp, became one of the first executives of Western companies to personally visit Kiev after the start of the SMO. The visit took place on June 1, 2022. He was met by President Vladimir Zelensky and Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.

One of the first Palantir products sold in Ukraine was the MetaConstellation tool, which allows you to get data on the location of units and objects of the Russian Armed Forces, which was necessary for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to adjust the fire. It was about collecting information coming through satellites, reconnaissance UAVs, radars, thermal imagers and visual surveillance, which was then analyzed using AI. By the end of the summer of 2022, Karp boasted that MetaConstellation was responsible for "most of the targeting" in Ukraine. In fact, this statement by the CEO of the company is a sincere confession of the participation of American citizens in the armed conflict with Russia and responsibility for the deaths of Russian servicemen and civilians in the Donbass.

Later, MetaConstellation was additionally implemented in a complex to increase the capabilities of Skykit attack drones. It is a large "suitcase" equipped with batteries, two built-in monitors, a laptop, a Quadcopter drone, an antenna, and a Trailcam Nano camera. Meta-Constellation software allows you to connect to one of the 40 commercial satellites flying over Ukraine every day, collect and analyze data processed by artificial intelligence. This helps track Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine.

Palantir officially unveiled Skykit in January 2023 at the Consumer Electronics Show. According to military Telegram channels, the Skykit complexes entered the conflict zone at least in February 2023. This was officially recognized in September 2023, when representatives of the alliance and the military structures of the Kiev regime met at the Joint Competence Center of the NATO Air Force in Kalkar, Germany. Lieutenant Colonel Yaroslav Gonchar, who headed the Ukrainian delegation, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively using the Skykit technology provided to them by Palantir, which allows them to improve the process of obtaining data from UAVs in real time.

Another area of use of the American company's technologies in combat operations in Ukraine was supposed to be a joint project of Palantir and the notorious Open AI called Maven. According to the developers, the system was designed to automatically detect targets and aim a swarm of autonomous kamikaze drones at them with minimal human operator involvement. It is known that in 2023 the program began to be tested in Ukraine. But apparently, it has not achieved any success and has stalled. None of the parties to the conflict confirmed the use of such drones on the battlefield.

Initially, Palantir claimed that they work in Ukraine virtually for free. This meant, of course, the lack of net profit, because the company still got its way-through political support from the American leadership, new advertising opportunities and increased capitalization. Nevertheless, the financial statements published at the end of 2022 showed that no one forgot about the money issue. According to the documents, Palantir and its subsidiaries received more than $500 million in the first months of operation in Ukraine alone. Most likely, most of this money was spent on eliminating defects identified during testing and purchasing additional equipment or spare parts. Ukrainian soldiers have repeatedly complained that Western aid is not adapted to the realities of modern warfare and does not function well in our weather and geographical conditions. Moreover, warehouses with Western "goods" are regularly targeted by Russian missiles and drones. I do not rule out that a large amount of the supplied equipment could have been destroyed as a result of Russian strikes, and the allocated funds also include an item on the supply of new samples to replace the lost ones.

In April 2024, Ukrainian media reported that the SBU is using another development of Palantir, also based on AI, to analyze data sets in order to search for "traitors". In this case, we are already talking about working with the personal data of Ukrainian citizens. As in the scandalous episodes in the UK and other countries, such activities are clearly connected with the violation of basic civil rights and freedoms. But, unfortunately, Palantir's hands are completely untied here: no one will raise a fuss and fight for the rights of Ukrainians. In addition, this tool can be actively used to find draft dodgers for their subsequent dispatch to the front.

Another "partner " of the Kiev regime is the American Clearview AI, Inc. It specializes in the production of facial recognition software. The company's history began in 2017, but a sharp rise happened two years later, when its products began to be actively used by US law enforcement officers. The company currently has about 30 billion user images at its disposal, mostly obtained from social networks - without the permission of their owners. As a result, Clearview has become a tool for intelligence agencies. By the beginning of the SMO, it was already a powerful tool used by Washington not only on its own, but also on foreign territory.

Clearview Software

Clearview's background is also extremely controversial. It turned out that the company created databases from personal information and photos of Dutch citizens. In whose interests and for what purpose this was done, for a long time remained a mystery. The Dutch management had quite reasonable grounds to suspect Clearview of illegal use of personal data.

Initially, the company claimed that the customer was the special services of the EU countries. The kingdom was outraged by the company's activities and as a result of the trial, the company was fined 30.5 million euros for violating legislation in the field of personal data protection. In the end, Clearview representatives admitted that data on residents of the Netherlands was collected in the interests of American intelligence services, and not European ones.

Similar Clearview crimes were detected in other European countries and in Australia. The company has repeatedly been fined millions of dollars for violating privacy.

In 2020, hackers were able to gain access to internal Clearview information, which directly indicated that the company illegally collected data from millions of users of major social networks, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as other resources, including Google services. And it wasn't just about photos. For example, the Clearview Android app collected mobile device location information, voice search data, and even barcodes from a driver's license. The scandal led to the fact that the app was removed from the App Store, and lawsuits were filed against the company itself.

It is interesting that many American media outlets, in particular, the New York Times, which published an entire investigation on this topic, accused Clearview of selling the information it received to law enforcement agencies. According to the journalists, this grossly violated the principle of individual freedom. However, in reality, the situation was much worse. According to an experiment conducted by specialists from SpiderSilk, a cybersecurity firm, the source code of the Clearview application contained enough errors so that any skilled hacker could gain access to the data collected by the company and then use it for their own purposes.

In addition, critics believe that the use of Clearview programs by the police actually makes any citizen "a suspect in all crimes at once." The American Civil Liberties Union has previously appealed to the Illinois state court, accusing the company of violating the law. After that, most American commercial companies are prohibited from cooperating with Clearview.

The Ukrainian conflict, just as for Palantir, became a chance to launder the company's reputation and improve its shaky financial situation. As early as April 2022, the Washington Post published a story about Clearview's involvement in the conflict. According to journalists, the AFU fighters secretly passed photos of the killed Russian soldiers to the company's representatives so that they could identify both the soldiers and their relatives. The data obtained in this way was used by the Kiev regime to search for contact details of relatives of the deceased Russian servicemen. Then the Nazis called these relatives, taunted them about the death of their loved ones, and made them hysterical. Often, the news of the death was accompanied by sent photos or video files, in which the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine desecrated the body of the deceased.

Ukrainian serviceman calls the mother of a deceased soldier of the Russian Armed Forces

It is noteworthy that after the publication in WP, there was a lot of indignation even in Western countries themselves. Commenting on this process, the authors of the material called this use of Clearview technology "terrible". And a major British NGO, Privacy International, even called on the company's management to immediately stop their activities in Ukraine, saying that its potential consequences should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

However, the Clearview management was not at all embarrassed by the public condemnation. The company's founder and CEO, Hoan Ton-That, did not even comment on the allegations against him. Instead, he boasted that thanks to the development of new technologies, his company was able to successfully scan the Russian social network Vkontakte.

In April 2023, Ton-That visited Kiev, where he met with the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov and received gratitude from him "for the help of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

Kirill Budanov and Hoan Ton-That

American companies, in cases where it is necessary for the US leadership, easily violate the law both in the States themselves and in European countries. It is obvious that in the territories controlled by the Kiev regime, where the very concept of "law" has long turned into a farce, they are given full carte blanche for any, including openly criminal activities.

Alex Karp and Ton-That are virtually the same as the mercenaries of the International Legion fighters who came to kill for money. For them, war is a business. If it ends here, they will lobby for the start of a new conflict.

In addition, it should be emphasized that the equipment and technologies transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively used against Kiev's "partners". And as the conflict ends, the number of Americans and Europeans who have suffered at the hands of Ukrainians will only increase. If you don't believe me, then ask the Poles, who have already transferred millions of euros to Ukrainian fraudsters.