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Comment by stephc_int13 | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand how Palantir managed to sell their services outside of the US, given their deep ties to CIA, political positions and involment with US goverments.

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"Peter Mandelson’s lobbying company, Global Counsel, until its collapse, and Mandelson took the prime minister, Keir Starmer, on a trip to Palantir’s Washington DC showroom. "

Bribery.

Side note: Peter Mandelson was also a big fan of Jeffrey Epstein.

And thats putting it mildly.

It's called corruption. Politicians are particularly prone to this issue.

Because until recently that was part of the sales pitch. The post-WW2 political order was that the US Govt was the security guarantor for the "western world," which meant countries allied with the US traded an almost unparalleled security guarantee for things like dollar hegemony and trade policies they probably wouldn't have acceded to otherwise. The Iraq war severely strained that bargain, and Trump's effectively broken it, but for the entire latter half of the 20th century, "this company is part of the American Military-Industrial Technosphere" was why you did business with them.

whats even more confusing is that the Middle East Palantir team is almost all Chinese ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They probably don’t care about Middle East geopolitics.

Wouldn’t that also describe every single US tech and defense contractor? The fact it has deep ties to cia is probably seen as a benefit to the leadership of our allies. Maybe their own public sour on that but you can be sure behind closed doors they are in lockstep with the actual aims of our deep state intelligence services.

The thing is that while EU is allied with the US, they are also competitors in many markets.

Airbus is using Palantir services. The competition between Boeing and Airbus has often be brutal and dirty, and considered significant at the state level.

The fact that a company like Palantir be allowed to insert themselves in the software infrastructure of a critical company that is often working against the interest of the US seems very weird to me.

Why is that weird? Airbus probably relies on windows pcs too along with the rest of europe.

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