One of the realities that has emerged from the war with Iran is the extent to which AI..specifically Anthropic’s Claude, and a host of products from Palantir are running the government. The DoW and ICE are deploying these tools as a substitute for human thinking and decision making.

This worked really well with the Maduro snatch in Venezuela. Clean and jerk, to borrow a phrase from weight lifting. But this time, it’s not clean, and there are lots of jerks in this equation. The Orange Lizard. Bibi. Pistol Pete. And on the other side? Khamanei, who knew what was going to occur and was filled with the same ideological fervor that let him be ok with killing protestors in significant numbers. Araghchi, playing the diplomatic game as though he had all the time in the world to equivocate. The Omani ambassador flying to DC Friday night with a half-assed proposal that was never enough to counter Bibi’s AI-generated “dossier”.