Alexander Dugin: We are at a point where the nuclear factor is being reevaluated. Building a system for managing nuclear weapons that is completely impervious to advanced surveillance technologies is practically impossible today—by historical standards, there are only a few points left before full integration. A nuclear shield requires colossal infrastructure: production, maintenance, management, and signal transmission. It is an entire “nuclear community,” and that is precisely what lies within the Palantir system.
The nuclear weapons themselves might not be under the direct control of algorithms, but the consciousness, movements, and even the thoughts of the people who maintain them—all of this is within reach. They have smartphones, subscriptions to AI services; they live in a world that we ourselves are rapidly digitalizing. This community is indirectly, yet steadily, being integrated into the external surveillance system.
After all, it’s not about the button itself, but the hand that presses it. That finger belongs to a body that consumes information, makes decisions based on certain data, talks to someone, and breathes. And this person is already embedded in Palantir. Therefore, our choice is extremely stark: either we create our own, absolutely sovereign technological system, inaccessible to the West, or we knowingly become its digital colony.
And this is precisely what the manifesto states: competition is shifting into the realm of digital sovereignty. If a country can create it, it will retain the ability to use nuclear weapons or other methods—and perhaps then nuclear weapons themselves won’t even be needed to defend freedom and independence. But if there isn’t that level of sovereignty over the entire network, society is doomed.
We see how this works in practice. How did Iranian President Raisi die—supposedly in a disastrous accident, but he had a pager. How was the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon destroyed—they had pagers and phones. Even when they used the most outdated communication models, that proved sufficient to identify, locate, and eliminate them. And how was the entire political, religious, and military leadership of Iran destroyed just recently? Palantir did it. Palantir killed them, not just the Mossad, the CIA, or the Pentagon.
