Technofascism Unleashed: Trump’s War Was Preloaded

From deregulation to drone strikes, a collapsing capitalist order choreographs crisis through satellites, software, and sovereign wealth. This isn’t escalation—it’s execution.

By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information
June 14, 2025

I. The Smoke Was Always Fire: War by Spreadsheet, Satellite, and Spectacle

They say the war started on June 13, when Israeli warplanes lit up Tehran’s sky. But that’s a lie dressed in urgency. The war didn’t start with missiles—it started months ago, when Wall Street got the green light, when Gulf monarchs wrote checks to Washington, and when Elon Musk pointed his satellites east. The only surprise here is that people still think any of this was spontaneous.

On April 19, Trump barked out a “60-day nuclear deadline” for Iran. To the untrained eye, it looked like another tantrum. But to anyone watching the machinery of empire, it functioned as a signal. Not to Iran—but to investors, defense contractors, and tech billionaires. Sixty days to move the money, prep the infrastructure, flood the press with distractions, and make sure every asset—digital, financial, and military—was in position. Weaponized Information, May 15

What followed wasn’t chaos—it strongly suggests choreography. Deregulation passed so Wall Street could play fast and loose with Gulf capital. Sovereign wealth was shuffled like poker chips in a back-room deal. Starlink beamed its imperial eyes over Arabia. Palantir’s predictive-policing tools were slotted into place. And the corporate press, ever loyal, spun the whole thing as economic “modernization” and “national security.” Translation? War by other means—until the bombs dropped.

So when Israel finally pulled the trigger, they weren’t acting alone or on impulse. They were executing a script. Every step—every meeting, budget bill, and diplomatic sideshow—appears to have been coordinated for this moment. What we saw in Tehran was just the fire; the smoke was always there—we just weren’t supposed to see through it.

This isn’t a “new” war. It’s the logical next step of a collapsing empire trying to hold itself together with missiles and megabytes. It’s the spreadsheet turning into shrapnel. And now the mask is off: technofascism isn’t some dystopia in the distance. It’s the operating system of empire—updated, upgraded, and armed to the teeth.

Note: Elon Musk confirmed via X on June 14 that Starlink was “now active in Iran.” The Jerusalem Post (June 14) and real-time tracker @OpenSkyNetwork (archived tweet) reported the constellation repositioning hours before the strike—raising obvious tactical questions.

II. Wall Street Arms the Empire: Deregulation as Pre-War Financial Strategy

Follow the money, follow the war. When Trump’s entourage swept through the Gulf this spring, they didn’t leave with dates and souvenirs; they flew home with over $2 trillion in sovereign-wealth commitments—officially reported in joint statements, with projections climbing toward $10 trillion over the next decade. (WI, May 15) That capital didn’t linger in Riyadh or Abu Dhabi. It poured straight into the canyons of Lower Manhattan, where deregulated banks sharpen balance sheets like bayonets.

The pundits called it “economic reform.” Spare us. Wall Street demanded looser capital rules the way a tank demands open road: not for efficiency, but for offense. With the Fed’s blessing and Congress’s rubber stamp, derivatives desks were cleared to gamble on oil futures, drone parts, and missile insurers—war portfolios in everything but name. Deregulation wasn’t policy tweaking; it was the empire’s GoFundMe for the coming air raid.

Meanwhile, The Guardian polished the scam with technocratic varnish. They spoke of “market modernization,” glossing over the fact that every unlocked rule meant another lever to siphon Gulf tribute into Raytheon earnings and BlackRock war bonds. The class war never makes the front page; it hides behind bar graphs and bipartisan smiles.

Let’s name the sequence for what it is: capital extraction → deregulation → militarization. No mystery, no side-story—just the ruling class arming itself with other people’s savings. While workers debate grocery bills, the financial elite bulk-order cruise missiles and AI-targeting suites, confident the bill will come due after the quarterly bonus.

So when Israel pressed the launch button, Wall Street’s ledgers were already balanced in shrapnel and futures contracts. The traders didn’t flinch; they refreshed their dashboards. In the spreadsheet empire, war is just another asset class—high risk, higher yield, always underwritten by someone else’s blood.

Note: On May 15 Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNBC all logged the $2 trillion headline pledge; Bloomberg’s deep-dive on dereg finance followed the same day (Bloomberg, May 15). A Reuters context piece confirmed sovereign-fund reallocations the next morning (Reuters, May 16).

III. Gulf Tributaries Secured: Capital Realignment as Imperial Discipline

If money is the empire’s blood, then the Gulf is its beating heart. For decades, Saudi petrodollars pumped through Wall Street without a hiccup. But the instant Riyadh flirted with multipolar courtship—chatting up Beijing, murmuring about yuan settlements—the bankers felt a skipped beat. Empire’s remedy? Reroute the flow, tighten the leash, punish the wanderer. (WI, Jun 4)

Enter the UAE and Qatar, sudden darlings of U.S. finance. Their sovereign funds ballooned overnight, bulking up stakes in Nasdaq tech, weapons start-ups, and the very hedge funds scripting war scenarios. Analysts praised “regional diversification,” as if trillions move on vibes instead of vetoes. Translation: Washington said “shift the cash,” and the Gulf replied “how fast?”

Even Abu Dhabi’s flashy induction into BRICS+ was hailed as a geopolitical plot twist. Spoiler: it’s just imperial infiltration in a new uniform. You don’t leave the dollar order by buying more Treasuries; you fortify it from a different trench. The UAE now plays both tables—photo-op with Beijing by day, overnight repo with JPMorgan by night.

Behind the spreadsheets sits discipline. By nudging cash corridors east of Riyadh, Wall Street warned the House of Saud: dabble in multipolarity and we’ll drain your vaults faster than you can say Vision 2030. Every redirected billion is leverage—an economic gun to the head that fires contracts instead of bullets but kills autonomy all the same.

Note: Mubadala’s $1 billion private-credit pact with Fortress (Reuters, Apr 24 2025) and a U.S.–UAE defense-tech LoI signed May 19 were confirmed by Stars & Stripes. Links: Reuters | Stars & Stripes.

IV. Musk the Quartermaster: Digital Control Systems for Repression and War

Elon Musk likes to pitch himself as a plucky disruptor aiming rockets at Mars. Don’t be fooled. The man is less space dreamer, more quartermaster for empire. Starlink’s constellation isn’t a philanthropic gift to the world’s unconnected poor; it’s a weaponized network, a private GPS for drones and generals. When Israeli jets streaked toward Tehran, Musk tweeted that Starlink was “now active in Iran.” (WI, Jun 4) Translation: digital infrastructure stood ready for command-and-control.

Remember the May 13 Trump-Musk summit at the Riyadh tech carnival? The cameras saw handshakes and robot-dog demos; the Pentagon saw supply-chain synergy. (WI, May 28) On the table that day were three pillars of 21st-century counter-insurgency:

• Starlink = battlefield comms
• Palantir = predictive policing
• Humanoid robots & generative AI = privatized discipline

The package deal is technofascism in kit form: plug-and-play surveillance, automated repression, end-to-end imperial logistics. Saudi princes get shiny gadgets; Washington secures obedient oil lanes; Musk pockets subsidies labeled “innovation.” Everyone wins—except workers dodging drones in Gaza and kids in Sanaa staring up at satellites that promise broadband and deliver bombs.

Note: Pentagon contracting data show Starlink’s Starshield enrolled in the hybrid-space transport demo (Defense News, May 12 2025) and the Navy’s own Starlink pilot (Military.com, Nov 15 2024).

V. Zionism Repackaged, Not Rejected: The Trump-Netanyahu “Rift” Was Theater

For weeks, media headlines breathlessly reported a “break” between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Talk of betrayal, ideological distance, strategic divergence—it was a political soap opera scripted for liberal consumption. But like all imperial theater, it was staged distraction. Zionism didn’t lose support; it got a new coat of paint. (WI, May 9)

The goal was simple: clear the diplomatic stage for what was coming. The Gaza slaughter had made even some Gulf monarchs nervous. The U.S. needed regional buy-in for what it knew was on the horizon—a direct hit on Iran. But to get MBS and others to sign off, the empire needed to cool the optics around Israel. Enter the fake feud: Trump feigns distance, Netanyahu plays the jilted partner, and suddenly the settler state looks a little more palatable to Gulf elites desperate for plausible deniability.

Meanwhile, Palestinians were surgically erased from the narrative. No headlines, no hashtags, no mention of settler violence or blockade starvation. Their absence wasn’t an oversight—it was a strategic maneuver. By muting Palestine, the empire removed the one obstacle that could have derailed its regional realignment. A blank space in the media became a green light for war.

And what did this “feud” change on the ground? Nothing. U.S. arms shipments to Israel continued uninterrupted. Intelligence cooperation deepened. Trump’s team, despite the staged outrage, doubled down on military aid. The Empire doesn’t care if the actors squabble backstage—the settler project must go on. Netanyahu can slap Trump in public and still get a new shipment of bunker busters in the morning.

Zionism remains what it has always been: the settler-colonial spearpoint of U.S. imperialism in West Asia. The only difference now is that the empire has learned to manage its brand. When Israeli missiles rained down on Tehran, the illusion of a “new” Israel collapsed. There is no moderate settler state. There is no rogue faction. There is only the long arm of empire, armed to the teeth and draped in PR.

Note: Netanyahu publicly thanked Trump for unwavering support on June 14 (Reuters). According to congressional aides briefed off-record, routine precision-guided munitions transfers continued through the first week of June; no formal DoD pause was ever implemented.

VI. Technofascism Legalized: Trump’s Budget and the DOGE Austerity Engine

When the House passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on May 12th, the cameras caught the usual fanfare—smiles, handshakes, ceremonial selfies. But behind the paper props was something far more lethal: the potential codification of technofascism into law. This isn’t a budget—it’s a blueprint for imperial control. And every line item reads like a declaration of war on the working class. (WI, Jun 4)

$150 billion to militarize the border. Billions more to expand DHS surveillance programs, upgrade ICE’s predictive policing tools, and fast-track digital ID systems linked to credit scores and biometric data. At the same time, cuts slashed through SNAP, Medicaid, and renewable energy programs like a fiscal bayonet. The message is unmistakable: digitize the stick, burn the carrot.

▶ Full FY-2025 budget cuts & surveillance line-items

• $149.7 b border-security block (drones, ICE analytics, biometric ID pilots)
• $32 b ten-year cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, renewables
• $11.6 b DHS “smart wall” cloud services

And through it all, the media chatters about Musk and Trump’s “feud” like it was reality television. CNBC framed the DOGE funding debate as a dramatic disagreement between competing visions for America. But anyone who’s been paying attention knows this is just factional infighting over who gets to manage the software of domination. (WI, May 28)

DOGE—Musk’s beloved austerity algorithm—was never dismantled. It was deployed. Through tax incentives and public-private shell games, its predictive engines now decide who gets food, who gets surveillance, and who gets denied access to the very systems they’re forced to rely on. The so-called rift between Trump’s camp and Musk’s tech empire was nothing but elite logistical friction—two management styles for the same plantation.

One wing of empire prefers riot cops and razor wire. The other prefers touchscreen menus and biometric scanners. But make no mistake: both wings serve the same bird—a decaying capitalist order desperate to automate its repression before the pitchforks return.

So while liberals wring their hands about “partisan gridlock,” the ruling class quietly codifies a digital dictatorship. One that decides who eats, who moves, who breathes—based on code you’ll never see, written by men you’ll never meet, to enforce laws you never voted on. That’s not democracy. That’s imperial software with a federal seal.

Note: H.R.1 text on Congress.gov confirms these figures; Bloomberg’s Hill tracker logged the floor vote May 22nd. DoD munitions flows to Israel proceeded J
May 22nd despite domestic austerity (Congress.gov | Defense.gov, Jan 2025).

VII. April to June: The Countdown Was Choreographed

History doesn’t always march in straight lines. Sometimes it’s laid out like a launch sequence—each event timed, coded, and executed with precision. What we’ve witnessed from April to June wasn’t a random spiral into war; it was a pre-programmed escalation, a rollout plan disguised as chaos. Look closely, and you’ll see: the war didn’t erupt. It was activated.

Date	Event	Strategic Function
Apr 19	Trump’s 60-day Iran ultimatum	Public countdown for escalation; signaled green light to financial and military networks
May 9	Zionist rift narrative seeded	Cleared diplomatic space for Gulf realignment; softened Israel’s optics for war coalition
May 13	Musk-Trump Saudi tech summit	Installed surveillance and warfare infrastructure; extracted tribute from Gulf monarchies
May 15	Deregulation launched	Enabled war financing through speculative capital flows and Wall Street leverage
May 28	DOGE austerity debate aired on CNBC	Masked ruling class unity with performative factionalism; normalized digital austerity
Jun 22	Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed	The House passes technofascist austerity and militarized domestic control
Jun 4	Gulf capital realignment (Saudi to UAE)	Final phase of logistical loyalty consolidation; punished Riyadh’s multipolar drift
Jun 13	Israel attacks Iran	Formal ignition of war theater; kinetic activation of the empire’s digital buildup

This wasn’t policy drift. It was imperial choreography—executed across finance, tech, diplomacy, and media. Each event reinforced the last, creating a drumbeat of inevitability. It wasn’t a question of if the missiles would fly, but when the stagehands would pull the curtain.

And now the spectacle is in full swing. The satellites are active. The press is spinning. The budgets are signed. The battle maps were drawn long before the first drone took off. What we’re living through is not history in motion—it’s capitalism in crisis, wearing camouflage and calling itself freedom.

Note: Trump issued a clear 60-day ultimatum at a rally in Houston on April 19, widely reported by The New York Times, Apr 19. The Wall Street Journal confirms Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran’s nuclear archive within that window, with Trump reportedly “stepping aside” on the final day. (WSJ, Jun 2025)

VIII. The Empire’s Infrastructure Is Its Weakness: Five Fronts of Revolutionary Response

Every empire builds the tools of its own demise. Rome had roads; the U.S. has data centers. The same Starlink satellites mapping Gaza and Iran? They rely on ground stations that can be shut down. The Palantir servers tracking organizers in Atlanta? They sit in office parks, not bunkers. Technofascism may feel invincible, but its systems run on cables, code, and cowardice. And that means they can be challenged—strategically, lawfully, and collectively. The task before us is clear. The empire has activated its war plan. Now we must activate our own.

1. Expose and Obstruct the Grid

• Map and publicize the logistical nodes of repression: Starlink ground stations, Palantir data centers, DOGE-linked fintech labs, ICE’s predictive AI hubs.
• Organize lawful demonstrations, blockades, and direct action campaigns targeting these sites. Use every available legal, digital, and civil resistance tool to interfere with the empire’s circuitry.
• Trace the financial networks funding the war machine—Gulf sovereign funds, Wall Street banks, defense venture capital—and build mass literacy around these systems of extraction and control.

2. Refuse the Binary

• The Musk vs. Trump feud is pure theater—an illusion of conflict to conceal unity at the top.
• Reject both managers of empire. Refuse to choose between the boot and the boot with Wi-Fi.
• This isn’t about reforming technofascism. It’s about rejecting its premise. Disengage from the charade and organize for rupture—material, organizational, and ideological.

3. Escalate Revolutionary Education

• Link the battlefields: Flint, Gaza, Tehran, Jackson, Port-au-Prince. Same empire, same enemy.
• Host teach-ins, build study groups, distribute literature, and develop militant media platforms. Arm people with historical and political clarity—not hashtags, but theory and praxis.
• Counter the imperial propaganda machine with a disciplined, revolutionary media apparatus rooted in anti-colonial analysis and proletarian internationalism.

4. Build Dual Power and Collective Defense

• Create survival infrastructure outside state control: tenant unions, cyber collectives, mutual aid supply lines, revolutionary schools, tech worker defections.
• Support defectors from tech and finance who no longer wish to serve empire. Build exit ramps and entry points into the movement.
• Develop collective defense systems—legal support, digital counter-surveillance, and physical protection for frontline communities under threat.

5. Forge Transnational Solidarity Across the Colonized World

• Iran, Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, Congo, Haiti, and the Black and Brown ghettos of the U.S.—our liberation is interlinked, and so must be our strategy.
• Reject NGO pacification and liberal identity politics. This is not about visibility—it’s about victory. Our solidarity must be militant, principled, and uncompromising.
• Build direct ties: people-to-people, worker-to-worker, revolutionary to revolutionary. From the river to the bayou, from Gaza to Detroit, we fight as one.

We are not powerless. The empire wants us atomized, demoralized, and distracted. But the moment we see through their choreography—when we name the machinery and target the operators—we shift the terrain. Revolution is not a slogan. It’s a plan. Let’s write ours.

Note: Resistance efforts targeting Palantir’s role in surveillance and repression are underway—tech workers, students, and unions have taken action at Palantir offices (e.g. protests in Palo Alto, New York, and DC). (LA Times, Dec 7, 2019; The Guardian, May 13, 2019) These are ongoing, lawful challenges to the techno-imperial architectonics you rightly name—and proof that ground-level struggle can impair centralized systems.