June 18, 2026

Peter Thiel loves to operate in secrecy. No prying eyes. Signed non-disclosure agreements. Sworn to secrecy. No kiss-and-tell. So, what would Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) be doing meeting with the highest ranking arch-Technocrat in the universe? It is the regulator and the regulated, the senator and the surveillance vendor, the elected and the unelected, discovering they were never on opposite sides of a table at all .

The American people watched a war and waited for a victory. They are still waiting, because the thing they were promised and the thing that was delivered are not the same thing. They expected containment. They expected an adversary beaten back, a nuclear program dismantled, a hostile regime made smaller. What they received was a development contract.