World War III: Palantir CEO Alex Karp Says 3-Front War With Russia, China And Iran 'Very Likely'
- Core Insights Advisory Services
- Aug 11, 2025
- 2 min read
Source: The Wine Press
Date: August 11, 2025
In other words, it's a lock.
As tensions continue to grow by the day between the United States and NATO versus Russia, China, Iran and the BRICS aligned nations, the specter of World War III grows along with it. Last year, in the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, tech giant and defense contractor Palantir CEO Alex Karp said that he thinks it is “very likely” the U.S. will be involved in a three-pronged war with Russia, China and Iran.
Karp admitted this in an interview with the New York Times in August of last year. The paper reported:
He thinks the United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran. So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems, because our adversaries will — and they don’t have the same moral considerations that we do.“I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might,” he said. “Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think.”“In fact,” he added, “given that we don’t have parity technologically but we don’t have parity morally, they have a huge advantage.”Mr. Karp said that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”[…] “Are we tough enough to scare our adversaries so we don’t go to war? Do the Chinese, Russians and Persians think we’re strong? The president needs to tell them if you cross these lines, this is what we’re going to do, and you have to then enforce it.”[…] He said he would support class-based affirmative action and declared himself “pro draft.”“I think part of the reason we have a massive cleavage in our culture is, at the end of the day, by and large, only people who are middle- and working-class do all the fighting,” he said.
Karp is a bit of an enigma to some when it comes to his relationship with President Donald Trump and the company, since Karp is a socialist and progressive and voted for Biden in 2020 and backed VP Kamala Harris. At the same time, he has distanced himself politically from Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, who is the polar opposite politically and a huge supporter of Trump.
Earlier this year, Trump came under heavy criticism when the New York Times revealed his administration contracted Palantir to collect all of Americans’ private and unique data to build a master database, building off of previous executive orders Trump signed that deregulates data sharing among federal agencies.
