Trump-Vance billionaire backer Peter Thiel sells ‘Smart AI warfighting’ system to NATO while talking up U.S. trade war with China

Stock in Thiel’s company, Palantir, soars Monday on news of major new deal inked with NATO Allied Command Operations

Peter Thiel is the most influential man in the Trump White House that almost nobody in America is familiar with. Most Americans have never heard of Thiel and wouldn’t be able to tell you one fact about him. They’re sidetracked and distracted by Thiel’s good friend and fellow technocrat, Elon Musk. But don’t be fooled.

President Trump’s push to recalibrate the U.S.-China trade relationship has the full endorsement of the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.

Thiel, one of the infamous “PayPal mafia,” and a major financier of the Trump-Vance ticket, recently told American Optimist host Joe Lonsdale that “something like the sort of reset that they’re talking about now seems where we’re going, where you need a very drastic reset with China.”

Thiel went on to say he believes some industrial capacity should be moved from China back to the U.S., where it will be handled mostly by AI and robots, and the rest should be moved from one communist country, China, to another communist country, Vietn…