Patreon Preview – 448. Dubai’s Golden Dome Crumbles

We discuss the breathless article in Jeff Bezo’s Washington Post about how Claude’s integration into the Palantir Maven Smart System has been used for rapid target generation and prioritization for missile strikes in Iran. Then we go deeper into the fraying relationship between the Gulf states and the tech industry and the highly concentrated forms of financial investment and physical infrastructure in the UAE and Saudi Arabia that are load-bearing pillars of the global economy. Pillars that are now, very surprisingly for folks living in the Dubai Geopolitics Slow Zone, suddenly at risk from the consequences of geopolitics. ••• TMK live show in San Francisco, 7pm on Thursday, March 19th, with our friends at Bay Area Current and DSA SF. Join us! ••• Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud ••• The Trillions of Dollars of U.S. Investment at Stake in the Gulf ••• The Iran war is a jolt to Dubai’s business model ••• Big Tech’s Uncertain Future in the Persian Gulf Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: •••

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Patreon Preview – 448. Dubai’s Golden Dome Crumbles is an episode from This Machine Kills by This Machine Kills.

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This episode was published on Mar 11, 2026.

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