Tech Fascism in Europe

Europe is a growing target and front of tech fascism. Silicon Valley venture capitalists and their proxies are pursuing a sophisticated strategy to attain influence and control of European countries. They seek to bolster the far-right, achieve military supremacy, build Network States, and force adoption of their crypto, AI, energy and weapons startups.

Across Europe, venture capitalists are supporting far-right political parties. They are applying significant pressure for the "re-armament" of European countries with venture capital-backed defense startups, along with massive upgrades of policing and border technologies. Using their powerful positions within the U.S. administration and EU institutions, venture capitalists look to dictate European policy, and are attacking regulatory bodies.

Targeting Europe's huge market for computing infrastructure, venture capitalists are pushing massive datacenter and AI projects. Large firms like Palantir and Oracle are getting deeper and deeper into the operating system of Europe's governments. At the same time, Europe hosts hubs of tech fascist extremism, from Network State projects to radicalized crypto communities and large ideological projects spreading tech fascist propaganda.

Silicon Valley venture capitalists developed many of these strategies in the United States, and they are now running the same playbook across Europe. The same strategies have been deployed against countries now being dominated and colonized by tech fascism, as in Argentina, El Salvador and Honduras. These attacks are occurring with the same tactics in many countries simultaneously, as venture capitalists scale state and institutional capture around the world.

Preventing the fall of Europe to tech fascism and the right-wing elements they back is vital to world security.

Venture Capital Weapons and "Re-Armament"

Top U.S. venture capitalists are agitating for "re-armament" of Europe with their venture-funded weapons and defense startups. This builds on their U.S. strategy, compromising the American government and military to move spending on "legacy" vendors like Lockheed and Raytheon into their own companies. Europe is a key market for the global expansion of their military projects, and their position of power in the U.S. government allows them to apply significant geopolitical pressure on European countries.

In his book, The Technological Republic, published in February 2025, the CEO of Palantir Alex Karp makes extensive comments pushing the re-armament of Europe with Silicon Valley systems, stating:

"The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation and the articulation of a national project—what is this country, what are our values, and for what do we stand—and, by extension, to preserve the enduring yet fragile geopolitical advantage that the United States and its allies in Europe and elsewhere have retained over their adversaries...

It will, however, be a union of the state and the software industry—not their separation and disentanglement—that will be required for the United States and its allies in Europe and around the world to remain as dominant in this century as they were in the last...

It was for a time considered unnecessarily provocative and nearly impolite to suggest that Europe was not spending a sufficient amount on its own defense—that the continent was essentially benefiting from an enormous investment in national security by the United States, some $900 billion per year, without sharing in its costs. For decades, America has been spending approximately 3 to 5 percent of its GDP on defense, while military expenditures by the European Union have hovered at around 1.5 percent over that same period...

The implications of the fractured European approach to defense spending and acquisition are significant, with the procurement machines of nearly thirty nations pursuing different strategies with different suppliers across the continent and the world...

Software is now at the helm, with hardware—the drones on the battlefields of Europe and elsewhere—increasingly serving as the means by which the recommendations of AI are implemented in the world. The arrival of swarms of drones capable of targeting and killing an adversary, all at a fraction of the cost of conventional weapons, is nearly here. Yet the level of investment in such technologies, and the software systems that will be required for them to operate, are far from sufficient."

In a 2025 earnings call, Palantir COO Shyam Sankar stated "we would love to help Europe on the manufacturing challenges around rearmament, and I think there are a lot of them to do."

Palantir has headquarters in the UK. The head of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley, who founded the the British Union of Fascists. In 2025, the Ministry of Defense signed a partnership with Palantir, in which Palantir agreed to invest up to £1.5 billion in the country

"to help make the UK a defence innovation leader and create up to 350 new jobs, making defence an engine for growth.... Palantir has also announced plans for London to become the base for Palantir’s European defence business, establishing Britain as a hub for defence technology innovation across Europe. The arrangement will also support the growth of British Defence Tech companies across the supply chain, with Palantir helping to mentor and develop UK companies. This will include helping British defence start-ups and SMEs to expand into US markets, including an offering on a pro bono basis.... Some of these new capabilities will support development of what is known as the ‘kill chain’, whereby military planners fuse a wide range of information and data sources from open source and military platforms to provide military commanders with faster options for attacking an enemy target."

1/10 of Palantir's sales are in the UK, with contentious contracts with the NHS. In November 2025, Palantir announced a large deal with PwC UK, a professional services company, to "accelerate AI transformation" across the country.

Also in November 2025, the United States published its National Security Strategy of the United States of America, in line with Palantir's mission and focusing heavily on re-armament of Europe:

"We want to ensure that U.S. technology and U.S. standards -- particularly in AI, biotech, and quantum computing -- drive the world forward...

President Trump has set a new global standard with the Hague Commitment, which pledges NATO countries to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense and which our NATO allies have endorsed and must now meet... The United States will stand ready to help— potentially through more favorable treatment on commercial matters, technology sharing, and defense procurement...

Promoting European Greatness

... The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation...

Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe..."

This came on the heels of a massive transatlantic tech agreement between the US and the UK, including a £22 billion investment from Microsoft, a £11 billion investment from Nvidia, a new AI "growth zone", a "Stargate UK" project, as well as the development of nuclear energy programs. Venture capitalists have a number of nuclear energy startups accompanying their AI and weapons build-out; this also lays the groundwork for overtaking the "legacy" power grid.

In January 2026, Oracle secured an expanded contract with the Ministry of Defense to make MoD an "AI-ready organization". An Oracle executive stated "The UK MoD is moving quickly to use data and AI in far more sophisticated ways to strengthen national security for UK citizens."

Weapons Startups in Europe

2025 was a record year in funding for European defense startups, reaching $2 billion for the year, with CNBC reporting:

"Germany’s AI drone makers Helsing and Quantum Systems hit valuations of 12 and 3 billion euros this year, respectively, after rounds worth hundreds of millions of euros. In the U.K., manufacturing platform PhysicsX, which works with defense companies, raised $155 million this year, and missile interception startup Cambridge Aerospace reportedly picked up a $100 million round in August....

Germany announced its defense spending would rise to upwards of 100 billion euros — a record figure since the German reunification — from 2026, and also changed procurement processes to make it easier for startups to participate.

While most European governments have ramped up defense spending, Germany stands out as having 'visible pathways from prototype to major procurement [for startups] that many other European markets still do not provide,' Meghan Welch, managing director at financial advisory firm BGL, told CNBC. 

Helsing and attack drone startup Stark are both in line to win a contract for kamikaze drones, the Financial Times reported..."

Stark is funded by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale's firm), Peter Thiel and Thiel Capital, Sequoia, and CIA's venture firm, In-Q-Tel. Stark advertises itself as "a technology-driven defence company delivering the systems that Europe and NATO need now. Created in response to critical operational demands, STARK’s unmanned systems are designed to meet the realities of modern conflict: AI-enabled, software-defined, and ready for affordable production at scale."

Helsing is funded by U.S. venture capital firms General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel. Its focus is on "AI-enabled precision mass and autonomous systems across all domains", offering AI strike drones, air and sea autonomous vehicles, as well as "AI for electronic warfare". In 2025, Helsing made the major acquisition of Blue Ocean, an autonomous underwater vechicle company, and Grob Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer for aerial war.

Helsing is partnered with Mistral, an AI company based in France and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, General Catalyst, and Saudi Arabia's Sanabil Investments. Nvidia, Salesforce, Databricks and Microsoft are also investors.

In a press release, Mistral's CEO stated "With our partnership with Helsing, Europe is poised to take a significant step forward in asserting its technological leadership in AI. Mistral AI’s versatile models are instrumental in developing a new generation of defence systems, ensuring Europe's strategic advantage in the global landscape." These relationships demonstrate how venture-capital backed weapons and AI startups work closely together to execute on overall venture capital war-making agendas.

Hadean -- backed by CIA's venture fund In-Q-Tel, Andreessen Horowitz startup Yuga Labs, and Epic Games -- is based in the UK and states they are "at the forefront of the UK’s defence tech ecosystem. We have developed world leading software which is used by defence organisations and militaries around the world..." "Hadean supports all phases of the mission lifecycle to help customers plan, train and make faster, better decisions."

Hadean, which started out making virtual worlds for video games, pivoted to defense in response to the Ukraine war. They now create simulations for war gaming and mission rehearsal, modeling financial data, spatial information, terrain and weather data, population information and migration information. They are partnered with Palantir. Case studies on their website highlight customers including the British Army and the UK Ministry of Defense.

According to Pitchbook:

"Europe’s defence tech is shifting from proofs of concept to production. Venture investment is up meaningfully from 2024 levels, with dollars concentrating in later stages and scale-up rounds. Policy tailwinds (such as the European Defence Fund, the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, and the NATO Innovation Fund) and rising defence budgets—now trending at or above 2% of GDP across much of Europe—are pulling dual-use tech into procurement. Capital is clustering in a handful of hubs: the UK, Germany, France, Finland, and Switzerland."

Anduril, the largest VC-backed weapons startup, is reportedly considering a factory in the UK. In June 2025, they announced a partnership with German defense corporation Rheinmetall to collaborate on military drones. Anduril has offered to pay for half of a contract for a uncrewed combat aircraft with a cost of over $100 million. Their UK website states "Anduril UK is reinvesting more than 40% of its revenue into R&D to defend British interests."

A 2025 report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in partnership with Politico uncovered the extensive lobbying Anduril is doing in the UK, "with a massive PR operation, winning influential supporters and government contracts worth tens of millions" :

"Since January 2023, Anduril has met with nine senior MoD officials, paying for meals on three occasions, according to transparency data. At a meeting with Paul Lincoln, then a permanent secretary, the company presented him with two copies of a book by an Anduril executive called The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare...

Overall, Anduril has met with government officials 19 times since January 2023 (having done so just twice prior to that). Of these, 11 were with the MoD, where much of its government relations push has been focused. Anduril has also been on a drive to recruit from within the ministry, hiring at least 11 former MoD staff...

RUSI’s Sylvia said Anduril has benefitted from the military tactics deployed in Ukraine, where drones have accounted for more than two thirds of battlefield casualties. 'Ukraine is key because not only is it contributing to all of Europe doubling down on defense, but drone companies, software companies … they’re testing their equipment in Ukraine.'...

Though it has stepped up its efforts more recently, Anduril’s first deal with the UK government came in 2021. The contract, worth £3.8m, was to develop an 'advanced base protection system' for MoD sites.

Four more MoD contracts have since followed, according to procurement platform Tussell, as well as one for the Home Office, which in 2022 enlisted Anduril to deploy its AI-powered sentry towers (recently mapped by Migrants’ Rights Network), reportedly to monitor migrants crossing the Channel in small boats...

The government has also this month established a £400m innovation body within the MoD, apparently modelled on the US innovation unit, to deliver 'cutting-edge' military tech to British troops.

The potential benefits for Anduril are obvious, not least because the government also wants to boost its defence spending by 20% in the next parliament. Speaking from Bush House at this year’s London Defence Conference – sponsored by Anduril – Starmer outlined his ambitions for 'the largest sustained increase since the cold war'."

Anduril found initial success in producing sentry towers and drone technology for use on the US/Mexico border; the UK now uses the Anduril sentry towers across the South-East coast of England. Europe is a huge market for militarized border technologies; as Border Profiteers documents: "Europe’s bordering system extends far beyond the Schengen perimeter, reaching deep into Africa and the Middle East through 'migration management' programs. The Mediterranean functions as both a death zone and a testing ground for dual civilian–military technologies."

From the Pulitzer Center report, "American AI Arrives on Fortress Europe’s Borders. At What Cost?": "A new joint investigation by Inkstick, Solomon, Taz, and SWI Swiss Info reveals how new technology is rolled out across Europe to deter irregular migration and handle asylum claims, often with little scrutiny and thin safeguards, that can affect even underage refugees. It also shows how the EU is increasingly moving towards 'smart' border control solutions, which either use or have the potential to use artificial intelligence — despite officials downplaying or hiding this trend behind less ominous terms like 'algorithms.'"

Europe is a key market for the tech fascist goal of a centrally managed, global border system administered by its technology companies.

In August 2025, the UK government announced a new initiative leveraging AI to create "detailed interactive crime maps that identify where crime is most likely to happen to allow for better prevention... Innovators have been tasked with developing a detailed real time and interactive crime map that spans England and Wales and can detect, track and predict where devastating knife crime is likely to occur or spot early warning signs of anti-social behaviour before it spirals out of control – giving police the intel they need to step in and keep the public safe."

This resembles the goals of Argentina's Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, to "predict future crimes" using AI, facial recognization, social media and security camera footage.

Venture Capital Firms in Europe

According to Pitchbook in its 2025 Annual European Venture Report:

"2025 deal value sat at €66.2 billion, pacing 5.1% above 2024, as Q4 activity strengthened through the end of the year. 2025 has been a story of value versus volume: European venture markets have continued to see a significant step down in deal volumes (20.6% decline YoY), yet value has been resilient as deal sizes have increased...

AI has been the dominant force in venture markets during 2025. In Europe, a third of deals during the year comprised AI companies, with 35.5% of European deal value sitting in the sector... Although AI’s continued resilience in Europe may be unsurprising, its share of European deal value is still roughly a third of the share it holds in the US...

Fundraising in Europe ended the year at €12 billion across 148 vehicles, which fulfilled our expectations for the weakest level of activity on record, both in terms of value and volume...

it is clear that venture returns in Europe have lagged other geographies and asset classes within the continent, making it a tough place for LP allocations looking into 2026...

Our funds research team estimates Q1 2025 returns to be 0% in Europe, especially compared to low single digits in North America, but in the middle of the pack versus other private asset classes."

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The relatively weak venture system in Europe makes it ripe for influence from the more robust American venture capital cartel. Nation-state drive to gain a globally competitive technology industry has forced alliances between tech fascists and nation-states, as seen in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Argentina and El Salvador of the tech fascist axis. Governments desperate to build up their technology and venture industries turn to U.S. venture capital as a solution.

Using its many executives in the highest levels of the American government, venture capitalists now put pressure on sovereign nations; for example, in February 2025, shortly after the election of Trump, vice president JD Vance addressed the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris with a strongly anti-regulation message, stating:

"to restrict [AI] development now would not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralyzing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations...

this administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide and we are the partner of choice for others -- foreign countries and certainly businesses...

we believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off...

we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology, rather than strangles it. And we need our European friends, in particular, to look to this new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation...

the Trump Administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on U.S. tech companies with international footprints. Now, America cannot and will not accept that, and we think it's a terrible mistake not just for the United States of America but for your own countries.

The U.S. innovators of all sizes already know what it's like to deal with onerous international rules. Many of our most productive tech companies are forced to deal with the EU's Digital Services Act and the massive regulations it created about taking down content and policing so-called misinformation....

Meanwhile, for smaller firms, navigating the GDPR means paying endless legal compliance costs or otherwise risking massive fines."

Highlighting this system of pressure is the story of Andreessen Horowitz's relations with the UK. Andreessen Horowitz, a major backer of JD Vance, opened a London office in 2023. Reuters reported at the time that the office

"... will work with universities in the UK and support the development of blockchain technologies and startups, the company said in a statement, adding that it will be led by one of the firm's general partners, Sriram Krishnan.

The move by Andreessen comes at a time when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been cracking down on the crypto industry, suing cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance last week for allegedly breaching its rules.

'We're thrilled to open our first international office in a jurisdiction that welcomes blockchain technology and is committed to creating a predictable business environment by pursuing regulations that both embrace Web3 and protect consumers,' said Chris Dixon, founder and managing director of Andreessen's a16z crypto fund..."

In 2024, Andreessen Horowitz addressed the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry on "Scaling Up: AI and creative tech", advocating for massive investment in AI technology, crypto, NFTs, and "decentralisation," stating "Failure to capitalise on the scale-up opportunity could result in a reduction in the UK’s global competitiveness."

Andreessen Horowitz closed its offices after the U.S. 2025 election, when their position in America -- especially regarding crypto -- was secured by backing Trump and getting JD Vance into office. Reporting from Shifted states:

"According to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request filed by Sifted, a16z’s arrival was the 'culmination of five years of proactive account management' by the Department of Business and Trade... however, the lobbying efforts went up in smoke as the VC firm announced it was closing up shop in the UK to focus on the US crypto market in the wake of Donald Trump’s election... 'They almost came here to make a point to the US,' a person familiar with the wider situation told Sifted. 'The US was crypto-unfriendly at the time and the UK said it would set out a regulatory roadmap....

The UK’s previous economic secretary Bim Afolami had made a public push for crypto regulation but his replacement under the new Labour government, Tulip Siddiq, didn’t make crypto a priority and cancelled several meetings with crypto companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter. 

'Tulip didn’t meet with a single crypto company,' said a crypto industry insider. 'the optics mean a lot to business guys particularly if you’re an American VC.'"

The former head of the UK office, Andreessen Horowitz venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan, is now Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence under Trump.

Venture capitalists commonly use these tactics, threatening or promising to bring funding, startups and offices in and out of states and countries as a negotiating and regulatory arbitrage strategy. Venture capital firms are in the process of doing this in California, threatening to leave due to new proposed wealth tax; they have threatened to leave Silicon Valley for Texas or Florida many times while continuing to build their strongholds in all of them. In 2023, Coinbase got a regulatory license to operate from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, noting in their announcement: "a regulation by enforcement approach in the US is instead leading to a disappointing trend for crypto development in the US." Venture capitalists use their entry and exit from states and countries to apply pressure to nation-states and lobby for more permissive regulations.

Despite ostensively closing its UK offices, Andreessen Horowitz is still active in the UK, both through investments and maintaining scouts across Europe working to find startups to fund, with Sifted reporting that they had 20 scouts operating across Europe: "A16z has dozens of scouts around the world, who invest in early-stage deals. Scouts typically write cheques between $10-25k — with some managing six figure budgets — which A16z can top up if it’s particularly bullish on a deal."

Andreessen Horowitz has continued to place pressure on Europe to change technology policy. Marc Andreessen addressed the regulatory environment in Europe in a November 2025 podcast with David Sacks, the "AI and crypto Czar" under Trump (lightly edited for readability):

Marc Andreessen: The principle is just do the opposite of the EU. I think everything we've talked about so far is basically the opposite of the European approach.

David Sacks: The Europeans, they have a really different mindset for all of this stuff. When they talk about AI leadership, what they mean is that they're taking the lead in defining the regulations, that's what they're proud of. They think that's what their comparative advantage is, is that they get together in Brussels and figure out what all the rules should be, and that's what they call leadership.

Marc Andreessen: The EU just announced a big new growth fund, a big new public/private sector tech growth fund to grow EU companies to scale, it's almost like a game show or something. They do everything they can to strangle them in their crib, and then if they make it through like a decade of abuse as small companies, then they're gonna give them money to grow...

I shouldn't beat on them too much. But I've always been proud to be an American but particularly now, it really feels like we're recentering on core American values in a lot of the things we're talking about, which is really great.

These events show a pattern of venture capitalists pressuring Europe to join its agenda and suspend fetters on venture capital development and regulation, all while pressuring Europe into re-armament with venture-capital produced weapons and venture capital intelligence firms like Palantir.

Crypto and Startup Accelerators in Europe

Europe is a huge market for crypto. According to Chainalysis, "Between July 2023 and June 2025, the European region demonstrated remarkable growth and resilience. Transaction volumes followed a distinctive pattern: after experiencing a decline in mid-to-late 2024, the market staged a robust recovery, reaching a peak of $234 billion in December. This momentum carried into early 2025 and the overall performance underscores Europe’s position as a mature crypto market, characterized by strong institutional presence and widespread retail adoption across its diverse member states."

Coinbase attained its Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) license in June of 2025, a regulatory framework that is adopted across all EU states. Gemini, backed by the Winklevoss twins, received its license soon after. Gemini has stated that 24% of UK-based retail investors hold cryptocurrency. Coinbase now offers its Coinbase Card to UK and EU residents, allowing them to use crypto and currency anywhere that accepts a Visa card.

Europe is home to significant crypto projects and companies. The Cardano Foundation is based in Switzerland, and manages the Cardano (ADA) cryptocurrency. It maintains wallets, an incubator for crypto projects, and voting and identity management tools. They have a constitution and there has been significant chatter among community leaders regarding Cardano potentially becoming a Network State. The Ethereum Foundation is headquartered in Switzerland, as is the Web3 Foundation.

Davos has become an important nexus of crypto development. Coinbase and a16z are participants of the WEF's Blockchain and Digital Assets Initiative, along with Blackstone, Circle, General Catalyst, the IMF, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Lightspeed Venture Partners, PayPal, Ripple and other venture capital firms and crypto companies. Davos is home to "AI House", "Where global AI leadership convenes", with supporting partners including the Future of Life Institute, SoftBank, TikTok and AI company Cerebras Systems, funded by Sequoia, Benchmark, Tiger Global Management, Vy Capital and others. Davos also hosts a permanent web3 hub, managed by Crypto Valley and its venture capital arm. The Charter City project Ârc is regularly active in Davos since 2025, sending a "mission" to the WEF in January of that year. Swiss banks have been early adopters in offering crypto services, and in early 2026 there were reports that Swiss banking giant UBS would begin offering bitcoin and ethereum as financial products.

Meanwhile, there is a bloom of venture capital firms inspired by Y Combinator and Founders Fund in multiple countries across Europe, indicating how the tech fascist operating structure is pollinating across jurisdictions. While many of these firms work with Silicon Valley venture firms, they are not subsidiaries of Founders Fund and Y Combinator, but rather inspired by its model: "by founders for founders," young male participants, early-stage financing, hands-on startup development, investor pitch days and robust alumni networks.

Swiss Founders Fund was co-founded by Y-Combinator alumni Christian Mischler, investing in early-stage startups across verticals. Dutch Founders Fund, now DFF Ventures, states "We are a small group of ex-founders and operators who invest with a no-bullshit, full-commitment approach." Italian Founders Fund has executives from Silicon Valley Innovation Hub, JP Morgan Chase and Lombardstreet Ventures, advertising itself as "Italy’s first founder-backed VC." Germany's Young Founders Fund funds "ambitious founders under 26" and promises investors "exclusive access to promising young talent". French Founders "combines a New York-based venture capital (VC) firm with a global community of over 300 seasoned French-speaking investors."

Originally launched as European Founders Fund, Global Founders Capital is an early-stage funding firm that has co-invested in a number of Silicon Valley startups, including Deel and Slack, with co-investors including Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Sequoia Capital. Similarly themed firms include United Founders, created by Vít Horký and Jakub Havrlant, founder of Rockaway Capital. They operate across major European hubs, including the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and Central Europe. Its early investments include Israeli startup Wonderful, which develops "customer-facing automation tools." The United Founders goal is "for Europe to create its own trillion-dollar giants" through "a mission-driven VC fund combined with a vibrant founder network, open for ecosystem-wide collaboration."

Onstage VC is part of the startup events ecosystem in Europe, based in the UK and partnering with tech fascist VC firms including A16z, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and others for demo days of early-stage startups. It has launched a venture capital firm modeled after Y Combinator; from a November 2025 article: "Onstage has also become a key gathering for venture capital professionals, recently attracting hundreds of GP [general partner] applicants, solidifying its role as the largest conduit of deal flow across Europe’s startup ecosystem."

EWOR is another firm emulating the Y Combinator model, based in Berlin, and partnered with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Accel and others. They claim "EWOR Fellows raise at a 50-300% higher valuation than average" and like Y Combinator, offer a fellowship program to accelerate startup development. Its CEO has stated "There is no YC in Europe. Many European counterparts have a reputation for tough terms and low valuations for founders, lack authenticity as they’re not run by founders with a track record in building relevant tech companies, and are bureaucratic. If we’re serious about seeing tech companies being created in Europe that can hold their own against those in the US and China, we need to offer terms, authenticity, and flexibility that truly appeal to top-tier entrepreneurial talent.“

Europe’s "Digital Sovereignty"

The EU’s newly established Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) is a "scaled, pan-European, mission-driven evolution of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund to invest in the maintenance, security, and improvement of strategically important open source software globally." It is a central funding channel for the new European tech landscape.

The policy brief outlines a "long-term fund with at least 300 billion Euro for a period of ten years, to steer investments into key technologies such as in AI, quantum and cybersecurity […] strengthening the European frame for Venture Capital, to keep fast-growing startups in Europe […] [using] SWFs [(Sovereign Wealth Funds)] to protect important financial assets and for strategic investments into innovations in the Deep-Tech sector […] [as well] as tax cuts for R&D companies, who invest in AI, semiconductors and digital infrastructure.“ (Translated from German.)

The use of the sovereign wealth fund model for technological development is established from precedents like Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which funds startups through its venture arm, Sanabil Investments. In 2025, the White House published a Presidential Action, "A Plan For Establishing A United States Sovereign Wealth Fund"; Pat Gelsinger, the former CEO of Intel argued in a WSJ opinion piece that "If the U.S. wants to win the global race for technological supremacy, the country’s best tool is a sovereign-wealth fund... intelligently deploying President Trump’s proposed sovereign-wealth fund could secure American leadership in such critical technologies as quantum computing, artificial intelligence and advanced microchips."

U.S. tech giants are selling new datacenter and AI infrastructure to nation-states under the label of "sovereign clouds" -- infrastructure that is built and maintained by the tech giants but supposedly offers "sovereignty" in the form of physical isolation, national security-grade features, and compliance with government regulations. Oracle, Microsoft, AWS and Google are all major vendors of sovereign cloud services.

Oracle has set up the "Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud", which "shares no infrastructure with Oracle’s commercial regions and has no backbone network connection to Oracle’s other cloud regions. Customer access to Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud is managed separately from access to Oracle Cloud’s commercial regions." According to Oracle, "Regions are operated by EU-based legal entities that own the hardware and data center leases and provide the operations and support. The isolation of the EU Sovereign Cloud realm allows Oracle to restrict support and operations, including physical and logical access to the realm, to EU residents employed by EU legal entities."

Sovereign cloud offerings bring up serious questions: if the "sovereign cloud" is developed, constructed, sold by, maintained and reliant on secessionist tech fascists -- can it really be "sovereign"?

In 2020, Palantir joined the GAIA-X project, a non-profit European initiative aiming to establish digital sovereignty across Europe, stating: "Gaia-X empowers businesses, individuals, and governments with secure, transparent, and sovereign control over data through a decentralized cloud infrastructure"; "Our goal is to establish an ecosystem, whereby data is shared and made available in a trustworthy environment. Our intention is that we give the control back to the users by retaining sovereignty over their data. Our outcome will not be a cloud. It is a federated system linking many cloud service providers and users together in a transparent environment that will drive the European data economy of tomorrow."

The inclusion of Palantir in this project demonstrates the infiltration of tech fascism into "sovereign" technology projects across Europe. This effort highlights just one of many "liberal" counter-proposals to tech fascism that are at serious risk of replicating the same patterns, with the same players. Built on simplified narratives like the euro-centric theory of "techno-feudalism", policymakers defend the rapidly expanding European VC system as the only viable and necessary solution for "digital sovereignty". This functions to shroud the contemporary colonial infrastructures on which this techno-political program depends.

According to "The New Ideologies of Eurocentrism: Neo-feudalism, Techno-feudalism and Irrational Myths of the Present" by Matthew Herzog: “whether you are a vassal capitalist running decentralized small machining shops or the ‘lord’ of a techno-feudal ‘fiefdom’, you have a shared interest in the imperialist exploitation of the resources of the Global South”.

Network States in Europe

Europe is a rapidly developing Network State front, deeply networked with the tech fascist international. Its landscape includes Europe-based blockchain hubs, Network State "pop up cities," permanent sites like Liberland, new parallel institutions, and significant propaganda arms.

The continent is a hot-bed for collectives and events of all kinds related to themes of Network States, cypherpunk, transhumanism, libertarianism, hacker culture, crypto, secession, and anti-statist ideology. Many of these provide a hub for co-mingling of those communities, leading to a tightly-networked, ideologically-aligned movement. While this tech fascist movement goes underexposed in reporting and analysis, it threatens to scale uncontrollably as more funding from crypto and venture capital floods these projects.

The next major nodes of the Network State are breaking out in Europe.

Forest City 1 - UK

The UK is developing Forest City 1, a Network State-adjacent project to build a new city in Suffolk, planned to accommodate 1 million residents. In its early stages, Forest City 1 has a pledge for potential residents and partners outlining its goals and ideology, discussing "unlocking Britain’s innovation capital... Britain’s first new city in 50 years. Proof that we can still build extraordinary things". It resembles talking points from Andreessen Horowitz's techno-optimst manifesto.

Signatories of the pledge include a number of startup founders and executives, as well as software engineers, data analysts, and other tech roles. Signatories are from Neo4j, LeapFrog Labs, Humanoid Robotics, Salesforce, Docker, Elevenlabs, the Future Cities Project, Microsoft, NHS, Google DeepMind, Bolt, Stripe, Fortnite and others, and include Zaha Hadid Architects, architects of the Próspera colony in Honduras. Zaha Hadid also helped design a virtual city based on Liberland. Zaha Hadid is headed by German-born Patrik Schumacher, an advisor to Próspera and Tipolis for city planning and design, and "ambassador“ to the Free Cities Foundation.

The UK is particularly vulnerable to Network State development due to the large number of special economic zones that exist in the country; from the EuropeanPowell blog "The UK is being subdivided into corporate fiefdoms where different rules, different prices, and different levels of democratic accountability apply depending on which 'zone' you’re in." Commenting on the Forest City 1 development and its affinities with the Neoreactionary (NRx) movement:

"The parallels between Forest City 1, the proposed new city in Suffolk, UK, and the NRx technocrat vision of gov-corp Technates are genuinely alarming... If the UK approves a million-person city operating under special legal status with corporate governance, it validates the template globally. Every country facing housing shortages (which is everywhere) gets a precedent for jurisdictional fragmentation... The fact that this is happening in the UK, using the same 'Special Economic Zone' language, the same accelerationist rhetoric, the same public-private partnership structures, proves this isn’t a fringe ideology. It’s a global template being deployed through multiple channels simultaneously."

The UK funded the Global Future Cities project from 2018 to 2022, partnering with the UN, "to help promote economic growth in developing countries. Its broad priorities include improving the business climate, competitiveness and operation of markets, energy and financial sector reform and in increasing the ability of Governments to tackle corruption." It focused on interventions in cities in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and Istanbul; interventions revolved around urban design, "smart city" technologies, "enhancing urban governance", "Smart City Strategy," and data integration and analysis. This project demonstrated how new city and smart city projects are implemented not just within the UK but exported as a colonial product.

Switzerland

Switzerland is another non-EU territory that hosts a number of advanced tech fascist projects. There are 6 "Innovation Parks“ and 16 start-up accelerator and incubator programs across the country, as well as universities that are feeders into larger venture capital agendas like "Web 3".

The Solana Foundation is based in Switzerland, as is the Ethereum Foundation. Zuzalu, part of the Ethereum project, has set up a permanent "node" there, called Zuitzerland, hosting hackatons, summits, and residencies oriented around "human sovereignty", parallel societies, crypto, AI, cypherpunk and especially Vitalik Buterin’s notion of "defensive accelerationism“. After its initial rounds of pop-ups, Zuitzerland plans to open a permanent on-chain hub in the village of Interlaken in 2026, as announced at the Network State conference 2025.

Zuitzerland has hosted high-profile delegations from Infinita/Próspera and DarkFi, and a presentation by Balaji Srinivasan. They have partnered with other Network State projects including Logos and Crecimiento, which originated in Argentina. More information on Crecimiento can be found on this site.

Switzerland, a global leader in drone technology, is home to "Drone Valley", now with over 100 startups, many backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. Switzerland's drone-friendly regulations have been instrumental to this development. According to Switzerland Global Enterprise, "Switzerland is the world’s leading location for developing core technology for drones and commercial applications. Ranked among the world’s best technological universities, the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the University of Zurich are at the forefront of flying robotics and uncrewed systems. They work closely with an active industry to bring new products quickly to the market."

Deep integration into the universities demonstrates how venture capitalists infiltrate and capture the educational system to groom future weapons workers -- a strategy they have used in the United States through close partnerships with technical schools such as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and MIT.

In a 2014 article for Politico, Marc Andreessen proposed a drone valley concept in an article titled "Turn Detroit into Drone Valley":

"policymakers shouldn’t be trying to copy Silicon Valley. Instead, they should be figuring out what domain is (or could be) specific to their region—and then removing the regulatory hurdles for that particular domain. Because we don’t want 50 Silicon Valleys; we want 50 different variations of Silicon Valley, all unique from each other and all focusing on different domains.

Imagine a Bitcoin Valley, for instance, where some country fully legalizes cryptocurrencies for all financial functions. Or a Drone Valley, where a particular region removes all legal barriers to flying unmanned aerial vehicles locally. A Driverless Car Valley in a city that allows experimentation with different autonomous car designs, redesigned roadways and safety laws. A Stem Cell Valley. And so on."

Switzerland's "Crypto Valley" was founded in 2013 in the city of Zug and has developed into a crypto-imperial core in Europe, with the Crypto Valley Association network listing over 250 corporate partners, including crypto companies Bullish, Circle, Cardano Foundation, Ripple and Lightspark. According to a report from CVVC (Crypto Valley Venture Capital) released in 2025, Crypto Valley hosts over 1700 blockchain companies. CVVC serves as an early-stage investor. Its CV Labs hub itself hosts hundreds of blockchain startups as well as companies in AI and other verticals, and has established significant university capture. The 2026 Crypto Valley Conference is sponsored by the Cardano Foundation and will feature multiple speakers from Coinbase.

Montenegro

Montenegro has been a hot-spot of Network State activity, and was the first location for the Zuzalu pop-up city in 2023. A reporter for The Atlantic documented the event, writing:

"Part retreat and part conference, it was also a dry run for the more permanent relocation of tech-industry digital nomads to different parts of the world, where they could start their own societies and design them to their liking...

in Montenegro, inside a geodesic dome, presenters gave pitches for an array of proposed societies. The talks were of the friendly 'no bad ideas in brainstorming' variety—propositions with enormous stakes presented one after another in an hour or less. Beginning as online communities, or as 'decentralized autonomous organizations,' some would be built from scratch by people with a shared cause. Others would be start-ups in a more traditional sense—instigated by founders and run like businesses. For instance, Titus Gebel, a German entrepreneur, proposes the establishment of 'free private cities,' where citizens are customers who pay only for the government services they intend to use personally. A city operator and a small governing board would make every important decision. 'The current Western legacy systems are not reformable,' Gebel said during a presentation. 'They’re not really serving people’s needs any longer.'"

The first Zuzalu included speakers from the broader Network State ecosystem, including Laurence Ion (Viva City), Mark Lutter (Charter Cities Institute), Niklas Anzinger (Infinita / Prospera), Chika Uwazie (Afropolitan) and Patri Friedman (Pronomos Capital). Also in attendance was the CEO of Praxis, Dryden Brown, who has scouted Montenegro as a possible location for a Praxis city. The event included talks on "Honduras' path to decentralization" and "Africa: Tapping the continent's talent".

Montelibero is a libertarian crypto settlement in Montenegro, beginning land development in 2021 and now consisting of multiple residential buildings. They also have their own stablecoin and investment fund. They host the annual libertarian conference Montelibero Fest, advertising to "people with libertarian views, and anyone interested in learning how to successfully ensure personal and social freedom and independence in the modern world and what alternative methods of organising society exist." Its 2025 event had keynote speakers from Liberland and Liberstad. Montenegro is attractive to the Network State movement in part due to its crypto-friendly environment.

Ârc Montenegro is a charter city project by Network School alumnis, with a 2-month pop-up city unfolding in 2026, planning to host over 250 people: "Think of it as the best parts of college meets an accelerator — but on the Montenegrin coast. Community, wellness, and deep work, all in one place." It will take place in the same private town and hotel where the first Zuzalu pop-up was hosted.

Liberland - Eastern Europe

The colony of Liberland occupies disputed territory between Croatia and Serbia. It was founded in 2015 with the help of Tom W. Bell, legal architect for Charter Cities, Freedom Cities, the Network State and related projects. After a long initialization phase, Liberland has entered an accelerated stage of development and capital accumulation as the Network State has gained momentum globally.

According to Liberland, they have recruited around 1000 citizens, more than 4000 E-Residents, over 700,000 applicants worldwide and have close to 100 representative offices around the world. In 2023, the first settlers began physically moving in. They are expanding their influence into Serbian and Croatian territory through the construction of bases called "ARKs". Liberland is also connected to other nodes that they call “Diaspora Villages,” in Montelibero as well as sites in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and others.

Liberland has a formal system of "government officials," administered through blockchain infrastructure, with "inspiration drawn from governance and economic models observed in Singapore, Dubai, and Monaco". The appointment of government officials, a cabinet, a congress, and a state press shows how this Network State project is adopting the formal mechanisms of nation-state sovereignty. Liberland is one of the most advanced such projects in the world. In 2024, crypto oligarch Justin Sun was elected via a blockchain voting system as "prime minister" of Liberland.

Liberland’s founder and president is Vít Jedlička, former regional chairman of Czechia’s far-right libertarian "Free Citizens Party“. In May 2015, Jedlička’s home country warned about his activities, saying in a statement that the Czech Republic ”considers the activities of Mr. Jedlička inappropriate and potentially harmful.” At the 2025 Network State conference, Jedlička announced a new infrastructure project: biotech longevity labs in ARK Village Serbia and Liberland.

US-based “minister of foreign affairs” Thomas D. Walls shares the wish for a “European Milei […] who is going to fuck shit up” and confirmed Liberland's desire for political support from the U.S., Argentina and El Salvador. Liberland's “representative of Austria” Anna Riedl founded the Effective Altruism Austria chapter, spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2022 and more recently at Zuitzerland.

In 2026, a delegation from Liberland was sent to Davos, with Logos member and Satoshe founder Shirly Valge joining their event. There Jedlička recounted their other diplomatic efforts, namely: "An informal encounter between President Jedlička and Eric Trump at Abraham House, where Mr Trump was speaking at a private dinner event; A meeting between Ivan Pernar, Liberland Minister of Interior, and Wojciech Wrochna, Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Energy; Attendance by Ambassador-at-Large Pol Victoria at a private breakfast with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka; A separate meeting between President Jedlička and the Somaliland Presidential team."

A critique of Liberland can be found in Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory", stating:

"To paraphrase Hakim Bey*, one could say that the territory of Gornja Siga** could be considered not as a goal, but as a ‘camouflage’ for Liberland: since the occupation of a ‘terra nullius’ is not a priori illegal, why not use this subterfuge to fit into an ‘already-existing archetype’, namely the territorialized state? To claim the creation of a new state by giving it a territorial base would not be an end in itself, but a pretext, a means to leave the Westphalian state framework and to join a worldwide libertarian community.“

*Hakim Bey was the pseudonym of pedophilic occultist Peter Lamborn Wilson, whose ideas are often cited as prefiguring the Network State concept. In his book, "T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism", Bey advocated for "a 'webwork' […] of weird cults & individuals providing conversation & services for each other, out of which might begin to emerge a trend or tendency or 'current' (in magical terms)."

**Gornja Siga is a Danube peninsula, part of Liberland's occupation.

Other Sites in Europe

In addition to Ârc Montenegro, Ârc hosted a pop-up city in Lisbon in 2024 featuring prominent speakers Niklas Anzinger (Próspera/Infinita), Patri Friedman (Pronomos) and Mark Lutter (Charter Cities Institute), and also the German Goethe Institut.

Logos has held recruitment events, called "Circles", in Lisbon, and in 2026 will hold its "Parallel Society Festival“ there -- hosting a coalition including representatives from multiple Zuzalu nodes and the Charter Cities Institute. These events, festivals and pop-ups create ongoing coordination spaces for actors across the entire Network State movement, leading to a perpetual, nomadic "tech fascist international".

Network State colonies are also popping up in Scandinavia. In Norway, the project Liberstad is currently constructing settlement buildings. It is listed by the Free Cities Foundation and claims to have 129 landowners, 557 members, 37 companies & organizations and 150 hectares of land under its control, as well as a newly established bank. Its primary objective is "to establish a new parallel society and economy, operating independently to fulfill all the essential requirements and desires of a fully autonomous city.“

Italy is another European territory where plans for crypto hubs and Network State nodes are being developed, including "Bitcoin Valley", and where a "Bitcoin Citadel" has been proposed for a small town in southern Italy.

The Netherlands have a startup-society since 2021, and in 2023 the very first Network State Conference was held in Amsterdam.

The recently-launched Network Nations Alliance is a European coalition trying to reframe Network States with uncritical references to Srinivasan and Praxis, providing a definition that draws from the Ethereum Foundation:

"In a network society, infrastructure is territory. […] Network Nations assert spatial authority through the design, operation, and stewardship of self-sovereign infrastructure. The polity’s survival [depends] on its ability to persist across distributed digital environments—to exit, fork, and reassemble without loss of data, identity, or integrity. […] Network Nations could revitalise the democratic promise of collective self‑determination for the twenty‑first century."

Projects like Network Nations present themselves as democratic projects -- even as they collude with explicitly anti-democratic ones -- but in reality are tech fascism disguised with liberal arguments and values.

There are many more Network State projects being seeded and grown continuously across Europe. It is vital that journalists, activists and researchers include Europe in their model of the Network State, and work to monitor and report on these developments.

Logos, Polis Labs and Web3 Privacy Now

Logos is a highly advanced network state ecosystem with far-reaching influence and a large coalition of allies. In July of 2023, "the collective’s first public outing" took place during an Ethereum Conference in Paris. One of its longest-running official bases can be found in Prague, with the establishment of the first Parallel Polis node and its successor, the Bordel hackerspace. Today, Logos has ties with many other Network States beyond Europe.

Its "long-term vision“ consists of three phases: "Evolving institutions“, "On-chain startup cities and SEZs" and "Self-sovereign Cyberstates and Parallel Societies". Inspired by high-tech SEZs such as Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Centre and Kazakhstan’s Technological Innovation Park, Logos aims to create Crypto Special Economic Zones: "by acquiring land in jurisdictions favorable to crypto and establishing virtual SEZs, Logos seeks to generate significant spillover effects, impacting both the targeted territories and beyond“.

Kazakhstan, a uranium rich country, is a target for efforts to install a SEZ and Network State, specifically a Crypto City from the Solana-based Network State Forma. More information on Forma can be found on this site.

Logos’ 2024 Parallel Society Congress in Bangkok was supported by DarkFi, Web3privacy and the Charter Cities Institute and included speakers from Edge Cities and Zuzalu. Mark Lutter, Niklas Anzinger, Tom W. Bell and Patri Friedman have appeared as guests on the Logos podcast. More information on Logos can be found on this site.

In his 2022 speech, "Cypherpunk Suprajurisdictions against the Nation-State" at ETHBerlin, Logos CEO Jarrad Hope invokes Marc Andreessen's "software is eating the world", describing their new world order as "The West 3.0“.

Polis Labs is a "nonprofit research institute“ headed by Logos investor Sterlin Lujan, describing itself as "guiding network states toward nonzero-sum governance..."; elsewhere, "Polis Labs provides data-driven research, strategic insights, and governance frameworks to network states". It demonstrates the emergence of propaganda arms and think tank institutions as part of Network State society, and models what parallel institutions look like within tech fascism.

Polis Labs is in large part an ideological and education project, disseminating ideas about Network State governance. As an anti-democratic institute, it focuses on "educating the population away from the idea that democracy is the one-size-fits-all solution for governance or the most optimal choice to generate human freedom."

Echoing the talking points of Balaji Srinivasan's The Network State, they say "Traditional or 'legacy' government models are failing or have failed. They are all grossly inadequate for unlocking full human potential..."; "The idea of a parallel polis is rooted in establishing an independent, self-sustaining system that operates alongside the conventional political, social, and economic frameworks." Logos is openly anti-democratic, stating of the Founding Fathers of America: "They believed [democracy] would promote the most civil and economic freedom for the individual. That was an untested, dangerous hypothesis." It describes democracy, representative democracy, parliamentary democracy and social democracy as "legacy architectures" of governance. Their wiki is partially complete, with a number of placeholder pages like "Network Nations", "Network Sovereignties" and "Neo-Monarchism".

Web3privacy now, often referred to as simply "Web3 Privacy", functions as an intermediary platform, facilitating cross-pollination between network state ecosystems. The organization started hosting public events in 2023 and operates on a yearly budget of at least $100-150k; compared to other VC projects, these parallel institutions require very little capital, making them easy to scale and proliferate. Their goal is to reach 100 million people with their "Privacy Academy“. Notable contributors include Vitalik Buterin, Amir Taaki and Logos CEO Jarrad Hope, who is also a regular speaker at the Web3 Privacy congress. Logos, the Ethereum Foundation, and Web3 Privacy are frequent collaborators.

DarkFi

DarkFi is a militant, crypto-anarchist movement that is building infrastructure for a crypto darknet and conducts propaganda operations using memetic warfare. They claim their movement "is primarily a spiritual one“ in a document subtitled "Revolutionary Objectives". They are allied with Logos and Praxis, sharing an ideological extremism that goes even further than most Network State projects.

DarkFi's founder Amir Taaki was a close associate of Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed. Together with Vitalik Buterin, the trio developed the cryptocurrency wallet DarkWallet, and Taaki is featured prominently in Wilson's book, "Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free." Defense Distributed manufactured 3D printed guns, and maintained a file repository for 3D printing blueprints called DEFCAD, "the world's largest open source repo for 3D2A files and small arms technical data." Founded in 2012, the site remains live and includes files for 9mms, Glocks, AR-9s and more. Also featured in DEFCAD is the tech-fascist propaganda zine Agorism in the 21st Century, the first issue including a text by Nick Land. In 2017 Wilson founded Hatreon, an "alt-right" crowdfunding platform, and in 2019 he was indicted on multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor, and was released from prison in 2022.

Copycats of Wilson’s project have sprung up in different parts of the world. Chief among them is Deterrence Dispensed (name changed in 2021 to The Gatalog), founded by former German soldier Jakob Duygu aka JStark. After his death, co-designer John Elik aka Ivan the Troll – nephew of Republican Illinois state representative Amy Elik – took his place.

Duygu designed and released the FGC-9 in 2020 to fix the flaws of Wilson’s products. It grew from a hobbyist’s garage project to a lethal pistol wielded by insurgents, terrorists, drug dealers and militia members in at least 15 countries across five continents. It is the most common 3D-printed gun, produced in makeshift factories.

As a self-described incel, Duygu posted xenophobic, racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic comments and endorsed anti-State violence on 4chan, made several calls for people to “waste” politicians and police officers, and complained there wasn’t a rightwing terrorist movement that had a “body count” in Germany. Today, Duygu is still venerated as a hero and martyr by people like Amir Taaki, who once posed in a video with a 3D-printed assault rifle, joking about death markets.

The "DarkFi Book" lists recommended literature and includes: Nick Land, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski’s Anti-Tech Revolution, Jim Bell's Assassination Politics, Alexander Dugin’s The Forth Political Theory, Nietzsche's Will to Power and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Ernst Jünger, Nazi Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology and Theory of a Partisan, as well as The Sovereign Individual, recommended as "[g]ood reading to understand the coming conflict between cryptocurrency and states“.

Tech Fascism and Europe's Far-Right Political Parties

Case Study: Germany

Top tech fascists have allied with far-right and libertarian parties across Europe. Most glaring among them are the AfD (Alternative for Germany), but also the newly founded Team Freiheit (Team Freedom).

Elon Musk wrote an op-ed for a German newspaper in the end of 2024, reposting it in English on X. The op-ed was titled "Only the AfD Can Save Germany":

"As someone who has invested significantly in Germany's industrial and technological landscape, I believe I have earned the right to speak candidly about its political direction. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) represents the last vestige of hope for this nation...

Germany's economy, once the powerhouse of Europe, is now mired in bureaucracy and stifling regulations. The AfD understands that economic freedom is not just desirable but necessary. Their approach to reducing government overreach, cutting taxes, and deregulating the market echoes the principles that have made Tesla and SpaceX successful. If Germany is to reclaim its industrial might, it needs a party that will not just talk about growth but enact policies to foster an environment where businesses can thrive without the heavy hand of government...

Germany has opened its borders to mass migration, which, while humanitarian in intent, has led to significant cultural and social tensions. The AfD advocates for a controlled immigration policy that prioritizes integration and the preservation of German culture and security...

I've built companies on the principle that innovation requires freedom from unnecessary constraints. The AfD's vision aligns with this ethos. They push for educational reforms that encourage critical thinking over indoctrination and support tech industries which are the future of global economic leadership."

On the heels of Trump's second inauguration, and in the lead-up to German elections, Musk hosted an X space for AfD leader Alice Weidel, which was heard by over 200,000 people. His statements included "People really need to get behind the AfD. Otherwise, things are going to get very much worse in Germany."

Elon Musk also made a virtual appearance at an AfD rally, "saying that the party is the 'best hope for Germany' and calling to 'preserve German culture' and 'protect the German people.'" This was immediately after Musk made a Nazi salute during Trump's inauguration festivities.

The Associated Press did an investigation of Musk's role in expanding the influence and profile of right-wing politicians in Europe, noting that Weidel's "daily audience on X surged from 230,000 to 2.2 million on days Musk interacted with her posts. She went on to lead her party to its best-ever electoral showing... ":

"In seeking to quantify Musk’s effect on European politics, The Associated Press analyzed more than 20,000 posts over a three-year period from 11 far-right European figures across six countries who frequently promote a hard-right political or social agenda and had significant interactions with Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter. Tens of thousands of posts by Musk on Twitter, now known as X, were also collected...

AP’s analysis shows how Musk is helping unite nationalists across borders in common cause to halt migration, overturn progressive policies and promote an absolutist vision of free speech. While his efforts have sparked backlash in some countries, Musk’s promotion of a growing alliance of hard-right parties and individuals has helped rattle the foundation of a transatlantic bond that has guided U.S. and European relations for over eight decades...

Musk has also advocated for Matteo Salvini, vice premier of Italy and the leader of the hard-right, anti-migrant League party. On X, Musk’s interactions boosted Salvini’s daily visibility more than fourfold. Offline, Salvini has urged Italy to move ahead with controversial contracts for Starlink and pushed back against EU efforts to regulate content on X."

Musk has promoted Javier Milei of Argentina, Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Cyprus' Fidias Panayiotou, as well as a number of far-right influencers across Europe.

JD Vance, backed by Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, also led a delegation to the AfD shortly after inauguration, meeting with AfD leader Alice Weidel in February 2025 immediately before Germany's elections. These events helped lead the AfD to a record showing in German's elections, doubling its seats and becoming the second largest force in Germany's Parliament.

Musk congratulated Weidel over a call: "Elon Musk called the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) to congratulate her on the party’s performance in Sunday’s election after it doubled its support from the last election. Alice Weidel hinted she had slept through an overnight attempt to reach her by the Trump adviser and Tesla CEO, who had repeatedly intervened in the German campaign on her behalf."

In May 2025, Germany's intelligence agency released a report on the AfD following a 3-year investigation, stating:

"The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( BfV ) classifies the 'Alternative for Germany' (AfD) as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization as of today, due to the extremist character of the party as a whole, which disregards human dignity...

The prevailing ethnic and descent-based understanding of the people within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order. It aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to subject them to unconstitutional unequal treatment, and thus to assign them a legally devalued status. Specifically, the AfD, for example, does not consider German citizens with a migration background from predominantly Muslim countries to be equal members of the German people as defined by the party's ethnic definition.”

The AfD holds a number of policy positions aligned with tech fascism, advancing a proposal to exempt Bitcoin from the EU's crypto regulatory framework, MiCA, at the end of 2025. Germany is considered one of the leading European jurisdictions for crypto. The AfD is a major proponent of mass deportation policies which would speed the adoption of venture capital border and weapons systems in the country. AfD campaigns on the platform of "freedom of speech" and the reduction of "excessive bureaucracy", opposes vaccination and the World Health Organization, and promotes nuclear power and suppression of the left. These policies are aligned with venture capital's stated ideology, infrastructure build out and financial incentives.

Furthermore, the AfD has demonstrated alignment with Network State ideology and policy. In 2021, the AfD motioned parliament for the establishment of Special Economic Zones, signed by Alice Weidel and stating (translated):

“Even though Germany is engaged in development policy across nearly all developing countries—either through its government agencies or the state-funded so-called 'civil society'—and ranks among the top financial contributors, it has not matched China’s success in opening new markets and expanding its international influence... Germany needs to shift its foreign policy focus away from fragmented, traditional foreign aid and towards economic partnerships with selected governments and the private sector.

Economic cooperation of this kind can also take the form of so-called 'Charter Cities,' in addition to more traditional partnerships. The concept of 'Charter Cities' was introduced to the academic debate about ten years ago by American economist Paul Romer. 'Charter Cities' are designed cities, where a developing country voluntarily provides the land and an industrialized country sets the legal framework. These cities offer strong infrastructure, a stable political climate, legal certainty, and market-oriented economic laws in regions often troubled by instability and corruption... Charter Cities could play a key role in channeling and managing the urbanization and hyperurbanization —especially in Africa—while helping to reduce negative consequences like slum growth, lack of job opportunities, and consequently curb migration pressures toward Europe decisively...

... Unlike a special economic zone, a 'Charter City' functions under an autonomous political and legal system..."

There is other activity of Network States and special economic zones in Germany. In 2024, a Zuzalu-affiliated longevity event titled Zelar City was held in Berlin, featuring six weeks of programming on longevity, biotech and Network States as part of an effort in "Building Permanent Longevity Hubs"; it featured Laurence Ion of Próspera's Viva City. On Shark Island in Namibia, tech company Hyphen is building hydrogen production facilities with support from the German state directly at the location where the German Empire committed genocide on the indigenous Herero and Nama.

VCs and tech fascists across Europe are building new educational institutions, part of the "parallel institutions" of the Network State, at the same time infiltrating traditional public universities. Chief among them in Germany is the Technische Universität München, with its subsidiary company TUM international GmbH (previously TUMint).

Under CEO Daniel A. Gottschald, an investors conference was held at TUM campus Heilbronn on the development of the ZEDE in Honduras. One advisor to TUM International was Shanker Singham. In 1997 Singham founded the International Roundtable on Trade and Competition Policy where he was working on "Enterprise Cities" in 2012. A year later he founded the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP) at the Babson College, where he worked together with Erick Brimen of Próspera. Singham was a crucial actor in the push for Brexit while he was employed by the UK based Legatum Institute before leaving for the U.S. based Institute of Economic Affairs.

Notable German Tech Fascist Actors

AfD’s Christian Lüth -- also CEO of Gran Honduras Cigars – worked for the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, a think tank affiliated with the neoliberal FDP party. Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung and Lüth vigorously defended the 2009 coup of Honduras, which led to the installation of Juan Orlando Hernández in 2010. Lüth and the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung invited representatives of the Honduran coup regime to Berlin. Under Hernández, legislation was implemented allowing the Network State of Próspera to enter the country. Lüth switched from FDP to AfD and was expelled in 2020 because of his remarks about shooting and gassing migrants. Since 2024, he is again representing the AfD in the German parliament.

A central figure among European tech-fascist movements is German oligarch Titus Gebel, who became wealthy through the extraction of gold, silver, tungsten, oil, natural gas and other resources. He is a board member at the Seasteading Institute, director of German nuclear science company Dual Fluid, as well as president and CEO of the Tipolis Corporation.

Tipolis is partnered with Erick Brimen's NeWay Capital, the corporate structure behind Próspera in Honduras. Gebel is also director of Taggart Holding Inc., based in the Honduran ZEDE, and initiator of the Liberty in Our Lifetime Conference, which has since been renamed to the Free Cities Conference. The conference happened annually in Prague, but in 2026 the venue was moved to Próspera. A 2022 special conference "Cities, not Camps" in Davos brought together Titus Gebel, the Charter Cities Institute's Kurtis Lockhart and Christian Kälin, whose Andan Foundation is promoting a "Free Global City“.

Titus Gebel is a prominently featured figure at the German Mises Institute*, advertising his book "Free Private Cities" and calling for a breakup of Europe into "a thousand Liechtensteins". The heads of the Czech and Slovak Mises Institute are members of Parallel Polis, a Logos-affiliated organization.

*Ludwig von Mises is the originator of Austrian school economics; in the early 20th century Mises rose to chief economist for the austro-fascist chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, with Friedrich von Hayek as his aide. While many tech-fascists in Europe are connected to the Mises Institutes, there are even more neoliberal, libertarian and anarchocapitalist institutions supporting Network State projects. (Quinn Slobodian gives the historical background to those institutions: Hayek's Bastards. The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right).

Team Freedom and the Milei Institute for Deregulation Think Tank

In December 2025, the Javier Milei Institute for Deregulation think tank was founded in Germany. Milei has famously adopted the new political platform and strategy of the tech fascist axis. Central to the creation and management of the Institute are former AfD leader Frauke Petry, Joana Cotar and Barbara Kolm. Petry also started a new political party in Germany called "Team Freedom" in 2025 and also includes former FDP members.

Sociologist Andreas Kemper has written about affinities between US tech fascism and the rise of Team Freedom. Envisioned as a new type of political party:

"the political program of Team Freedom seems to want an acceleration of fascistization: the destruction of the social state, the banning of state supported antifascist and pro-democracy organizations, the breakup of public broadcasting services, the prevention of regulation of social media and AI as well as the complete abolition of climate protection.“

In an interview, Petry described the Javier Milei Institute:

"We see ourselves as the institute that will now gather expertise to develop concrete deregulation measures for Germany and Europe. We are suffocating in bureaucracy because the state now regulates far too much. Therefore, we will develop a catalog of measures that includes all the methods and instruments necessary to implement comprehensive deregulation in Germany as well. In doing so, we will naturally benefit from the Argentinian experience...

The plan is to develop a catalog of actions that the next center-right government—whatever its composition—can use from day one to reduce bureaucracy. This requires clear, legally sound measures. The model is economist Federico Sturzenegger, who developed such a catalog for Javier Milei...

apart from Team Freedom, there is no other party that wants to radically, that is, thoroughly, abolish and restructure the welfare state, because the vast majority of politicians are afraid of precisely that...

The Argentinian president essentially dismantled the middle levels of government. He eliminated a great deal of bureaucracy and ensured that more social assistance ends up where it belongs – with those who truly need it."

In another interview, Petry made the following remarks:

"The problem is: there is currently no anti-statist, liberal option for voters. The solution to our problems lies in more freedom: the state withdraws, the market regulates, and citizens stand up for each other again.... There is no party that demands what is urgently needed: a drastic reduction of the government spending ratio to 25 percent in five years, i.e., minus five percent per year, and the enforcement of freedom of expression... The program for more freedom will be a renewal of our cultural ties to the West and an anti-statist offering as a positive alternative to the existing political landscape."

Inside the Freedom Party and the Milei Institute

Milei Institute leader Barbara Kolm is an active member of parliament for Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ), director of the Austrian Economics Center and president of the Hayek Institute (and since 2021 chair of the UN ITU Digital Transformation Working Group) and was heading the board of CAMP (Comité para la Adopción de Mejores Prácticas), a committee on Honduras’ ZEDEs.

Joana Cotar, also from the Milei Institute, works with the initiative "Free Speech Aid" that is connected to Team Freedom, explicitly for the purpose of pushing back against the EU regulating X, Grok or Telegram, while her posts are being disproportionately boosted on X. Cotar’s brother is tech billionaire Alexander Tamas, former director of Russia’s social media platform VK (2008-2011) and founder of Vy Capital, which has supported Musk’s takeover of Twitter with 700 million Euro, funded SpaceX and xAI (Grok) and is the largest external shareholder of Neuralink and The Boring Company. He also occupies a seat alongside VK and Telegram founder Pawel Durov on the advisory council of the chamber for digital economy in Dubai. According to Crunchbase, Tamas is also a "Lead Investor" at the US based company Neros Technologies, a startup for autonomous military drones.

Also involved is Philipp Bagus, who is on the advisory board of the Ludwig von Mises Institut, member of the Mont Pelerin Society and Berlin's Hayek society.

Expanding Tech Fascist Intervention in Europe

Milei's collaboration with the Europe far-right includes support of the right-wing Vox party in Spain, with Reuters reporting:

"Spanish far-right party Vox held a mass rally in Madrid on Sunday ahead of the European election, touting the support of international allies including Argentinian President Javier Milei, the prime ministers of Italy and Hungary and rightwing leaders from France and Portugal. Nearly 11,000 supporters - according to Vox - packed a former bullring waving hundreds of Spanish flags, as well as some of Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela and Israel... Milei earned a standing ovation with a speech in which he excoriated 'lefties' and defended free market capitalism... enthusiasm was high for former U.S. President Donald Trump, represented in Madrid by the vice president of the conservative Heritage Foundation and former White House staffers Matt and Mercedes Schlapp."

Highlighting the pressure and chaos that venture capitalists are putting on Europe, in September 2025, Elon Musk called for the UK parliament to be dissolved at a far-right rally held in London; via the Guardian:

"Elon Musk has called for a 'dissolution of parliament' and a 'change of government' in the UK while addressing a crowd attending a 'unite the kingdom' rally in London, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.

Musk, the owner of X, who dialled in via a video link and spoke to Robinson while thousands watched and listened, also railed against the 'woke mind virus' and told the crowd that 'violence is coming' and that 'you either fight back or you die'.

He said: 'I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long.' 'Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.'"

The tech fascist international coalition is openly agitating for regime change in Europe, much as it has done in the United States, Argentina, Venezuela and Honduras.

Conclusion

Tech fascism threatens to take over Europe from outside and within. Tech fascists are targeting sovereign nations in Europe to infiltrate, corrupt and dominate them, repeating a playbook established in the United States and Latin America. If this project is successful, they will gain control of European governments, with the most advanced case in Germany. Backing of far-right political parties and elements is central to this plan.

Venture capitalists seek to capture the European military apparatuses as part of their cold war with China, a lucrative market opportunity for weapons sales, border "management" and policing systems. Tech fascists are forcing their artificial intelligence and crypto agendas on European markets, engaging in sophisticated and blunt-force attacks on industry and governments alike. They are in early stages of forcibly gutting regulatory bodies across Europe for the conquest, development and operations of their infrastructure.

The international coalition of tech fascists -- including high-level U.S. government officials and their puppet regimes in Latin America -- provide the backbone for a Cambrian explosion of tech fascist projects across the European continent. Europe is already a key origin point of Network State colonial projects, many with permanent bases and outposts already established, and deeply enmeshed in the tech fascist axis. Network States, some disguised as liberal projects, are proliferating and grow at a rapid pace.

The wave of venture capital firms emulating the structures of Y Combinator, Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz -- and often closely partnered with them -- puts Europe in existential danger. The venture capital model is firmly entrenched and scaling as a weak European venture market invites predation by Silicon Valley. Top Silicon Valley venture firms are making huge investments in emerging European crypto, weapons and AI companies, giving them an army of startups to carry out their mandates in the regions. European tech fascists have made progress in the capture of universities and the educational system to support crypto and weapons development.

Europe also hosts sophisticated propaganda networks disseminating tech fascist ideology, agitating for nation-state destruction, secession, parallel institutions and societies, colonialism, anti-leftism, accelerationism and dehumanization. These networks serve as a scalable pipeline into tech fascism and the Network State, and are growing quickly in the new tech bubble and with support from U.S. venture capital. The propaganda channels appear more heterogeneous and decentralized than those seen in the United States, opening broader funnels but ultimately delivering recruits into the same system.

The concentration of activity in the UK and Germany is no coincidence, but rather born of a shared imperial and colonial history. Tech fascism in Europe continues the continent's history of fascism and colonialism, sold in a contemporary vessel. These ominous developments will leave no institution, city and community untouched.

Control of Europe is an existential requirement to complete the tech fascist axis. If successful, venture capitalists will rule Europe through a new framework of power.