The thing about Pax Americana is that the brain trust behind sustaining it decides which regimes are good and which are evil based on their utility to the United States. This is classic empire building, and it's an effective strategy, but the moralizing about it is exhausting and hollow. Nobody with three brain cells thinks that one petrostate is more moral than another because it's backed by the US. I'm glad to live in the USA and benefit immensely from living at the heart of the modern Mongol or Ottoman Empire, but I have few illusions about the cost.

> Helping the worst regimes

They aren't saying SV is firing the missiles. Rather, the suggestion is SV is helping those that do.

So when you say

> I don't see Silicon Valley firing missiles in the Red Sea

You aren't countering the original claim. Instead, you'd have to argue that you don't see SV helping those firing missiles in the Red Sea. And, in that regard, I'm not so sure of that. Just look at crypto as a clear example of helping those regimes actually doing the firing.

SV is doing both of those things. Palantir is to the palestinian genocide what IBM was to the holocaust.