This is frankly a complete dereliction of duty. Not only have France's intelligence services been using an American company to analyze some of the country's most sensitive data for a decade, but - in the current context - they're insane enough to re-sign for another 3 years.
Try to square this circle:
- The Americans, in their National Security Strategy, openly say that one of their key strategic priorities is to "Cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations," i.e. foreign interference aimed at regime change
- Europeans are starting to recognize the problem, with Germany's Merz now essentially saying that the Americans are an adversary (
x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2…), that they're "pursuing their interests very, very aggressively" and that Europeans can "only respond" by also doing so.
- Yet France's own intelligence services are handing some of their most sensitive data to an American company. And not in a small way: according to French media (
lessentieldeleco.fr/4824-pal…) Palantir now constitutes the "central software architecture" of the DGSI. You couldn't make it up.
Even Israel, despite being joined at the hip with Washington, won't let Palantir near its core intelligence systems - Unit 8200 and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) rejected the system precisely because of sovereignty issues (
en.globes.co.il/en/article-w…)
France, meanwhile, is like "sure, help yourselves and let's renew for another 3 years - we're confident you'll only use this data to protect us, not to 'cultivate resistance' to our government."
At some point it's so absurd and strategically incoherent that the Americans can save themselves the trouble of "cultivating resistance", this level of incompetence does the job all by itself.