American VC money is distinct from American government money. The same cannot be said for Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Russia, the Central Asian kleptocracies, and to some extent - China, etc.
The people who are ultimately in charge of Google Ventures fly from a federal government airport on taxpayer subsidized jet fuel, and are currently embroiled in a dispute with their labor force about building ML tools for the military’s drone program—with the leadership being the initiators of the program and the objections coming from the rank-and-file.
Don’t be so sure of the lack of integration here. If they’re willing to bend for China’s censorship, why wouldn’t they bend for any manner of much-more-palatable (to them) directives from their home government?
