Amazon's Bahrain Data Center Targeted By Iran For US Military Support (cnbc.com) 168
Iranian state media said on Wednesday that it targeted Amazon's data center in Bahrain due to the company's support of the U.S. military. The drone strike that occurred on Sunday disrupted core cloud services and caused "prolonged" outages. Two data centers in the UAE were also damaged by drone strikes. CNBC reports: All of the facilities remain offline, according to the Amazon Web Services health dashboard. The attack in Bahrain was launched "to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy's military and intelligence activities," Iran's Fars News Agency said on Telegram.
In addition to structural damage, the data centers also experienced power disruptions and some water damage after firefighters worked to put out sparks and fire. Some popular AWS applications experienced "elevated error rates and degraded availability" due to the incident. AWS advised cloud customers to back up their data, consider migrating their workloads to other regions and direct traffic away from Bahrain and the UAE.
In addition to structural damage, the data centers also experienced power disruptions and some water damage after firefighters worked to put out sparks and fire. Some popular AWS applications experienced "elevated error rates and degraded availability" due to the incident. AWS advised cloud customers to back up their data, consider migrating their workloads to other regions and direct traffic away from Bahrain and the UAE.
Seems like a poor strategy (Score:3, Insightful)
I could see if Iran was attacking military bases but Amazon data centers? That's a great way to upset the citizens of those various kingdoms. It's not like they love the US, but they don't care for Iran either. Seems foolhardly for Iran to push neighbors to side with the USA, especially when Russia is tied up in Ukraine.
This kind of stuff could push a neutral party into become an adversary.
Past that (Score:5, Insightful)
The one thing that went relatively well for them was rolling up THAAD coverage. That's going to hurt in multiple ways, and it demonstrates they still have some punch.
I bet Kegseth really wanted a drink after he found out.
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Re: Past that (Score:3)
Iran was great before we screwed it up.
Now we're creating martyrs, which always goes well.
Why do you support child rapists here in the name of fighting child rape somewhere else? That's not a thing.
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Re: Past that (Score:3)
Where were your crocodiles tears for the innocent civilians killed by Iran's own government?
This is very weak argumentation.
First, because anyone here who is critical of the war of the US on Iran is also critical of the Iranian government's oppression of its own people.
Second, because it's stupid to expect people to be equally vocal about every issue in the world.
Third, because the past events you refer to are irrelevant when judging the morality of the present events. The present events are in no way motivated by a sense of justice, it has been made abundantly clear. Even if they were, it would n
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Third, because the past events you refer to are irrelevant when judging the morality of the present events.
This is like saying the morality of locking up a bank robber should be judged independently. The crime the bank robber previously committed is "irrelevant".
The present events are in no way motivated by a sense of justice, it has been made abundantly clear.
Nothing is abundantly clear to me. There was never any believable, self-consistent justifications communicated. Just a lot of conflicting stories and BS. What we do know is Trump made a threat to bomb Iran specifically in regards to murdering of protestors and US military assets began moving at that time. From media accounts it was at this time Trum
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It's a kind of missile defense system developed by USA after the first gulf war. These drones they are using are pretty light weight and have a much easier time avoiding radar detection.
As it is, Ukraine actually has a pretty good solution to take out income drones and several countries, including the USA, have approached them for help. Now that we have air superiority over Iran, it's cheaper to use less sophisticated weapons and use our cheaper munitions. Ukraine wants more Tomahawks and is hoping to make
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Terminal High Altitude Air Defense - it's a weapons system that uses multiple radar arrays to get a 3D fix on a ballistic object, and intercept it at high altitude.
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It's an air defense missile system that costs $12 million per interceptor, and they're fired in pairs, so when Iran launches a ten year old missile that cost them a million dollars to build we can spent $24 million to have a 70% chance to take it down. Of course the THAAD system relies on special radar systems that cost $500 million to $1 billion each, and which the US can only build one or two of per year, and since Iran has destroyed all but two of those radar arrays in the region most of the THAAD syste
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They don't have good options, so they're risking bad ones.
They didn't exactly whittle down their options before settling on sending missiles and drones at the civilian populations in neutral neighbors. It was among the first things they started doing.
In fact, during the 12-Day War Israel took out their missile command so thoroughly that for a long time there was no one to launch missiles in retaliation. Iran learned from that and had given the IRGC members pre-determined launch orders so they could at independently. That means shooting missiles at everyone in the
Re:Past that (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes. That is what having no good options looks like. When you don't trust your pagers and your fancy weapons are gone, you come up with plans like this.
"terrorist regime"
Make no mistake - they're murderous goons. But this isn't ideology, this is survival with their backs against the wall.
And the US has no room to talk about morality - it is a rogue state pursuing an illegal war of choice with no end-game and incompetent freaks at the helm, and it is going to be an utter fucking disaster.
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Humans want to live. Organizations self-perpetuate.
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Re: Past that (Score:4, Insightful)
And American commanders are telling troops that they are attacking Iran to bring about the end of days. Guess what?
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In all seriousness, the war is seriously worrisome.
Re: Past that (Score:2)
Reports are evidence. They are not in themselves conclusive.
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They couldn't trust their comms even if leadership survived - spectators in the west like us know their comms are compromised, I'm sure they have a much better (and more visceral) understanding of that.
I'm sure this was predicted in some binder analyzing different scenarios of taking on Iran. Too bad our secdef is an apparent dry-drunk white supremacist who appears to believe his job
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But when a demented freak with the US military behind them comes at you, survival is foremost in the mind.
You also seem to be studiously ignoring Kegseth's promotion of fundamentalist Xian white-supremacy. Hundreds of complaints about fundie freaks going on about holy wars, how this is the bridge to End Times, etc.
Honestly, seems a bit like projection.
Re: Past that (Score:2)
Re:Seems like a poor strategy (Score:5, Insightful)
If it is a datacenter of the aggressor that runs the anthropic model, which chooses as targets the girl schools in Iran, among others, it is a legitimate military target for retaliation.
What's so hard to understand?
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
In operation human-shield, you are defending the bloodregime using human-shields that is notorious for offing 30k citizens - but that number was ON TOP of their usual DAILY offings, not a one-off exception, just a significant peak additional to their usual baseline.
The same bloodregime funding the worst terrorist groups globally.
One of their funded terrorist groups is especially egregiously using the same human-shield tactic every single day, and you lap it up there too and cheer for them.
No war is clean an
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"Human shield" is a nice excuse for an illegal war.
the bloodregime ... that is notorious for offing 30k citizens
Oh noes, which regime? The one your coup d'etat and your support of the previous bloodregime brought about? Cry me a river about it.
While you're at it, tell me how the numerous other bloodregimes that you couch warfighters have supported and are supporting have killed fewer.
versus e.g. the RuSSian approach demonstrated in Afghanistan, Chechnya and now Ukraine.
Really? Nearly a million dead Iraqis as a consequence of your war based on the "evidence" of a test tube full of chalk powder?
Fuck off.
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Oh noes, which regime?
The Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of people in a few days for peacefully protesting and has systematically terrorized, murdered and severely oppressed their own people. Externally the regime does nothing but export terrorism around the world. The IRGC is presently shooting up apartment buildings at night because the people in them are yelling in protest from their balconies.
The one your coup d'etat and your support of the previous bloodregime brought about? Cry me a river about it.
There was no coup, see my earlier post.
While you're at it, tell me how the numerous other bloodregimes that you couch warfighters have supported and are supporting have killed fewer.
The videos out of Iran and across the global diaspora of huge masses of people celeb
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
If it were me in that position I would be cheering the destruction of my oppressors too.
Same here, and I do believe that the world is now a better place for having one less tyrant in it. Yet I also feel that my outrage at the bombing of that school is justified, and that countries should generally not attack other countries. I don't really understand how the death of a tyrant is supposed to make all the accompanying horror palatable, especially when they are so disconnected from each other.
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
Your TDS is flaring up to such an extent that you and your postmodernist leftwing buddies are literally making excuses for a murderous bloodregime that has been pushing and working on erasing YOUR entire country while publicly stating this is their goal for over 40 years, and all that time they have been oppressing their people and murdering everyone and especially women, for decades and you, the allegedly tolerant progressive feminists, STILL do not care!!! There is no saving you or making you see the ligh
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that you ... are literally making excuses for a murderous bloodregime
Oh the irony :)
Again, how's that "regime change" in Venezuela going? Is the party of the "tyrant" Maduro, also accused of zillions of murdered Venezuelans, gone? Are there free elections incoming? Or do we have the corrupt government in trumpistan keeping the very system that was so bad three months ago so that they can syphon the oil off? Aw, shucks, how did that came about?
Now, about Iran... Why is trump replaying the 1953 coup scheme in Iran? Don't you morons remember how it all ended? https://x.com/andw [x.com]
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
Your KalalaaaaHarris said Iran is the biggest threat to the US, not even 2 years ago. Are you saying she is wrong? Because she is a proud woman and of color, eh?
Believe all the women, you racist mysoginist!
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My "KalalaaaaHarris"? I don't even know what that is.
Take your medicines, dumbfuck, or go see a priest.
You're delirious.
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
And you are a bigoted chauvinistic racist transphobe who wants to see Iranian women snd alphabets suffer just because of your TDS.
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I see that most of what I predicted two days ago is coming to pass:
1. your shitgibbon has announced that he's now best pals with a real Venezuelan communist. Perhaps she's found a common language with the Cuban Communist in his administration, viceroy little Marco.
2. There is more and more talk about "boots on the ground" in Iran, which means the bombing campaign has not produced the "regime change" desired by the war criminals bibi and trumpy.
3. Something is happening to the oil prices that the patriotic "
Re:Seems like a poor strategy (Score:4, Insightful)
Next up: "Why the hell was a girl's school in Iran" perhaps?
What legitimate business does the trumpistani aggressor have there?
All trumpistani involvement has done to Iran was to mess it up worse, from the 50s onwards.
You lost something there?
Fucking bunch of war criminals, no different from putin.
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Next up: "Why the hell was a girl's school in Iran" perhaps?
That's just a stupid argument. A building looking like part of a military base right next to a military base being bombed along side military base targets has nothing to do with being literally anywhere else in Iran.
It doesn't take AI hallucination to bomb that school not knowing it's a school, that kind of thing would be flagged as a target by literally any intelligence agency. It's a really fucking dumb place to put a school. Had it been one street over would have made a world of difference.
That's not to
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:4, Insightful)
Again, fuckwad, what the fuck are the trumpistani doing there bombing?
Have you left there anything that's yours?
What is it with you dumb war criminal apologists?
Did you forget already your Chimp-in-Chief, the Eyerack war he started to get re-elected, the 100k dead in it, the 6 or so million refugees, the nearly million dead in the global fallout of it all, including ISIS? Putin getting rich on the high oil prices and starting the third world war?
There's stupid, there's fucking stupid and there's war mongering stupid, and this year we have apparently warfighter stupid.
Die off already.
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Here are the facts:
1) the US bombed a school, thus killing many kids
2) the US is responsible for what it bombs.
Do you deny any of these two facts?
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Re:Seems like a poor strategy (Score:5, Informative)
There are 161 public schools on military bases in the United States:
https://www.militaryonesource.... [militaryonesource.mil]
It's probably even more common for schools to be on-base outside the US.
I used to live about 600 meters from the headquarters of the United States Air Forces in Europe [wikipedia.org], and our housing unit wasn't even the closest one.
This was a US/Israeli targeting fuck-up, and completely avoidable. Don't try to deflect from that.
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This was a US/Israeli targeting fuck-up, and completely avoidable. Don't try to deflect from that.
There is 0 public information as to who/what/why. Everyone is just guessing at this point.
My guess tends toward US "fuck-up" however I find lack of any footage of missile fragments strange. In other cases people go out of their way to provide that evidence to reduce ambiguity over who is responsible.
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Don't worry. No guessing needed. Satellite images confirm 2 direct hits to the elementary school
Nobody is doubting the school was attacked. The issue at hand is who/what/why. Presently there is no public information to address this question leaving only inductive inference.
, and video footage confirms a double tap strike on the civilians looking for the injured and dead.
The double tap thing is pure bullshit.
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There are 161 public schools on military bases in the United States: ... snip ...
This was a US/Israeli targeting fuck-up, and completely avoidable. Don't try to deflect from that.
I'd expect those 161 public schools in the USA to be bombed in a war as well. This isn't a fuck up. This is levelling all the buildings on a military base. Casualties of war are a thing, and the proximity to military targets makes them far more likely. Horrible as it is, that is just the nature of conflict, when you make your self look very similar to a strategic target, expect to be treated as such.
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Lots of military bases, American included, have schools. Soldiers have kids.
Here's Bahrain School, an elementary school attached to the US naval supply base in Bahrain:
https://www.google.com/maps/pl... [google.com]
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why the hell was a girl's school inside of a Revolutionary Guard Corp naval base and missile launch site?
It would seem they want to teach the kids of the military members. America has schools on military bases, too; along with housing.
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Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Go re-read Ox's comment until it sinks in. War is hell. It's not pretty. Collateral damage is a thing. The fact is, because we are approaching this like a bunch of pussies for the past 80 years, things aren't getting done.
Imagine if we fought WW2 the way we've done all our stuff since. We'd of never won the war that way.
Unless we seriously level their stupid country, we're just going to be doing this again in 5-10 more years as they continue to do the same stuff over again. The Iranians aren't going to stop
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
"The Iranians aren't going to stop, regardless how many times we set them back."
You know how we could have stopped this? Not supporting a coup for oil there in the first fuck place.
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Well sure, but we can't go back to the 1950s and change what the CIA did. We can only make different choices going forward. Of course, USA foreign policy being what it is, we're basically just doing what we always do, especially for the past 80 years.
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Yes. This is definitely more of, though exactly not the same kind of thing happening, the same kind of thinking driving what we're doing and the same hubris. And here we are blowing up women and children again.
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"The Iranians aren't going to stop, regardless how many times we set them back."
You know how we could have stopped this? Not supporting a coup for oil there in the first fuck place.
This coup narrative is absurd on its face. First of all the Shah briefly ousted Mossadegh in 1952 prior to operation Ajax but quickly backed off. Mossadegh's popular support had subsequently gone downhill and he increasingly sought to make himself an all powerful dictator.
To quote the New York Times:
"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."
https://w [nytimes.com]
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
The Iranians aren't going to stop
You realise the ones doing the attacking are the US and Israel, yes?
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Similarly wondering why anyone in the world would believe a single word coming out of USA's propaganda machine...
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How about believing none of the lies from state run television? Why is that not an option?
And yes, Fox, Newsmax, OAN, CBS are basically state run television due to the Good Ol Boys Billionaire Oligarchy. You can probably count Amazon / MGM in there too, and soon Warner Bros Discovery (CNN) because apparently it's fine for four companies to own upwards of 80% of news media (Disney / ABC, Paramount Skydance (CBS and soon CNN), Comcast NBC Universal (NBC News), and of course News Corporation (Fox, newspapers
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Which "Iran's propaganda machine" exactly?
Is there any doubt that Israel and their muscle man, the trumpistan, are currently waging an illegal war against Iran using made up bullshit, just like they did with Iraq back in 2003? No, there isn't.
Any doubt that a massive and indiscriminate bombing campaign, "shock-and-awe" style, is ongoing, which is entirely managed by "artificial intelligence" and no human in the loop to block "collateral damage", that is, massive civilian deaths? Nope, there isn't. In fact,
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Any doubt that a massive and indiscriminate bombing campaign, "shock-and-awe" style, is ongoing, which is entirely managed by "artificial intelligence" and no human in the loop to block "collateral damage", that is, massive civilian deaths? Nope, there isn't. In fact, companies that try to stop that are being punished illegally by their own government - for trying.
This is all bullshit. There are no shortage of valid criticisms about the US waging an internally and externally illegal war and its execution of that war. There is no need to spew bullshit to make a case.
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It's sad to see people side with their mortal enemies
Indeed, it was very sad to see the trumpistan renege on the security guarantees of the country formerly known as USA and betray Ukraine to putin, the guy whose agenda has been "destroying the American dominance" throughout his life.
And in exchange for what? For putin dangling some hallucinations of "minerals deals" in front of that moron's greedy, near-sighted eyes.
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It's the US and Israel attacking Iran. The Iran strategy is reportedly to hit trade in nearby countries forcing them on the side of Israel in order to undermine their governments and cause chaos. This explains why they are currently not hitting back militarily at Iran.
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It's time for some whataboutism:
How is sinking a ship that is thousands of miles away a moral act, in an action that has not been declared as a war?
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
So Iran would be justified in sinking a US ship in the Indian Ocean, if they could manage it?
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1. How wide is the Strait? Like, they can hit it with artillary?
2. THEY ARE RELIGIOUS PSYCHOTICS? As opposed to US commander who are telling their troops this is a holy war, and will bring on the End Times (tm)?!?!?!
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Which US commander did that?
This is some crazy shit...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
Re: Seems like a poor strategy (Score:2)
"Which US commander did that?"
Everyone but you saw news about this already. How are you this out of touch? And also, how are you this unable to search the Web?
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This is the new doctrine we've established. Targets controlled by an adversary that are in a 3rd country are fair game to attack. This is the way we want it.
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"Those kingdoms" are longstanding US allies who support US military bases and hate Iran the way Americans hate communists. It seems likely Iran is looking to deplete their air defences and pressure them to exit the war, depriving the US of naval and air bases in the area.
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I could see if Iran was attacking military bases but Amazon data centers? That's a great way to upset the citizens of those various kingdoms. It's not like they love the US, but they don't care for Iran either. Seems foolhardly for Iran to push neighbors to side with the USA, especially when Russia is tied up in Ukraine.
Yea I agree, Iran should just have stuck to attacking high rise buildings, apartments, hotels and airports.
This kind of stuff could push a neutral party into become an adversary.
My understanding the military is only carrying out standing orders. The ability to think in strategic terms likely no longer exists. Anyway the ship is already underway. I had assumed everyone in the region would scream at the US but once the bombs started to fall on them not so much.
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Especially since any relevant workload that the US Government may or may not be running there can easily be spun up in any other AWS region that is outside of Iran's drone range.
Congratulations, you proved nothing, Iran.
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Iran's larger strategy is to make the entire area hostile to investment, growth and development by bombing all of the surrounding countries.
Trump's "special three day military operation" will turn out about as well as Russia's.
"Back up your data" (Score:4, Insightful)
AWS advised cloud customers to back up their data
That's a hell of a selling point for your cloud offerings, Amazon. Isn't that a big selling point of paying for "the cloud", not having to worry about things like backups?
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If you're talking about AWS managed backup with cross-region replication, yes, it's a big selling point. It's very affordable and easy to use.
That said, you still have to click the button to enable it.
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and pay for it
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Dude, go look at the per-terabyte cost on Amazon S3 Glacier. It's 1/3 of a penny per gigabyte-month.
Storing a terabyte of data costs $3.69/month.
I'm pretty sure any company's critical data is worth it.
Hint: no matter what you do, you're paying for it. So the question is how much of the liability and maintenance you want to eat. $44/year for a terabyte is FUCKING CHEAP.
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Only if you are a fucking idiot who believes that disasters won't happen, because they haven't happened.
Even AWS's own services automatically enable snapshotting for database offerings. What does that tell you about what AWS thinks about backup and disaster scenario planning?
Re:"Back up your data" (Score:5, Informative)
Folks paying attention will apply the same principle to other things he says. Oh, like this one [thehill.com]:
President Trump said late Monday the U.S. has “virtually unlimited” munitions to fight wars “forever [...]”
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Unless you are creating a multi-region app, in which case you can lose ALL the availability zones in a region and still be up.
This capability has existed for like 10 years at least.
In other news: Ukraine (Score:5, Insightful)
Isn't it just amazing how in just the last few days The Trump Administration (tm) seems to value Ukrainian expertise with drones and shit?
Maybe if we didn't send real estate developers to negotiate this shit while Mafia Don plays golf.
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You do know where Russia has been getting its drones, right? And that there aren't any more coming?
Russia switched to mostly domestic production a while ago. Most components are still imported from the west and there is still coordination with Iran. One of the Iranian shithead drones was recently found with a Russian Kometa antenna.
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You do know where Russia has been getting its drones, right? And that there aren't any more coming?
Yes, China and Europe. They buy off-the-shelf parts and assemble it themselves. There's plenty more where that came from.
It won't end in Bahrain (Score:2)
It also won't end with Iran:
Bush 3.0 (Score:2)
Donald FAFO'd
So mark my words (Score:5, Insightful)
911 completely transformed Bush Jr's presidency. Without it he most likely would not have won a second term because of how much damage the deregulation did to the economy even before the 2008 market crash.
One of the major problems we have with the right wing is that they are all crooks. Donald Trump is openly selling pardons and his sons have taken billions in bribes from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. And then you've got guys like Steve Bannon who have gone to jail a couple of times now and been pardoned by Trump.
The right wing is desperate to stay in power because if honest men take over they're going to start prosecuting all of the little guys floating around. Yeah nobody's going to send Trump to jail the supreme Court made sure of that but that doesn't protect any of his cronies.
This means they will do anything to anyone to stay in power.
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I maintain the timing of this is about one thing.
Hyper-sonic missiles
We are doing this now because we won't be able to do it later. The age of the American Aircraft carrier, is soon to be over. A handful of weapons that cannot be swatted down will be all that is required to sink a large warship.
You don't need to be able to produce these either, just scrape enough money together to buy one from China, or Russia who love the opportunity to sell anything to anyone. Especially something that is a lot of intell
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Can't argue that. However we have been trying to develop a reliable intercept to solution for high altitude ICBMs for what 4 decades and change, and we have like one partially successful test to show for it where everyone knew ahead of time exactly where the target missile would be...
It will be a long time I expect before we effectively counter the weapons Russia and China have disclosed from 2019 onward. The reliability of these devices and the means (at least China) to produce them will improve far more
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Offensive ability is always ahead of defense. Stick requires another stick to defend against. Arrows require shields. Guns require heavy armor. Bombs require bunkers. Every step, offense moves further ahead of defense.
At the limit of offensive tech, you have bioweapons, which are nearly impossible to defend against, and relativistic impactors, which have no defense at all. It's physically impossible to predict the impactor's course because it's outside your light cone (i.e. it doesn't exist yet in your fram
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Or North Korea. They have hypersonic weapons too, and I'm sure would be happy to sell them to Iran.
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So if I come kick your ass, are you going to blame yourself for provoking me? Yeah, I didn't think so. So how do you blame Trump for the actions of anther nation? Oh right, you think Trump "makes" people do things.
No one makes anyone do anything. You make your own choices. If another nation attacks us in a 911 situation, it's still them that did the attack.
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Exactly what did Iran do to the US?
Please show us on the doll where the Ayatollah touched you.
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Non-partisan ..... riiight!
What about a list of what the US has done to Iran, starting with bringing down a democratically-elected government, resulting ultimately in the theocracy that is in place now.
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How are the no new wars promise and the oil prices doing?
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How are the no new wars promise and the oil prices doing?
We'll be lucky if we avoid WW3 in the next six months.
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Your links are to Iranians in the US and Canada. Supporters of the Shah, other people who don't like the Islamic Republic, and their descendants, most likely. Not really a good sample. What about the people OF Iran, you know, the ones who voted 98% "Yes" for the Islamic Republic in 1979, and THEIR descendants? The ones who like to chant "Death to America"? Sure, a few were having second thoughts earlier in the year, but the leaders of that bunch all got killed; there's almost no one left in country to
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voted in 79'...so 47 years ago? That's like claiming that when boomers voted for something in the 70s, that Gen Z naturally supports the same stuff today. Clearly that's not true.
Not to mention, 98%? Lies.
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We can blame Obama for letting Russia just take part of Ukraine. He just sat back and let it happen. Then nothing happened until Biden came into power, then lo and behold, Russia is attacking Ukraine again. Funny that.
It's almost like it doesn't matter who's in the WH. We are going to be involved in foreign wars. We are going to enact regime change. We going to muck around with other countries for our own gain. This is what America has been doing for decades under both parties.
But yeah, please keep thinking
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But yeah, please keep thinking one party is so much better then the other.
No. One side definitely starts more wars than the other.
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Thanks to the idiots running the show, gas prices went up ~$0.50/gallon over night
Okay, so AWS datacenters are now targets (Score:2)
Fucking idiot trump. Did now one explain how asymmetric warfare works?