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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay
·29 days agoIt also tests missle defense capabilities. Probes like this missile can lay the groundwork for future, more successful strikes.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay
·30 days agoThe right move is for every country to send some amount of aid, even symbolic amounts, so that the USA can't single out one country in particular and end the aid.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay
·30 days agoNobody tell Trump about the origins of the term "paper tiger".
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay
·1 month agoSame as this craft that had to make an emergency landing in Greece?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/secret-rq-180-stealth-drone-223356253.html
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·1 month agoIt's such an accident prone area, don't you know.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·1 month agoI like how they make the Iranian strikes tiny pngs and the Epsteinian strikes big blasts covering most of the country.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·2 months agoI would bet any data the IOF has in that region (if they're even using those regions) are backed up in another zone. It's still good tactic for Iran to make it expensive to operate internationally, and to increase latency.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·2 months agoThere are so many electric cars on the road now I wonder if that takes the edge off of any panic buying?
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·2 months agoAmazon does have a whole region devoted to Israel.
If Iran is willing to target Amazon in Dubai, however....
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·2 months agoBig time.
Report: IDF using Amazon cloud to store intel on 'everyone' in Gaza
America's tech giant allows Israel to store massive amounts of data, some which has even been used in air strikes
Sources in Israel’s Defense Ministry, the Israeli arms industry, the three cloud companies, and seven Israeli intelligence officials who have been involved in the operation since the start of the ground invasion in October, described to +972 and Local Call how the military procures private sector resources to enhance its wartime technological capacities. According to three intelligence sources, the army’s cooperation with AWS is particularly close: the cloud giant provides Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate with a server farm which is used to store masses of intelligence information that assists the army in the war.
According to multiple sources, the exponential capacity of the AWS public cloud system allows the army to have “endless storage” for holding intelligence on almost “everyone” in Gaza.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread
·2 months agohttps://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-data-center-fire-objects-middle-east-strikes-2026-3
Amazon AWS ME Central region is impaired after becoming "impacted by objects". There are also electrical issues. There are 3 AZs in total servicing the region, 2 are currently facing these foreign object issues according to Amazon's system status monitoring.
Amazon works alongside the IDF providing IT services and would therefore be a target for Iran.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD
·2 months agoThis is AI, yellow tint plus the building on the bottom of the image changes.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD
·2 months ago"They hit but no casualties" they say.
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electoralism•Mamdani to close NYC's last emergency migrant shelter by end of year
·2 months agoAs the migrant shelter population has declined in recent years, the city has begun to close migrant-only shelters and transition asylum-seekers to more traditional shelters accommodating all New Yorkers. Starting next year with the closure of the South Bronx site, the city will no longer shelter new arrivals and longtime New Yorkers separately.
The population decline was going to happen as Trump came into office no matter what. Mamdani might as well shut these down as long as the transfer to other shelters go well (we'll see i guess).
It's also a good idea to not leave migrants all in one place for ICE to monitor and terrorize with ease, just a thought.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba
·2 months agoBetter late than never. Im not sure what they will be getting in state owned revenues though because the oil laws changed recently under Delcy. Although that is a paper change and the country is still uninvestable by ExxonMobil standards.
https://archive.ph/gldN7
Peter Thiel is going to run for president i bet.
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba
·2 months agoLet that be a lesson to future revolutions, never let your economy hinge on one export industry!
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news•Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba
·2 months agoWell tbh I don't think it's really working all that well even without a Chinese intervention. Trump wants little wins all over the world, and to feel like a winner all the time.
The more thorough foreign policy decisions are crafted by people like Marco Rubio, and I don't think he really got the result he wanted in Venezuela. The Cuba blockade is a revision of what the USA really wanted, which was regime change in Venezuela.
Similar stories elsewhere, like the Iran strikes. The drawback of flooding the zone is you can't control what the water is doing.












That, or he is blaming the failure of the uprising on the Kurds withholding arms. Or some other thing. It's Trump's word so I don't fully trust it.