Drums of War

i’ve been looking at this situation for the past several days. the thicket of ethnic rivalries, religious elements, and residues of “great power” gamesmanship over a century or more makes this almost impossible to understand much less defuse. i wish the un luck. they’ll need it.

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Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed… just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia

Popular plane-tracking website Flight Radar 24 has been the victim of multiple DDoS attacks over the past few days – and though the site’s operators haven’t attributed blame, some have wondered if a regional conflict may have been the cause.

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Business top brass are terrified their companies will simply be collateral damage in a future cyber-war

Businesses are worrying about being caught in the crossfire of cyber warfare, according to research from Bitdefender – while industry figures warn that the gap between common-or-garden cyber threats and “oh, look what nation states are doing” is becoming ever smaller.

Bitdefender’s latest report, titled 10 in 10 , surveyed around 6,000 C-suite bods responsible for cyber security and found [PDF] “over a fifth” of these said that cyber warfare was one of the most challenging topics they had to convince their colleagues to take seriously.

Also, squirrels.

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Once the world realized Trump was not going to intervene in anything, it became snatch and grab time.

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Well, none of these are new conflicts, though - Trump has little to do with them. Many have long, deep, complicated histories. But they are boiling over in the past few years, thanks to the rise of right wing governments all over the place.

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And here’s how local leaders are diplomatically discussing the situation

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Years after they fought in Afghanistan, US troops watch as their children deploy to the same war

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https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1313812313263222784?s=21

The empire is bipartisan.

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Reminder:

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Earth’s circumference is 24900 miles, cool comfort, 2 1/2 hours tops to farthest reach.

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ummm.
sure Caitlin, do we just let tRump have the presidency again because he didn’t invade Iraq when he wasn’t in office?
JFC! Yes, the invasion was a fucked up thing and war crimes were even committed. No one forgives that.
Fucking tRump must GO!

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They all have to go.

White supremacy is bipartisan. The empire is bipartisan.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pentagon-estimates-cost-nuclear-missiles-958b-73701775

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Some more details here.

Fela is in order here…

Apparently, Queen Bey, not so much…

:roll_eyes:

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