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IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by ajross »

thisislife2 wrote: post #239
ajross wrote: post #221

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Not OP, but I don't understand how you claim that Bush and Biden have nothing to do with the mess in the middle-east? Didn't Bush start the Iraq war, which removed political stability and introduced social and political chaos there? Didn't subsequent US Presidents after 9/11, including Biden, prolong the National Emergency to fight "terrorists" (look it up - while The Democratic party fear mongers that Trump will pro…

Exactly. General opposition to the war on terror and the US in general has blinded you to obvious analysis that things were basically OK seven months ago and they're shit now, and there's a reason for that that isn't anything to do with US hegemony or whatever.

If you want to oppose imperialist scum, this makes sense. If you want the global economy to not be shit, it doesn't.

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Post by singleshot_ »

ajross wrote: post #221
frollogaston wrote: post #213

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Putting a lot of words in my mouth there

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> Bush didn't cause the mess in the gulf, period, full stop.

Uh,

> Is there space for nuanced discussion?

Apparently not?

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Post by Melatonic »

dhx wrote: post #62

AWS's 3 data centres in me-south-1 are: BAH53 (Manama): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492345589 An adjoining substation to BAH53 had one of it's two main buildings damaged/destroyed about 2026-07-16 per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-data-center-power-substation-bahrain-jul-16th-2026-142024 Then about 2026-07-22 BAH53 itself was damaged/destroyed per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-amazon-we…

What's hosted at BAH54?

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Post by badpun »

Teever wrote: post #249
runtime_terror wrote: post #177

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Why do we think it's our job to intervene in other countries like this? And if we wanted to help another country, working with the international community should be the only approach we take. We've spent many decades overthrowing countries to what end? Even our vassals like Israel have universal healthcare while we're all in debt because of healthcare. It's not working and needs to stop.

It comes down to the simple reality that "I am because we are" and as such any time a human being is oppressed we are all oppressed. One could make the argument the people who live in liberal democracies have an obligation to help those who unfortunately do not and who are still forced to live under autocratic oppression. There were periods in history where most people lived under the thumb of some sort of autocrat o…

If you overthrow one autocrat and the society is not ready to self-govern, you'll just have another one taking his place. The best you can do is to fund some kind of democratic opposition on the ground and in exile, hoping to grow a political class mature enough that they will take over after autocrat loses power one way or another.

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Post by red-iron-pine »

RazorBucksICO wrote: post #149
input_sh wrote: post #60

After this strike, the only AWS region in the ME that remains operational is the one in Tel Aviv (a bit ironic if you ask me). UAE has been down for months, Bahrain is now offline, Saudi Arabia is still under construction.

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Post by dang »

aerodog wrote: post #106
throwaway836123 wrote: post #93

As someone who has lived most of his life in Iran, I ask those who find any alignment with the IRGC to please understand that it is a religiously fanatic military and terrorist group. They are behind many atrocities in Iran and in the region including the situation in Gaza (partially). They also provided weaponry and support to Russia against Ukraine.

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WTF? We've banned this account.

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Post by strictnein »

petilon wrote: post #155
TiredOfLife wrote: post #142

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What are alternatives. You can't change from inside and you can't change from the outside.

Ground troops have to invade Iran. Trump can't do that now because of upcoming midterm elections. After the elections, if there is no other way then Trump has to send ground troops in.

People have been saying we're going to invade Iran for almost 25 years now. It's always just about to happen, yet never does.

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Post by dang »

y-c-o-m-b wrote: post #175

Was there really no other source than "houseofsaud.com" here? Seems like a strange source to be promoting on HackerNews. Their About, Contact, and Press pages don't even work. I can not find who owns this publication. I don't see them listed on https://mediabiasfactcheck.com either, which is usually a red flag for me. For example you can find other suspicious sources - like Iran International - on there https://media…

It does seem like we'd be better off with a more neutral source, but the only other article I could find from today (as opposed to 3 days ago) was https://iranwire.com/en/news/155401-irgc-claims-second-strik..., which doesn't look (or sound) like a neutral source either.

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Post by culi »

runtime_terror wrote: post #178
frollogaston wrote: post #156

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Sorry, no country has a right to anything. We should do what's best for ourselves. This isn't it.

So if the US was invaded we wouldn't be justified in fighting back?

States have rights in the way corporations have rights. They don't. It's just a game of legalese to justify crimes. Rights are for living things

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Post by RazorBucksICO »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #255
RazorBucksICO wrote: post #149

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Bizarre in the sense of mostly performative tit for tat strikes instead of some kind of serious strategy to win and to win for good. And in the case of Iran, the strikes are telegraphed in advance in almost comedic fashion. “OK, we’re starting operation True Promise n. We’re launching missiles. We’re about to do it, guys. OK is everyone ready? For the missiles? These are the targets, but next time it could be more serious, OK?”

This does not resemble what I would imagine a fight for civilization survival to look like. I’m talking about the stakes being you win or you, your family, and every man, woman and infant you know is going to be killed or starved in concentration camps.

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