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1. BGP Technical Analysis
Related: Detailed discussion of AS prepending, route leaks, RPKI filtering, autonomous system paths, and whether the observed anomalies represent deliberate attacks or routine misconfigurations. Experts note CANTV's normal prepending behavior and loose routing policies.
2. Nuclear Proliferation Incentives
Related: Arguments that the Venezuela operation demonstrates the value of nuclear deterrence, comparisons to Ukraine giving up nukes, North Korea's strategy, and predictions that more nations will pursue nuclear capabilities as protection against US intervention.
3. MAD and Deterrence Theory
Related: Debates about mutual assured destruction effectiveness, second-strike capabilities, nuclear triads, strategic ambiguity in nuclear policy, and whether nuclear threats are credible when leadership capture is possible.
4. Cyber Operations in Warfare
Related: Discussion of CYBERCOM involvement, cyber attacks preceding kinetic military actions, potential for disrupting power grids, and the integration of cyber capabilities with traditional military operations.
5. International Law Erosion
Related: Concerns about precedent set by extrajudicial capture of a head of state, sovereignty questions, comparisons to potential operations against other nations, and implications for international norms.
6. European Response Weakness
Related: Criticism of EU's passive response to US actions, discussion of strongly-worded letters versus action, calls for European nuclear deterrent, and debate about European political unity and capability.
7. Inside Job Speculation
Related: Theories about Venezuelan government or military cooperation with the US operation, discussion of palace coups, negotiated exits, and intelligence human sources enabling the rapid capture.
8. Trump Administration Statements
Related: Analysis of Trump's claims about capabilities, skepticism about his technical accuracy, references to his tendency to leak classified information, and parsing official statements about the operation.
9. North Korea Deterrence Model
Related: Discussion of DPRK's nuclear strategy as successful deterrence, artillery threat to Seoul, Chinese protection, and how isolated nations maintain security through asymmetric capabilities.
10. Pakistan Vulnerability
Related: Analysis of US contingency plans for Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, discussion of Pakistan's limited ability to threaten US homeland, and the role of China in regional deterrence.
11. Network Infrastructure Security
Related: Discussion of BGP insecurity, RPKI adoption, the role of transit providers like Sparkle in enabling route manipulation, and publicly available BGP monitoring data.
12. Venezuela Military Capabilities
Related: Assessment of Venezuelan air defense, F-16 fleet status, why there was minimal resistance to US helicopters, and the asymmetry between US and Venezuelan military power.
13. Greenland and Denmark Threats
Related: Concerns about US threats to Greenland, Danish PM statements, parallels to Venezuela operation, and potential future US territorial aggression against allies.
14. China and Russia Response
Related: Analysis of why China and Russia didn't defend Maduro, differences between alignment and actual protection, comparison to Chinese commitment to North Korea.
15. Intelligence Collection via BGP
Related: Theory that routing traffic through controlled transit points enables passive intelligence collection, mapping critical infrastructure dependencies, and pre-kinetic reconnaissance.
16. Encrypted Client Hello
Related: Technical aside about DNS HTTPS records, ECH implementation for privacy, SNI leaks, and implications for censorship circumvention and surveillance.
17. Operation Timeline Correlation
Related: Chronological analysis connecting BGP anomalies to subsequent military events, questioning causation versus correlation, and the value of timing analysis in OSINT.
18. Tactical vs Strategic Nuclear Use
Related: Discussion of escalation ladders, limited nuclear strikes versus full exchanges, whether tactical nuclear use would trigger strategic retaliation.
19. Civilian Infrastructure Targeting
Related: References to attacks on power grids, comparison to Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, graphite bombs, and the normalization of infrastructure warfare.
20. HN Moderation Politics
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"id": "46507344",
"text": "I think that lesson from World War Two is that civilization is all the things we do to prevent another World War Two from happening. And that what we owe to all the people in Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nanjing, the Warsaw Ghetto, Katyn, Bengal, Manzanar, and a thousand other places is to prevent anything like that from happening again."
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"id": "46507870",
"text": "There's a fair argument to make that, by that standard, a civilized civilization has never existed. Atrocity has ever been our giddy companion."
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"id": "46507614",
"text": "Where will the planes land?"
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"id": "46507855",
"text": "Given the extent of planning that went into these types of doomsday survival scenarios, I wouldn't be surprised to find there are pre-prepared discreet runways in obscure locations unlikely to be targeted. Not full concrete runways, just a strip of prepared land that would see a 747 land without exploding into a ball of fire."
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"id": "46508309",
"text": "Dry lake beds abound in the US West. See Edwards AFB (big dry lake bed on which nearly everything, including the Space Shuttle, has landed). See also Groom Lake. These are enormous and couldn't be wrecked by conventional runway denial weapons."
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"id": "46507788",
"text": "Those interstate highways are starting to look pretty good as the fuel guage drops"
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"id": "46508581",
"text": "I'd always been told this was planned into the implementation of the US Interstate Highway System. There are dead straight and level sections ever so many linear miles or per some gridsquare measure to serve as ad hoc landing strips in a national crisis. That's been 35+ years ago that I heard it and I haven't sought any supporting documentation since the dawn of the Internet. Any insight would be appreciated."
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"id": "46506333",
"text": "Aren't there bunkers near dc for that reason though?"
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"id": "46506573",
"text": "According to some deep dives into the budget figures for the East Wing Ballroom .. there are new bunkers going in as we type .. and likely being networked underground."
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"id": "46506646",
"text": "Feels like our politicians and MIC higher ups are preparing themselves for nuclear war but not building the rest of us any bunkers"
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"id": "46507198",
"text": "Why would anyone build bunkers for cattle?"
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"id": "46507197",
"text": "It's felt like that for more than half a century: https://youtu.be/zZct-itCwPE"
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"id": "46506593",
"text": "Not to mention the bunkers being built by various Silicon Valley billionaires, who by rights should be considered appendages of the U.S. state."
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"id": "46507181",
"text": "> And may tolerate a coupe instead\n\nThe US is vulnerable to that scenario as well, even though the military’s willingness to comply with literally textbook illegal orders is not encouraging."
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"id": "46506408",
"text": "“And may tolerate a coupe instead.”\n\nI could tolerate a coupe but I’d prefer a sports car :-/"
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"id": "46506369",
"text": "> the military and public would not want to die in a nuclear inferno to defend national sovereignty\n\nErm, it's kind of demanded for people to go out and die to defend national sovereignty in nations that have a draft. For myself, I'd prefer to be vaporized than bleed out in a trench if it really comes down to it."
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"id": "46506493",
"text": "Realistically speaking you'll die of an infected and untreated burn wound though, the severe blast and burn area is just much much bigger than the fancy \"everything just goes poof\" core."
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"id": "46507970",
"text": "Realistically speaking you're going to die of starvation or get shot by marauding gangs, or die of cancer a few decades later from radiation in the food change. NukeMap [1] has good visualizations of the relative fireball vs. blast vs. thermal radiation vs. fallout radiuses. One thing that stands out: most of the suburbs is going to survive the initial nuclear exchange. At worst, they'll have a few broken windows.\n\nThe problem is that if you eliminate ~20% of a nation's population, supply chains, continuity of government, and the economy aren't going to last long. Social organization breaks down much more widely than people die. The resultant pullback of all the trapping of society - reliable food supply, clean water, transportation infrastructure, electricity, heat - is going to kill many more people than the nukes will.\n\n[1] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/"
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"id": "46508549",
"text": "Not only 20% of the population, but wiping out cities is going to make everything grind to a halt. Best case , tiny pockets of social order is going to remain in very hard to reach, remote rural areas which also has local access to food. We are talking about maybe thousands of people in a population of hundreds of millions. The rest are in for a decade of pure hell."
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"id": "46507360",
"text": "Yah, but you could enter the ruins of some shop, get some booze there, and walk straight into ground zero. Feeling the buzz. Getting tired...drifting away..."
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"id": "46506591",
"text": "Vaporized is good with me. Not so keen to have my body melt over several days due to acute radiation exposure though..."
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"id": "46506886",
"text": "Giving up is really very common in war."
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"id": "46507207",
"text": "coup"
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"id": "46508133",
"text": "Note that MAD only works when there are a small number of players. Once it gets up past around 12, a.) it becomes too easy to detonate a nuclear weapon and then blame somebody else to take the fall and b.) the chance of somebody doing something crazy and irrational becomes high. Same reason that oligopolies can have steady profit but once you have ~10-12 market players you enter perfect competition and inevitably get a price war.\n\nThere are 9 nuclear-armed states today. Likely this has set us on a path where nuclear war is inevitable."
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"id": "46508235",
"text": ">There are 9 nuclear-armed states today. Likely this has set us on a path where nuclear war is inevitable.\n\nIt's really hard to guess how retaliation would happen in practice, a large-scale nuclear war certainly isn't inevitable .\n\nThe most likely targets for nuclear strikes right now are also non-nuclear states."
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"id": "46508470",
"text": "People massively simplify the dynamics of launching a nuke. If Russia launched a nuke on a Ukrainian military target away from civilians there is virtually 0 chance of nuclear retaliation. Ukraine doesn't have them. Does anyone think the US, France, etc. would nuke Russia? Of course not.\n\nIt's scary, but in some scenarios one nation can absolutely nuke another nation without threat of getting nuked themselves. In reality, the cat coming out of the bag looks more like that than nuclear armageddon."
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"id": "46507608",
"text": "Yeah I imagine we’ll see a cottage industry of small countries with nukes in ten-fifteen years.\n\nPlenty of places have uranium and unless they are being watched like Iran they can just set up clandestine enrichment operations."
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"id": "46506100",
"text": "I think have thousands of artillery shells aimed at Seoul is the larger deterrent."
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"id": "46506235",
"text": "The nukes are to deter the US. They have been steadily increasing their missile range to first reach regional bases like Guam and now the all the way to the continental USA, and are now even launching a nuclear powered and nuclear armed ballistic missile submarine https://www.hisutton.com/DPRK-SSN-Update.html"
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"id": "46506298",
"text": "The nukes are a bargaining chip (disarmament). Basically, if your country has the human and tech capital to develop a nuke, you probably should because it's free money.\n\nI don't believe that NK's nukes deter the US from doing anything. Would NK nuke Guam and risk getting carpet-bombed with nukes for endless days and nights until even the ants are dead? Artillery on Seoul doesn't matter. The US would just ask SK to evacuate it.\n\nThe US doesn't do anything about the DPRK because it's not economically relevant (i.e. it doesn't have the world's largest oil reserves etc). In an ironic way, their economy being closed-off and mostly unintegrated with the Western world maintains the peace."
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"id": "46506352",
"text": "The nukes have many roles perhaps but I think the fully developed weapons are for retaliatory strike.\n\nThey are the North Korean leadership saying that if the US (or China or anyone really) tries to surgically decapitate them (like the US just did in Venezuela) then the nukes are used to take the attackers with them"
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"id": "46508495",
"text": "Guess the US's mistake was not decapitating NK earlier then. Too late for NK, not too late for other regimes."
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"id": "46506510",
"text": "Yes that's the orthodox doctrine of nuclear deterrent. To be truly effective you need a triad of land-based ICBMs, nuclear-armed submarines, and aircraft-based delivery systems so that your second-strike capability remains intact through any decapitation attempts.\n\nIf you don't have the triad then you need to brandish your capability more ostentatiously, like France does with its deliberate refusal to commit to a no-first-strike policy. This is (one of the many reasons) why North Korea does so much sabre-rattling: they don't have a (publicly known) nuclear triad for deterrence."
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"id": "46506890",
"text": "Just a note that the importance of the triad is a very American perspective on deterrence and most other countries don't seem to approach this the same way the US does.\n\nThe Russians really have a quad (they also have mobile, truck mounted ICBM's that form a significant part of their deterrent, offering some of the guaranteed second-strike advantages that the US gets from SSBN's- and which their SSBN program does not provide nearly as well as the USN does). The Chinese only recently added a manned aircraft leg of their triad with the JL-1. The Indians technically have a triad- just no silo based systems, all of their land based missiles are from TELs, and they only have two SSBN's and do not do alternate crews so more than 1/3 of the time they don't have any deterrent at sea. The Israeli's are not believed to have any sea-based ballistic missiles, their sea-based deterrent would be Popeye cruise missiles and so vulnerable to interception. The Pakistanis are still building their first sea-based deterrent. The French and the UK have no land-based missiles, they are only sea-based and airplanes. The South Africans invested in the Jericho missile more for its space launched capabilities than its warhead delivery abilities, and never really looked at anything sea-based, so far as is publicly known."
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"id": "46507142",
"text": "> To be truly effective you need a triad of land-based ICBMs, nuclear-armed submarines, and aircraft-based delivery systems\n\nThe core parts for MAD land-based missile silos (to soak up the enemy's missiles) and submarines (to ensure a second strike). Planes are largely a diplomatic deterrent inasmuch as they're easy to send out and easy to recall.\n\nBut Pyongyang isn't playing MAD. It's playing credible threat. And for a credible threat, you just need missiles. (On land or on subs.) The point is that you raise the stakes of e.g. a Maduro operation to risking Los Angeles."
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"id": "46506749",
"text": "P5 by triad capability:\n\nCN 3\nFR 2\nRU 3\nUK 1/2\nUS 3\n\nLooks like IN ought to get Airstrip One's seat?"
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"id": "46507543",
"text": "> Artillery on Seoul doesn't matter. The US would just ask SK to evacuate it.\n\nHow do you evacuate 10 to 15 million(counting Incheon in) of people, fast? Where to?"
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"id": "46507675",
"text": "Proportionally that's about evacuating all of California. Completely ridiculous, which is exactly why DPRK has installed all that artillery."
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"id": "46506908",
"text": "The importance of this is often exaggerated. It's significant, but it's not that significant. RAND Corporation modeled this, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA619-1.html\n\nIt assumes ~130,000 casualties from a worst-case surprise attack on population centers by the North.\n\nIf a conflict started ramping up, evacuations would rapidly shrink this.\n\nA significant deterrent, sure. But it rapidly becomes less and less meaningful as the DPRK builds its nuclear arsenal."
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"id": "46506459",
"text": "They're safe, but at what cost?\n\nThey drive old cars, have slow internet and can't visit the coliseum. They're not invited to the cool parties."
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"id": "46506223",
"text": "Nah, Kim will now wet his bed for weeks.\n\nIf any dictator willing to deliberately kill thousands for nothing knew he could wake up in a chopper the world would have been a better place."
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"id": "46506364",
"text": "Well, really any leader who dissatisfies the president of the US, really"
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"id": "46506386",
"text": "NK is protected by China, a very credible force."
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"id": "46506456",
"text": "Maduro was protected by both China and Russia."
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"id": "46506710",
"text": "Maduro may have been aligned with them, but that is a completely different thing than being protected by them. The DPRK is actually protected by the PRC, in the sense that the PRC is willing to and historically did deploy millions of soldiers to push back Americans from North Korean territory."
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"id": "46507046",
"text": "But note that happened in rhe 1950s, when Mao was in power and the PRC was an upstart separatist regime with very limited recognition. Now China may want to act very differently."
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"id": "46507058",
"text": "The reason Mao helped Pyongyang still applies: namely, it would make China less secure to have on its border a regime allied to a great power other than China."
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"id": "46508022",
"text": "They already have a border with Pakistan and got exactly zero problems from it (if anything, China is the one to stir up shit on that border). You seem to be repeating Putin-style propaganda points. Stalin and Mao were never threatened by the West really, that was part of the Marx-mandated global commie land grab."
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"id": "46508052",
"text": "Saying \"The West is no threat to anyone\" at the same time you're advocating for an invasion and abduction of a country's leader is certainly a position to hold. Not a very internally consistent or convincing one, though. And I suppose Vietnam never happened in your constructed reality."
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"id": "46506896",
"text": "China, Cuba and Russia sent him air defences and some personal guards. What would China's millions do if Kim was kidnapped? Invade Seoul that had no say in it?"
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