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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
Related: Meta-discussion about downvoting patterns, flagged comments, alleged political bias in moderation, and concerns about suppression of Trump-critical content.
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"id": "46505574",
"text": "I have no doubt they used cyberattacks and electronic warfare.\n\nTrump just seems the worst person in the world to play a game of telephone with on such a subject.\n\nFor example: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/16/pentagon-silent-a...\n\n> “The F-35, we’re doing an upgrade, a simple upgrade,” Trump said. “But we’re also doing an F-55, I’m going to call it an F-55. And that’s going to be a substantial upgrade. But it’s going to be also with two engines.”\n\n> Frank Kendall, the secretary of the Air Force during former President Joe Biden’s administration, said in an interview with Defense News that it is unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed an “F-22 Super,” but it may have been a reference to the F-47 sixth-generation fighter jet… Kendall said it is also unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed the alleged F-55."
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"id": "46505793",
"text": "Also: “Everything’s computer!”"
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"id": "46505501",
"text": "On the other hand, Trump has a track record of leaking capabilities."
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"id": "46505561",
"text": "Something like this more or less happened during the initial Israeli strike on Iran ?\n\nFrom what I remember reading, they were able to gain air dominance not because Iranian air-defense was bad, but because it was put almost completely out of service for a brief period of time by people on the ground - be it through sabotage, cyber-warfare, drone attacks from inside, allowing the Israeli jets to annihilate them."
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"id": "46505930",
"text": "> not because Iranian air-defense was bad, but because it was put almost completely out of service for a brief period of time by people on the ground - be it through sabotage, cyber-warfare, drone attacks from inside,\n\nWouldn't that constitute air defense being \"bad\"? There are no \"well technically it should have worked\" in war. Failing to properly secure the air defense sites is bad air defense."
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"id": "46505969",
"text": "Not really. Ferrari is a great car, but with punctured tires or bad driver, it won't win any race.\n\nAlthough I do agree, that in war only the final outcome is important. It's just that in this case it failed not necessarily because of technology, but because of humans."
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"id": "46506817",
"text": "A Ferrari with punctured tires isn’t a great car, it can’t drive. It’s an immobile, useless hunk of metal with a great engine and transmission, similar to disabled air defense systems: really expensive, useless hunks of metal."
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"id": "46505818",
"text": "See the remotely operated Spike missiles:\nhttps://www.twz.com/news-features/spike-missiles-that-destro..."
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"id": "46505576",
"text": "The unquestioning logistical and intelligence support from the US military is truly formidable, and probably expensive."
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"id": "46505400",
"text": "Read about Stuxnet"
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"id": "46505479",
"text": "It's been well known to be a major part of world power war plans for like 20 years now. Yes, it's a terrifying concept."
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"id": "46506116",
"text": "Russia tried. They haven’t managed to do anything very serious."
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"id": "46507001",
"text": "I don't think calling shutting down the internet horrific is appropriate at all in the context of bombings."
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"id": "46507733",
"text": "Ridiculous post. Power outages would kill a lot of people if sustained. A Carrington event would devastate modern society."
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"id": "46505291",
"text": "Look for the same with Greenland or Canada next :/"
}
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"id": "46505394",
"text": "the rest of the world is weirdly too passive, there's a smell of shock"
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"id": "46505493",
"text": "IMHO the rest of the world isn't asleep. Denmark's prime minister said the same as you, for example. US just got roasted at UN by inter alia, France, with ~20 countries either speaking the same or asking to speak on it. That's just from 30s with front page of nytimes.com."
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"id": "46506467",
"text": "In EU, so far I believe only the PM of Spain had the backbone to speak properly with anything that could be considered \"strongly worded\", proving that it's possible.\n\nThe others have been variants of \"Celebrating liberation of the Venezuelan people from the illegitimate dictator, a new dawn for democracy! (oh and everyone (not naming names) please behave and try to be mindful of international law and human rights from now on)\"\n\nNot a single word about the dead, for one.\n\nWhile the NYTimes headline names France as critical, here's Macron (still only posting) on Twitter: https://xcancel.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/200752538697719404...\n\nMeanwhile POTUS is over there talking literally and openly about how US are \"going to run things\" and motivating it with taking the oil and how they don't really care about democracy one way or other."
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"id": "46507084",
"text": "This has happened because the party that rules Spain has ties to the dictatorship.\n\nThis goes so far that one of the ministers of the government met in Spain with Delcy Rodriguez, bringing her a few briefcases of something that hasn't been explained yet, despite her being subject to a travel ban in the EU.\n\nOf course this is a progressive government so the EU said absolutely nothing about it."
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"id": "46508138",
"text": "It’s really dumb I’m sitting at -2 and the top reply is about a Macron tweet from 2 days ago, lying and saying no one else from Europe has said anything, and lying and saying anything besides the King of Spain was actually celebrating. You’re making stuff up. Full stop. You could easily have googled either thing I mentioned. You didn’t, choosing to free associate instead. May you reap what you sow."
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"id": "46506546",
"text": "Given that the nukes topic came up ... Will the US/Trump be so aggressive if Denmark has a few nukes that can hit the US? Or at minimum sink a invading fleet?\n\nThese actions by Trump are only reinforcing that we will see even more of a push for everybody to get their own nukes, even in Europe.\n\nPeople do not need to yell \"bad trump\", to have his actions result in decisions being pushed forward like this.\n\nTheodore: \"speak softly and carry a big stick\"... and nuke(s) is a BIG stick."
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"id": "46505605",
"text": "That just sounds like more 'strongly worded letters' which never go anywhere and they never do anything about.\n\nIt's over for the EU. They rested on their laurels for too long and cowardice rotted them from the inside.\n\nI don't think Denmark will put even a smidge of resistance up. Trump is going to bark some orders, boots are going to hit the ground and it's fait accompli ."
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"id": "46505652",
"text": "What does action (i.e. not-strongly-worded-letters, i.e. not words) look like?\n\nCapture Trump?\n\nInvade the US?\n\nThe idea the EU is some bureaucratic hellhole incapable of anything is really odd and nigh-universal - I'm used to righties adopting it from Brexit & antipathy for social demoracy, but I'm not used to see it as a despondent wailing from people otherwise sympathetic to it.\n\nNote no one even mentioned the EU - it's so universal a reaction to \"US is acting bad\" that it came out of nowhere. Not to pick on you: when I was first replying, I also replied as if it was the EU! Had to go back and read the comment I was replying to and corrected myself before posting."
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"id": "46505893",
"text": "One non military but economical retaliation that would affect our industry is to stop respecting American’s intellectual property. Some variation of the trade bazooka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Coercion_Instrument"
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"id": "46507243",
"text": "> What does action (i.e. not-strongly-worded-letters, i.e. not words) look like?\n\nEurope withdraws from the non-proliferation treaty, publicly resolves to building and maintaining a European nuclear deterrent and greenlights members who have been militarily threatened (the Baltics, Poland and Denmark) to start clandestine programmes.\n\nThe last part doesn't even have to happen. Hell, none of it has to happen. But that would be playing from strength.\n\nUnfortunately, Europe is not politically unified enough to do this. (Same for Asia.)"
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"id": "46505831",
"text": "Any sort of pushback at all would be an improvement.\n\nEven now, the EU Commission is trying to 'defuse' the Greenland situation by trying to invoke NATO's fifth article, as if that's worth anything without the will of the USA behind it. You know, instead of like actually drawing out plans for a military alliance, economic retribution (remember all those sanctions against Big Tech which fell apart the moment Trump made even the slightest comment against them?) or… just about anything.\n\nLaws are worth even less than the paper they're written on, and no amount of naïve idealism (and calling it that is me being generous!) will change that. NATO membership is worthless other than as an aesthetic signifier."
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"id": "46505702",
"text": "Action probably looks like crash-starting multiple nuclear weapons programs. With or without the help of the british/french. Probably with.\n\nI'd imagine programs from: the Nordics and Poland+Baltics. Maybe Germany, probably not."
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"id": "46505842",
"text": "What happens when you start making nukes and the US doesn't want you to?\n\nSsetting aside the whole non-proliferation thing, or expense (see NK), etc.\n\nLet's get serious, please."
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"id": "46507442",
"text": "Sanctions come to my mind."
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"id": "46506822",
"text": "We would then hack you."
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"id": "46506585",
"text": "Why set aside expense? You do it anyway by whatever means necessary, like the DRPK. And if you’re a “western democracy” (also known as capitalist dictatorship) and you’re part of the ruling class, you still have the incentive to protect your assets, things you exploit in your country, land, natural resources, etc, that the US won’t be sharing or that they want to decrease supply when they take over through puppets or multinationals, and you can always force the public to pay for such a project, like all the times western peoples had to bail out or spend their taxes to benefit private corporations, but now it would look like it’s to protect sovereignty, which is a bonus of course, it would be to protect the local ruling class’s interests, but anyway. It’s clear the Americans will stop at nothing to acquire whatever it is they want, including indirectly violent means like ordering their financial institutions and tech giants to destroy whoever is on the way. The monster was always there since the Cold War and just now it dropped any pretenses."
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"id": "46506723",
"text": "I don't think anybody cares any bit about Maduro."
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"id": "46506820",
"text": "understandably, it's more about the acceleration in aggressiveness from Trump clan and the precedent of crossing the usual international red lines"
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"id": "46507698",
"text": "Almost every country made some repudiation note. But I don't think we'll see anybody doing any actual thing because of that."
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"id": "46505455",
"text": "Not sure why this got downvoted; we're threatening it again, credibly enough that the Danish PM is telling them to shut up.\n\nYesterday:\n\n> Adding to the alarm, Katie Miller, a right-wing podcast host and the wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, posted an image of Greenland superimposed with the American flag and the caption \"SOON!\"\n\nhttps://www.nbcnews.com/world/greenland/trump-venezuela-atta..."
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"id": "46505524",
"text": "> Not sure why this got downvoted\n\nFragile egos. Narcissists desperately need to feel good about themselves. They're caught in a cycle: feel worthless -> do bad things (feed the ego) -> feel worthless."
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"id": "46505550",
"text": "Whose egos?"
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"id": "46505940",
"text": "a16z.\n\nSame reason this post got flagged and died.\n\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356858"
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"id": "46507477",
"text": "wait whose a16z. Can you provide me more context about it?\n\nAlso what was written in that comment if you can tell and why it died?\n\nAnother quick question but is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews? Seems like its possible with things like https://hn.live/ or I saw some other website like this as well. Perhaps, something like this can store flag/dead posts but I am not really sure if it has any use case but I am just curious what was written in that post."
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"id": "46508091",
"text": ">is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews?\n\nthey're not deleted, just hidden. you can toggle \"showdead\" in your profile settings."
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"id": "46505543",
"text": "It's not only downvoted, it was flagged, and dead . (flag accepted by moderator, no one else will see this comment thread without expanding)\n\nMr. Trump good.\n\nTrump derangement syndrome bad.\n\nIf Mr. Trump does what you say eventually, then it was good. (see rule #1)\n\nI see this frequently on HN since the re-election, won't speculate as to why: only way around the downvote is to criticize policy generically, untethered to time, with some sort of micro-focus like you're sharing new information about how things work, not discussing current events."
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"id": "46505959",
"text": "Ill speculate as to why, paid astroturfers are posting it. Look at Twitter, most accounts that post that insane trump loving crap are in third world countries."
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"id": "46506351",
"text": "Probably just a coincidence that Garry Tan and Marc Andreseen have so publicly aligned themselves with a cabal of pedophiles."
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"id": "46505881",
"text": "Of course, because this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen."
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"id": "46507249",
"text": "> this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen\n\nYou're mixing up your VCs?"
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"id": "46506605",
"text": "The other weird anomalies I noticed were that we were out of soy milk. Asked my wife and we never run out of soy milk usually. Don’t know if it means anything but just putting it out there. The President did say he has capabilities."
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"id": "46507957",
"text": "Time for every country at threat from the US to invest in their own independent\nnuclear arsenal...."
}
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