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1. BGP Technical Analysis
Related: AS prepending as traffic engineering, route leak detection, RPKI filtering absence, CANTV routing policies, Cloudflare Radar data interpretation, distinguishing misconfigurations from intentional attacks
2. Nuclear Proliferation Incentives
Related: Arguments that US actions encourage nuclear weapons development, North Korea's deterrence strategy, Ukraine giving up nukes as mistake, MAD theory limitations, small nations seeking nuclear arsenals
3. Cyber Warfare Capabilities
Related: CYBERCOM involvement, power grid attacks, pre-kinetic intelligence gathering, electronic warfare preceding military operations, infrastructure disruption techniques
4. Network Security Infrastructure
Related: Transit provider security practices, RPKI implementation, BGP route hijacking vulnerabilities, autonomous system path manipulation, route leak consequences
5. Geopolitical Power Dynamics
Related: Spheres of influence, US hegemony, China and Russia non-intervention, palace coup speculation, international law erosion, sovereignty questions
6. Nuclear Deterrence Theory
Related: Second-strike capability, nuclear triad requirements, strategic ambiguity doctrine, credible threat requirements, escalation ladders, MAD constraints on both sides
7. EU Response Weakness
Related: European passivity criticism, strongly worded letters ineffectiveness, lack of unified military alliance, economic retaliation possibilities, withdrawal from non-proliferation treaty
8. Operation Legitimacy Debate
Related: Maduro's legitimacy questions, international law violations, just war principles, internal collaboration theories, negotiated exit speculation
9. DNS and ECH Technology
Related: HTTPS record types, Encrypted Client Hello implementation, DNS-over-HTTPS, SNI leak prevention, website blocking implications
10. Greenland and Canada Threats
Related: Trump administration expansion ambitions, Denmark sovereignty concerns, NATO Article 5 relevance, European nuclear deterrent needs
11. Venezuela Infrastructure Targeting
Related: Dayco Telecom hosting critical services, banks and ISPs affected, Caracas telecommunications, pre-strike intelligence value
12. China Protection Limitations
Related: DPRK vs Venezuela protection comparison, China's willingness to deploy forces, buffer state strategic value, retaliation calculations
13. Network Route Leak Mechanics
Related: BGP4MP data format analysis, AS path anomalies, prefix announcements, route withdrawal handling, stuck routes phenomena
14. Military Operation Speculation
Related: Air defense shutdown theories, insider cooperation, Cuban bodyguard deaths, helicopter vulnerability, operational security
15. International Relations Anarchy
Related: Power wins in anarchy, no actual international law, spheres of influence, superpower behavior normalization
16. Pakistan Nuclear Scenario
Related: US contingency plans, decapitation strike feasibility, India as target, submarine-based deterrent importance
17. Trump Communication Reliability
Related: Off-the-cuff statements, capability leaking history, F-55 confusion, unreliable technical claims
18. Conventional vs Nuclear Deterrence
Related: Strong conventional forces importance, keeping conflicts below nuclear threshold, tactical nuclear ambiguity
19. OSINT Methodology
Related: Public BGP datasets, bgpdump tools, RIPE data analysis, Cloudflare Radar usage, investigative techniques
20. Historical Cyber Operations
Related: Stuxnet reference, Israeli strikes on Iran, graphite bombs, Operation Desert Storm cyber effects
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"id": "46508266",
"text": "The history on this is pretty sound ... a major bombing campaign was started much earlier to avoid any invasion or boots on the ground.\n\nSeventy two Japanese cities, including Tokyo, were already completely destroyed before the two atomic bombs were dropped. The two cities destroyed by atomic bombs were on a list to be destroyed regardless.\n\nTo the people killed, injured, or left in the shell of a city with no food or water it made very little real difference whether the cause was HE+incendiaries OR high burst shockwave from atomic bomb - the M&M statistics (death and injury, both immediate and following) were similar in either case.\n\nThe greatest military imperative to drop the atomic bombs were pragmatic .. they were developed at vast expanse for use on Germany but were not ready until after Germany surrended .. to close off an R&D program without a live target test on targets already targetted for destruction just seemed ... wasteful.\n\nAfter the bombs were dropped, everything changed. Public awareness and perception. The need for post war PR. The start of the Cold War race with soviets over atomics. The pressing need for auto biographies and centre staging from actors late to the story, etc.\n\nMuch of the \"justification\" for dropping atomic bombs was retconned after the fact."
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"id": "46508177",
"text": "> On the other hand, it doesn’t matter how off the estimates were because they’re our people and their lives matter more.\n\n\"Our\" people?\n\nThat kind of moral calculus simply doesn't track with me: I'm neither from the US nor Japan, plus I think considerations of \"civilization\" fly out the window once you start thinking like this.\n\nBut also, it's a kind of goalpost shifting. Either the calculations were the justification, in which case it matters whether they were right, or they weren't. It's not right to argue \"well, the actual numbers don't matter because...\"."
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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": "46508694",
"text": "There are something like 20,000 airports and heliports across the US. While not all of them can handle 747s probably there are several thousand fields that can take one of them, especially if there is no need for it to fly again.\n\nAnd even if all of those fields are destroyed in the US, the 747s modified for AF1 (VC-25s) are capable of in flight refueling, they can stay up for about three days before the oil needs to be changed on the engines and they are forced to land. So they can still reach Australia or some place far away from the US if the rest of the US is totally destroyed."
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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": "46507197",
"text": "It's felt like that for more than half a century: https://youtu.be/zZct-itCwPE"
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"id": "46507198",
"text": "Why would anyone build bunkers for cattle?"
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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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