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1. BGP Technical Analysis
Related: Discussion of AS path prepending, route leaks, traffic engineering practices, whether CANTV's routing behavior was normal or suspicious, and how BGP anomalies are typically caused by misconfigurations rather than attacks
2. Nuclear Deterrence Theory
Related: Extensive debate about whether nuclear weapons would have prevented the Venezuela operation, MAD doctrine, credible second-strike capability, the importance of nuclear triads, and whether small countries should pursue nuclear programs
3. Nuclear Proliferation Incentives
Related: Arguments that the Venezuela operation demonstrates the value of nuclear weapons for deterrence, comparisons to Ukraine giving up nukes, North Korea's strategy, and predictions of increased proliferation
4. DNS HTTPS Record Type
Related: Technical discussion about HTTPS DNS record types, Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), TLS 1.3, and how browsers detect HTTP3 support through DNS queries
5. North Korea's Nuclear Strategy
Related: Analysis of DPRK's nuclear program as rational deterrence, their underground bunkers, relationship with China, and comparison to other nuclear states' capabilities
6. Operation Logistics and Planning
Related: Speculation about whether the Venezuela operation was negotiated, involved insider help, palace coup assistance, and military planning details
7. EU Response and Weakness
Related: Criticism of European passivity toward U.S. aggression, calls for European nuclear deterrent, discussion of EU's political disunity and inability to respond effectively
8. Greenland and Canada Threats
Related: Concerns about Trump administration threatening Denmark over Greenland, potential for similar operations against allies, NATO Article 5 implications
9. Cyber Warfare Capabilities
Related: Discussion of CYBERCOM involvement, power grid attacks, comparison to Stuxnet, and the terrifying implications of state-level cyber attacks
10. Venezuela Military Resistance
Related: Questions about why Venezuelan air defenses didn't respond, speculation about corruption and insider betrayal, comparison of military capabilities
11. Chain of Command for Nukes
Related: Debate about whether nuclear launch orders would be followed for an unpopular leader, palace coups, and the human element in nuclear deterrence
12. Pakistan Nuclear Contingencies
Related: U.S. military planning for Pakistan scenarios, survivability of nuclear arsenals, and limitations of nuclear deterrence without proper safeguards
13. International Law Violations
Related: Discussion of sovereignty, just war principles, legitimacy of intervention against dictators, and international community response to U.S. actions
14. Trump Administration Claims
Related: Skepticism about Trump's statements regarding the operation, his history of leaking capabilities, and questionable accuracy of his technical claims
15. Russia-China Response
Related: Analysis of why Russia and China didn't defend Maduro, their actual relationship with Venezuela, and what this means for other authoritarian allies
16. Iran Air Defense Failure
Related: Discussion of Israeli strikes on Iran, how air defenses were disabled through sabotage and cyber warfare, lessons for other countries
17. Cloudflare Radar Data
Related: Technical discussion of using Cloudflare's BGP monitoring tools, route leak detection, and publicly available BGP datasets for analysis
18. Continuity of Government
Related: Historical analysis of U.S. bunker programs, airborne command posts, comparison to North Korean bunker strategy
19. HN Moderation and Politics
Related: Meta-discussion about downvoting, flagging of political comments, perceived bias in moderation, and astroturfing accusations
20. Traffic Engineering Legitimacy
Related: Technical argument that AS prepending is common practice for traffic management and the anomalies may be entirely routine
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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": "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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"id": "46507849",
"text": "From where would an hypothetical operation to kidnap Kim be launched? Likely from SK or Japan, right? So yes, China could retaliate.\n\nThe operation against Maduro was launched from countries in the region aligned with the US."
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"id": "46507604",
"text": "This is only partially true.\n\nChina's primary concern is resource extraction from Venezuela, which is why Trump immediately clarified that they'd make sure China still got their oil deliveries.\n\nRussia is stretched way too thin right now to do anything meaningful about it.\n\nVenezuela was basically being run by Cuba. Maduro was really only a figurehead. The military and government was functionally run by imported Cubans which is why a coup wasn't possible."
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"id": "46505753",
"text": "From bgp hijacking? Almost certainly not.\n\nIt would probably rule out the type of decapitation strike the US did, but bgp hijacking is way way below on the escalation ladder."
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"id": "46505813",
"text": "Nuclear capability wouldn't necessarily rule out this kind of a decapitation strike, it's just that it's very hard to imagine this kind of an operation actually being successful in any nuclear-capable country.\n\nThe US couldn't just fly a bunch of helicopters to Pyongyang or Tehran and do the same within 30 minutes. Most likely every single one of those helicopters would end up being shot down."
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"id": "46505918",
"text": "Nuclear capability by itself isn't a complete deterrent. It has been widely reported that the US military has made contingency plans for a decapitation strike and seizure or destruction of nuclear weapons in Pakistan in case the situation turns really bad there. Real deterrence requires a credible second-strike capability on survivable platforms such as submarines."
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"id": "46506229",
"text": "> the US military has made contingency plans for a decapitation strike and seizure or destruction of nuclear weapons in Pakistan in case the situation turns really bad there. Real deterrence requires a credible second-strike capability on survivable platforms such as submarines.\n\nThe existence of a plan does not equate to the feasibility of its execution. A submarine-based deterrent is indeed the \"gold standard\" for survivability, but it is not the only standard. There is enough pain for the US that they wouldn't actually attack Pakistan."
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"id": "46506242",
"text": ">There is enough pain for the US that they wouldn't actually attack Pakistan.\n\nThe US does have the advantage that the surviving Pakistani nukes might very well end up flying to India instead :)"
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"id": "46507282",
"text": "> There is enough pain for the US that they wouldn't actually attack Pakistan\n\nThese are the states whose Senators are in play this year [1].\n\nLet's say Trump decides it's fuck-around-with-Islamabad-o'clock. He fucks around. Pakistan nukes at India. How many of those Senate seats flip as a result? I'm going to guess none.\n\nLet's go one step further. Pakistan nukes Al Udeid and Camp Arifjan (both theoretically within range of their Shaheen-III). American troops are killed. Does the President's party lose any seats? At that point, I'd be willing to be on a rally-'round-the-flag effect.\n\nThe truth is there isn't political downside to the President fucking around with Pakistan. Its nuclear deterrent isn't designed to contain America. And it can't threaten us with maybe the one thing that could make Trump suffer, a refugee crisis.\n\n[1] https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-election/"
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"id": "46507395",
"text": "> Let's say Trump decides it's fuck-around-with-Islamabad-o'clock. He fucks around. Pakistan nukes at India. How many of those Senate seats flip as a result? I'm going to guess none.\n\nIf America does something to pakistan, then pakistan wouldn't bomb India but rather America\n\nIn your scenario India did literally nothing. I know the rivalry but even then India has its own nukes and if India wasn't part of the plan then case would be on America\n\nA much more likely scenario is that Pakistan's military would take over (Pakistan has never been really stable after its independence) and their ties with china would grow and China would feel threatened as well and if things go the same as venezuela that is that Trump says that they would control pakistan for time being (similar to venezuela) then China would be genuinely pissed and a WW3 conflict can arise considering China could send their military there and the possibility of nuke could be a choice if the war really happens between America/China but the possibility of it is really really slim and depends on how the war goes."
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"id": "46506071",
"text": "For nuclear deterrence to work in situations like this, it'd also be preferable to have sufficient conventional capabilities that your leadership isn't decapitated before you even notice it's happening. If the attacker is also nuclear-capable, there's little incentive for second person in the chain of command to kill themselves.\n\nSimilarly, if a head of state is killed by poison or other similar means, you could hardly expect nuclear retaliation when their successor later discovers what happened."
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"id": "46506468",
"text": "Didn't we just do something like that in Iran? Not helicopters, but we still secured the airspace just the same."
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"id": "46506688",
"text": "Securing airspace for fancy stealth bombers is rather different from securing airspace for helicopters you can shoot down with just about anything."
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"id": "46506302",
"text": "Maybe Pakistan, or Israel."
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"id": "46506678",
"text": "Well yes, the US could certainly easily kidnap leaders of friendly countries. It'd also presumably be very unlikely to result in a nuclear response from either."
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"id": "46506206",
"text": "Honestly from what we learned in the earlier attacks on Iran the USA probably could take a quick trip over to Tehran and grab the Ayatollah."
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"id": "46506780",
"text": "I think clanky covered this pretty well, but dropping bombs from high altitude stealth bombers and fighter jets is very very far from actually delivering and extracting soldiers from a location.\n\nThe US could probably bomb even Beijing, it doesn't really tell you anything that they were able to bomb Iran also."
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"id": "46506618",
"text": "It's odd that Iran was able to continue launching waves of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel after they had supposedly lost so much control over their skies that it would have been possible to hover a Chinook over Tehran for 5 minutes."
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"id": "46505887",
"text": ">It's extremely difficult to believe that the US could fly a bunch of helicopters to Pyongyang or Tehran and do the same within 30 minutes.\n\nWould your answer change if China were somehow guaranteed to not intervene? Because I'm not sure the obstacle here is North Korean defenses, so much as Chinese intervention.\n\nTehran? I think it'd go more or less like Caracas did."
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"id": "46506003",
"text": ">Would your answer change if China were somehow guaranteed to not intervene? Because I'm not sure the obstacle here is North Korean defenses, so much as Chinese intervention.\n\nNo. The obstacle isn't Chinese intervention, the obstacle is that such an operation would have to be significantly larger and it would take longer. There would be much more air defense assets to suppress, and some of them would be impossible to effectively defeat.\n\nA helicopter assault on either of those cities would in the most optimistic scenario take hours of preparatory bombing, which would give a plenty of time for nuclear retaliation by North Korea. Both countries would also certainly have better safeguarding mechanisms for their heads of state, during that bombing they would be evacuated and now you'd probably be looking at the very least at a weeks-long operation.\n\nAssassination is a different thing, but I would suspect that for purely psychological reasons a rapid kidnapping operation like this would be far less likely to invite anything more than symbolic retaliation than a single targeted missile strike. This kind of operation would be far more confusing for the enemy than a simple assassination, and the window during which for example nuclear retaliation might make sense tends to be rather small.\n\n>Tehran? I think it'd go more or less like Caracas did.\n\nTehran doesn't have a fancy air defense network, but it does have one. They'd have shot down every single helicopter. You don't even need fancy missiles, a bunch of .50cal machine guns will do the trick."
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"id": "46506191",
"text": ">I assume that nuclear capability would rule out a target from this kind of snatch operation\n\nWhy would it?\n\n1. \"Nuclear capability\" is not binary. The available delivery mechanisms and the defensive capabilities of your adversary matter a lot.\n\n2. MAD constrains both sides. It's unlikely that an unpopular Head of State getting kidnapped would warrant a nuclear first strike especially against a country like (Trump's) America, which would not hesitate to glass your whole country in response.\n\n3. It's extremely risky to \"try\" a nuke, because even if it's shot down, does it mean your enemy treats it as a nuclear strike and responds as if it had landed? That's a very different equation from conventional missiles. E.g. Iran sends barrages of missiles because they expect most of them to be shot down. It's probably not calculating a scenario where all of them land and Israel now wants like-for-like revenge."
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"id": "46507572",
"text": "> an unpopular Head of State\n\nHeads of state are generally pretty good at delegating the C&C of their nukes to people they are pretty popular with. That's orthogonal to popularity polls of the populace."
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"id": "46507088",
"text": "You still have to be willing to use the nukes. The threat has to be real or it doesn't work as a deterrent.\n\nI think this is a situation where even if Venezuela had nukes, this still would have happened."
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"id": "46507712",
"text": "The choice is basically:\n\na. Don’t use nukes, everyone moves one rung up the ladder.\nb. Use nukes. Ladder is destroyed, everyone dies horribly.\n\nUsing nukes only makes sense if everyone is going to die horribly anyway. It’s an empty threat otherwise."
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"id": "46505708",
"text": "Counterpoint is that Ukraine, Qaddafi, and Assad already demonstrated the significance of maintaining certain capabilities. Vzla didn't have those capabilities before, much less publicly depreciate them."
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"id": "46505826",
"text": "Ukraine wouldn’t have been invaded if they hadn’t given up their nuclear weapons."
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"id": "46506002",
"text": "I have a few questions about that:\n\n1. Did Ukraine control the nukes, or did Russia?\n\n2. Could Ukraine keep them working on its own?\n\n3. If nukes stop invasions, why do nuclear countries still get attacked?"
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"id": "46506359",
"text": "1) It's complex. Formally, Moscow controlled the launch codes. However Ukraine designed and built the ICBMs, and are near the top of nations with the highest nuclear physicist per capita ratio.\n\nOn top of that the Soviet nuclear lockout systems are rumored to be much simpler than the American ones. Whereas the American system is rumored to be something like the decryption key for the detonation timings (without which you have at best a dirty bomb), the Soviet lockout mechanism is rumored to just be a lockout device with a 'is locked' signal going to the physics package. If that's all true, taking control of those nukes from a technical perspective would be on the order of hotwiring a 1950s automobile.\n\nTaking physical control would have been more complex, but everything was both more complex and in some ways a lot simpler as the wall fell. It would have ultimately been a negotiation.\n\n2) See above.\n\n3) Which military nuclear power has been attacked by the kind of adversary that you can throw a nuke at? Yes, it doesn't remove all threats, but no solution does. Removing a class of threat (and arguably the most powerful class of threat in concrete terms) is extremely valuable."
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"id": "46506999",
"text": "> However Ukraine designed and built the ICBMs\n\nYour computer is designed and built in China therefore your computer belongs to Chinese and China. Right?\n\n> See above\n\nMaybe you should see how good the Ukraine was at keeping their naval assets after they used the totally legal methods to obtain them. Maybe then you would have a clue on how good they could had maintained them."
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"id": "46507173",
"text": "> Your computer is designed and built in China therefore your computer belongs to Chinese and China. Right?\n\nThe previous owner was the USSR, who ceased to exist, and who Ukraine was a part of.\n\n> Maybe you should see how good the Ukraine was at keeping their naval assets after they used the totally legal methods to obtain them. Maybe then you would have a clue on how good they could had maintained them.\n\nAre you talking about the ships that weren't originally that Russia mostly scuttled on their way out of Sevastopal, in addition to stuff like a 70% completed nuclear powered carrier that even Russia couldn't maintain the sister to, and didn't fit in any naval doctrine that made sense for Ukraine?"
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"id": "46507363",
"text": "> The previous owner was the USSR\n\nNot quite.\n\n> and who Ukraine was a part of\n\nOh, so there were some wedding contract what stated what in case the parties.. part - there would be the transfer and division of assets? When why Belorussia didn't received their part of the navy? Kazakhstan? Georgia? Baltics, because they surely \"were parts of USSR\"?\n\n> Are you talking about the ships that weren't originally\n\nThat weren't originally what ? I know you degraded to just throwing words with your blanket knowledge but again you can find out the fate of the ships the Ukraine used totally legit means to obtain from Russian Federation with a quite short trip to Wikipedia."
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"id": "46507514",
"text": "> Not quite.\n\nActually, exactly. We're specifically talking about the arsenal of the 43rd Rocket Army of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. A force not reorganized until much later to be under the Russian Federation, and the relevant 1990 Budapest Memorandum occurred before the 1991 creation of the CIS.\n\nRather than a vague \"not quite\", would you care to elaborate?\n\n> Oh, so there were some wedding contract what stated what in case the parties.. part - there would be the transfer and division of assets? When why Belorussia didn't received their part of the navy? Kazakhstan? Georgia? Baltics, because they surely \"were parts of USSR\"?\n\nI think a divorce settlement is actually a pretty good model actually. Those other states rankly didn't have the means to keep them, but should have been otherwise compensated for that loss. However, as I described above, Ukraine literally designed and built large portions of these systems as was capable of keeping them.\n\n> That weren't originally what? I know you degraded to just throwing words with your blanket knowledge but again you can find out the fate of the ships the Ukraine used totally legit means to obtain from Russian Federation with a quite short trip to Wikipedia.\n\nI'm dyslexic and accidentally a word while editing. Are you incapable of telling what was meant by context, or where you just looking for a reason not to address the point made?"
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"id": "46507320",
"text": "> Your computer is designed and built in China therefore your computer belongs to Chinese and China. Right?\n\nThe question is whether china would be capable of maintaining the equipment they created and have physical possession of, not whether they can root it without physical access."
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"id": "46506317",
"text": "Has any nuclear state had their leader kidnapped? Or seen significant incursions?"
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"id": "46507605",
"text": "Most non-nuclear heads of state have never had their leader kidnapped, either."
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"id": "46506008",
"text": "Alternatively, we might have entered either a limited or a worst-case nuclear war scenario.\n\nRussia may have just continually pushed the envelope until it became clear there wasn't a bright red line, and eventually someone would push the button."
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"id": "46506186",
"text": "The psychopaths in charge of Russia still like living comfortably."
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"id": "46506158",
"text": "Russia promised not to invade if Ukraine gave up the nukes."
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