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<topics>
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
0. Does not fit well in any category
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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": "46507699",
"text": "The only anomaly was military. As far as I can tell, Venezuela's AD was shut down, or told to shut down.\n\nDidn't the US use Chinooks? They're supposed to be loud. And AD didn't take even one out.\n\nIf Venezuela as corrupt as most socialist countries, I have no doubt that someone in his inner circle gave him up.\n\nBack in the days of our version of socialism we had Indian politicians selling out for $100K, leave alone $50M."
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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": "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": "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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