- Number of THAAD batteries within intercept range
- Active defense agreements with NATO member states
- Licensed Ukrainian anti-drone EW systems per facility
- Iron Dome coverage overlap percentage
AWS Shield is going to mean a Patriot battery included...We went from cloud is just someone else's computer to cloud is just someone else's military base...
That’s for nitrogen. Sulphur is another matter. I suppose in the long term we should just adapt food production to what can actually be sourced sustainably and locally.
"Tons of people will die, but thats fine if it achieves my political/environmental goals"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/americas-energy-...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-massive-stargate-data...
What a wild time to be alive!
Proceeds to not name the founding "team"
Regardless, it is grimly interesting to watch the next chapter of tech companies becoming increasingly significant in geopolitics.
Iran recognizes that it is not just the actual damage, but the credible threat of damage that incurs pressure/cost. For example, there are piles of ships holed up in the Gulf - Iran has the capability to strike at them, but they don't need to. Publicity is part of magnifying the threat.
Iran likely lacks the capability to actually assuredly destroy any single target of its choosing. Iran instead likely has the capability of destroying maybe 1-10% of targets that it actually chooses to engage. However, it can hold hundreds of targets at threat to try to ratchet up the pressure. In addition, by casting an ever wider net of claimed targets, when it does get around to attacking, it's more likely to be able to construct a narrative of "calling their shot".
Not to mention being able to quickly deliver counter-attacks to like for like infrastructure when theirs has been attacked. i.e the Ras Laffan counter punch after South Pars was attacked and the UAE aluminium plants after their steel mills were hit etc.
They have also already essentially taken AWS Bahrain permanently offline at this stage.
So they are certainly capable of it but simply hitting the target removes the leverage of using it in a negotiation. If it's already gone you can't say "we won't hit X if you agree to terms Y before time Z".
If they can strike and destroy $1 trillion worth of things it would be very dumb to do that right away. Then they will have used up all their valuable targets and they will have less leverage going forward. Instead they would want to destroy $50 billion a day until they get what they want.
If AI is being used to target them, the first thing to hit in a war should be the AI data centers. Iran is fighting the first war with Skynet.
They did the same with US companies in the Gulf region, and then followed through with attacks on Oracle and Amazon data centers.
This strategy absolutely works.
Trump is threatening to destroy Iran's infrastructure. This is a counter-threat: "You've got infrastructure that we can destroy."
Its exactly the right play for Iran to threaten but not do and hope that corporate greed panic does the work for them.
Lol, that was a good one.
A meteorite could wipe out half the planet and these guys would be like "10 tips to adapt OpenClaw to the new post-impact world".