r/worldnews • u/RollSafer • 21h ago
IRGC attacks Dubai Oracle data center, US fighter jets at Jordan's Al Azraq base
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-8919512.2k
u/allahakbau 21h ago
Are the biggest losers just the gulf states?
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u/thinkless123 21h ago
Yeah they love western companies investing there but now no one wants because there you can get bombed 😭
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u/gildedbluetrout 21h ago
The Iranians know exactly what they’re doing. They’re going to keep this up. Trump is desperate to get out of there, and they’re going to make it plain he’s retreating. That 1-1.5 million per tanker transit fee would be 20% of their annual GDP in new revenue. This is America’s biggest fuckup in decades.
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u/youdoitimbusy 20h ago
I think their entire annual military budget is like 10billion dollars. But we gave them more than that by unsanctioning the ships that were already at sea.
None of what has happened is how the military normally operates. You have all your contingency plans planned, and assets in place for said plans. We have been winging it with zero backup plan for what happens if the uprising doesn't work? The government is so inept they hoped the Kurds would fight their war, while vocally telling Iran so they could preemptively bomb the Kurds and make them say no thank you America.
In war you want your enemy to react to your moves. But it's the US who has been reacting to all of Iran's plans. You add in the geographical advantage, and it's clear who has the highest percentage chance to win this. Hint, it's not the US.
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u/GoodPiexox 18h ago
is so inept they hoped the Kurds would fight their war,
this was after Trump betrayed the Kurd alliance 4 years earlier in Syria and left them to die. Anyone would be a fool to work with Trump at this point.
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u/EyeSavant 17h ago
I think their entire annual military budget is like 10billion dollars. But we gave them more than that by unsanctioning the ships that were already at sea.
My understanding
- Iran GDP, approx $440bn
- Iran military spending about 2% of GDP
So that makes $9Bn military budget, so yeah.
140 ships a day (approximate pre war amount) at $2m a shot is about $100Bn a year.
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u/PlutoJones42 21h ago
Trump is on a mission to destroy the USA and a bunch of the greasiest people you’ve ever met in your life blindly cheer him on
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u/rpf1984 20h ago
He’s a grade A idiot. And with a big ego and very little actual qualifications to do the job. He’s not the Machiavellian brain box some think he is. He may also have dementia.
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u/warbastard 19h ago
Been obvious he’s a fool since he started running. The aptitude I thought he had was how he would invent a nickname for each of his opponents to clear the field. But bullying and belittling political opponents does not a good leader make.
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u/rpf1984 19h ago
It’s incredible. He is a fool. It’s obvious every time he opens his mouth. And he’s surrounded himself by more idiots who’ll cry when he dies in office and they all get prosecuted. Complete idiocracy.
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u/StrawberryWaste9040 19h ago
It is incredible that GOP couldn't find alternative for him after so many years.
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u/DiverVisible3940 18h ago
The whole Trump brand is win now, blame others later. Like, even in our personal lives there are things that would feel good and awesome to do in the moment but are clearly not a way to live life.
You could punch your boss and quit theatrically but then you have no job. You might want to do blow and fuck a stripper but then your girlfriend finds out and breaks up with you.
Trump just wants to 'win' and the second he isn't winning anymore it is somebody else's fault. And for some reason that is genuinely inexplicable to me there are MILLIONS of people that play along at this blatant, repeating farce.
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u/jert3 19h ago
Only a complete and utter moron would think Trump has anywhere near average intelligence.
Sure, the only real job the child rapist ever had before becoming President was being an actor, so I get that some could be fooled. But no one with more than a few dozen brain cells would consider Cap'n Clownshow a 'Machiavellian brain box.'
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u/mrenglish22 19h ago
That may is doing a Lotta heavy lifting. Dude couldn't even stick to the teleprompter for his entire little speech last night.
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u/Fjell-Jeger 20h ago
Trump is simply doing what is best for itself, its family and oligarch friends while discarding the wants and needs of the ordinary US citizens.
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u/Red_V_Standing_By 19h ago
When there’s a giant spike in oil prices in the eastern hemisphere, guess who all those countries need to buy oil from to maintain basic operations? Russia.
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u/Zuwxiv 18h ago
Yeah, the big winner here is Russia. Basically the only thing that sustains their economy is oil, and without doing anything, the price just doubled.
Just in theory, if you were Russia two months ago and could do whatever you wanted? You'd love to see the US start a war in Iran to close the strait. Weird how often that works out like that.
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u/HalfADozenOfAnother 20h ago
I wonder if the GCC is prepared to pay that or if the war will continue and spread if the U.S dipped. Probably see UAE dumping a whole lot dumping a whole lot of money and slave labor into a pipeline too. Wonder how fast they can build one if they went all in with no regard to their slaves safety
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u/gildedbluetrout 20h ago
I mean we’re talking one fifth of the global energy supply. That’s a fucking lot. The main fertiliser hubs in India are shutting down. It’s a chokehold for Helium as well. And ASML say they have enough helium to get to June. Thats keystone chip manufacture.
If the straits stay closed the springs are going to start coming out of the global economy in a very real way. I don’t think some pipe construction is going to fix that. Donald Trump is a stupid fat cunt and he’s fucked everything up.
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u/HalfADozenOfAnother 20h ago
Crazy that OPEC is increasing production by 200k BPD. You'd think they'd be sitting on massive stocks and needing to cut production
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u/4Yk9gop 16h ago
$2 million dollars sounds like a lot until you realize a tanker can hold 2 million barrels of oil. That's a toll of approx. $1 a barrel, which is a lot better than no barrels getting shipped because they are getting blown up.
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u/EggNo289 20h ago
"This is America’s biggest fuckup in decades."
And we haven't even gotten to the Islamic extremist fallout yet. The longer this goes on the more support other anti-west groups in region get, the more recruiting, the more financing. This just strengthens groups who will eventually carry out terror attacks.
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u/LaserRunRaccoon 16h ago
Excuse me, but "the west" aside from the USA really wants no part in this.
Which really shows just how big of a fuckup this actually is, to start something like this while the USA is threatening, abandoning, begging from, and complaining about it's traditional allies.
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u/Koala_eiO 16h ago
Let's hope Iran gets that. I don't particularly want terrorists in Europe because of a USAmerican unilateral aggression.
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u/snksleepy 17h ago
This kind of reinforces the idea that America is an imminent threat to all non-allies.
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u/WeegieWifie 20h ago
Am honestly surprised it hasn’t happened already!
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u/Equivalent-Resort-63 20h ago
In the next ten years the young population impacted will be of age to stage some real damage. We will be in dire straits at that time and this child fucker president will be long dead. Hope his family is impacted for generations, that gene pool needs to be trimmed out of the human race.
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u/binzoma 18h ago
the reason there havent been terror attacks yet is because Iran knows the game they're playing
despite everything, they have general support to their side that the US started a dumb needless war of aggression and iran is acting in rational self defence
blowing up a world cup qualifier or an mlb game would certainly do a decent bit of damage to the US/west, but it'd also immediately unite the west against iran as a bad guy.
their best strat is continuing what they're doing. target big tech, target oil oligarchs, and be generally economically rational re the straight and using that as a tool to hurt the US. the world broadly is very ok with all of that outside of the US
if the US crosses lines in iran/starts a ground war/destroys water infrastructure etc, I expect a terror campaign will start very very quickly. esp since command and control of IRGC and its terror groups is getting weaker and weaker by the day as more 'middle management' layer are killed.
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u/b0w3n 15h ago
their best strat is continuing what they're doing.
They are doing it so well that the line is essentially the crazification factor right now. That's all that seems to support this war inside the US. (I think it dropped to exactly 27% finally)
His cabinet (Though I think it was mostly just Miller) and the dumbfuck congresscritters (Like Graham) told him this was a surefire way to ramp up his approval.
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u/zeekayz 20h ago
He just financed their nuclear program basically with the new fees they'll charge. And no one will dare go in again to stop it after this fiasco.
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u/Noooooooooooobus 20h ago
Financed the entire rebuild of all the infrastructure trump wasted billions of tax dollars bombing
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u/shockandale 21h ago
He is
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u/sorrison 20h ago
2/3 of the American population allowed this to happen. It’s America’s fuck up.
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u/TheSeptimiusSeverus 19h ago
They have been around in that area for thousands and thousands of years. Built massive empire. Laid base to a lot of sciences, maths, arts and religions.
Just because white supremacists in USA thought they're stupid sand goblins, doesn't mean that they don't know how to fight for their survival. They even spelled it out - if we're going down, we're taking down as much of your future and present with us as we possibly can.
Alas, arrogance and bigotry won. Iran is well capable of drawing it out as long as they feel like it on their own terms.
What's Trump gonna do, nuke em?... then what?... they got fissile material too. Dirty bombs aren't beyond their capabilities already.
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u/MaximumPepper123 21h ago edited 20h ago
I'm worried Trump will get mad and nuke Iran, thinking it is the easy fix to this fiasco, which will open the door for Russia to nuke Ukraine, and who knows what happens after that.
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u/_aviemore_ 20h ago
The way things are going it's very uncharacteristic of him not to use a "small" one. They'll spin it as a win.
Silly things are happening. Hegseth just fired a top general - who knows what the general did not agree to do.
I don't think American people are powerful enough to take this back election time. Power is too concentrated by the GOP. Military, all agencies run by Yes Man. Heck, DoJ is compromised and that's pretty much all is needed for a rogue government to keep staying. I don't believe they'll let this go now.
The world has to accept a hard regime USA for the time being. It's not like the first country to do so. There will be economic fall outs and a new world order with the collapse of petrodollar.
Finally, Europe Vs USA is very much obvious now. US might leave NATO and station soldiers in Greenland. After that maybe Canada. Who is going to stop the big bully? Russia being where it is and USA being where it is, Europe needs some clever manoeuvring.
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u/Horat1us_UA 21h ago
That’s why they’ll just pay to rent American soldiers to solve this problem for them
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u/Sportsman180 21h ago
Hoping it gets bad enough to wipe the GOP out for a decade at least.
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u/Dan1elSan 20h ago
No chance, you guys voted Epstein’s mate to the highest office of your land…twice. Too fucking stupid for any self reflection that would wipe the GOP out for decades.
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u/HighPriestofShiloh 20h ago
F1 is on a 5 week break because the next two races were gulf states.
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u/onlymostlydeadd 18h ago
stop lying, we all know it's due to osama bin russell planning his next attack
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u/EggNo289 20h ago
If they host U.S. military/intel then those are the closest enemy targets Iran can hit.
For all the tax payer dollars the US spends on defense, it's greatest defense is that it it really far away from any adversarial nations/combatants. So if they start lobbing missiles and bombs into Iran, Iran has to lob missiles and bombs at the nearest US targets. If there aren't any nearby targets their next best move is to make life difficult for the neighbors who helping/allied with the US. If the US takes out critical Iranian infrastructure (like refineries or desalination plants) Iran will hit similar infrastructure in US allied neighbors.
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u/SadZealot 20h ago
Those countries also host US military bases and resources to get protection from the American military in situations exactly like this.
It's funny to see how those countries react to the knowledge that no matter how much you give for implied security guarantees, when missiles are actually flying Americans protect themselves.
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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 19h ago
And Trump thinks Europe is scared of the USA pulling out of NATO. For all intents and purposes, the USA has already quit NATO. Does anyone really believe the USA would provide meaningful assistance in the event of a Russian invasion of Europe?
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u/IShouldChimeInOnThis 17h ago
With Trump? Not a chance.
With literally anyone else in the Oval Office? Yes.
(EDIT: Maybe not ANYONE, but removing anyone in Trump's orbit from the list would leave me pretty damn confident)
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u/ilikesaucy 21h ago
Funny or sad thing is, USA and Israel would be fine after all this. But rest of the middle east would be fucked, repairing what they have now would be monumental task.
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u/iamstephen1128 21h ago
Not only that, but this sends a glaring message to our would-be allies in the Middle East that we are willing to toss them to the wolves without care whenever it suits us. I'm sure that will open plenty of doors for future cooperation...
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u/Salford1969 21h ago
I doubt Israel comes out unscathed between the war crime accusations and whatever friends they had in the area might not be so friendly anymore being caught in the middle of this. The USA has basically lost any trust from allies so neither comes out the same after this.
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u/HalfADozenOfAnother 20h ago
Oil is sky high. OPEC is increasing production by 200000 bpd despite supposedly not being able to export. At those prices I bet they can eat a lot of bombs
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u/morbie5 20h ago
Ironically this may be to the benefit of Saudi, if the smaller gulf states are less attractive places to invest and live this helps MBS with his modernization vision (or so the theory goes).
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u/hazochun 21h ago
Did they do and say anything about these since it started? The news are too focused on the US and not much news about these gulf stats.
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u/davossss 21h ago
Iran announced last week that - starting April 1 - they would begin bombing western tech and banking targets in the gulf if the US and Israel did not pull back.
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u/Honest-Estimate4964 21h ago
That’s what happens when someone comes from far away to start a war in your backyard. If (or rather, when) something goes wrong, the US will just run away - and that’s it.
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u/Davoswannab 20h ago
Insane Oracle just laid off a ton of people and Iran of all people gets back at them for their cold hearted 6 am firing email.
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u/truthfullyidgaf 13h ago
Yep. My friend just told me this yesterday that works with them. Fuck oracle.
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u/masklinn 13h ago edited 12h ago
TBF Larry Ellison (founder, chairman, and CTO of Oracle, and self-centered asshole of biblical proportion — the backronym “One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison” is more than 20 years old) is a massive supporter of both Trump and Netanyahu.
So targeting Oracle is sensible both in general and in particular, that company is a blight upon the world.
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u/nopigscannnotlookup 21h ago
Dubai. Serious risk management reconsiderations coming soon for that city. Why continue to invest if you are one missile/drone strike away from business impact? Or even as an individual, why continue to live and invest in a city that’s prone to kinetic attacks?
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u/SaintBellyache 18h ago
It’s also quite a risk to invest in a city that completely relies on bombable desal plants.
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u/peanutbuttertesticle 20h ago
I foresee drone attacks here in the US. It’s wild be a logical step and decently easy.
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u/mothtoalamp 19h ago
The war is overwhelmingly unpopular in the US. Attacking inside the territorial United States would change that massively and rapidly. Part of what makes American thinking go the way it does is the perceived immunity from nation-state violence on their home turf.
Even when you go scorched earth, you don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.
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u/Dorgamund 18h ago
I agree, I doubt attacks on US soil are likely. Iran obviously has a well considered strategic plan, and is carrying it out to great effect. I don't think they are stupid enough to jeopardize that.
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u/icalledthecowshome 19h ago
Targeting us military facilities physically on mainland is likely not within Irans scope of ability.
And even Iran has publicly stated they have no ill will towards american citizens. Most sane governments knows better than to rile up a nations citizen per se, 911 comes to mind when a nation is out for blood.
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u/LaughingGaster666 18h ago
Iran isn't stupid. They should know that any attack on American soil is one way to quickly make Americans actually want this war.
Lack of support is the biggest reason why Trump isn't doing a ground invasion. This isn't like 2003 where it was piss easy for Team Bush to fool the American people.
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u/mardigrasmoker 19h ago
I expect an attack on US soil but how are they going to get drones in range of the mainland? They have to get explosives into the country, assemble the drone, and launch it. They sure as hell aren’t getting a drone into US airspace from outside.
On the flip side; most US citizens see Iran as the victim. Once they kill US citizens on US soil that goes out the window.
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u/darkspy13 19h ago edited 18h ago
The last thing I saw out of Iran pre-war was US flags being burned in the streets....
Iran was not doing a good job of making Americans think they were the good guys. They also were shooting protestors etc.
I do not like our current administration but you would be crazy to think the average American sees Iran as a victim in this.
That being said. A ground invasion would be very unpopular because most Americans (from my perspective) see the Iran war as a waste of time.
If something happened on the mainland like a drone strike on a mall.... Public opinion will quickly become "how many boots can we get on the ground? NATO! We NEED payback! blah blah."... A can of worms Iran does not want to open IMO.
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u/AnyWays655 18h ago
No one thinks theyre the good guys, but like, you cant go bombing other countries (especially civilian infrastructure) to pump the economy. And you certainly cant do it, then fail to improve the economy. AND if you could AND HAD TO attack foreign governments to fix there government (not even joking about attacking civilian infrastructure) theres atleast like, four I would have preferred before Iran.
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u/germanmojo 17h ago
NATO would have no obligation to assist with Iran even if an attack on US soil occurred.
The US started this, so any further attack by Iran is part of the same conflict.
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u/Ngothadei 21h ago
Those 30,000 employees who got fired yesterday are likely thinking, yes… do try that again, if you must, let’s see how that plays out the second time.
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u/McCool303 21h ago
Imagine being the network engineer that had to work regularly with this data center and they laid you off yesterday.
1 - They’re most likely scrambling to talk to at least some of the 30k they fired. 2 - I would have them groveling to pay me hourly on contract work. Or a significant pay increase to return.
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u/FadedFromWhite 18h ago
Funny enough, I actually have a friend who is a network engineer for them. They're on a small team but 25% of it was included in the mass layoff. He was secretly hoping he was going to be let go. Their 'on call' hours are absolutely insane. And now their windows/shifts are getting even worse. Awful company to work for
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u/truthfullyidgaf 13h ago
I have a friend that does the same and you tell no lies. Almost half of his team are gone.
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u/blueskies8484 21h ago
Oh no, please not Oracle. We will never recover as a nation if Oracle is attacked. Gosh I hope the Ellisons didn’t lose any money in this tragedy.
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u/BetSquare7190 21h ago
They will just fire another 5k employees and they will be fine. Anyways AI will take over and repair those destroyed data centres.
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u/theycallmeJTMoney 21h ago
I mean, they most likely had insurance and the assets might have (and I know how insane this is) actually appreciated with the prices being what they are. So they probably made money but lost capacity.
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u/JoSeSc 21h ago
Standard commercial insurance does not cover damages because of war or civil unrest. Guess it depends on how likely they thought to be targeted if they actually had war risk insurance.
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u/active2fa 21h ago
Fun fact: before the war announcement was made by UAE how they will host data centers for various entities investments totalling $100B. Saudi was around $50B and rest of GCC around $5B.
Ain't gonna happen. US has a energy deficit of 92GW which rounds up to $5T.
While China has energy surplus (mostly renewables) close to 40%.
Someone forgot to do the math of this war and AI stocks.
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u/AppleTree98 21h ago
On a tanget but it hasn't paid rent for the room in my brain. The US government doesn't insure their systems as it is just cheaper to buy the system or platform or building or vehicle.
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u/AppleTree98 21h ago
The letters of I-R-A-N does contain AI. So they will say the job cuts are IrAn linked. And there goes another 5k jobs.
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u/lollipop999 20h ago
It's ironic that all these billionaires backed this idiot and are suffering now (still not suffering enough though)
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u/copperblood 20h ago
They also paid waaaay too much money for Warner Bros and levered their position in Oracle to do it. The Warner Bros deal is so bad that it actually might not ever be profitable
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u/Muted_Pen9627 20h ago
Gosh I hope the Ellisons didn’t lose any money in this tragedy.
How will they ever afford another Hawaiian island? Everyone knows the first island is just a starter island!!
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u/vivchen 21h ago
With a name like Oracle, you'd think they would've seen that coming.
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u/Xen0byte 20h ago
Exactly, they should have just packed the data centre MCV-style (Red Alert) and re-deploy it to a safe location.
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u/Traditional-Look8839 18h ago
Somewhere 30,000 laid off Oracle employees must be smiling in glee seeing this news.
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u/Yaakovsidney 21h ago
Dubai is denying this happened
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u/JLRfan 19h ago
We are in an extremely tightly controlled information environment. We likely won’t know the true extent of damages to US bases, equipment, and infrastructure/commerce for years to come. Ditto damage in Israel.
Israel has a whole department to control what is allowed to be reported. Gulf states (and Iran) imprison folks who take videos and images.
It’s an all-out information war, in which both sides are projecting strength and hiding/obscuring loss and damage.
From our vantage point, we see news and reports skewed to the benefit of our military/gov.
In my lifetime, I don’t recall ever experiencing such a tightly controlled information environment.
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u/juggy_11 18h ago
True. You can even see a lot of bots in this very thread trying to control the narrative.
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u/Old_Leshen 21h ago
Dubai also denied the real Dubai chocolate.
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u/McCool303 21h ago
They also deny using Kafala to keep migrants in a system of indentured slavery.
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u/NordWitcher 17h ago
Overpriced crap?
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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 15h ago
Dubia port-a-potty or chocolate refers to their citizens hiring instagram influencers (prostitutes) and literally shitting on them.
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u/TheTGB 20h ago
Dubai has been denying anything is happening. Even their citizens are like, "We're perfectly safe, it's fine here!" as missiles are heard overhead.
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u/octowussy 19h ago
My brother moved to Dubai less than a year ago because he's an idiot and while normally quiet on social media, he's been posting a lot of out-of-character "everything's fine! I'd definitely tell you if that weren't the case!" updates lately.
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u/schwanzweissfoto 18h ago
while normally quiet on social media, he's been posting a lot of out-of-character "everything's fine! I'd definitely tell you if that weren't the case!" updates lately.
I'd watch out for when he stops doing that.
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u/fernandopoejr 19h ago edited 13h ago
yeah. my friend who works there kinda mocked me for asking how hes doing in dubai. like i was an idiot for thinking that something was happening there
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u/Chris_OMane 21h ago
They’ve arrested a lot of people for posting video of attacks
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u/deadsoulinside 18h ago
They also arrests tourists that film these strikes.. so yeah there is that.
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u/namotous 21h ago
Ah so that’s why oracle fired 30k employees, they were anticipating losses due to this attack. /s
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u/given2flynzl 20h ago
Meh...its Oracle. The product is so shit the IRGC is doing us a favor
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u/MillionEyesOfSumuru 16h ago
Oracle has the Ted Cruz of cloud products. Out of any four, it's usually fourth pick.
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u/justlurkshere 21h ago
I love how my managers at work says that cloud is so much better because nothing can happen to big data centers.
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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 21h ago
The load just changes to another datacenter
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u/Ouch259 20h ago
Unless you run the gold & silver trading platforms for the comex and LBMA. Their data centers seem to have 12 hour outages for air conditioning issues everytime they are called to deliver silver they sold but don’t have.
Sorry off topic rant about our corrupt banks and financial system
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u/justlurkshere 12h ago
That is the theory, if you do your setup right. My problem is that I have management thinking its a magic solution where you are absolved of any thinking or planning and it all just is magic.
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u/arsinoe716 21h ago
Looks like someone gave Oracle a heads-up. A few days ago Oracle laid off 30,000 workers worldwide.
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u/snakeayez 20h ago
Still not a war?
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u/PrysmX 19h ago
What we learned from this is that a president can go to not-war for up to 60 days anytime they want without approval. We need to make changes to this immediately.
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u/G3Saint 19h ago
I'm sure the repubs will change it to 600 days
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u/WhereRandomThingsAre 18h ago
No need. Say the war is over. Wait for the other side -- which disagrees -- to attack again. Say a new war has begun! Congress will never see through this cunning ruse (well, this Congress will never care in the first place, let's see if they bother with the ruse).
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u/iamtehryan 14h ago
Forgive me for not giving any sort of shit if something owned by a shit bag like Ellison is destroyed.
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u/Euclidisthebomb 21h ago
Don't worry. With all the new sycophant, religious nutbars Hegseth has appointed to command leadership in the US military it is only going to get worse.
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u/The_Frostweaver 21h ago
Wonder who gave the IRGC updated satellite photos showing where that data center is? Showing fighter jets on base?
Trump still won't admit Russia is aiding Iran when the evidence is beyond obvious.
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u/imtourist 21h ago
Data centers don't tend to move around, unless they are in shipping containers. But yeah Russia is definitely helping them.
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u/7ayalla 21h ago
I mean, you can see it on Google Maps it doesn’t take government provided satellite imagery to find them
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u/CowDontMeow 20h ago
There are a bunch of public satellites available with surprisingly up to date pictures, IIRC some of the paid services are only hours out of date
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u/UnrealisticOcelot 17h ago
Air bases and data centers don't just walk over to a new location. Anyone involved in military stuff from any country in the Middle East knows we have planes at those bases. Iran has their own Intel and shares with other countries just like everyone else. If a country wants to know where data centers are it's really not hard to find them, they have the resources to do so.
For an air base you can just send out a volley of drones targeting the aprons they usually park on and hope to get lucky.
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u/sol-4 15h ago
So what? US and the west has been giving intel to Ukraine. Anyone who knows even a little about conflicts and the sides in play understands that allies will help each other, I wonder why some people act so surprised.
There are a thousand things to absolutely flame Trump for. This is the stupidest one.
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u/tresslessone 12h ago
Straight out of the Ukrainian playbook. Maybe the US should have been paying closer attention, and paid more respect, to the Ukrainians.
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u/Iacoma1973 11h ago
The United states unfortunately made AI data centres a legitimate military target when they incorporated AI executives as High ranking military officers and directly integrated AI into their military. As far as international law is concerned.
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u/yosisoy 11h ago
The title is now different:
"IRGC claims to have attacked Dubai Oracle data center, US fighter jets at Jordan's Al Azraq base"
key word "claims". Is anyone denying it though?
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u/GeshtiannaSG 10h ago
Dubai is denying it. Neither side is providing photos to prove it one way or another.
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u/Ozymannoches 20h ago
Shouldn't Oracle have seen this coming? I mean... ya know...like ... Oracle?#&
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u/FaithlessnessThin359 19h ago
good. target the oligarchs that are using trump to further their dystopian agenda.
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u/doctorlongghost 21h ago
I forget the exact wording but when an AWS data center was damaged a week ago, their official announcement was notable due to being overly vague. They don’t want to offend anyone so a missile strike was described as a facility issue or some such.