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    Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:57:00 JST Snowshadow 🇨🇦 Snowshadow 🇨🇦
    • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

    Well, @HistoPol found this article that might explain the recent global outages

    #News #Internet #Outage #SocialMedia #Telecommunications

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/underwater-data-cables-red-sea-cut-amid-houthi-107772629

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      3 Red Sea data cables cut as Houthis launch more attacks in the vital waterway
      from ABC News
      Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels
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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:56:58 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @NatureMC @Snowshadow

      Re-routing, perhaps?

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      Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:56:59 JST Petra van Cronenburg Petra van Cronenburg
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      • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

      @Snowshadow @HistoPol That doesn't explain the difficulties between the USA and Europe.
      In The USA is "Super Tuesday" of the candidats, will say, a flood of comments hits a lot of declined, meanwhile often crappy servers (especially on Twitter). And then even more people comment on the down ... and it implodes.

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      Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:59:18 JST Snowshadow 🇨🇦 Snowshadow 🇨🇦
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      • Petra van Cronenburg
      • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

      @HistoPol More than likely.@NatureMC

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      Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:01:02 JST Snowshadow 🇨🇦 Snowshadow 🇨🇦
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      • Petra van Cronenburg
      • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

      @HistoPol At one point I counted 22 sites but now only Meta is affected.@NatureMC

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:16:52 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @NatureMC

      Formulating a hypothesis and then verifying or proofing it to be wrong is how even science advances. 😉

      The media are catching up:

      https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/112044320820020245

      It might not be monocausal either:

      Cutting the cables, re-routing of traffic, and massive #US use might be a joint cause, too.

      We will find out eventually, I hope.

      @Snowshadow

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      Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:16:53 JST Petra van Cronenburg Petra van Cronenburg
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      • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

      @HistoPol @Snowshadow If not even the media have reliable information, we should not speculate wildly. Zuckerberg has so far only officially reported that there are login problems. Let's take it as a blessing: All the fascists were shut down too.😊

      Decentralised networks have advantages.

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:22:26 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @Snowshadow

      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

      (1/2)

      ...where in fact I had been waiting for this to happen on a weekly basis.
      And so it did.

      What I do not understand:

      The #US, for instance, has repeatedly gone to war for trade and even mere oil.

      The #Houthis are causing a global crisis, exacerbated by the draught in the #Panama canal.

      I'm not sure about #Russia, but I'm pretty sure the #West, #SaudiArabia, and even #China are aligned on the #Houthi threat to...
      @NatureMC

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      Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:22:27 JST Snowshadow 🇨🇦 Snowshadow 🇨🇦
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      • Petra van Cronenburg
      • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

      @NatureMC We are not speculating wildly, if we were I am sure we could come up with some very interesting conspiracy theories rather than relying on news reports. Also, as I said, Downdetector reported up to 22 sites all were down, some sporadically, at the same time. Most are back up and running again.
      You sound like the person who a couple of weeks ago argued with me and insisted Houthis could not possibly attack the cables.@HistoPol

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:34:05 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      #WarInRedSea #NAFO #InfoSec #Houthis

      (2/3)

      ...global trade, suply chains, and thus prosperity.

      #Yemen has no military to speak of in comparison. I'm not a hawk, but *why is not "fire raining down" on the relevant costal regions of the country?*

      What is the maximum range of 90% of their wespon systems?!?

      "At the strategic level, the Houthis (likely with mentoring from Iran) have learned how to pull geopolitical levers through 👉medium-range ballistic missile ...👈..."

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:42:45 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      (3/n)

      ...strikes on #Riyad..."

      Stunning, how a small regional conflict "at the end of the world" can turn into a global crisis.

      Equally stunning, how the State Department has failed to act, having known of the magnitude of the problem:

      "#Pentagon officials knew as soon as the #Houthis started attacking ships in the #RedSea that they would be hard to tame."**

      Here is a partial answer to my question:...

      Source:
      https://ctc.westpoint.edu/houthi-war-machine-guerrilla-war-state-capture/

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        The Houthi War Machine: From Guerrilla War to State Capture – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
        from @ctcwp
        Abstract: The Houthi rebels have been at war with the Yemeni government almost constantly since 2004. In the first six years, the Houthis fought an increasingly effective guerrilla war in their mountainous home provinces, but after 2010, they metamorphosed into the most powerful military entity in the country, capturing the three largest cities in Yemen. The … Continued
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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:46:50 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

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      ..."the #Pentagon is trying to thread an impossibly tiny needle:

      making a dent in the #Houthis’ ability to hit commercial and Navy vessels without dragging the #UnitedStates into a prolonged war.

      It is a difficult task, made more so because the Houthis have perfected the tactics of irregular warfare, #American military officials say. 👉The group does not have many big weapons depots for American fighter jets to bomb —...

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:49:09 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

      (5/n)

      ...#Houthi fighters are constantly on the move with missiles they launch from pickup trucks on remote beaches👈 before hustling away."

      "The first barrage of American-led airstrikes nearly two weeks ago hit nearly 30 locations in #Yemen, destroying around 👉90 percent of the targets struck, Pentagon officials said. But even...

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:53:36 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

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      ...with that high success rate, the Houthis retained around 75 percent of their ability to fire missiles and drones at ships👈 transiting the Red Sea, those officials acknowledged."

      "After nearly a decade of #Saudi airstrikes, the 👉#Houthis are skilled at concealing what they have, putting some of their launchers and...

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:54:48 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

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      ...weaponry in urban areas and shooting missiles from the backs of vehicles👈 or tractors before scooting off.

      And the weapons that are destroyed are soon replaced by #Iran, as a never-ending stream of dhows ferry more weaponry into #Yemen, #US officials say."

      "The Houthis are believed to have had 👉underground assembly and manufacturing sites👈 even before the civil war began in Yemen in 2014.

      The militia seized...

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:01:25 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @Snowshadow @NatureMC

      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

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      ...the country’s army arsenal when it took over #Sana, the capital, a decade ago. Since then, it 👉has amassed a diverse and increasingly lethal arsenal of cruise and ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones👈, most supplied by #Iran, military analysts said."

      "That leaves the #UnitedStates and its coalition partners with only three viable options, given the parameters of President #Biden’s...

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:02:16 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      @Snowshadow @NatureMC
      #RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy

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      ...strategic aims in #Yemen, military analysts say.

      They could commandeer the weapons coming by sea from #Iran;
      find the missiles, which requires extensive intelligence;
      or attack the launch sites."

      *And why not, someone tell me, "simply" lay waste to all coastal roads in the region?*

      Any remaining Yemenite civilians could be warned beforehand, e.g. by dropping flyers, radio briloadcasts, etc.

      https://archive.is/RPp3k

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      HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:09:43 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴 HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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      • Petra van Cronenburg

      @NatureMC

      I understood it the same way. 😉

      #OffTopic

      In fact, I've come to realize that the pronoun "we" is used quite differently in different languages.

      For instance, I often correct speakers of #Slavic languages when they use "we" in a Western language, but it would need to be "Peter and I," etc. when talking about past events where the listener was not part of the story.

      @Snowshadow

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      Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:09:44 JST Petra van Cronenburg Petra van Cronenburg
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      • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

      @Snowshadow Sorry, my "we" was not meant as real persons, just for a situation (perhaps "one" would be the correct English?) I wanted to say that it's too early to talk about reasons.

      But nice that you know what I know or have in my mind. Mindreading? 😉
      Sometimes it's just a matter of my bad English.

      @HistoPol

      In conversation about a year ago permalink

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