Well, @HistoPol found this article that might explain the recent global outages
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Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:57:00 JST 
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:56:58 JST 
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Re-routing, perhaps?
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Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 02:56:59 JST 
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@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
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Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:01:02 JST
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@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
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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.
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Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:16:53 JST
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@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
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#RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy
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...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...
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Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:22:27 JST
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@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
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#WarInRedSea #NAFO #InfoSec #Houthis
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...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
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...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:...
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 03:46:50 JST
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#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
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#RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy
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...#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#RedSeaWar #Houthis #Yemen #Strategy(9/9)
...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.
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:09:43 JST
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I understood it the same way. 😉
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.
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Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 04:09:44 JST
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@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.
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