Mit der US-Blockade der von Iran gesperrten Straße von Hormus geht Präsident Trump neues Risiko ein. Eskalation oder Bluff: Experten bewerten den Schritt unterschiedlich. Aber offenbar kommt wieder etwas Bewegung in den Konflikt.
Entering the war was idiotic. Seeking to change the regime with air power alone was idiotic. Not having a clear rationale or even a rational one was idiotic. Doing it without global support was idiotic. Doing it by circumventing the law in the US was idiotic. Leaving the management of the military to an idiot like Pete Hegseth was double idiotic. Despite the high cost, the U.S. has been able to achieve absolutely none of its objectives in Iran https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trump-just-proved-he-is-historys-most-powerful-idiot/ #Iran#USA#War
Iran-Liveblog: ++ Trump kündigt Blockade der Straße von Hormus an ++
Nach dem Scheitern der Verhandlungen zwischen den USA und Iran hat US-Präsident Trump eine sofortige Blockade der Straße von Hormus durch die US-Marine angekündigt. Vizepräsident Vance besuchte den Stützpunkt Ramstein.
US-Präsident Trump kündigt Blockade der Straße von Hormus an
Iran gestattet nur wenigen Schiffen die Passage durch die Straße von Hormus - und nimmt dafür Geld. US-Präsident Trump will das nicht hinnehmen. Er kündigte die komplette Blockade des Seewegs an - und drohte dem Regime in Teheran.
Rudy Martinez prefaces his sobering report on how children are the human cost of continuing Israeli-enacted violence in the Middle East, with the US supplying the weapons used to maim and kill children:
"This edition contains documented accounts of violence against children. The events described are not allegations."
"booby-trapped objects designed to attract and kill civilians in areas populated by children; indiscriminate weapons with predictable and documented child casualty rates; specific strikes on civilian locations sheltering children with no military target identified by any investigating body; an AI targeting architecture that established mass civilian death — including children’s deaths —" (continued in /4)
"They are the findings of independent investigations, United Nations bodies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, and multiple wire services. They belong in the public record. We are publishing them here. ...
The record this edition documents spans three decades, two countries, and five distinct categories of conduct:"
"In dozens of interviews with current and former government officials and advisers, technologists and MPs – most of whom asked not to be named, in order to speak freely – I have been told about a quiet handing over of control in the frameworks of advice, intelligence and decision-making that underlie every government decision. This is not just a simple software upgrade. Large language models (LLMs), the software behind AI program such as ChatGPT, are built to produce answers that will be accepted by users – not to calculate, but to convince. This highly persuasive software, built primarily overseas, is being handed an unknown amount of political power.
In almost every interview conducted for this piece, I asked whether it was paranoid to suggest that the wholesale adoption of AI by our government, public services and wider economy is handing power to models built in the US and China. Even the most optimistic AI advocates agreed it was a reasonable argument. At a technology conference last year, I spoke to a person who had been involved at the highest level in the government’s use of AI. I asked if it worried them that foundational models could reflect the politics of the people who control them – people who have very different political ideas to our elected leaders. My concerns were not brushed off. This person told me about a power struggle between the engineers building AI models, the plutocrats who own them and the politicians who seek to control them. Far from the noise of the public debate, a battle is being fought that could have lasting implications for our politics. “Make no mistake,” this person told me. “This is a war.”"