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Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time

39 points by vlindos

by nullhole

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"What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting little Channel 4 news item"
- Tony Benn, MP, in the UK parliament, speaking against a resolution authorizing bombing of Iraq in 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXmpJRZPYI

by ryanwhitney

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Seems like the sword and shield icons are backwards in terms of who started the war. And “bloc” vs “coalition” lol.
Wonder how much of this came out of the prompter’s mind versus the LLM itself.

by embedding-shape

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https://iran.liveuamap.com/ is a more human curated experience of pretty much the same thing (+ more), albeit not as flashy and a more traditional UI compared to the obviously LLM-generated UI + colorscheme.

by the_arun

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I like the user interface. How is the data collected? is it community driven?

by JumpCrisscross

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The interception disparity really drives home how air superiority dominates modern war planning. (That and not getting scammed on Russian kit.)

by locusofself

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Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE?
I'm quite naive about these conflicts but it seems like whoever is in charge of the Iran military really has a death wish. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is a parking lot by the end of the year at this rate.

by rglover

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We live in truly bizarre times.

by heyitsmedotjayb

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The creator of this dashboard is Israeli - given some of the questions about the sword/shield icons, labelling of countries as belligerents/targets etc. I felt it was relevant to state this. Not to mention selective information bias.

by cess11

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Kind of weird to mark Lebanon as a belligerent, unless Iraq also gets the tag.
I prefer to wait until ACLED has curated information, and until then browse video snippets and draw conclusions from those.

by seydor

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what purpose does this serve? betting ?

by curtisblaine

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If "launched" is the number of attacks one side has launched and "intercepted" is the number of attacks that one side has neutralized, "hit" should be the number of missiles that one side has launched and hit the target? No, apparently it's the number of targets that have been hit on one side. Also, currently the coalition has intercepted a thousand more attacks than Iraq block launched. How can it be? Friendly fire? This thing is incredibly confusing.

by Imustaskforhelp

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(A little offtopic?) but Is there anything that the general public can do to show their dissatisfaction with the war.
I hated Khamenei. He was a cruel dictator but the way the war is happening, the strikes are gonna impact the Iranian lives the most. They are stuck between a rock and cliff.
I am not a military guy but I could've either expected this 1 month ago when the protests were going on but the way this has happened, with bombings on girl schools somehow taking place by US/Israel. What has happened is that Khamenei has somehow become a martyr. Something unthinkable a month ago.
I know the world is being crazy mad nowadays but this seems to be the tipping point for me as the world escalates towards hot war.
I'd like to know if society at large or even politicians or anyone had a say in all of this. It all just happened all of a sudden.
I remember hearing the news of US attacking Iran on radio and I was geniunely shocked. Like, the only thing I was thinking was "Is this fucking gonna happen"
then Khamenei got killed. Once again, some were saying just a few days now and celebrating while others were critical that this isn't as easy as killing khamenei and the war is still left.
The way US has done this all, the key takeaway for most countries is to make their own nukes. Iran was negotiating for all its flaws to control nuclear but US striked it while also contradicting things it said a few months back.
If Iran truly had nuclear, US couldn't have done this so are we having the idea of make nukes to protect oneself which to me does feel like something which can be prevented, I am not sure.
Now, I am hearing news of a proper ground invasion becoming more and more likely and also Kurdish forces being given arms to do it too and the war streching to 5-8 weeks but I don't think that's the case especially when Israel is somehow having the say here saying that we will kill anyone who comes in power next to khamenei which makes anything like a venezuela style thing (which was still illegal mind you) just straight up impossible.
The world is heading up towards a cliff and it feels like we don't even have any say in it. Not even American citizens whose taxpayers are being used.
I just feel frustrated by geopolitics. I used to enjoy reading about geopolitics 1 year back but literally the past year of geopolitics have been so depressing. Like, I remember thinking a year back, this must be the lowest point but now I wonder that there can always be a more lower point.
At some point tho, we are bound to have global stability slowly get better. I just hope that its now rather than later otherwise if we go even more down on this slippery slope, then I don't know where we are headed. at this point, I don't even know where we are.