20 hours ago
When protestors make obviously false claims in videos like this such as asserting there is a "Genocide" in Gaza or that there are "millions" of Palestinians being killed it tends to make many not take their complaints all that seriously.
a day ago
An interesting context here is that this happens coupled with the destruction of a big Wildberries store near Moscow yesterday. Wildberries is the Amazon's Russian counterpart.
20 hours ago
> An interesting context here is that this happens coupled with the destruction of a big Wildberries store near Moscow yesterday.
Amazon data centers were already being attacked by terrorist groups(i.e. the IRGC) before the Wildberries strikes.[0]
[0] https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-b...
19 hours ago
Yep. The status has changed from 'untouchable' to 'could be next'. And it was almost too easy to destroy it so I bet that the protester action has been another startle more in a complicated week. Once the cat is out the bag you can't put it again.
I learnt that this companies will not pay for any of the borrowed items destroyed. A lot of sellers in UAE and Russia lost a lot of money this year.
17 hours ago
> The status has changed from 'untouchable' to 'could be next'.
The threats in the middle east against international shipping and regional energy infrastructure seem to have a similar threat profile to data centers and commercial warehouses. There are lots of large high value targets in the region that are hard to defend reliably against missiles/drone attacks.
One of the big problems in dealing with those threats is that terrorist groups like the IRGC or Hamas can be very hard to deter in general.
> I bet that the protester action has been another startle more in a complicated week.
These sort of common and usually ineffective detached from reality protests are nothing all that new and are quite different from real military threats to infrastructure.
> A lot of sellers in UAE and Russia lost a lot of money this year.
Were UAE distribution warehouses hit as well or just data centers?
16 hours ago
Hum, I don't know really. We don't even know how many US soldiers died to date. The data centers for sure.
15 hours ago
> We don't even know how many US soldiers died to date.
It's 17[0] so far since the start of the war.
[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-strikes-iran-over-tro...
a day ago
Is Jeff Bezos also somehow on Epstein list to be blackmailed to do such evil things or is he a natural evil?