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1as5431 • today at 8:27 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

According to the article the attack came from an Iranian IP address. Well ...

Suppose it wasn't a false flag operation. Why would Iran threaten the EU when the EU was skeptical about the war early this year and suffers from it due to lack of Qatari LNG?

The logical step would be to do diplomatic outreach to the EU.

Now the EU has a casus belli (more like supporting the war rather than participating). It all sounds like the EU is selling the war to its population, but maybe Iran is really that stupid.


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Jtsummers • today at 8:36 PM

Russia has demonstrated that they can conduct so-called "hybrid warfare" as long as it doesn't lead to serious injury or death and the response will be meager. But it still creates pain for those targeted nations.

Iran could be seeing that this approach, rather than more blatant attacks, is a useful way to create problems for the US's allies without a lower risk of elevating those US allies to direct enemies. The intention would be to get the US allies to put pressure on the US (in particular) to back out of the US/Israel war on Iran.

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krunck • today at 8:32 PM

We cannot rule out the fanatics running the US had this done to get the EU into the war. More to come, I'm sure.

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