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[–] 28 points 7 months ago

Damn. He is going to have to call the Guinness world records for the size of conference table he is going to need now!

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I’m not good with understanding relevance at times. Can anyone EILIF? Why does Iranians being tracked lead to putin not going to the Kremlin?

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    This is my interpretation. It could be wrong.

    The leadership in Iran are being picked off by the U.S. and Israel because they are being tracked. Formerly, the easiest way to pick up Putin's trail would have been by monitoring the area near the Kremlin. If the Ukrainians were able to replicate the same thing using drones, Putin could be taken out, and apparently the conflict in Iran has helped that thought sink into his maniacal brain.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago*

    Putin is facing a lot of discontent right now. Losing Starlink was big, and then they took away Telegram from their armed forces. And then they shut down internet in Moscow. They've lost ground in Zaporizhzhia recently, which flies in the face of all the lies Russia's been telling their citizens about this war.

    Add that onto the fact that he's aiding Israel's enemy, the same Israel who knew where Iranian officials were because they mined months of traffic surveillance footage. He's also watched two of his allies in Khamenei and Maduro get removed power in the span of a couple months by his biggest rival. Both of whom had near unshakable means of maintaining their power from within.

    He's in the midst of completely switching up all his routines right now, probably not even living where he normally would.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    The publisher thought that was the most exciting bit of the article even though it’s mainly just saying we can’t confirm putin has been at the kremlin lately.

    The camera bit is just heresay from another aspiring politician

    Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov wrote that officials may have been alarmed by reports that Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28, had allegedly been tracked through Tehran’s street surveillance cameras.

    Pretty sure world leaders are all spooked regardless of any cameras given the assassinations and kidnappings lately

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    He has been shown an example of how easy it is to pinpoint ones location when there is alot of cameras around. Private companies collect data from every electronic device and make it available to AI, which can answer prompts like 'where in moscow do super armored cars move around?' Then they can quickly get a good idea where a person of interest are.

    I guess putin just woke up to the surveilance economy he lives in.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    So, he's pretty far in the land of "FO" already? :)

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    [–] 55 points 7 months ago

    Mmm... Can you smell it?

    It smells like fear.

    Your day will come, Putin. Your day will come.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Or he's scared of Ukraine drones.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Ukraine drones

    Why not both ? Using hacked cameras to put Ukraine drones into the kill zone.

    Wouldn't it be interesting if Trump attacking enemy political leaders (which has been tacitly mostly kept off the table for, what, centuries?) led to open season on warmongering heads of state?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Hear me out: dude is terrible, but "open season" is kinda what leads to "fuck it, let's try killing more civilians."

    The idea that countries should go after heads of states that they don't like is what it turns into, and the people end up at the other end of the barrel more often than those leaders.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, it has a cursed 'May you live in interesting times' aspect to it, and it doesn't need drones, good sniper or three will do it. I do think there should be accountability for initiating mass murder, and international law seldom achieves it, less so all the time and usually well after the damage is done. A greater perception of personal danger for the (usually coward IMO) perpetrators might do something to check the 'might is right' ethos on the rise today, which in the long run will cause more casualties.

    To be clear, I'm not in favor of capital punishment but governments do like to keep it on the books for treason. Good for the goose...

    “Those who make peaceful reform impossible have made violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy, ironically here I guess, or maybe apropros.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    which has been tacitly mostly kept off the table for, what, centuries?

    It's only kept off the table between peer or near-peer states. Global North countries often do it in the Global South where they don't have to fear strong retaliation.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    The Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, has likely stopped appearing in the Kremlin for public events amid speculation linked to reports about how US and Israeli services tracked senior Iranian figures, according to Agenstvo on March 18.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    How long until someone bombs the blind spots because that's where the world leader is hiding?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    👁️

    👀

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    He wasn't already? Is he stupid?

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