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DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months ago

The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked.

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The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked.

theintercept.com

DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months ago
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An Intercept investigation found 63 U.S. bases, garrisons, and shared facilities in the region. U.S. troops are “sitting ducks,” according to one expert.
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  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Back in the Before Days, I went to a presentation by a journalist who was investigating secret bases in Africa and it was kinda wild how he was able to identify them using public satellite photos and Strava uploads.

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      Throwback to when US troops and other assets revealed the locations of dozens of secret bases by uploading their runs to a fitness tracking app that put them all on a map

    • StalinStan [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Like, netflix has to know. In a small town in Afghanistan they keep getting 50 or so IP addresses that pop up every time an episode of the boys drops in English. There is only so secret a big mitary base can be.

      Or pornhub knows based on small pockets of preferences that look exactly like military bases in random places across the world.

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    They’re not that secret then!

    • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      I think they’re only secret in the sense that the US does not officially recognize them on record

      • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Ah, like the genocides we do.

      • LocalOaf [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        I know this asking about a distinction without a difference, but is it because these are all technically PMC contractors, or is it a JSOC thing where it’s an open secret but all classified?

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    did-someone

  • SupFBI [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    More like “shitting ducks”, am I right? Heh heh

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      Many troops were hospitalized for explosive diarrhea, but anonymous sources from the Department of Defense assure us that this had nothing to do with the rocket attacks.

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      Commander Eve Fartlow

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    US imperialism losing ground, warms my heart stalin-heart

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    che-smile

  • Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee
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    well they’ve only got short range weapons, so we have to send our troops over there to get shot

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    deleted by creator

  • refolde [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    party-sicko

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    If the sigint security is about as strong as those fake websites designed by the CIA, I imagine Iran already has the drop on them lol

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    people won’t be hurt tho. the president man said biden-point “i’m building more bases!”

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    Good

  • iminsomuchpainv2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    NOT SO SECRET HUH IDIOTS

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