William "Balloon Guy" Kim

This is an extremely dishonorable way to fight a war.

Former fighter pilot here. Exactly as predicted: the air defence of Iran has been completely dismantled. The US is now loading jdams - weapons that have no place in a fight between a working modern air defense and fighters. But - It has a very good place if your fighters can operate without real risk of anything but AAA and Manpads - allowing you to stay well above those kind of low tech systems while pinpointing strikes.

THE TECHNOFEUDAL WARS ARE UPON US The US military used Claude to plan the attack on Iran, in the days after it went to war with the company. Iran is retaliating against Claude, or rather Amazon’s cloud infrastructure more generally. Two Amazon data centers in UAE and one in Bahrain have already been disabled by missiles. Claude is currently offline for consumers including in Europe. Amazon is telling its customers to stop expecting its Middle Eastern IT intrastructure to work and to fail over to other regions. This can easily have knock-on effects for lots of other websites. When an AWS data center in Virginia went down in October, the affected sites included Zoom, Discord, Twitch, Venmo, Duolingo, Delta Airlines and several major UK banks.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, “What happened in Oman was not our choice. We have already told our Armed Forces to be careful about the targets they choose. Our military units are now, in fact, independent and somewhat isolated, and they are acting based on general instructions given to them in advance.”

BREAKING: 30 missiles were dropped on the Iranian Supreme Leader's compound and Khamenei is 'almost certainly' dead, according to Israel's Channel 12.