chewiron
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chewiron
@ChewIron
Hoarder of knowledge (BEng, BA, MA, Postgrad DipSci, PhD ongoing), Mum, plant-based, climate activist, suppress covid-19, 🇵🇸

Dancing in Yemen 👇








BREAKING: At 8 PM Tehran time on April 1, the IRGC declared 18 American companies legitimate military targets for the destruction of their Middle East operations. The list: Apple. Microsoft. Google. Meta. NVIDIA. Oracle. Intel. IBM. Dell. Cisco. HP. Tesla. Boeing. General Electric. Palantir. JPMorgan. Spire Solutions. And G42, the UAE artificial intelligence firm that partners with OpenAI on the Stargate campus the IRGC is now threatening to destroy. These 18 companies have a combined market capitalisation exceeding $15 trillion. That is larger than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China. The IRGC just declared war on an economic bloc worth more than the European Union. And the State Department responded not with a military escalation but with a shelter-in-place advisory for Americans in Saudi Arabia. Read the list again. NVIDIA makes the chips powering Maven AI over Tehran. Oracle builds the Stargate data centres in Abu Dhabi. Boeing manufactures the aircraft executing the strikes. Palantir runs the intelligence fusion. JPMorgan finances the trade. The IRGC is threatening to destroy the companies whose products are currently destroying Iran. The hit list is a mirror of the American kill chain. But the mirror has a reflection the IRGC did not intend. NVIDIA’s chips were acquired by Chinese military universities through Super Micro despite export controls, three days before this threat was issued. The same chips the IRGC wants destroyed in the Gulf are training Chinese military AI that calculates Beijing’s leverage in the grand bargain talks happening today in the same city. G42 partners with both OpenAI and Chinese investors. Oracle’s Stargate serves Pentagon cloud contracts and commercial customers including Chinese-adjacent entities. Intel fabricates processors used across Gulf militaries that are simultaneously defending against and enabling Iranian operations. The companies on the hit list do not belong to one side of this war. They belong to every side. The IRGC is threatening to attack the circulatory system of a conflict that runs on the same silicon regardless of which flag flies above it. AWS data centres in the UAE and Bahrain were already struck by Iranian drones in early March. The precedent exists. The question is whether the IRGC will target companies whose components are inside the weapons its own allies supply. Every Arrow interceptor contains Chinese rare earth magnets from supply chains feeding these same companies. Every Fattah-2 uses BeiDou navigation from a country whose military runs on NVIDIA GPUs. The hit list threatens connections running in both directions. The White House said the US military “is and was prepared to curtail any attacks.” It cited the 90 percent drop in Iranian launches as evidence of degradation. But deterrence does not address the structural exposure. Every one of these 18 companies has offices, data centres, showrooms, or personnel across the Gulf. Their combined regional footprint employs tens of thousands of people who received the IRGC’s evacuation warning on the same day their employer’s stock price was rising. Their insurance premiums repriced overnight. And every American holding an index fund that tracks the S&P 500 became a stakeholder in whether the IRGC follows through on a threat against companies constituting roughly 30 percent of the index’s total weight. The IRGC declared war on the S&P 500. The S&P 500 rallied anyway. The market does not believe in geography. Geography does not require belief. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…














The Middle East War 🔥📷 .. as an anime. حرب الشرق الاوسط كـ انمي PART (8)

Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi joins pro-government demonstrations to ‘lift his spirits’
















