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Scott Lucas

@ScottLucas@journa.host · yesterday

#Israel- US War on #Iran Spreads Across #MiddleEast

#IranWar #Lebanon #SaudiArabia #UAE #Bahrain #Oman #Qatar #Kuwait

https://eaworldview.com/2026/03/israel-us-war-on-iran-spreads-across-middle-east/

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon's capital Beirut, March 3, 2026 (Sky)

EA WorldView

Israel-US War on Iran Spreads Across Middle East - EA WorldView

After only 3 days, Israel-US war on Iran has spread across Middle East, with casualties and damage reported in 9 countries and more expected.

Juggling With Eggs

@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social · 2 days ago

#Starmer is about to spend tens of millions of taxpayers money on getting a lot of very rich folk back to the UK from the Gulf states, mostly the #UAE.

This will be up there with Covid and when Monarch airlines and Thomas Cook went bust.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/more-than-100000-britons-stranded-in-gulf-with-airspace-closed-to-most-flights

the Guardian

More than 100,000 Britons stranded in Gulf, with airspace closed to most flights

UK considering all evacuation options, including charter and military flights and bus trips across land borders

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AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · 2 days ago

Oops! Looks like "the cloud" is vulnerable to missile damage.

https://health.aws.com/health/status

#aws #war #uae #iran

Mar 02 6:22 AM PST We continue to work towards recovery of the two impaired Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. We are expecting recovery to take at least a day, as it requires repair of facilities, cooling and power systems, coordination with local authorities, and careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators. EC2, Amazon DynamoDB and other AWS Services continue to experience significant error rates and elevated latencies.
We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions, ideally in Europe. Further, we strongly advise customers to update their applications to ingest S3 data to an alternate AWS Region. We will provide an update by 11:00 AM PST on March 2, or sooner if we have additional information to share. — Mar 02 6:22 AM PST We continue to work towards recovery of the two impaired Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. We are expecting recovery to take at least a day, as it requires repair of facilities, cooling and power systems, coordination with local authorities, and careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators. EC2, Amazon DynamoDB and other AWS Services continue to experience significant error rates and elevated latencies. We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions, ideally in Europe. Further, we strongly advise customers to update their applications to ingest S3 data to an alternate AWS Region. We will provide an update by 11:00 AM PST on March 2, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

https://null/health/status

View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · 2 days ago

Oops! Looks like "the cloud" is vulnerable to missile damage.

https://health.aws.com/health/status

#aws #war #uae #iran

https://null/health/status

View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 days ago

"A war is a time when we will be told not to ask questions. But a war is actually when questions must be asked....

War does not create a clean slate where suddenly we have to believe the absurd just because a leader says it. On the contrary, war provides the opportunity to see the core of the absurdity and the destruction that is being offered to us."
- Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack-iran

#Trump #Corruption #War #Iran #Israel #UAE #SaudiArabia #Qatar #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates

Why Attack Iran?

Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

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Mitchell Plitnick

@MitchellPlitnick@journa.host · 4 days ago

#SaudiArabia is shifting toward a major realignment of its foreign policy and global role. This goes far beyond its rivalry with the #UAE — it includes a complete rethinking of its relationship with the U.S. and #Israel.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/inside-saudi-arabias-regional-realignment/

Mondoweiss

Inside Saudi Arabia’s regional realignment

Saudi Arabia is shifting toward a major realignment of its foreign policy and global role. This goes far beyond its rivalry with the United Arab Emirates — it includes a complete rethinking of its relationship with the U.S. and Israel.

Mitchell Plitnick

@MitchellPlitnick@journa.host · 4 days ago

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/inside-saudi-arabias-regional-realignment/

Mondoweiss

Inside Saudi Arabia’s regional realignment

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 days ago

"Gulf Arab states who oppose Iranian power have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally & with members of his family. The United Arab Emirates... The Saudis... The Qataris... The list is very long.

And now — we are using #military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched #Trump and his family."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack-iran

#DonaldTrump #Iran #Corruption #UAE #Saudi #Qatar #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates

Text from article:
It leads to personal politics or rather personal gain. Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration, one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis.

Gulf Arab states who oppose Iranian power have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally and with members of his family. The United Arab Emirates invested in a family firm. The Saudis have provided numerous de facto gifts. And sometimes the gifts have been simply gifts. The Qataris gave Trump a jet. The list is very long.

And now — we are using military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched Trump and his family. This backdrop must at the very least be stated in the reporting of the war. Along with the subversion of democracy, personal corruption provides a second interpretive framework. — Text from article: It leads to personal politics or rather personal gain. Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration, one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis. Gulf Arab states who oppose Iranian power have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally and with members of his family. The United Arab Emirates invested in a family firm. The Saudis have provided numerous de facto gifts. And sometimes the gifts have been simply gifts. The Qataris gave Trump a jet. The list is very long. And now — we are using military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched Trump and his family. This backdrop must at the very least be stated in the reporting of the war. Along with the subversion of democracy, personal corruption provides a second interpretive framework.

Why Attack Iran?

Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 days ago

"A war is a time when we will be told not to ask questions. But a war is actually when questions must be asked....

#Trump #Corruption #War #Iran #Israel #UAE #SaudiArabia #Qatar #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates

Why Attack Iran?

Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 days ago

" #Iran on the one side and Gulf Arab states plus #Israel on the other... a far more durable element of #politics than the wavering & contradictory statements of the #Trump admn, it is a good place to start. And where does it lead?

It leads to personal #politics or rather personal gain. Given the 👉stupefyingly overt corruption 👈 of the Trump admn, one must ask whether the #UnitedStates armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack-iran

#DonaldTrump #Corruption #News

Text from article:
The claim that Iran was about to build a nuclear weapon has not been established. It is all the odder as a justification for war given that this administration has already claimed many times to have destroyed the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

The second American propaganda point is that the regime must be changed. This too is very strange, since opposition to regime change wars was supposed to be a core tenet of MAGA.

But who might be directly interested in Iranian regime change? Who has given it more thought than Washington? Insofar as there was any sort of foreign policy involved here, I suspect that it was that of countries that the Trump administration considers to be its allies in the region.

The basic structural feature of regional politics is a rivalry between Iran on the one side and Gulf Arab states plus Israel on the other. Given that this structural feature is a far more durable element of politics than the wavering and contradictory statements of the Trump administration, it is a good place to start. And where does it lead?

It leads to personal politics or rather personal gain. Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration, one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis. — Text from article: The claim that Iran was about to build a nuclear weapon has not been established. It is all the odder as a justification for war given that this administration has already claimed many times to have destroyed the Iranian nuclear weapons program. The second American propaganda point is that the regime must be changed. This too is very strange, since opposition to regime change wars was supposed to be a core tenet of MAGA. But who might be directly interested in Iranian regime change? Who has given it more thought than Washington? Insofar as there was any sort of foreign policy involved here, I suspect that it was that of countries that the Trump administration considers to be its allies in the region. The basic structural feature of regional politics is a rivalry between Iran on the one side and Gulf Arab states plus Israel on the other. Given that this structural feature is a far more durable element of politics than the wavering and contradictory statements of the Trump administration, it is a good place to start. And where does it lead? It leads to personal politics or rather personal gain. Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration, one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 4 days ago

And now — we are using #military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched #Trump and his family."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack-iran

#DonaldTrump #Iran #Corruption #UAE #Saudi #Qatar #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates