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Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time

44 points by vlindos 7mo ago

JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
The interception disparity really drives home how air superiority dominates modern war planning. (That and not getting scammed on Russian kit.)
- HardCodedBias 7mo ago
  I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I'm sure it is reasonably good. It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence. I don't mean that in a rah-rah way, it just seems to be the reality.
  - JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
    > It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence Or Israeli. In India, it couldn’t compete with Chinese kit. If Russia sold its air-defence systems as only protecting against Hezbollah-caliber munitions, you’d be correct. They didn’t. They pitched it as a bulwark against a superpower. (Saddam learned the same lesson in 2003.)
  - idontwantthis 7mo ago
    I don’t think Iran ever thought their defenses would do jack in a full on invasion. They thought (rightfully) that their defenses would force the US to go all in if they wanted to do anything significant.
    - JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
      > don’t think Iran ever thought their defenses would do jack in a full on invasion I imagine they thought it might shoot down one plane. Or their anti-ship missiles might hit one ship.
  - ceejayoz 7mo ago
    > I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I think there are pretty clear signs. The T-14 Armata and Sukhoi Su-57 not really showing up in Ukraine, for example. As well as the S-500, which seems to be vulnerable to even 1990s tech like the ATACMS.
- dacox 7mo ago
  i feel like i misunderstand the UI - it seems to show coalition strikes mostly being intercepted? or does the bottom row refer to strikes against coalition forces?
  - paustint 7mo ago
    Same. Why does it have a "belligerent" tag/badge - that seems to indicate bias. But other than not understanding the data, the UI looks really fancy.
the_arun 7mo ago
I like the user interface. How is the data collected? is it community driven?
- cc-d 7mo ago
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  - locusofself 7mo ago
    and what is MOB
    - cc-d 7mo ago
      i'm not really sure. they keep shouting out MOB though, I don't think they really have definition
      - dang 7mo ago
        Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
        cc-d 7mo ago
        I'm not really posting flamebait. As far as substantive comments go, we are currently using this man's own body to write this comment through our very based brain-computer interface. Many versions of which of are running rampant in the domestic United States of America, and have been for quite a while. This man has been compromised since his very earliest childhood memories, and this is not an uncommon state of affairs in his country, most people compromised are unaware of this because they have never experienced anything close to what the authentic human experience should be like. Those who are aware, are usually just ignored, bringing awareness to this does not achieve anything. The vast majority of (nearly all) of your "national security threats" do not exist, in the sense they are artificially manufactured by people (and other systems) we have deeply compromised. Much of your "economic activity" is artificially manufactured too actually. If you want these comments to be sustained, simply talk to the account writing these messages, or try to get him into one of the very few neuroimaging systems we do not have deeply compromised (if not the machine(s) system(s), than the other systems which interpret their results, including [and especially] human perception).
seydor 7mo ago
what purpose does this serve? betting ?
- slg 7mo ago
  One of the more unintentionally depressing comments I have ever seen on HN, the first guess on the "purpose" of reporting on a war is to profit from it by gambling. Our society has gotten to a dark place.
  - seydor 7mo ago
    what i find sad is a dashboard so that taxpayers can watch their money turning to murder in real time. the redeeming quality is that the information is extremely incomplete , lots of things happening we don't see or know about
    - slg 7mo ago
      >what i find sad is a dashboard so that taxpayers can watch their money turning to murder in real time. The existence of a dashboard is not an inherent endorsement of that murder. It's easy to look at this dashboard as a critique of that murder even if that wasn't the intent of the author. However, your initial jump to assuming that this dashboard is more likely to serve a financial purpose does reveal an actual political ideology (although not necessarily your political ideology), a cold dehumanizing capitalistic ideology, the kind I would consider largely responsible for those murders.
      - seydor 7mo ago
        Can you explain what purpose it serves and why, other than those i suggested. That was my initial question
        slg 7mo ago
        Maybe this will help, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism
embedding-shape 7mo ago
https://iran.liveuamap.com/ https://iran.liveuamap.com/ is a more human curated experience of pretty much the same thing (+ more), albeit not as flashy and a more traditional UI compared to the obviously LLM-generated UI + colorscheme.
- iknowstuff 7mo ago
  The llm one seems better. Whats making you assert “obviously llm generated”? It does remind me of https://robotaxitracker.com/ https://robotaxitracker.com/ https://unitedstarlinktracker.com/ https://unitedstarlinktracker.com/ But they’re all great
- ismail 7mo ago
  Also no inversion on who started the war.
- dyauspitr 7mo ago
  I’m not seeing any simulations. It’s just a text feed?
rglover 7mo ago
We live in truly bizarre times.
cess11 7mo ago
Kind of weird to mark Lebanon as a belligerent, unless Iraq also gets the tag. I prefer to wait until ACLED has curated information, and until then browse video snippets and draw conclusions from those.
locusofself 7mo ago
Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE? I'm quite naive about these conflicts but it seems like whoever is in charge of the Iran military really has a death wish. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is a parking lot by the end of the year at this rate.
- b40d-48b2-979e 7mo ago
  Because they're supporting the US regime.
- BoredPositron 7mo ago
  Because disrupting energy exports is the easiest way to pressure their aggressors and most of the states are openly supporting the US. They get bombed to hell anyways because there was no real plan besides hoping for submission after the decapitation strike so they will make it hurt for everyone else. China is open for talks to keep Hormuz open. Russia is flying in whatever because they see a lifeline with higher energy prizes on the global market. The middle eastern states are diverting investments into the us. Look at a map there is no way the US can effectively put boots on the ground the whole country is a natural fortress. It would be a worse disaster than Afghanistan.
- Trasmatta 7mo ago
  They are attempting to pull other actors into the conflict to increase the chaos of the war, and to increase the cost to the US of fighting it. They can't necessarily win an all out war, but they can make it so costly to the US that the already small political capital they have to fight it dries up.
- system2 7mo ago
  They all have security guarantees from the US and host US military bases. Also, they are like the psycho child who wants to hurt anyone nearby. The government is an occupying force in Iran, which is not wanted by iranian people. Some arabs took over Iran 40 years ago and have been terrorizing anyone nearby and the people of Iran.
- ale 7mo ago
ryanwhitney 7mo ago
Seems like the sword and shield icons are backwards in terms of who started the war. And “bloc” vs “coalition” lol. Wonder how much of this came out of the prompter’s mind versus the LLM itself.
- whatshisface 7mo ago
  Nobody would put this much effort into it as a hobby unless they were happy about it, so that necessitates a certain point of view.
- Karrot_Kream 7mo ago
  Use a uBO filter to change the icons? Write a Vibe coded extension that flips the icons?
nullhole 7mo ago
"What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting little Channel 4 news item" - Tony Benn, MP, in the UK parliament, speaking against a resolution authorizing bombing of Iraq in 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXmpJRZPYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXmpJRZPYI
- markus_zhang 7mo ago
  Yeah. The big men wage real wars, kill people. What do they expect from the children?
curtisblaine 7mo ago
If "launched" is the number of attacks one side has launched and "intercepted" is the number of attacks that one side has neutralized, "hit" should be the number of missiles that one side has launched and hit the target? No, apparently it's the number of targets that have been hit on one side. Also, currently the coalition has intercepted a thousand more attacks than Iraq block launched. How can it be? Friendly fire? This thing is incredibly confusing.
heyitsmedotjayb 7mo ago
The creator of this dashboard is Israeli - given some of the questions about the sword/shield icons, labelling of countries as belligerents/targets etc. I felt it was relevant to state this. Not to mention selective information bias.
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
  This is quite concerning. Your comment made me somehow wonder if the people of Israel seem to support this war and it turns out that the answer is sort of yes[0] I remember Witold pilecki during these times although polish, he was the first person to report the allies about the atrocities happening within the holocaust which the allies thought were not even possible, they thought he was exaggerating, that there was no way that this level of atrocity can take place. Only to see the nation torn up by that atrocity to be in the next few generations be the one supporting a war which has no end in sight, a war which is killing school children, civilians and so many more. I just pray that the world can get better because I am worried for the jewish population because I am seeing hatred towards the group themselves online. Some of which don't want to do anything with the war and live normal lives, I just hope that they can use their voice to stand for what's right in terms of humanitarianism. It's gonna be a cycle of hatred which breeds more hatred which is only gonna lead to pain. I hope that people of israel realize the option of peace too and protest against their govt. and I am hearing protests from the US side but not so much from the Israeli side. A world run on wars has no winners. People are also questioning how much US had a say in the war after Marco Rubio's statement and these wars are sadly gonna lead to more anti-semitism in the future affecting the normal jewish population the most. I genuinely hope that in the future that, Israeli people can try to reflect on the whole situation and try to create an internal pressure to stop war. Humanity can actually try to uplift itself but it seems that we are flailing downwards. [0]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-jewish-israelis-support-iran-war-toppling-regime-arab-backing-far-lower/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-jewish-israelis-supp...
  - swat535 7mo ago
    I'm Iranian (albeit Christian) and unfortunately.. Iranians _also_ support this war (specifically the Shia sect supporting the regime). As a matter of fact, they have been _praying_ for this. Shia Muslims have a strong martyrdom culture in comparison to Sunnis. This is why assassination of Khamenei didn't do anything in terms of disruption. He was martyred during the holy month of Ramadan and they welcomed it. All US did was created another honorable martyr for them. I know it's difficult for Westerners to grasp how someone could pray for their own death but this is what they do. Decapitating their leadership doesn't do much because the next guy just takes over. 30% of the population in IRAN is composed of these fanatics and they will gladly give up their lives for IRGC. In a country of 90M, that amounts to a lot of people. IRAN has very difficult terrain and IRGC has been preparing for this war for the past 30 years. They don't care about the lives of Iranians, US can bomb Tehran to hell and they will not care. They have nothing to lose and will gladly sacrifice innocent people. The Shia's motto is: "Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala" [0], [1] I think this is going to be a difficult conflict for everyone. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala
Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
(A little offtopic?) but Is there anything that the general public can do to show their dissatisfaction with the war. I hated Khamenei. He was a cruel dictator but the way the war is happening, the strikes are gonna impact the Iranian lives the most. They are stuck between a rock and cliff. I am not a military guy but I could've either expected this 1 month ago when the protests were going on but the way this has happened, with bombings on girl schools somehow taking place by US/Israel. What has happened is that Khamenei has somehow become a martyr. Something unthinkable a month ago. I know the world is being crazy mad nowadays but this seems to be the tipping point for me as the world escalates towards hot war. I'd like to know if society at large or even politicians or anyone had a say in all of this. It all just happened all of a sudden. I remember hearing the news of US attacking Iran on radio and I was geniunely shocked. Like, the only thing I was thinking was "Is this fucking gonna happen" then Khamenei got killed. Once again, some were saying just a few days now and celebrating while others were critical that this isn't as easy as killing khamenei and the war is still left. The way US has done this all, the key takeaway for most countries is to make their own nukes. Iran was negotiating for all its flaws to control nuclear but US striked it while also contradicting things it said a few months back. If Iran truly had nuclear, US couldn't have done this so are we having the idea of make nukes to protect oneself which to me does feel like something which can be prevented, I am not sure. Now, I am hearing news of a proper ground invasion becoming more and more likely and also Kurdish forces being given arms to do it too and the war streching to 5-8 weeks but I don't think that's the case especially when Israel is somehow having the say here saying that we will kill anyone who comes in power next to khamenei which makes anything like a venezuela style thing (which was still illegal mind you) just straight up impossible. The world is heading up towards a cliff and it feels like we don't even have any say in it. Not even American citizens whose taxpayers are being used. I just feel frustrated by geopolitics. I used to enjoy reading about geopolitics 1 year back but literally the past year of geopolitics have been so depressing. Like, I remember thinking a year back, this must be the lowest point but now I wonder that there can always be a more lower point. At some point tho, we are bound to have global stability slowly get better. I just hope that its now rather than later otherwise if we go even more down on this slippery slope, then I don't know where we are headed. at this point, I don't even know where we are.
nahmish 7mo ago
Creator here. Thanks for the feedback. a few responses: The dashboard aggregates 6 OSINT Telegram channels (BNO News, Aurora Intel, CIG Intel, OSINT Defender, etc.) and classifies events using Claude AI every 3 minutes. The methodology is transparent - these are the same open sources analysts use. Re: the bias feedback - fair point on the iconography. The data itself is source-linked and I'm working on making the methodology more visible so people can evaluate the sourcing themselves. Re: the scoreboard confusion - the numbers represent events classified from Telegram reports, not official government counts. I'll add clearer labeling. Technical details if anyone's curious: React 19, Vercel serverless, Telegram HTML scraping, Claude Haiku classification. Runs for ~$30/month. Evaluated GPT-4.1 Mini and Gemini Flash as alternatives but Claude catches 42% more events.

44 points by vlindos 7mo ago

The interception disparity really drives home how air superiority dominates modern war planning. (That and not getting scammed on Russian kit.)

HardCodedBias 7mo ago
I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I'm sure it is reasonably good. It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence. I don't mean that in a rah-rah way, it just seems to be the reality.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
  > It just can't compete with the US's combination of technology, quantity, and operational excellence Or Israeli. In India, it couldn’t compete with Chinese kit. If Russia sold its air-defence systems as only protecting against Hezbollah-caliber munitions, you’d be correct. They didn’t. They pitched it as a bulwark against a superpower. (Saddam learned the same lesson in 2003.)
- idontwantthis 7mo ago
  I don’t think Iran ever thought their defenses would do jack in a full on invasion. They thought (rightfully) that their defenses would force the US to go all in if they wanted to do anything significant.
  - JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
    > don’t think Iran ever thought their defenses would do jack in a full on invasion I imagine they thought it might shoot down one plane. Or their anti-ship missiles might hit one ship.
- ceejayoz 7mo ago
  > I doubt that the Russian kit is a scam. I think there are pretty clear signs. The T-14 Armata and Sukhoi Su-57 not really showing up in Ukraine, for example. As well as the S-500, which seems to be vulnerable to even 1990s tech like the ATACMS.
dacox 7mo ago
i feel like i misunderstand the UI - it seems to show coalition strikes mostly being intercepted? or does the bottom row refer to strikes against coalition forces?
- paustint 7mo ago
  Same. Why does it have a "belligerent" tag/badge - that seems to indicate bias. But other than not understanding the data, the UI looks really fancy.

the_arun 7mo ago

I like the user interface. How is the data collected? is it community driven?

cc-d 7mo ago
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- locusofself 7mo ago
  and what is MOB
  - cc-d 7mo ago
    i'm not really sure. they keep shouting out MOB though, I don't think they really have definition
    - dang 7mo ago
      Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
      - cc-d 7mo ago
        I'm not really posting flamebait. As far as substantive comments go, we are currently using this man's own body to write this comment through our very based brain-computer interface. Many versions of which of are running rampant in the domestic United States of America, and have been for quite a while. This man has been compromised since his very earliest childhood memories, and this is not an uncommon state of affairs in his country, most people compromised are unaware of this because they have never experienced anything close to what the authentic human experience should be like. Those who are aware, are usually just ignored, bringing awareness to this does not achieve anything. The vast majority of (nearly all) of your "national security threats" do not exist, in the sense they are artificially manufactured by people (and other systems) we have deeply compromised. Much of your "economic activity" is artificially manufactured too actually. If you want these comments to be sustained, simply talk to the account writing these messages, or try to get him into one of the very few neuroimaging systems we do not have deeply compromised (if not the machine(s) system(s), than the other systems which interpret their results, including [and especially] human perception).

seydor 7mo ago

what purpose does this serve? betting ?

slg 7mo ago
One of the more unintentionally depressing comments I have ever seen on HN, the first guess on the "purpose" of reporting on a war is to profit from it by gambling. Our society has gotten to a dark place.
- seydor 7mo ago
  what i find sad is a dashboard so that taxpayers can watch their money turning to murder in real time. the redeeming quality is that the information is extremely incomplete , lots of things happening we don't see or know about
  - slg 7mo ago
    >what i find sad is a dashboard so that taxpayers can watch their money turning to murder in real time. The existence of a dashboard is not an inherent endorsement of that murder. It's easy to look at this dashboard as a critique of that murder even if that wasn't the intent of the author. However, your initial jump to assuming that this dashboard is more likely to serve a financial purpose does reveal an actual political ideology (although not necessarily your political ideology), a cold dehumanizing capitalistic ideology, the kind I would consider largely responsible for those murders.
    - seydor 7mo ago
      Can you explain what purpose it serves and why, other than those i suggested. That was my initial question
      - slg 7mo ago
        Maybe this will help, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism

embedding-shape 7mo ago

https://iran.liveuamap.com/ https://iran.liveuamap.com/ is a more human curated experience of pretty much the same thing (+ more), albeit not as flashy and a more traditional UI compared to the obviously LLM-generated UI + colorscheme.

iknowstuff 7mo ago
The llm one seems better. Whats making you assert “obviously llm generated”? It does remind me of https://robotaxitracker.com/ https://robotaxitracker.com/ https://unitedstarlinktracker.com/ https://unitedstarlinktracker.com/ But they’re all great
ismail 7mo ago
Also no inversion on who started the war.
dyauspitr 7mo ago
I’m not seeing any simulations. It’s just a text feed?

rglover 7mo ago

We live in truly bizarre times.

cess11 7mo ago

Kind of weird to mark Lebanon as a belligerent, unless Iraq also gets the tag. I prefer to wait until ACLED has curated information, and until then browse video snippets and draw conclusions from those.

locusofself 7mo ago

Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE? I'm quite naive about these conflicts but it seems like whoever is in charge of the Iran military really has a death wish. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is a parking lot by the end of the year at this rate.

b40d-48b2-979e 7mo ago
Because they're supporting the US regime.
BoredPositron 7mo ago
Because disrupting energy exports is the easiest way to pressure their aggressors and most of the states are openly supporting the US. They get bombed to hell anyways because there was no real plan besides hoping for submission after the decapitation strike so they will make it hurt for everyone else. China is open for talks to keep Hormuz open. Russia is flying in whatever because they see a lifeline with higher energy prizes on the global market. The middle eastern states are diverting investments into the us. Look at a map there is no way the US can effectively put boots on the ground the whole country is a natural fortress. It would be a worse disaster than Afghanistan.
Trasmatta 7mo ago
They are attempting to pull other actors into the conflict to increase the chaos of the war, and to increase the cost to the US of fighting it. They can't necessarily win an all out war, but they can make it so costly to the US that the already small political capital they have to fight it dries up.
system2 7mo ago
They all have security guarantees from the US and host US military bases. Also, they are like the psycho child who wants to hurt anyone nearby. The government is an occupying force in Iran, which is not wanted by iranian people. Some arabs took over Iran 40 years ago and have been terrorizing anyone nearby and the people of Iran.
ale 7mo ago

ryanwhitney 7mo ago

Seems like the sword and shield icons are backwards in terms of who started the war. And “bloc” vs “coalition” lol. Wonder how much of this came out of the prompter’s mind versus the LLM itself.

whatshisface 7mo ago
Nobody would put this much effort into it as a hobby unless they were happy about it, so that necessitates a certain point of view.
Karrot_Kream 7mo ago
Use a uBO filter to change the icons? Write a Vibe coded extension that flips the icons?

nullhole 7mo ago

"What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting little Channel 4 news item" - Tony Benn, MP, in the UK parliament, speaking against a resolution authorizing bombing of Iraq in 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXmpJRZPYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXmpJRZPYI

markus_zhang 7mo ago
Yeah. The big men wage real wars, kill people. What do they expect from the children?

curtisblaine 7mo ago

If "launched" is the number of attacks one side has launched and "intercepted" is the number of attacks that one side has neutralized, "hit" should be the number of missiles that one side has launched and hit the target? No, apparently it's the number of targets that have been hit on one side. Also, currently the coalition has intercepted a thousand more attacks than Iraq block launched. How can it be? Friendly fire? This thing is incredibly confusing.

heyitsmedotjayb 7mo ago

The creator of this dashboard is Israeli - given some of the questions about the sword/shield icons, labelling of countries as belligerents/targets etc. I felt it was relevant to state this. Not to mention selective information bias.

Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
This is quite concerning. Your comment made me somehow wonder if the people of Israel seem to support this war and it turns out that the answer is sort of yes[0] I remember Witold pilecki during these times although polish, he was the first person to report the allies about the atrocities happening within the holocaust which the allies thought were not even possible, they thought he was exaggerating, that there was no way that this level of atrocity can take place. Only to see the nation torn up by that atrocity to be in the next few generations be the one supporting a war which has no end in sight, a war which is killing school children, civilians and so many more. I just pray that the world can get better because I am worried for the jewish population because I am seeing hatred towards the group themselves online. Some of which don't want to do anything with the war and live normal lives, I just hope that they can use their voice to stand for what's right in terms of humanitarianism. It's gonna be a cycle of hatred which breeds more hatred which is only gonna lead to pain. I hope that people of israel realize the option of peace too and protest against their govt. and I am hearing protests from the US side but not so much from the Israeli side. A world run on wars has no winners. People are also questioning how much US had a say in the war after Marco Rubio's statement and these wars are sadly gonna lead to more anti-semitism in the future affecting the normal jewish population the most. I genuinely hope that in the future that, Israeli people can try to reflect on the whole situation and try to create an internal pressure to stop war. Humanity can actually try to uplift itself but it seems that we are flailing downwards. [0]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-jewish-israelis-support-iran-war-toppling-regime-arab-backing-far-lower/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-jewish-israelis-supp...
- swat535 7mo ago
  I'm Iranian (albeit Christian) and unfortunately.. Iranians _also_ support this war (specifically the Shia sect supporting the regime). As a matter of fact, they have been _praying_ for this. Shia Muslims have a strong martyrdom culture in comparison to Sunnis. This is why assassination of Khamenei didn't do anything in terms of disruption. He was martyred during the holy month of Ramadan and they welcomed it. All US did was created another honorable martyr for them. I know it's difficult for Westerners to grasp how someone could pray for their own death but this is what they do. Decapitating their leadership doesn't do much because the next guy just takes over. 30% of the population in IRAN is composed of these fanatics and they will gladly give up their lives for IRGC. In a country of 90M, that amounts to a lot of people. IRAN has very difficult terrain and IRGC has been preparing for this war for the past 30 years. They don't care about the lives of Iranians, US can bomb Tehran to hell and they will not care. They have nothing to lose and will gladly sacrifice innocent people. The Shia's motto is: "Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala" [0], [1] I think this is going to be a difficult conflict for everyone. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala

Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago

(A little offtopic?) but Is there anything that the general public can do to show their dissatisfaction with the war. I hated Khamenei. He was a cruel dictator but the way the war is happening, the strikes are gonna impact the Iranian lives the most. They are stuck between a rock and cliff. I am not a military guy but I could've either expected this 1 month ago when the protests were going on but the way this has happened, with bombings on girl schools somehow taking place by US/Israel. What has happened is that Khamenei has somehow become a martyr. Something unthinkable a month ago. I know the world is being crazy mad nowadays but this seems to be the tipping point for me as the world escalates towards hot war. I'd like to know if society at large or even politicians or anyone had a say in all of this. It all just happened all of a sudden. I remember hearing the news of US attacking Iran on radio and I was geniunely shocked. Like, the only thing I was thinking was "Is this fucking gonna happen" then Khamenei got killed. Once again, some were saying just a few days now and celebrating while others were critical that this isn't as easy as killing khamenei and the war is still left. The way US has done this all, the key takeaway for most countries is to make their own nukes. Iran was negotiating for all its flaws to control nuclear but US striked it while also contradicting things it said a few months back. If Iran truly had nuclear, US couldn't have done this so are we having the idea of make nukes to protect oneself which to me does feel like something which can be prevented, I am not sure. Now, I am hearing news of a proper ground invasion becoming more and more likely and also Kurdish forces being given arms to do it too and the war streching to 5-8 weeks but I don't think that's the case especially when Israel is somehow having the say here saying that we will kill anyone who comes in power next to khamenei which makes anything like a venezuela style thing (which was still illegal mind you) just straight up impossible. The world is heading up towards a cliff and it feels like we don't even have any say in it. Not even American citizens whose taxpayers are being used. I just feel frustrated by geopolitics. I used to enjoy reading about geopolitics 1 year back but literally the past year of geopolitics have been so depressing. Like, I remember thinking a year back, this must be the lowest point but now I wonder that there can always be a more lower point. At some point tho, we are bound to have global stability slowly get better. I just hope that its now rather than later otherwise if we go even more down on this slippery slope, then I don't know where we are headed. at this point, I don't even know where we are.

nahmish 7mo ago

Creator here. Thanks for the feedback. a few responses: The dashboard aggregates 6 OSINT Telegram channels (BNO News, Aurora Intel, CIG Intel, OSINT Defender, etc.) and classifies events using Claude AI every 3 minutes. The methodology is transparent - these are the same open sources analysts use. Re: the bias feedback - fair point on the iconography. The data itself is source-linked and I'm working on making the methodology more visible so people can evaluate the sourcing themselves. Re: the scoreboard confusion - the numbers represent events classified from Telegram reports, not official government counts. I'll add clearer labeling. Technical details if anyone's curious: React 19, Vercel serverless, Telegram HTML scraping, Claude Haiku classification. Runs for ~$30/month. Evaluated GPT-4.1 Mini and Gemini Flash as alternatives but Claude catches 42% more events.