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Johonny

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2. The US used their best cyber weapons

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sun Jan 4, 2026, 08:07 PM

Jan 4

And exploited known vulnerabilities in weapon systems. They gave this away no to hold off a Chinese or Russian attack, but to capture someone that was not threat to the US.

They did this from a room that was not secure. Russia and China learned a lot from this attack. We got a dictator who gives us no leverage, and nothing else. It was a huge, huge costly move.

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