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The author seems like a total dick, but given the recent fear/rumor of the possibility of a false flag attacks on U.S. soil, I feel like something like this isn't inconceivable.

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[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think basically everyone except North Korea is. Anyone who allows goods and people to move through their borders with any level of freedom can theoretically get attacked like Russia did.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Exactly, it's a modern day trojan horse. It seems to be fairly easy to then potentially pin the attack on just about anyone using shell companies for shipment. Especially with the deregulation and removal of so many safety and security positions over the last several months.

I was reading a little about the beeper attacks the and I think even now there is still some uncertainty about which company actually worked with the Mossad to manufacture the batteries that contained the explosive.

The only reason I even bring that up, is that there were so many steps involving so many different groups of legitimate manufacturing companies as well as shell companies to ship the beepers. Some of the beepers were even taken apart and inspected before being distributed as a security measure, but they had used such a small amount of explosive fuel within the batteries, that it was completely missed.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless there's another beeper attack I missed, the one last September was directed at Hezbollah, across Lebanon and Syria.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah you're right, my bad.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I mean, this has always been true, the drones only close the gap by miles. The big issue with the drone attack was Ukraine ability to sneak explosives deep into Russian territory. The delivery mechanism of drones may make it more accurate, but it could have been rockets/mortars and the effect would have been the same.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

NK has a bunch of manufacturing plants. Lots of trucks and trains cross their borders with Russia, China, and even South Korea every day.