RE: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/116271481696841313

Oh good grief, this summary is both farcical and tragic: also, Trump has fucked air travel for at least the next two years, never mind automobiles and logistics. The supply chain shock will get as bad as 2022 within a couple of months—then keep getting worse.

@cstross I'm looking forward to all the companies and governments mandating work from home again in order to save fuel. /s

@rpluim @cstross already happening in some countries, and if Trump targets Iranian energy then I imagine that the response probably ends up even worse.
And Iran hasn't even started on non conventional warfare like flying smuggled in drones into US refineries, data centres or world cup stadia

Israel has the world's best air defence and it can't keep their missiles out.

@etchedpixels @cstross The worst case I've seen suggested is Iran setting off a dirty bomb in an important population centre (do they have any plutonium?), thus rendering it uninhabitable for centuries. Somewhere like Manhattan or the City would be awful

@rpluim @cstross Manhattan wil be under water in 50 years anyway at current rates.

The previous Iranian leader issued a fatwah prohibiting nuclear weapon usage but they blew him up so who knows

Seems they like finely calculated responses. Like the DIego Garcia attack when Starmer decided to help the US. Easy to shoot down but the clear message being "actually we can hit London if we want"

And for the world cup they just need to blow up one stadium that's empty just before a game.

@etchedpixels @cstross Is a bunch of enriched uranium combined with conventional explosives a "nuclear weapon"? I suspect radioactive uranium dust is pretty nasty, especially in large quantities.
@rpluim @etchedpixels @cstross You wouldn't even need a lot of conventional explosives, if you know how to re-enact assorted industrial disasters in the UK over the last fifty years and place a few innocent looking oil drums full of metal powder in strategic locations ahead of time. Imagine how much fun Flixborough would have been with bonus uranium dust.