• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    The US has worlds most advanced satellites and intel. It’s impossible that they didn’t know what they were doing. 100% someone even brought it up and they decided to ignore the person.

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      59 minutes ago

      I mean, we know for a fact that they used Palantir’s system for planning the invasion which is an automated intelligence analysis system.

      That alone makes it entirely possible for them to have information and not know about it, on top of all the other existing ways that information can be compartmentalized, or thorough analysis and double checking can be skipped.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      It’s impossible that they didn’t know what they were doing.

      It’s absolutely not impossible.

      It’s irresponsible and stupid, but it’s absolutely not impossible. People and systems can be smart, but often they are very very dumb.

      That said, I wouldn’t be shocked if nobody could be bothered to remove it from a target list under the idea of claiming it was an accident or something.

      But do I think it’s impossible the people putting it on the target list didn’t know? Not at all. (But do I think it was likely there wasn’t someone who knew? Also yes)