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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • You have no idea just how much worse a multipolar world would be. America has been keeping a lid on so many conflicts around the globe. In many cases, all it takes is not even a carrier group parked near a country that wants to destabilize a region through direct warfare (like Venezuela recently), but just a sternly worded letter. No other nation on Earth has this kind of power. What do you think would happen to the global trade you too are relying on if there weren’t US ships patrolling international waters anymore? America is far from perfect, but there’s nobody that can replace it any time soon.





  • Not this one. Israel created a shell company that sold these particular pagers only to Hezbollah (reportedly at a profit). Neither did Hezbollah buy these in random shops nor were they ever distributed to random shops. The network they used was also exclusively created by and for Hezbollah, not any civilians, so even if civilians had wanted to use these devices, they would not have been able to. Hezbollah bought them in bulk and distributed them to their members, believing they would be a safe way to communicate without tracking, since most pagers are one-way devices.