“We’ll see what happens with the people,” President Trump said as he appeared to be distancing himself from the longer-term consequences of the war in Iran.

American leaders say they are “punishing” Iran, “annihilating” its navy and meting out “retribution” against its rulers.

What comes after all that destruction, they increasingly insist, is not the United States’ problem.

“We’ll see what happens with the people,” President Trump said on Tuesday as he hosted Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, referring to the possibility of a popular uprising in Iran in the wake of the war. “You know, they have their chance.”

It was the latest instance of Mr. Trump and his top officials taking pains to paint Iran’s political future as being outside the scope of American responsibility.

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Facing a real chance of defeat in the April parliamentary elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban can’t stop talking about President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine.

Just in the past few weeks, the Hungarian strongman called the war-torn country an "enemy" and accused its leadership of blackmail, deception, and election interference. Orban even deployed troops to defend Hungary's energy infrastructure against a claimed Ukrainian threat.

Hungary's leader is "desperately losing" his pre-election fight, Pavel Havlicek, a research fellow at the Association for International Affairs in Prague, told the Kyiv Independent.

To avert defeat, he is "picking external fights," seeking to mobilize Hungarian voters against Ukraine while also pointing the finger at the domestic political opposition, the expert says.

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US president claims ‘they want to talk. I said: Too Late!’, while Rubio threatens the ‘hardest hits are yet to come’

Israel and the US intensified their attacks on Iran on Tuesday, launching waves of strikes targeting command and control facilities, strategic state offices and missile launch sites as Donald Trump said he had rejected what he claimed was an attempt by Tehran to restart negotiations.

Iran retaliated with hundreds of missile and drone attacks against Israel and across the Gulf region, targeting US military bases, embassies and civilian infrastructure.

Despite acute international fears, there appeared little chance of any de-escalation of the conflict as violence and chaos continued across a fast-widening swathe of the Middle East for a fourth day.

Hundreds of people have been killed, mainly in Iran where the Red Crescent said 787 were dead and thousands injured. Billions of dollars of damage has been inflicted on oil refineries, tankers, airports, luxury hotels and much else, with the world economy threatened with a severe crisis as energy prices soar.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43998351

from +972’s Sunday Recap +972Magazine [published in Israel] March 1, 2026

Months after proclaiming a ‘historic victory,’ Israel launched another offensive against Iran — followed by the familiar, dispiriting spectacle of Jewish opposition leaders closing ranks behind Benjamin Netanyahu. In celebrating the war, Local Call editor Orly Noy argued, Jewish Israeli society once again shows itself to be one that seems able to feel its own pulse only through war and destruction (originally published on Local Call).

Also:

• In Gaza, we’re still breaking our fast under the buzzing of drones
• Israel warns of a Ramadan escalation — while doing everything to provoke one
• Israel’s arms sales are surging. So why are its weapons expos smaller than ever?
• Israel’s lonely push for war with Iran
• Why divorce rates are soaring in the West Bank
• PODCAST: Where is the PA as Israel annexes the West Bank?

and that's more or less why the US will lose a war of attrition.

The United Nations cultural body Unesco has called on warring parties in the Middle East to respect international conventions protecting cultural property after Iran’s heritage-listed Golestan Palace was damaged in US-Israeli air strikes.

The consolidation of iconic internet publishing brands continues apace

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303190123/https://www.theverge.com/tech/888364/yahoo-engadget-sale-static-media

So basically, I will be away from home for several weeks. Unfortunately, this became the perfect time for our home router to start acting out and factory resetting itself. We are awaiting a new router for replacement, but the time is tight.

My stuff is ethernetted in, so that connectivity isn't an issue - the issue is that I couldn't actually connect to the router to restore services even if it had internet by fixing all the settings including port forwarding.

What I would like would be the ability to have a VPN perhaps connected to my homelab, so I can hop on the router and restore the settings if this issue happens while I'm away. Any ideas?

Edit: I settled on Netbird. Thank you for your help!

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A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303225001/https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/

Fake war footage is a problem as old as social media. AI has just supercharged it.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303211936/https://www.404media.co/x-will-stop-paying-people-for-sharing-unlabeled-ai-generated-war-footage/

All previous attempts by revolutionary communists to combat revisionism have resulted in nothing more than brutal torture and humiliation in so-called "struggle sessions", where the person would be subjected to the most heinous of treatment by youngsters.

Not any more!

We are now practicing an alternative method of liquidating the bourgeois headquarters — snuggle sessions!

With snuggle sessions, we will have all loving and huggy people in the socialist country cuddle the revisionism out of opportunists and capitalist roaders. Through constant and principled line snuggle, revisionism can be routed once and for all!

Uphold the power of snuggle sessions!

A chronic welfare crisis... has been unfolding quietly since the 1990s. The root cause? Rampant habitat loss and the relentless expansion of the blue gum plantation industry.

With their native forests destroyed, koalas are forced to seek shelter in blue gum plantations—a dangerous and temporary refuge. When harvesting begins, koalas risk being injured or killed as the trees they rely on are cut down. Those that survive are left homeless, with nowhere safe to go.

The landscape has now reached a tipping point. It simply can no longer support the koalas that depend on it.

Starving, emaciated koalas are falling from trees, being brought into care—many too far gone to be saved. And for those that survive, there is no safe habitat left to return to.

This travesty has been hidden behind closed doors for far too long. A comprehensive and transparent investigation is long overdue.

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