They have your phone number when you created the account. They can collect metadata and study who is connected to who.
The contents of the messages may be unreadable to them without access to your phone, but signal functions as a honey pot for metadata analysis.
the alleged shooter is a NAFOid
The USA is not going to collapse into the Stone Age any time soon and anyone who was saying such things was delusional. The USA will be one of the poles of the multipolar world.
You are acting like this news in the article is a huge surprise when it is in fact not surprising that eventually the facility would match capabilities of other similar facilities. It is not a particularly yuge achievement to merely replicate what they could already do. The fact that it was delayed so long is embarrassing however.
This is part of a larger trend of the USA stripping valuables from its vassals as discussed in earlier threads. The vassals in Europe have already been severely damaged and the libs who were planning to move to Europe are probably reconsidering those plans.
Most of the economic theories favoring money printing, such as QE and MMT, say that inflation is the limit to money printing. The time in which the USA could safely print money to make its problems go away is over. Inflation is likely persistent and any large increases in money printing will exacerbate inflation.
The most likely way for the bourgeois government to deal with this impending debt crisis is to cut welfare spending.
what you say is true. However, ignore the bitcoin peddling and the core points of the article are true. In summary, the USA is approaching a debt crisis in which the financial markets will not be able to absorb its debt securities at the rate they are growing. Due to interest rates rising, the debt is growing exponentially.
At that point, there will undoubtedly be severe cuts to welfare system.
USA’s war in Iran has accelerated the demise of its global empire. Many have compared it to the Suez Crisis.
The Economist article is written based on the cope version of facts in which the losses are mainly the large use of ammunition. No discussion of the destruction of the military bases or the puppet Gulf kingdoms and other wider impacts.