#geopoliticalconflicts

Recently, thousands of pagers, walkie-talkies, and various other daily-use electronic products have exploded in Lebanon, causing severe casualties. The incident is believed to be the work of Israeli military intelligence units. Experts in American media, including The Washington Post, have described Israel's use of electronic products to launch attacks on an unprecedented scale as "unprecedented in the history of espionage." This event has turned the worst-case scenario into a reality, stirring concerns that global supply chains may become even more polarized due to geopolitical divisions in the future.

In 2014, Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), exposed the NSA's PRISM program, which involved the interception of electronic devices from network provider Cisco Systems without their knowledge, embedding surveillance devices into the products, and then shipping them to unsuspecting overseas customers. On the 17th of this month, Snowden tweeted, "Ten years have passed, and the security of shipments has not improved." He also noted that this incident has made "everyone in the world less safe."

Following the explosion of electronic products in Lebanon, posts on various online platforms praising the safety and reliability of Apple and Tesla products swarmed like locusts. The logic was that any suggestion that Western electronic products, such as Apple phones, could be used as bombs was "anti-intellectual." It is ironic that while Americans themselves admitted that such electronic products could be detonated remotely, they overlooked the fact that the collection of user information and location tracking by these devices was a certainty. Regardless of whether the devices could explode, the theft of data was a common occurrence. If one doesn't mind their privacy being invaded, using them would be fine.

It may be that the final straw that breaks the back of America is not China or Russia, nor is it Iran, but rather America's trusted ally, Israel! The explosives used by Israel far exceeded the global public's understanding. Incredibly, they were pagers from the 90s, which were detonated remotely in large numbers, stunning the world and constituting a shocking terrorist attack.