Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.
Planet wants to prevent “adversarial actors” from using images for “Battle Damage Assessment” purposes.
Satellite services are pretty amenable to hiding sensitive parts of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellite_map_images_with_missing_or_unclear_data?wprov=sfla1
It seems totally on-brand for the US government to request that bits of the war zone be hidden, and it’s entirely on brand for satellite companies to hide them.
Yeah it’s normal to ask for a warzone - but this isn’t a war of course.
The US government: “It’s just a special military operation, absolutely not a war. Hmmm? Department of War, no no it’s always been Department of Defense”.
Meanwhile, Trump: “The war…”
Are they really using the same terminology as Putin?
“This is a limited operation”
https://youtube.com/shorts/2lvEXrQ_bd0
😂
Congress voted it’s not war, doesn’t require war powers, so yeah anyone or private business treating this as a warzone is in the wrong. Except now that they have decided that, still seeing wartime excuses from gop behavior. Schrodinger’s conflict starting world war epstein, staying on brand for 2026.