Foreign Politics or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the parliamentary democracy

[Lucavi]

I mean that warehouse looked massive, even from a distance. Even if someone was hauling it by foot as soon as the fire started, they wouldn't have been far enough away.

The body count has to be insane.

[D44kpunk]

warehouses are almost always completely empty

[archibaldcrane]

warehouses are almost always completely empty

A bunch of those looked like apartment buildings though. Could be wrong.

[NynJa]

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8996...g%2F11jq0bjlz7

make your own assessment, but it looks pretty close to residences.

[NynJa]

https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake...882410#summary

The blast registered a 3.3 earthquake

[Cail]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ck/3292842001/

Trump called it an attack. He appears to be the only person saying that so far

[Lucavi]

He insists that his bigly-brained military think its an attack as well, to back him up.

We'll see how soon he flips his opinion on the issue, just like with mail-in voting, lol.

[kuronosan]

Sweet Christ those close up shots make it far more terrifying.

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[Krandor]

https://twitter.com/Intel_Sky/status...795198976?s=20

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53659282

100~ dead, 4k injured, and 300k homeless

[BerenTebogo]

300k homesless is insane. I wonder how the government is going to handle that.

[Lucavi]

Ah... there's the big number I was worried about.

That's horrible.

[Salodin]

300k homeless from one improvised warehouse bomb? Dude cities are fucking fragile

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[D44kpunk]

agreed, we should move people out of cities

[Jaybar]

Lol

[Rhyis.]

only about 100 dead is pretty fucking lucky tbh

[arus2001]

One of those times where the pandemic probably ironically saved lives if they're adhering to any sort of quarantine/stay at home orders. That said, I imagine they'll respond to the 300k homeless better than America would. *stares at Puerto Rico*

[TsingTao]

Writeup on ArsTechnica about the blast

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020...ion-in-beirut/

Hope Lebanon can get some help with the refugees, especially if this is accurate.

Satellite images comparing the area before and after the explosion show the complete destruction of Beirut's port. The grain silos that were next to the site of the explosion are still partially upright, although it's believed that up to 85 percent of the country's grain stocks have been lost. (Lebanon imports 80 percent of its food supply, and Beirut normally handles 60 percent of the country's total imports.)

300k refugees plus instant food shortage makes it even more challenging.

[Day]

i saw something today about a bunch of food storage warehouses on fire in iraq

[Tarage]

They are only aware of about 100 deaths. There's gonna be way more.

The problem is that that port is where they stored most of the food for the entire country. I read reports that they only have one month's worth of grain left now. That and I also saw something about how there were firefighters in fighting the blaze before the explosion, and that they were most likely vaporized.