buffy said:

SCIENCE said:

Is There Anything More Suspicious Than Altruism

But he said the fact that MizarVision had been releasing its images for free for a long period made the behaviour look suspicious. “These companies are in the business of making money, and giving things away for free is a bad business model,” he says.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-06/us-intelligence-chinese-satellite-imagery-middle-east/106508322

That is actually quite an interesting article. From it I see images were being posted prior to the Israeli/US attacks. If you wanted to spin it, you could almost call that an effort to put them off attacking…

but doesn’t that play into the narrative that they were worried that Iran would self defend in first strike retaliation first