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Morning Links | 27 Apr 20

It’s a new week and still we linger under the Asian Contagion as some states begin to lift restrictions and others keep them in place, making us all wonder, Who’s Zoomin’ Who?

The answer, it turns out, is about 300 million of us who are Zoomin’ each other on a platform that, in 2019, only had about 10 million users. USA Today reports on the security improvements Zoom has made as online conferencing has boomed over the last couple of months. Plus, while the pandemic has brought about some national cooperation in trying to defeat the virus, it can’t heal the cultural and political division we currently live with; one of the greatest flash points of that division is our immigration laws; in international news, North Korea’s portly tyrant, Kim Jong Un, remains the subject of speculation about his whereabouts, sparking a wave of panic-buying among the citizenry; and finally, a bit of controversy about who was better: The Rolling Stones or The Beatles—just as the Stones achieve a new milestone.

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A New Axis of Evil?

CURIOUS AND WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON. 11 Iranian Military Boats Swarm U.S. Naval Ships; China Might Be Testing Nukes; Russia, North Korea Show Military Aggression, According To Various Reports

America’s top four nation-state enemies in the world have all shown signs of increased military aggression against the United States over the last 24 hours.

Earlier today, 11 Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) boats swarmed several U.S. naval ships that “were conducting joint integration operations with U.S. Army AH-64E Apache attack helicopters in the international waters of the North Arabian Gulf,” the U.S. Navy said in a statement.

The Navy said that the Iranian boats got within 10 yards of the U.S. vessels and did not respond to “five short blasts from the ships’ horns and long-range acoustic noise maker devices.”