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Whenever I read of an undersea cable breaking, I worry that the next world war has started. Seeing pipelines getting blown up for presumed geopolitical reasons
by lolc 4y ago
Whenever I read of an undersea cable breaking, I worry that the next world war has started. Seeing pipelines getting blown up for presumed geopolitical reasons hasn't reduced this anxiety.
I know these cables regularly break for ordinary reasons. And every time I hope it's just that.
- forgetfreeman 4y agoThere's no point in being scared when running isn't an option.
- sqeaky 4y agoLogically, I know you are correct, but that does nothing to help.
- forgetfreeman 4y agoProbably nothing will, but understand I have significant sympathy for younger folks who are getting their first real taste of zero-sum geopolitics and have nothing to compare it to for scale/threat level. For those of us that grew up in the 80s the days headlines represent a slow news day from our childhood.
- aziaziazi 4y agoIf you’re not that young and didn’t try mediation yet you definitely should. It can drastically reduce anxiety of future events, even if it does not reduce “problems” when they happen.
- avereveard 4y ago70s in Italy were wild. Cities were cratered, blood was on the roads monthly in a triple underground war between brigate rosse, neofascisti and the state, with the cia meddling trough gladio. 90-10 were bliss in comparison. Wouldn't claim these are golden age because as the first world stabilized the unaligned world became the proxy for the great powers' wars, to all that it entailed. The proxies are getting nukes now, and so the struggle between great powers is shifting again...
- lovich 4y agoWhat a fascinating bit of history I’ve never heard of. Thank you for introducing me to it. This whole story of the gladio operation only being discovered because of an Italian investigator trying to crack an unsolved case around far right terrorism feels like it should have had a block buster movie made already.[1][2] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/14/cia-organized-secret-army-in-western-europe/e0305101-97b9-4494-bc18-d89f42497d85/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/14/c... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Casson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Casson
- aww_dang 4y agoCheckout the Daniel Ganser book.
- rationalist 4y agoRunning is an option for some.
- forgetfreeman 4y agoHah they can certainly afford to fund that delusion but I assure you if international logistics were to well and truly collapse they'd find out real fast the have-less native population in their bolt-hole country of choice 1. Aren't confused about where the canned goods are being hoarded 2. Are surprisingly adept at operating heavy equipment.
- rationalist 4y agoI'm not sure I completely understand what you mean. For some people, none of that applies.
- forgetfreeman 4y agoThe super-wealthy think they can outrun any geopolitical shitstorm (up to and including WWIII) as is evidenced by the surge in luxury survival bunker construction in places like New Zealand.
- lolc 4y agoHey when I don't get an instant fix, I think that the positioning signal must have been intentionally degraded in my area! Incoming cruise missiles!
- rotten 4y agoEven if another world war isn't starting, think of the data pollution from all those leaking bits!
- 6th 4y agoNothing to really worry about. Being fiber optic cables; this will be light pollution.
- doubled112 4y agoBut I just read that light pollution is poisoning the planet too.
- foota 4y agoThis is a heavy topic.
- radicaldreamer 4y agoLikely nothing you can do anyway, unless you've already moved to patagonia or something.
- yreg 4y agoMany nations DDoS each other all the time outside of scope of a war. I can imagine them breaking cables as a similar hostile action without an implication of war, especially if it's difficult to prove who's the culprit.
- SilasX 4y agoPhantom Menace: “A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.”