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Officials believe Baltic cable damage caused by accidents not Russian sabotage
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- chabes 2y agoAny source besides Twitter? Looking for a link I’d be willing to click on.. What officials? Weren’t there multiple incidents within days or weeks of each other, involving different cables, and nearly damaging a gas pipeline as well?
- kevinsky 2y agoFrom the article here https://archive.ph/bUsFH#selection-1451.0-1451.314 https://archive.ph/bUsFH#selection-1451.0-1451.314 "At least two of the ships suspected of causing damage appear to have dragged their anchors 100 miles or more across seafloor. A ship that dropped an anchor by accident, Toveri said, would immediately be dragged so noticeably off course that crews would scramble to bring the vessel to a stop and assess the damage." The most recent ship accused of this type of damage was also loaded with spy/electronic/surveillance gear. Once is an accident, twice is unusual, three times.....
- ossobuco 2y agoTwo undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted[0]: 597 points and 1096 comments, people jumping the gun with comments like: > Substantial Russian activity also near UK, raises concerns that Russia would cut off UK > A disruption in communications can mean only one thing: invasion. > So what's the solution ? Assign a surveillance UAV to every Russian ship parked "without a good reason" over a cable ? > It’s a message and hybrid warfare. This post? Completely ignored. People just want war for some reason. - [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172565