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It's electronic signals warfare. Depriving your opposition of power or communications destabilises command structures. Now you might say "...but these cables a
by weebull 2y ago
It's electronic signals warfare. Depriving your opposition of power or communications destabilises command structures.
Now you might say "...but these cables are so low value", but these are easy targets that reduce the resilience of the Baltic states. Any more conventional attack would now be more effective because they've taken the backups out first.
- Hamuko 2y agoThere's only about two weeks before it's up again though.
- WillyWonkaJr 2y agoUndersea cables carry trillions of dollars in transactions daily. Their value cannot be overstated.
- jagrsw 2y agoThe ones under the Baltic (with the exception of some islands) are not 'critical', as in they're used for reasons (cost, latency, directness), but those reasons are not b/c there's no other way to connect to the Internet. So, annoyance at most.
- ajross 2y agoUh... not between Sweden and Latvia they don't. That's like saying "Mosquito's kill millions from Malaria!" while you run around trying to swat one. Sure, in aggregate lots of technologies are critically important to modern society. But you don't cry when a single rail car gets damaged.
- SilasX 2y agoBut cutting a few of them doesn’t mean the transactions don’t happen, they’re just slightly delayed, so you can’t count the full value of those transactions as a loss. To adapt the old saying, the internet interprets cut cables as unreachable intermediate nodes and routes around them.