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Etheryte ◴[] No.42176174[source]
So to keep score, in the last year we've seen cables sabotaged between Finland and Germany, Lithuania and Sweden, Estonia and Sweden, Estonia and Finland. Any others I missed? You might say it's too early to call it sabotage, but the earliest two cable incidents were exactly the same, so it's hardly a coincidence at this point.
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barryrandall ◴[] No.42176719[source]
Russia warned that they were going to do this last week. I think it's pretty reasonable to conclude that 1) this was sabotage and 2) it was Russia.
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JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.42176971[source]
> Russia warned that they were going to do this last week

Source?

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stavros ◴[] No.42177018[source]
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-pipeline-gas-patrushev-putin...

I guess they warned in their own way, of "nice cables you've got there, it would be a shame if someone... sabotaged them".

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JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.42177045[source]
They're constantly saying this about everything.
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ivandenysov ◴[] No.42177180[source]
They also threatened UA with a full scale invasion by doing troop trainings on the border for several years before the real thing.
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JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.42177195{3}[source]
The point isn't that they don't do things, it's that there are people issuing a constant stream of threats and people doing things, and it's not entirely clear there is even a correlation between the two.
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1. jasonfarnon ◴[] No.42177372{4}[source]
in other words, we need their false negative rate
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2. JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.42177422[source]
> we need their false negative rate

We have it. It's almost 100%. They've been threatening WWIII and nuclear armageddon since 2022.

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3. lazide ◴[] No.42181545[source]
That is not as comforting a comparison as you might think it is.

In my experience, the problem is also that one group of people refuses to act on what the other side actually says (because it’s inconvenient/dangerous).