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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

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577 points mooreds | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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fuoqi ◴[18 Nov 24 22:14 UTC] No.42177702[source]▶
It's like 3rd or 4th submission of this news today? One of the previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175676
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TechDebtDevin[dead post] ◴[18 Nov 24 22:45 UTC] No.42177930[source]▶
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fuoqi ◴[18 Nov 24 22:47 UTC] No.42177943[source]▶
Well, to be fair, it's suspiciously close in time to the recent US/UK/France permission to use long-range missiles against the Russian territory. So it may be indeed a transparent hint towards them from Russia regarding how asymmetric response could look like.
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bigiain ◴[19 Nov 24 00:00 UTC] No.42178639[source]▶
And from a day or two ago:

"Navy undersea cable showdown on Britain's doorstep: Warship forces Russian spy ship out of the Irish Sea after it was spotted over critical subsea cables - miles from UK coast" -- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14090489/russian-sp...

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1. TechDebtDevin ◴[19 Nov 24 04:34 UTC] No.42180119[source]▶
But I appreciate the reference to a tabloid article...