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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

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577 points mooreds | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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keskival ◴[18 Nov 24 22:53 UTC] No.42178002[source]▶
And also the cable between Lithuania and Sweden:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/telecoms-cable...

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threeseed ◴[19 Nov 24 01:32 UTC] No.42179277[source]▶
And also Ireland escorted a Russian spy ship away from their cables:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/16/russian-spy-sh...

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carabiner ◴[19 Nov 24 05:50 UTC] No.42180401[source]▶
A disruption in communications can mean only one thing: invasion.
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lolinder ◴[19 Nov 24 13:31 UTC] No.42183208[source]▶
It can also mean that Russia is posturing and retaliating for the US's announcement that Ukraine can strike inside Russia with US missiles. This feels more like the same kind of exercise that North Korea does with their missile tests than it does an actual invasion.
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1. lesuorac ◴[19 Nov 24 14:50 UTC] No.42184013{3}[source]▶
I never really liked the whole sabotage is just "posturing" opinion.

Like there's real physical stuff destroyed (or in most circumstances digital stuff). How hard is it to impound ships that break stuff and etc so that the ones responsible are actually punished?

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2. cmrdporcupine ◴[19 Nov 24 16:28 UTC] No.42185246[source]▶
Probably no harder than impounding illegal unsafe unregistered oil shipping transports making their way through the Baltic->Black sea right now, evading sanctions.

Not hard. Not done. Because we're cowards.