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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: 0.441s | source
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shmerl ◴[19 Nov 24 21:46 UTC] No.42188442[source]▶
It will end up in the need to destroy Russian saboteur boats on sight. Putin is a moron if he thinks piracy methods will help him.
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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[19 Nov 24 22:05 UTC] No.42188603[source]▶
It's not about "winning" it's about flooding the information space with doubt and crazy and fear.
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2. shmerl ◴[19 Nov 24 23:13 UTC] No.42189074[source]▶
Sure, but this ends up being like the boy who cried wolf. When this happens for so long, everyone stops caring about Putin's saber rattling except his puppets whom he already controls.

But damage to communications is a tangible thing, so if this is going to get worse, Putin's boats will be just sunk in such areas as a preventive measure. And Putin will do nada about it despite all this threats, except may be looking for other places to cut cables and engage in similar trash behavior until he is chased out of there too.

Sinking of his ships is something he very quickly understands, since he practically can't make new ones.