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Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

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499 points perihelions | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 06:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TinkersW ◴[20 Nov 24 11:59 UTC] No.42193081[source]▶
This is the 2nd time China did this in that Baltic isn't it? Both times look intentional.. maybe don't allow Chinese ships in the Baltic?
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tossandthrow ◴[20 Nov 24 12:02 UTC] No.42193110[source]▶
That would not swing.

Denmark controls the waters of the seaway to Sct. Petersburg and Kaliningrad that are some of the strategically most important ports of Russia.

Blocking of traffic to these would be a severe escalation.

Regularly Russian subs pass through Danish waters - controlled and allowed.

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Tade0 ◴[20 Nov 24 12:05 UTC] No.42193133[source]▶
Damaging infrastructure is already a severe escalation. Should not have done that.
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tossandthrow ◴[20 Nov 24 12:08 UTC] No.42193148[source]▶
These are times to chill - unless we want a full on nuclear war.

(I do realize that in particular US citizens have very high confidence in their own military capacity and might be overly bullish on situations like these)

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1. Tade0 ◴[20 Nov 24 12:34 UTC] No.42193367[source]▶
Not American - I'm Polish. I've got friends who got drafted already (if only for training) so it's entirely possible I'll join them eventually.

My take is that Russia's plan is to continue sabotaging and a weak (or lack of) response to that only emboldens them.

Also nuclear war with what? Their recent Satan II ICBM test demonstrated that they don't necessarily have the technical chops to launch anything sufficiently capable and it must have come as a surprise to them as well.