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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 | 5 comments | 20 Nov 24 06:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mitjam ◴[20 Nov 24 11:52 UTC] No.42193017[source]▶
It was crossing right on time for the interruptions, a Russian officer was on board, it slowed down while crossing, no other ships were slowing down in that area during that time (rulingnout headwinds) - it cannot get much clearer. China is now participating in hybrid warfare against Europe (unless they present stronger evidence against this assumption)
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greener_grass ◴[20 Nov 24 12:13 UTC] No.42193187[source]▶
So if Trump is against China, and China aligns with Russia, will Trump then support Ukraine? Interesting (and choppy) times ahead.
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IncreasePosts ◴[20 Nov 24 16:36 UTC] No.42195620[source]▶
You should probably get it out of your head that Trump supports Russia. Especially considering Russia decided to get frisky with Ukraine in 2014 (during Obama), and 2022(Biden), but took no real action in this regard during the Trump presidency.
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1. energy123 ◴[20 Nov 24 18:39 UTC] No.42196860[source]▶
Whoever was POTUS played no role in the timing of 2014. Putin invaded Donbas in 2014 in response to a revolution in Ukraine that ousted the unpopular Russia-aligned Yanukovych. Not because Obama was POTUS or because Trump wasn't POTUS.
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2. IncreasePosts ◴[20 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42197790[source]▶
Okay, and why did Putin wait until 2022 to (re)invade Ukraine, if that was the goal? Shouldn't he have done it when he had a stooge in the white house?
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3. ceejayoz ◴[20 Nov 24 20:48 UTC] No.42197958[source]▶
> Shouldn't he have done it when he had a stooge in the white house?

If you think said stooge is likely to get reelected (which, except for COVID coming out of the blue, was highly likely) and that stooge is already making noise about isolationism, why interrupt?

2022 looks a lot like an "oh shit, plan B" scenario.

4. dragonwriter ◴[20 Nov 24 20:58 UTC] No.42198042[source]▶
> Okay, and why did Putin wait until 2022 to (re)invade Ukraine

Because that's when he had intelligence leading him to believe the Ukrainian regime would crumble quickly or capitulate in the face of a large-scale invasion, and possibly also the NATO would fail to unite and respond, in part due to the success of Russian influence operations, which were not only directed at the US.

5. energy123 ◴[21 Nov 24 05:02 UTC] No.42201293[source]▶
Conversely, why not invade to destabilize the incumbency of the non-stooge so that the stooge wins re-election and then use the stooge to negotiate a favorable frozen conflict? Or why even attribute it to POTUS at all? Why not attribute it to the fact that Ukraine's military power was growing due to the Western training that they were receiving over the previous 10 years, and Putin was effectively on a clock to invade? Eastern European conflicts have never revolved around who is POTUS.