Cutting a couple undersea fiber cables and completely fucking the whole internet is very easy. Humanity has so far just kinda silently agreed to not fuck with that.
I commented this here a few months ago. Looks like the time has come, this is the 3rd cable in the last few days.
To be fair, the non-fuckening has probably been a result of no one being in a conflict that requires hybrid warfare
Finnish authorities are not investigating. The cable appears to just have been damaged by a digger.
Sometimes I wonder why these important cables appear to be laid all over the place.
The image is from Germany, where in July a farmer dug up part of his field, apparently unaware that a major connection cable was just 60 cm below the ground.
That's some big filament.
Get away from that cable with your hot end!
speaks in radio
"Sir, we found the culprit!"
If this one's a construction accident imagine being any of the people involved. Definitely an "aw shit" moment.
I'm at a loss at to what is their reasoning doing it.
It won't have any lasting effects except better policing of ships and cables?
Like a baby pushing the sleeping bloodlust viking, then they pour a glass of water on them, waking them up. Then trying to cut them with a pair of scissors...
Why?
Disruption.
Yesh but what for? Internet will be back up and we'll all be arming up and monitor more?
Well this one was an accident, but others are sabotage.
As said, disruption, and also because there's no other ways to take revenge on Sweden and Finland's "unfriendly" behavior of joining NATO 😄 can't really bomb Helsinki or Stockholm so hybrid operations it is
Was it an accident though?
Edit: mixed up the two, probably an accident.
I suppose that the construction firm could have been paid to sabotage it, but that's conspiracy territory
Oh yeah I mixed up the two, sorry!
Just disruption for the sake of diversion.
It's damaging infrastructure, which could help Russia
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