Yes, it's a possible reading of events and makes more sense than Russia bothering with such insignificant targets, if they even have that capability.
Escalate the Ukraine war by allowing use of long range missiles to attack Russia, then a bunch of accusations and scaremongering about hybrid warfare and whatever in the press to prime everyone for more.
Someone appears to want some decisive progress, or just to turn up the heat in Ukraine, before Trump comes in and tries to freeze it.
"I also don’t want to believe that the ships’ anchors caused the damage"
In the comment section of another article about the situation of the German economy, there were also few mentions of "NordStream" and "Russian gas," which also "seem clear to me."
Scenes like these remind me of Bernard's line in West World, "Doesn't look like anything to me."
I couched it tentatively, but it doesn't just 'seem' clear to me, it's plainly obvious that things are different this week compared to a couple of weeks ago wrt US-Ukraine.
And HN are some of the smartest people online, so it can't be that no-one else has had these same ideas. Maybe it's a case of lies so outrageous and in your face that most people can't see them.
From a tech standpoint, what are countries doing to prepare for the possibility of future malicious cuts? Is there a minimum viable number of links that matter before things would get really bad? What does 'really bad' actually look like?
Multiple cables routed via very different paths. For example, Finland also has connectivity through Sweden and Estonia. Finland could lay more cables to Sweden in the Gulf of Bothnia, there's very little reason for large Russian ships to be there.
Increased spending on "unused" capacity via slightly higher-latency links (so less commercially desirable, in normal times), so you can fall back on those if needed.
Improved seafloor cable technology, perhaps means of burying the cable for shelter, perhaps better means of repairing them in-place.
More secrecy on the exact locations of the cables? Not sure if this is realistic.
Slight bias away from sea cables, where realistic.
More research into high bandwidth microwave transmission? The islands between Finland and Sweden are close enough to each other that horizon distance might not ruin that.
SpaceX making a bunch of money, others making a lot of noise about competing constellations.
No way! Did Germans grew a pair? What happened, I thought they are going to give their firstborns to Russians just to avoid confrontation and escalation.
Wow Germans speaking out loud so much and even making case this time just for bunch of cables.
I remember last time well known blew up their 5 billion out of 10 billion gas pipeline north stream and Germans ware quite and handled the case like provincial road accident with unknown perpetrator lol
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Escalate the Ukraine war by allowing use of long range missiles to attack Russia, then a bunch of accusations and scaremongering about hybrid warfare and whatever in the press to prime everyone for more.
Someone appears to want some decisive progress, or just to turn up the heat in Ukraine, before Trump comes in and tries to freeze it.
"I also don’t want to believe that the ships’ anchors caused the damage"
Of course you don't. Never waste a crisis.
Many things seem clear to me. One thing that seems clear to me is that many things appear unclear to many people on HN.
For example, I didn't see a single comment of "Thank you USA" meme (https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/09/27/why-did-polish-mep-pos...)
In the comment section of another article about the situation of the German economy, there were also few mentions of "NordStream" and "Russian gas," which also "seem clear to me."
Scenes like these remind me of Bernard's line in West World, "Doesn't look like anything to me."
And HN are some of the smartest people online, so it can't be that no-one else has had these same ideas. Maybe it's a case of lies so outrageous and in your face that most people can't see them.
Increased spending on "unused" capacity via slightly higher-latency links (so less commercially desirable, in normal times), so you can fall back on those if needed.
Improved seafloor cable technology, perhaps means of burying the cable for shelter, perhaps better means of repairing them in-place.
More secrecy on the exact locations of the cables? Not sure if this is realistic.
Slight bias away from sea cables, where realistic.
More research into high bandwidth microwave transmission? The islands between Finland and Sweden are close enough to each other that horizon distance might not ruin that.
SpaceX making a bunch of money, others making a lot of noise about competing constellations.
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172565
Seems relevant
I remember last time well known blew up their 5 billion out of 10 billion gas pipeline north stream and Germans ware quite and handled the case like provincial road accident with unknown perpetrator lol