Original WSJ article is behind a paywall.
A Chinese commercial ship is suspected of deliberately dragging its anchor to cut undersea cables that connect countries over the internet, The Wall Street Journal reports.
International investigators reportedly believe the crew aboard Yi Peng 3, a bulk carrier full of Russian fertilizer, dragged its anchor for more than 100 miles across the Baltic seabed, damaging the cables that run across it. Two different internet links — one between Sweden’s Gotland Island and Lithuania, and another between Finland and Germany — stopped working earlier this month, prompting the investigation by authorities from all four countries and other nations.
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It’s not the first time European officials have suspected Russia of undersea infrastructure sabotage since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But officials have been hesitant to accuse the Kremlin outright of interference, the Journal reports, in part for fear of further escalating tensions between Russia and Europe.
What I do not understand is what is the plan here? Awaken and anger countries who were ususally peaceful and non interference ones?
Destabilize Europe through disruption, confusion, and abstract/unclear threats.
A strong, fair, just, peaceful Europe is a threat. Apparently.
It’s a gross misinterpretation and delusion of course. Russia and its people are way worse off than even just a few years ago. But that’s not how Russia wants to see it; Russia is not able to change itself or acknowledge and fix its faults. It is stuck in struggling for survival and self-justification through aggression and constructing enemies.
They desperately want to end themselves, and then blame it on others. “Oh we didn’t do anything, yet we got spanked. Only if we got the chance to prove we are strong. We lost only because we got outnumbered.”.
They are bullies, and always have been. They are just waiting for EU to snap so they have an excuse to launch nukes.
They will never launch nukes, putin is a small person scared of death, remember those super long tables to not catch “a disease” ? He’s notoriously known for being scared of infection.
Well, nobody knows, but the moment he does it won’t matter anyway.
It’s a 4d chess move :)
EU: “We will restrict innocent passage and freedom of navigation in the Baltic Sea.”
China: “Gotcha! We will restrict innocent passage and freedom of navigation in the Taiwan Strait.”
FUD. And look, it’s working!
I don’t Fear after they cut those cables. Less and less people are Uncertain about who is to blame and less people Doubt about who is the enemy.
Where do you see some F.U.D here?
But officials have been hesitant to accuse the Kremlin outright of interference, the Journal reports, in part for fear of further escalating tensions between Russia and Europe.
What’s he gonna do, start a war?
Oh man, there’s nothing new here. And how could it. The sweet people from the Verge picking up a Wall Street Journal story that itself is a little late reporting news from Europe. Exactly the kind of speculation investigators were asking to avoid until there is evidence.
DIVEST DIVEST DIVEST.
