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Sure, unknown, and likely not at all related to this: Russian spy ship escorted away from area with critical cables in Irish Sea and the fact that Russia has said they have a free hand to destroy "enemy" undersea cables.
Perhaps we'll never know what happened to those cables in the Baltic Sea /s
People sure are quick to blame Russia, when in reality, it's Hvaldimir, a rogue spy Beluga whale. I mean, sure, he was trained by Russia, but now he's a merc for hire. This was his first solo gig to get him international notoriety and tell us he's up for grab$.
Hvaldimir died a few months ago, I believe.
That's exactly what they WANT you to think
The Norwegians?
The fins
How many copies of the sims do you think that whale owns?
Shhh... you'll wake up the pro Putin tankies. They're worn out from gaslighting Americans to vote for Trump...
Did it fall out of a window?
Elon doesn’t push people out of a window ;)
Cause: Russia desperately fishing for leverage out at sea.
They were actually threatening to do it.
It very likely that China cut the cable, to help Russia.
Swedish authorities track Chinese vessel to scene of Baltic cable breaks
And it wouldn't be the first time something similar happened.
Chinese, Russian vessels in vicinity of Baltic Sea links damage -vessel tracking data
Beijing admits Hong Kong-flagged ship destroyed key Baltic gas pipeline ‘by accident’
we should bring back "rods from god" and use them to obliterate any unknown ships when they spend too much time around deep sea infrastructure.
best case, the threat is destroyed. worse case, the largest synced pants shitting known in history.
Every one of these that are cut increases the value of Starlink
Lex Luther owns that, right?
Nah, it's Phony Stark.
So was it the the Russians who blew up their own Nord pipeline, or was it that Ukrainian guy with a yacht? It's hard to keep track
Data cables defo Russia sabotage (if deliberate), doesn't serve anyone else's goals
Ukranian special ops, acting on their own
Edit: Story
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially approved the plan, according to one officer who participated and three people familiar with it. But later, when the CIA learned of it and asked the Ukrainian president to pull the plug, he ordered a halt, those people said. Zelensky’s commander in chief, Valeriy Zaluzhniy, who was leading the effort, nonetheless forged ahead.
Not exactly on their own initially according to this article.
Zelensky took Zaluzhniy to task, but the general shrugged off his criticism, according to three people familiar with the exchange. Zaluzhniy told Zelensky that the sabotage team, once dispatched, went incommunicado and couldn’t be called off because any contact with them could compromise the operation.
"Oops" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nordstream redux? I wonder if Hetzner is affected.
Is it a kraken? Please let it be a kraken. I think we're due for some Pacific Rim style kaiju.
The cause: неизвестный
That’s not how you spell Elon Musk
Cthulu? Is your age upon us?
Cost of doing business, get moving on laying another cable, simple as