Thursday, November 02, 2023

Under the Sea: Cables and Pipelines Under Attack

 On the same October 7th night when Hamas terrorists were rampaging through peaceful kibbitzes in Israel, both Russian and Chinese “cargo” vessels were in the “exact same location at the exact same time” when three subsea lines in the Baltic were damaged.

…On the night of 7 October, the 77-kilometre Balticconnector gas pipeline and a separate but close-by subsea telecommunications cable stretching between Finland and Estonia were damaged in the Gulf of Finland. A week later, it emerged that, on the same night, another subsea telecommunications cable—connecting Estonia and Sweden—had also been damaged.

…This case, however, appears to have been no accident.

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