Comment by heraldgeezer
5 days ago
>Certainly the visual effects of Oreshnik were greater than a cable cut that just reduces gamer latency in Finland for a couple of days.
The Russians are testing our response and response times. They do it like this by cutting cables, they sail ships close to the border, they cross into our airspace.
Remember, in the 80s a Soviet submarine ""accidentally"" ran aground in southern Sweden. (Totally not spying on us btw)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363
If real war happens, physically cutting communications will certainly be part of it.
You think NATO doesn't do similar things? It's just that they don't tell us because it'd reflect poorly on the narrative that we're the good guys.
But for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...