By Paul Homewood
h/t George Herraghty
Damage to two undersea fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea—one between Lithuania and Sweden, and the other between Finland and Germany—should be regarded as sabotage, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday.
“No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also don’t want to believe in versions that these were ship anchors that accidentally caused the damage,” German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said before meeting of European Union defence ministers.
“So we have to state—without knowing in concrete terms who it came from—that this is a hybrid action. And we also have to assume—without already knowing it, obviously—that this is sabotage.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/second-baltic-sea-cable-cut-germany-suspects-sabotage-5762155
One more reminder that it is foolish to rely so much on underwater power cables, whether for offshore wind farms or as interconnectors.
Coincidentally I was watching a documentary yesterday about the breaking of enemy cipher codes. Apparently during the First World War, we cut Germany’s man transatlantic telephone cable!
If we could do it then, it would be a doddle now.