Following reports attributing the September destruction of Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines to the Ukrainian or US government, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council has declared that President Vladimir Putin should feel free to sever undersea communication cables of the country’s “enemies.”
“If we proceed from the proven complicity of Western countries in blowing up the Nord Streams, then we have no constraints – even moral – left to prevent us from destroying the ocean floor cable communications of our enemies,” said Dmitry Medvedev on Telegram. Medvedev was Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012 and is a close ally of Putin.
Last month, NATO intelligence chief David Cattler warned of a rising risk of just such a move. “There are heightened concerns that Russia may target undersea cables and other critical infrastructure in an effort to disrupt Western life, to gain leverage against those nations that are providing security to Ukraine,” he told reporters. Naturally, the NATO intel officer’s list of potential motivations omitted retaliation-in-kind in the wake of the severing of the Nord Stream pipelines.
“The Russians are more active than we have seen them in years in this domain,” Cattler told reporters, noting a higher pace of Russian patrols all across the Atlantic and in the Baltic and North seas. “Russia is actively mapping allied critical infrastructure both on land and on the seabed.”
The oceans are a target-rich environment. More than 400 undersea cables carry more than 95% of international internet traffic. “Altogether, they carry an estimated 10 trillion U.S. dollars worth of financial transactions every day, so these cables really are an economic linchpin,” said Cattler.
Contradicting Western propaganda narratives that Russia destroyed its own source of economic leverage over Europe, recent months have seen reports that either the US or Ukrainian governments blew up the pipelines.
- In February, citing “a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning,” legendary journalist Seymour Hersh published a bombshell report that US Navy divers executed the operation under the cover of a NATO exercise.
- Last month, a consortium of European investigative journalists reported that the investigative trail led to Ukraine and centered on a 15-meter yacht that was hired from a Polish company and docked at a tiny Danish island near the explosion site.
In what sounded like it could be an orchestrated propaganda ploy to bolster US government denials of any role in an act of economic warfare that’s taken a high toll on European civilians, this week various outlets reported that, after receiving a report that Ukraine was plotting such move, the CIA warned Ukraine against executing it.
The prospect of a Russian attack on Western communications infrastructure — in retaliation for what was likely a Western-conducted or Western-encouraged attack on a Russian gas pipeline — is the latest reminder that all of us are constantly at risk of being victimized by wars our government provokes with utter disregard for the consequences.
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Boy , its a good thing WEF already gamed out a Cyber 911 event with bigger impacts than Covid.
Cyber polygon
Sure, that, but, WWZ is on its way.
They could just say “We’ve been hacked!” and flip the switches. How would we know? I recall an incident here in Illinois where some dumbass was digging and severed a cable that basically ran the length of the state on I-39 and cut off comms of all kinds. Those guys pushing HAM radios and sat phones may be on to something.
Someone is supposedly cyber- attacking our government this very minute.
Soon.
” We have now implemented the ” REAL I.D. for internet use Act.”
Everyone is a ‘ hacker ‘ unless you submit to the new standards “
Russians need to learn that bluster is self defeating.
If you say you are going to do something, do it. If you don’t, your opponent is going to be emboldened by your inaction.
I often wonder if the Russians have been paying any attention to how the West works for the last several decades.
I heard not too long ago members of Congress were all getting issued satellite phones…Hmmmmm…..
The Russians can’t be that stupid. No one with common sense announces their war strategies openly…
Me thinks the USA is planning this, only to turn around and blame Putin like with the Nordstrom pipelines…
Gonna get very interesting soon…
“I often wonder if the Russians have been paying any attention to how the West works for the last several decades”.
Same goes for most Americans.
Literally anybody could hit at undersea cables. But Globohomo media will surely tell us who done it.
@CovertShores
Just interesting #OSINT
There is a little-known indigenous submarine, a Nahang Class midget sub, parked behind a shed in Bandar Abbas, Iran
#Iran built at least two of these small subs but focuses instead on the North-Korean designed Ghadir class
so, the alphabets do it and blame Russia? NOOO! TRUMP DID IT.
A better target might be the LNG plant-loading port in Freeport,Tx.
Power transformers. Nothing in infrastructure or industry works without electricity. Nothing.
When they start popping all over, you will know it is really on.
The so-called “increasing complexity of systems” will likely damage us severely or fatally. Things appear to become more and more complex simply because they can be made more complex opposed to any appreciable gains to be derived from this added complexity.
Russians would add that perfect is the enemy of good enough. Their utilitarian attitude compels them to do simple intelligent things like having penal battalions. Want to start a bloody assault on an enemy? Bring out 1,000 convicts, give them each a glass of Vodka and an AK with one magazine and point them at the target. You soften up the target, spare your forces the brunt of casualties in the opening rounds and let convicts make their reparations all at once. We act like “The Dirty Dozen” is some fantastical fairy tale whereas a number of our would be opponents employ it as doctrine.
Joseph Tainter theory on over-complexity.
You also just described “Bureaucracy” perfectly.
Russian vs. USA tech was perfectly exemplified during the space race. The USA spent millions making a pen that would work in zero G. The Russians used pencils.
I have two of those pens.
They always work.
Really well.
Little known, but just as important as German mechanical engineering was to US rocket development, it was Russian system theory that finally kept them stable and controllable in flight. If we went to the moon, we rode on German engines with Russian math loaded in the American computers.
Large solar flare or close electromagnetic encounter with a very large meteor get my vote.
I want it to be nature that swats us all.
It will be God Euddie…just saying…
No … that would create problems for ‘We The People’ … how about, instead, they hit the enormous data storage centers of all of the numerous IC thugs … destroy all of the data that our government has on US Citizens … send them back into the dark ages insofar as domestic intelligence gathering is concerned.
Yo Yo Yo! Putin in da House! Bust a move.
Good for Putin, he can censor woke liberals for a change.
1994,just months b4 he died,richard nixon predicted what would happen if we did not handle russia correctly —
about 3″ —
there is no need to sever perfectly good cables when a few well placed bombs can bury city of london deep into the english channel and one well placed bomb could vaporize jewlensky.
now to blow up all of the male ukrainian jewcunts waiting out the war in israel – which would be all of them – that might take some additional bombs.