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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin cut Norway's fiber optic cables? Already isolated and controls internet into Ukraine!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1068868151448936449.htmlToo hard to cut n paste from phone. MUCH more at link but heres the crux:
💥Putin has been conducting Gerasimovs hybrid warfare across the world. Interrupting a nations power & internet can cause more disruption and chaos than conventional warfare and cost pennies on a ruble. Trump & @GOP have put us in a precarious position💥
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
malaise
(267,791 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
SCantiGOP
(13,855 posts)I would be very skeptical.
malaise
(267,791 posts)Thanks
Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)Long thread, well worth the read
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)and that is not a verified tweeter, so there's no particular reason to believe it happened. The rest of it is really badly written, so it's hard to know what they're trying to say, but there's nothing about any cables being cut in Norway, or Finland.
I suggest it's just some guy with too much time on his hands who has tried to piece together a story from random tweets about Russia, without knowing what the terms mean.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)WaPo article on NATO worries of Russian subs near undersea cables
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/europe/russian-submarines-are-prowling-around-vital-undersea-cables-its-making-nato-nervous/2017/12/22/d4c1f3da-e5d0-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)That's why it looks like some mash-up by a guy from several stories without actually knowing anything about what's going on.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)We don't have any reason to believe Putin cut Norwegian cables; and that wouldn't be "to control and isolate Ukraine" anyway. They're at opposite ends of Europe.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Its a two part headline
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Ukraine is actively trying to stop Putins Little Green Men approach.
FreeState
(10,552 posts)In Norway (almost like PBS).
That being said the article in Norwegian says the connection was breached and they arent even sure where yet. It does not say it was cut or who may have caused it.
Are ya'll as tired of hearing about the horrible
things sociopaths do as I am?
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)the Russians' network...
If only our president wasn't a treasonous Russian asset...
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)Isn't that what he's said about everything, including recently environmental science and forestry management?
If Putin decides to f*ck with our communications system, we are so screwed.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)No one gave a damn about the danger more than 10 years ago when the warning about the possibility was being sounded; sounded by me no less as well as many others. It doesn't matter if this story is accurate or not.
George II
(67,782 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)The issues surrounding GPS systems in Norway is new
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Google finds no results for "Putin cut Norway's fiber optic cables"
other than this DU post.
Some speculation about 'what if it were to happen', etc.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+cut+Norway%27s+fiber+optic+cables&oq=Putin+cut+Norway%27s+fiber+optic+cables&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8