I don’t believe the US military anymore for good reason.
We opened Pandora's box when we 1. Blew up the Nordstream pipelines 2. Denied it 3. Blamed it on "rogue non-state actors."
Already CCP China is beginning to take out Taiwan's undersea cables....denying it of course.
What will the world look like without undersea fiber optic cables? We are about to find out. They can't be protected. They are easily cut by anybody with submarines. You just lay an explosive cable across it and it's cut.
In shallower areas you won't even need a sub, just a small ship that feeds out the explosive cable across the fiber optic cable.
At this point I question everything from the US military and US intelligence. One would logically assume that Russian boomers are in their assigned patrol areas, as are US boomers in theirs. If we have anyone left that’s competent we should have attack boats near the Russian boomers as a precaution already.