And Joe Biden is the one who wields both.
I feel so secure.
Posted on 02/28/2023 8:17:16 PM PST by george76
These would be attacks against all global communications given the nature of the internet.
All countries will be affected. Some more than others depending on the cable, but it will hit everyone. It will affect global trade and finance as well.
Going to be hard on China when Americans can’t buy all their crap on the internet.
China is extremely exposed. It too is dependent on internet comms, and blowing up cables anywhere will have consequences.
It is also highly dependent on international trade and finance. If it goes about blowing up international cables this is going to start a retaliatory trade war and financial sanctions.
As for retaliation, Russia is also highly vulnerable to trade sanctions. It can sell very little petroleum through pipelines to friendly countries. It needs tankers, and these can easily be blockaded on the high seas.
The dumb is strong in this post.
You mean THIS BALLOON? which had a high def/high zoom/high res camera mapping everything it passed over?
You have to see that video. 200x zoom showed what that balloon was doing.
You mean THIS BALLOON? which had a high def/high zoom/high res camera mapping everything it passed over?
You have to see that video. 200x zoom showed what that balloon was doing.
If the US wanted to effectively stop Russian foreign trade, it can, easily.
Its already forcing the discounting of Russian oil prices just through the marine insurance system.
The tit for tat in escalation of economic war is hardly one way. And in an economic war Russia doesn’t have a “nuclear weapon”. The US does.
“tracking Russian vessels believed to be mapping undersea cables in the North Sea and surrounding bodies of water. The concern is that the Russians are preparing to stage attacks on these cables”
Now they are worried the Russians are gonna blow things up underwater? You don’t look behind the door unless you’ve hid there yourself.
But actually, Russia has shown a lot of maturity in this whole thing so I doubt they will. But it’s probably on the table if it turns into an open NATO/Russia war.
So, after one act of the illegal blatant piracy, you are advocating for actual piracy and still have a nerve to claim thst it is Russia and China who are the bad guys?:)
Bad or good are not inherent definition. Good and bad deeds make good and bad guys.
You are assuming they don’t want 90% dead.
And Joe Biden is the one who wields both.
I feel so secure.
Also remember who invented the idea of cutting undersea cables. In WWI Germany had 5 undersea cables directly to America. The Brits cut them in 1914 to force all US communications to go through Britain. We were neutral at the time and the war was in it’s first week or so.
No, it's not.
Just you writing it doesn't make it so.
Have a good evening.
I advocate nothing.
Just saying that Russian attempts at economic war are just likely to lead to tit for tat, and the US holds all the trumps in that route of escalation.
Russia threatened all our coastal cities with that “nuclear torpedo” that would cause a tsunami
now Russia is threatening to cut our undersea cables
see? this just proves what an ongoing menace to world peace Russia really is
Tit for tat is the destruction of Norwegian pipelines and and the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. That you are talking about is not escapation.
You probably missed that little insignificant detail that the US entered a proxy war with Russia and broke some things. Who is the threat to whom?
I would suspect these cables are redundant and geographically diverse. Cutting one cable probably wouldn’t end the service of the devices on the endpoints.
If China and Russia do that, then all the US corporations who rely on cheap Indian labor overseas, are in a world of hurt.
“proxy war” ... LOL, more of your Russian BS
Russia is fighting Ukraine ... that’s it
(and not doing very well either)
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