Posted on 02/07/2024 9:41:31 AM PST by hardspunned
Concerns are mounting over Houthi threats to international internet traffic and the transmission of financial data, with Yemeni telecoms firms having sounded the alarm about the militant group’s plans to sabotage submarine cables in the Red Sea. Yemen’s General Telecommunications Company, which is linked to the UN-recognised government, yesterday (4 February) released a statement condemning the Houthis’ “threats to target international marine cables”. Approximately 17% of the world’s internet traffic is carried along fibre pipes in the Red Sea. On 24 December, a Houthi-linked Telegram channel posted a map showing the convergence of communications cables in the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, accompanied by an ominous message about Yemen’s “strategic location”.
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Anyone can sabotage anything.
Inquiring minds want to know!
” Approximately 17% of the world’s internet traffic is carried along fibre pipes in the Red Sea.”
I highly doubt any traffic that I am personally interested in will be hopping over that portion of the fiber backbone. Just sayin’
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who would that affect? Maybe cut terrorist communications? How about Nigerian princes?
I guess some Western governments should have thought twice about setting certain precedents...
Some people did some things to Nordstream...
If Iran trained them and provided equipment, maybe. Since Iranian Revolutionary Guards are operating in Yemen alongside the Houthis, it would be simpler for the IRG to do it themselves.
If they were really going to try this, would it have leaked ahead like this?
Think bigger.
International banking and commerce communications
Defense communications
A major disruption to those could cause global economic ripples or maybe far worse.
So Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, and Saantha Powers, want to cut worldwide communications cables? Great way to bring your plans of worldwide collapse to be better and leave their utopia much less populated.
Gee wiz. I guess I better close that offshore account that I have in Abu Dhabi then
“Anyone can sabotage anything.”
No kidding. Remember, we were told three crazed, rogue Uke intelligence agents in row boat did Nordstream.
The certainly could, but they would need be acting as proxies for Iran, Russia and China. Just like they already are.
All it takes is some bombs dropped in the right place.
However, such damage is easily repaired.
You don’t think a major disruption to the huge European banks could spread to US banks? You think the banking systems in every country are self-contained and not interconnected?
You are not thinking big enough. It has nothing to do with your own individual bank account. It’s about the overnight flow of trillions of dollars of interbank settlements all over the globe. Overnight settlements within the USA are 1.2 trillion.
How do you think these settlements occur?
Europe to Asia would be in a mess. Thank goodness screwing up the info flow for a third or half the world’s economy wouldn’t affect us? Are you sure about that? Stuff’s gotten pretty interconnected this century.
How much of the world’s info flow is transmitted between Europe and Asia? What would cutting that do to half the world’s economies? I’d prefer not to find out.
And how is that OUR PROBLEM?
Closing the Suez Canal is more their speed, and that's very easy. Just sink a ship in it. It's been done.
Nordstream II?
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