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At Least 11 Baltic Cables Have Been Damaged in 15 Months, Prompting NATO to Up Its Guard
« on: January 28, 2025, 11:15:10 am »
At Least 11 Baltic Cables Have Been Damaged in 15 Months, Prompting NATO to Up Its Guard
 
Pilot Lt. Terry (surname withheld by the French military) inspects the wheels of a French Navy Atlantique 2 surveillance plane before its takeoff from Hamburg, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, on a NATO patrol over the Baltic Sea as part of the military's alliance "Baltic Sentry" mission to protect undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

Associated Press | By John Leicester and Emma Burrows
Published January 28, 2025 at 6:09am ET

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA — With its powerful camera, the French Navy surveillance plane scouring the Baltic Sea zoomed in on a cargo ship plowing the waters below — closer, closer and closer still until the camera operator could make out details on the vessel's front deck and smoke pouring from its chimney.

The long-range Atlantique 2 aircraft on a new mission for NATO then shifted its high-tech gaze onto another target, and another after that until, after more than five hours on patrol, the plane's array of sensors had scoped out the bulk of the Baltic — from Germany in the west to Estonia in the northeast, bordering Russia.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/28/least-11-baltic-cables-have-been-damaged-15-months-prompting-nato-its-guard.html
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Re: At Least 11 Baltic Cables Have Been Damaged in 15 Months, Prompting NATO to Up Its Guard
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2025, 11:16:21 am »
Wow!  It only took 11 sabotages for them to think they had to do something.  They really catch on quickly. :whistle:
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Re: At Least 11 Baltic Cables Have Been Damaged in 15 Months, Prompting NATO to Up Its Guard
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2025, 11:37:17 am »
Ships don't accidentally drag anchors when they are under power and in calm weather.

Ships' anchors can accidentally drag in bad weather.

Maybe the ships in Russia's 'shadow fleet' need to experience more 'accidental' mishaps.

It sounds like Finnish police are more on the ball than alleged 'Western intelligence agencies'.

Using crappy ships may be intentional as it provides 'plausible deniability' to Putin.
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Re: At Least 11 Baltic Cables Have Been Damaged in 15 Months, Prompting NATO to Up Its Guard
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2025, 04:54:13 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on January 28, 2025, 11:37:17 am
Ships don't accidentally drag anchors when they are under power and in calm weather.

Ships' anchors can accidentally drag in bad weather.

Maybe the ships in Russia's 'shadow fleet' need to experience more 'accidental' mishaps.

It sounds like Finnish police are more on the ball than alleged 'Western intelligence agencies'.

Using crappy ships may be intentional as it provides 'plausible deniability' to Putin.
Maybe a few unexplained sinkings of certain ships in close proximity to the undersea cables would curtail the ‘accidental’ damge.

ship in close
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Re: At Least 11 Baltic Cables Have Been Damaged in 15 Months, Prompting NATO to Up Its Guard
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2025, 10:17:07 pm »
Maybe the pairs of NATO countries whose connections are being cut should invoke Article 5, since this is an attack on them by a foreign power.
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