Summary
Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen has urged NATO and the EU to strengthen protections for critical infrastructure after undersea internet cables between Finland and Germany were damaged, suspected to be sabotage.
Häkkänen emphasized Russia’s known capacity and intent for such actions but also noted reports of a Chinese vessel in the area during the incident.
This follows a pattern of Baltic Sea infrastructure attacks, including pipeline and cable damage last year.
Häkkänen called these attacks on undersea infrastructure in international waters a growing challenge for Western nations.
It’s almost like they want to force countries to use starlink for easier to intercept communications or something #tinfoilhats
“Slight” difference in bandwidth between these cables and Starlink.
Elmo’s little satellite Internet project will never hold a candle to the international fiber backbone networks, especially tier 1 networks.
Like Starlinks CEO is their asset or something.