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Undersea cables, the backbone of the internet, are under threat of sabotage by Russia, raising alarms about the security of global communications.
Russia's recent threat to cut undersea cables, which provide most of the world's internet connectivity, highlights the vulnerability of this infrastructure that is essential to the global economy and military defense.
These cables, which run for more than 1,3 million kilometers on the ocean floor, carry about 95% of the data traffic global, including financial operations, government communications and military control systems. The alert is seen by many as a Russian maneuver in a hybrid war, where stealthy sabotage gains space in power strategies.
Submarine cables have immense strategic importance
Not only do they maintain our connectivity for everyday services like social media and email, but they are also critical to countries’ security and defense communications.
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Russia, with intelligence vessels and equipment capable of operating at extreme depths, has been seen close to these cables, especially in areas of high military sensitivity such as the North Atlantic. This proximity raises suspicions that Russia could be inspecting or even planning to sabotage these cables in the event of a conflict.
Are the US and UK planning sabotage operations?
The presence of Russian ships with mini-submarine capabilities and depth-manipulation technologies has not gone unnoticed. Recently, Nikolai Patrushev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, suggested that the US and UK could be planning sabotage operations, in an apparent strategy to divert the attention of the Russians. attention of potential Russian shares.
This type of “modus operandi” was already observed during the Cold War, and now it seems to be back, but with a sharper focus on technological infrastructures.
The threat to undersea cables goes beyond a possible disconnection. A coordinated attack could isolate entire continents and cause billions in damage to the global economy. Financial institutions, which depend on real-time transmission, and global logistics operations would collapse, in addition to the direct impact on military forces.
NATO
In a sabotage scenario, NATO, which relies on these cables for coordination between its bases on different continents, would lose part of its immediate response capacity.
With this imminent threat, security experts argue for the need for new international agreements and constant monitoring to protect these critical structures. Collaboration between governments and technology companies is crucial to ensuring that undersea cables are more secure and less exposed to stealth attacks.
This is a subject that should not even be aired if it is so serious. Let's look at it from a medical perspective. Today, there is virtual medicine and robotic operations over the Internet... and any damage to this can shake the entire world, even those who cause it. The Internet is global and not just NATO or CREMILIM, or China, or Brazil... it is planetary, and damage to it is technological suicide for the world.
They won't reach that level of madness, because the rest of the world will go up in flames and Russia will turn to dust.
So, does anyone have an atlas for you?