A pair of undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea mysteriously stopped working in the last two days, and the first reaction from Germany and Finland, two NATO members, was essentially, “What have the Russians done now?” followed by, sotto voce, “Is there a chance this was an accident?”
The two cables—one between Sweden and Lithuania, and another from Finland to Germany—suddenly went down Sunday and Monday. It’s not the first time data cables in or near the Baltic have been tampered with, nor pipelines punctured. But that very background noise of Russian interference and malfeasance in the Baltic in recent years has muddied the true signals of what is going on. As it is, every bad thing that happens up north is laid at Moscow’s door, especially when things are getting heated otherwise.
A pair of undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea mysteriously stopped working in the last two days, and the first reaction from Germany and Finland, two NATO members, was essentially, “What have the Russians done now?” followed by, sotto voce, “Is there a chance this was an accident?”
The two cables—one between Sweden and Lithuania, and another from Finland to Germany—suddenly went down Sunday and Monday. It’s not the first time data cables in or near the Baltic have been tampered with, nor pipelines punctured. But that very background noise of Russian interference and malfeasance in the Baltic in recent years has muddied the true signals of what is going on. As it is, every bad thing that happens up north is laid at Moscow’s door, especially when things are getting heated otherwise.
Yes, a couple of Finnish nuclear power reactors also went mysteriously........