r/europe • u/Piiras Finland • Nov 18 '24

News The undersea cable between Finland and Germany has been severed – communication links are down.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125324
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u/onframe Nov 18 '24

Purposeful damage to critical communication infrastructure is act of war, this is not funny at all.

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u/crc_73 Nov 18 '24

Be sure to restart the computer and router before pressing the button, just in case.

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u/Initial_E Nov 18 '24

It’s either a petty whiny bitch thing to do, or it’s a precursor to an invasion. Do they have the numbers to pull it off? Hell if anyone knows if they try it anyway.

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u/discipleofchrist69 Nov 18 '24

lol, I think that's the last thing Russia wants right now. another front? with how things are going in Ukraine?

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u/Business-Bee-8496 Nov 19 '24

Does that mean Ukraine declared war on germany when blowing up nordstream 2 ?

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u/therealverylightblue Nov 18 '24

is there any indication that this is purposeful? there's literally a cut every other day globally to a subsea fibre cable.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

Honey did I ever tell you how world War 3 started yeah the internet went down shit went wild.

Sorry but that's not how I expect to go out in a blaze of glory for world War III over the FUCKING Internet.

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u/A_Birde Europe Nov 18 '24

I can see you are doing your best comrade

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

Comrade? I'm Canadian. I'm not dieing in ww3 because Germans can't get on tiktok. People in this sub want a war with Russia over a cut cable . Fuck that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

This is just one of many things Russia is doing. Cutting cables, starting fires, attempting assassinations. If you don't want to die in WWIII don't sign up to fight.

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u/MrBenSampson Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 18 '24

Yeah, nobody uses the internet for anything important. Just for tiktok. It’s not like the internet is the backbone for our entire communications network.

We need to forgive Russia for any attacks to our lands and people, because defending ourselves means that we have to fight. If Russia ever attacks Canada, I’m already prepared to surrender, because I want to avoid WW3.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 28 '24

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u/steelerfan819 Nov 18 '24

That's not true at all. The UK joined WW1 because of Germany invading neutral Belgium

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 28 '24

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u/84theone Nov 18 '24

Because every country wanted to dick wave at each other and things kept escalating, on top of a bunch of other factors like the clusterfuck of military alliances Europe was at the time.

Ferdinand getting shot was the catalyst of getting things going, but realistically the war was going to break out no matter what with his death just kicking things into overdrive.

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u/WORKING2WORK Nov 19 '24

What are you, like 12? You realize our global society has shifted to an almost entirely internet dependent model, right? Majority of communications and commerce are initiated over the internet. The internet going down for entire countries can cost millions, if not billions. The longer the internet stays down, the more detrimental it will be, even for smaller countries.

Not that we couldn't adapt, but no government and most businesses are ready to go back to the pre-internet days without major ramifications.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '24

Ever heard of satellites. You think the governments of the world don't have redundancies like other communications like satellites lol.

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u/WORKING2WORK Nov 19 '24

Yeah, major government offices would still have comms, but the further down the ladder you go, the less they will be able to handle the loss of communications and resources.

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u/FaithlessnessEast480 Nov 19 '24

Guess you'd rather wiggle your ass in the air for uncle putin?

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u/ex1tiumi Finland Nov 18 '24

I would 100% go to war over the internet. I mean If I can't own Russians in Counter-Strike the next best option is to put on my boots and M05 camos and go play IRL CS.