What did they hope to accomplish by making the world slightly worse?
Who is "they"? Cite your sources and show your work.
From the article, "they" obviously implies the Houthis
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#52I suppose a proxy war between the westand Iran via Yemen is inevitable for 2025 now. Why they would piss of China and India as well I have no idea. US will see more internet traffic now which is nice for the US. Maybe they want to ambush the slow repair vessels that will have to come that way? It can take them a couple of months at times to arrive. There isn't a whole lot of them, they cost in the 100's of millions to construct as well.
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#53If you can't see this is a false flag from Israel and/or the US, I have a bridge to sell to you.
The US doesn't need reasons to invade Yemen. In fact, the weak media coverage makes me suspect that they don't want to escalate by not making a big deal out of it.
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#54How can they even technically achieve that? You need to locate the exact location and drop some charges at presumably fairy deep depths Are these cables accessible by divers?
Bab-el-Mandeb strait is quite shallow, deepest part is only 310 m, with less than 200 m average depth.
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#55If you can't see this is a false flag from Israel and/or the US, I have a bridge to sell to you.
The US doesn't need reasons to invade Yemen. In fact, the weak media coverage makes me suspect that they don't want to escalate by not making a big deal out of it.
Who said Yemen? The prize for the neocons is Iran.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn’t it be almost impossible to assign blame? The ocean is big and submarines are not easy to find. Maybe if you had other evidence like SIGINT?
All it takes is a ship "forgetting" to raise the anchor and running it over the cable, snapping it. Might have happened outside Finland last year [1]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/estonia-says-chinese-sh...
Also happened in Anguilla (Caribbean Sea) last year—some rich person's yacht ran over the ECFS cable [0]. Google went in afterwards and tested one of their moonshot projects—free-space laser communications [1]—as a temporary backhaul.
[0] https://theanguillian.com/2023/02/rapid-response-from-flow-r...
[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101666271/en/Lib...
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#57What did they hope to accomplish by making the world slightly worse?
Who is "they"? Cite your sources and show your work.
There's gotta be a term for trying to shut down a conversation by forcing the person to appeal to authority for every thought. Not quite sealioning. Maybe walrusing.
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So in this thread we have one person claiming out of nowhere that one attack on underwater infrastructure is definitely a false flag, and you are claiming that another one is definitely not a false flag, all without a shred of evidence. How is this any better than just piping llm outputs directly to comment box? This sort of discussion is worthless.
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#59In neal stephensons 1996 classic wired article Mother Earth Mother Board theres a bit in there about why cables are not attacked. "There is also the obvious threat of sabotage by a hostile government, but, surprisingly, this almost never happens. When cypherpunk Doug Barnes was researching his Caribbean project, he spent some time looking into this, because it was exactly the kind of threat he was worried about in th…
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#60These incidents are interesting due to because of how people like to assign blame or not.
Nordstream 2? Of course it was Russians despite how illogical it was.
This cable? No way the Houthis despite them saying they would attack them.
The prejudice is interesting.