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The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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There is no hybrid war. just war and a useless generation of politicians unable to deal with a return of the ugly old world of colonial powers, starved up ans carved up nations all scrambling to get nukes. The dictators all told us to our face what they would do in their propaganda . Nothing overt, hidden or hybrid . We need the hawks back that won the cold war and we need those doves caged in their own delusions gon…

What about the chicken hawks?

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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“security through obscurity” and then go on a publish it in a news paper? Can someone provide some context here because I dont understand what is going on here.

It's only baffling if you believe press is controlled and not writing what they want.

They interview a few of the guys working there and posted a few photos of the racks inside it. It looks like they have official authorization to publish this.

Just remove all that stuf and the article would be so boring that it would not be worth publishing.

It looks like a PR from the facility to ensure nobody forget to send more fundings next year.

Perhaps the "security through obscurity" was only a tonge in cheek remark and the area is full of hidden bear traps or something.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only baffling if you believe press is controlled and not writing what they want.

They interview a few of the guys working there and posted a few photos of the racks inside it. It looks like they have official authorization to publish this. Just remove all that stuf and the article would be so boring that it would not be worth publishing. It looks like a PR from the facility to ensure nobody forget to send more fundings next year. Perhaps the "security through obscurity" was only a tonge in cheek…

>It looks like a PR from the facility to ensure nobody forget to send more fundings next year.

Thanks that makes a lot more sense. It is sad that is the way how government funding are worked around the world.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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So perhaps for Finland its not the wisest strategical move to push critical IT services into Azure?

I don't know about Finland but I read about Ukraine partnered with AWS in 2022 to move all of its digital infrastructure(government and banks) abroad and it worked surprisingly well.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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I wonder if sea cables could be designed with some mechanism that could stand being dragged and even crossed somewhere but returning later to its position automatically with a click. Something like a giant karabiner.

It doesn't matter whether it can resist dragging or not, if they could blow up large concrete reinforced NS pipeline.. a tiny optical cable is much easier to destroy.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s just literally no possible way that Sweden has an order of magnitude more islands than the US or Canada. Open up Google Earth and scan around northern coastlines of all these countries and you’ll laugh at the premise of this article. With that said I wouldn’t be surprised if they have the most documented/counted islands. That’s another thing entirely and also sort of interesting I suppose.

It's actually quite an interesting question. The West Coast of the contiguous US has almost no islands, you really start getting "islandy" only in the Puget Sound. The East Coast has more islands, but then you need to decide how you classify the river deltas. Is a bump in a brackish swamp an island or not? On the other hand, Sweden has thousands of really small but also well-defined islands. They can be just several…

California has more named islands than Washington, but they’re not all obvious since there’s quite a few small islands in the San Francisco Bay, Suisun Bay and the Sacramento River Delta. I tried fact checking which of the two had the most total islands between them but couldn’t find a satisfactory answer.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Sure, but it is an appropriate label for Russia today.

Destroying infrastructure isn't automatically terrorism. If Russia bombed people (or e.g. caved in a building where civilians could be expected to inhabit and thereby die in the collapse) then it would be terrorism. Cable bombing isn't terrorism, it's just sparkling warfare.

> If Russia bombed people (or e.g. caved in a building where civilians could be expected to inhabit and thereby die in the collapse) then it would be terrorism. Cable bombing isn't terrorism, it's just sparkling warfare.

> If

You probably meant "when", friend.

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