Russia Issues Ominous Warning About Undersea Internet Cables - Lemmy.World
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Nikolai Patrushev, aid to Putin, has accused the U.S. and the U.K. of intending to sabotage underwater internet cables and planning to destabilize the maritime energy trade. Citing U.S. officials, CNN reported in September that Russia was developing a sabotage unit with submarines and drones to target underwater infrastructure by order of the defense ministry’s Main Directorate for Deep- Sea Research (GUGI). A Swedish investigation found evidence of sabotage on the pipelines between Russia and Germany. Moscow had initially accused the U.S. Probes by Sweden and Denmark were closed in February 2024 without identifying those responsible, although a German investigation is ongoing. Media in Norway have reported concerns at the presence in the last few weeks of the Russian intelligence ship Yantar in international waters alongside its coast near critical seabed infrastructure such as oil and gas pipelines and cables for internet and telecommunications.
  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

    What in the world?

    Once the government has been taken over, they can force their memecoin as the national currency and then rug pull

    Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

    Stealing the election, in the way you’re talking about, is extremely difficult in the modern day. There are a lot of safeguards, paper ballot backups, random recounts and spot-checks. A lot of it is run very locally by people who care quite a lot about the fairness of it. Twenty years ago, you used to have to trust the software and it would just spit out a number, which was horribly unsafe and caused a lot of people to become very upset. It’s actually fairly likely that the Republicans stole some elections in places like North Carolina while that was the system. Modern elections in the US are not bulletproof, but they’re now better than that. It’s not nearly as simple as “the uplink is Starlink so they can change the numbers en route.” It just doesn’t work that way.

    It’s hard for me to argue for the negative that it didn’t happen, but this combines stuff that sounds unlikely, stuff that is extremely specific weird speculation like the Starlink thing, and wild stuff that to me is clearly untrue, in a way that leads me to question why the heck it has 50 upvotes.

  • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    That looked good at first but it has too many conspiracy theories:

    This includes during the Ukraine War when Russia began using Starlink (9) while it was claimed they got them third party and not from Musk himself; however now appears imo to show Elon is a doublecrosser.

    Such a claim can’t be attributed to “imo”

    Crypto trading, especially memecoins, appears to be an obvious scam to most because it’s the stock market without ownership. So why were these 4chan pedophiles and nazis doing so well? Because it was just meant to give them money the whole time. And crypto is great for transferring money internationally from shady organizations to shady people (24). Far right catchphrases and meme campaigns dispersed online including X, give out the key words/catchphrases for the new coin that isn’t a scam and will disperse money.

    Classic conspiracy theory ignoring Occam’s Razor

    “If you can watch your vote counter, if we can bring God down from heaven (he’s referencing Starlink), we can win this, win California, win a lot of states.”

    Because religious people never talk about god?