Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually.
This is only news now because Russia is the current bogeyman, and the claims of Russia doing it fit the propaganda.
If I were Ukraine, I'd cut such cables to encourage my Western sponsors into more action, but that narrative is a bitter pill to swallow for the Western taxpayer's funding conflict.
Still, in 50 years, we may well be reading about exactly that.
"Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually." I read this also all the time, what I don't hear: How do they break? At high sea? By anchors? In a port? By nature? We don't know?
I'm open to the argument, but then someone would need to show some numbers, some trends, reasons and that the current cable breaking is just the same as in the last 20 years.
Your evidence is not compelling, because the planet is a large place...compelling evidence would be showing that there is no significant increase in broken cables among these countries that are so close to Russia.
When you call someone an NPC, you lose all credibility, both for the ad hominem attack, but also for how cliched and unoriginal it is. Can you please come up with something better?
Do you have statistics for the Baltic Sea? The amount of shipping in that area is much lower than in the major international shipping lanes like the English Channel.
Not a good comparison. The English Channel is the most busy maritime route in the world. The Baltic Sea accounts for 15 % of the world's maritime transportation so is also busy, even if less than the English Channel by no means "much lower",
This is only news now because Russia is the current bogeyman, and the claims of Russia doing it fit the propaganda.
If I were Ukraine, I'd cut such cables to encourage my Western sponsors into more action, but that narrative is a bitter pill to swallow for the Western taxpayer's funding conflict.
Still, in 50 years, we may well be reading about exactly that.