Nato warned over internet blackouts in wake of subsea cable attacks

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1. **The Telegraph reports:**

   Military chiefs at Nato have been warned of global internet blackouts following a string of suspected [Russian attacks on subsea cables](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/30/undersea-cables-leave-britain-exposed-russia-china/).

   Telecoms companies including Vodafone, O2 owner Telefonica and Orange have written to UK, EU and Nato officials warning that a rise in sabotage incidents was [putting critical services at risk](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/16/undersea-submarine-cable-cut-grey-war-dark-fleet/).

   In an open letter, they wrote: “The repercussions of damage to subsea cables extend far beyond Europe, potentially affecting global internet and power infrastructure, international communications, financial transactions and critical services worldwide.”

   It comes after a spike in incidents relating to fibre optic cables on seabeds that carry huge volumes of data, voice and internet traffic between countries.

   **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/10/nato-warned-over-internet-blackouts-in-wake-of-subsea-cable/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/10/nato-warned-over-internet-blackouts-in-wake-of-subsea-cable/)

2. Russia is acting like a cancer cell of humanity.

3. Let each Russian/Chinese ship be escorted by a vessel that’s able to cut anchor lines. Or better still, cut their anchor lines whenever they are anchored. When discovered, do like them and say that we have no idea what happened.

4. Surely it’s time for NATO to start just making threats just like Putin likes to. Here’s one, any act that affects the infrastructure of NATO nations is considered an act of war.
   Do with that what you will Mr Putin, frankly I’m sick of you getting away with being a nob, it’s time we just punch you in the face.

5. Via secure communications, NATO should work with Democrat State governors and Pentagon generals on Trump’s enemies list.

   The explanatory document would contain voluminous reasons for the arrest of Trump, and denazification of federal and state government.

   Washington DC, the Pentagon, most military bases, the majority of the GDP, and the majority of important industries are in democrat state territory.

6. I’m more worried about what the next step of the plan is.

   Putin’s internet propaganda machine has arguably been his most effective weapon in recent years – cutting communication lines is also cutting off his most successful weapon. I can only see a few ways that this would benefit him…

   1- He thinks his work is already done and he has destablised America enough and/or his ‘control’ is secure.

   2- He has a way to keep his bot network active even if the main lines are cut – either Starlink or he has a group already functioning in the area in Mexico, Cuba, Canada or even the States themselves.

   3- Something is going to happen that requires cutting effective communication. He wants the Americas cut off from Europe so that either they can’t effectively respond to something that happens over here, or we can’t respond to something over there…

   None of the options are good.

7. Invoke article 5 on hybrid attacks when

8. So long to unlimited free text messaging in your mobile payment plan if you have them.

9. Seriously… in all this absolute bullsh*t.. Hands off my connection to ps network

10. I remember reading a security report for three significant cable cuts in close succession back in around 2003 which highlighted that only nation states had the capabilities to attack the cable (it was in deep water and there were no boats nearby at the time which suggested sub was used). The effect of the break was that pretty much all Iraqi telecoms traffic went the long way round through a bunch of US Allies and we of course, thanks to Snowden, know of the monitoring capabilities that the traffic would be subjected to if it passed through certain US allies.

    It’s not a huge leap to conclude that the US, or one of their allies in the region, cut the cables to get access to Iraqi internet chatter. It also just happened to be in the months leading up to GWB’s secret trip to Iraq.

    Cuts are not just about disruption, sometimes they are about rerouting.

11. Imagine the whole of Germany not have access to porn. Putin is playing with fire

12. Especially if we keep doing nothing about the issue

13. Crazy that the internet is just a bunch of massive physical cables.

14. Time to sink some ships and submarines I guess

15. As long as they dont mess on Thursdays or Sundays, our WOW raid nights.

16. That or La Liga de Futbol Española. They close half the internet every sunday.

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