Concern over Russian ships lurking around vital undersea cables

than they have. Seems like they need to know everything they have and do is toast if they screw with us.

.... asset in the White House.

We have a president who is already in the back pocket of an enemy, a vice president who is probably already dividing up the world with the Russian church, a SecDef whose loyalty to the US is questionable, a CIA Director who has had meetings with the sanctioned head of the Russian SVR, and a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who seems to have gone into stealth mode!

We're screwed!!!

Now that Putin "won" the last election, he feels empowered.

so it won't be too difficult unless we vote them out in Nov.

On beaches and deserts near communication cables.

They were in the US, and it specifically dealt with the SF consulate and known operations conducted in and near there. The ops described were from 2016 and before, not recent.


The idea is that in the event of a war, the US could be sidelined in Europe very quickly. Cut some cables, trash some satellites, and watch the C&C centers in the US be completely cut off from Europe or Asia. Much of the logistics is provided for in the US, and you wouldn't even need to cut out each and every spy satellite to make the information completely inaccessible.

A lot of the Russian thinking presumably depends on Western cowardice. We're willing to take a strong stand and sanction 30 Russians in the event of their invading and basically annexing territory and producing hundreds of thousands of refugees and crippling the local government because we're sure that if we act any tougher all hell will break lose and the other side, fearsome and brave, certainly won't bake down. In other words, we're like the person who defends a kid against a bully but says, right up front, "I'm not going to lift a finger." If you require that defensive action carry no risk, you've basically ruled out almost all defensive actions. We insist that other people pay and die for our values and are always stunned when that either doesn't work or it yields a lot of resentment. After all, we emoted! We said the right things! But as long as we can blame the right people, some good comes from those foreign policy failures.

Meh.

Here's a 5-year-old link to a rough map of where many such cables are.

hope it's found out what they're up to.

But once the BGP war starts.. no more internet as we know it.

Here's a preview..

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/66838/hacking/bgp-hijacking-russia.html

Operation Ivy Bells was a joint United States Navy, CIA, and National Security Agency (NSA) mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the United States wanted to learn more about Soviet submarine and missile technology, specifically ICBM test and nuclear first strike capability.

In the early 1970s the U.S. government learned of the existence of an undersea communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, which connected the major Soviet Pacific Fleet naval base at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Soviet Pacific Fleet's mainland headquarters at Vladivostok.[2]:172 At the time, the Sea of Okhotsk was claimed by the Soviet Union as territorial waters, and was strictly off limits to foreign vessels, and the Soviet Navy had installed a network of sound detection devices along the seabed to detect intruders. The area also saw numerous surface and subsurface naval exercises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

And if they don't, blow them out of the water...

...and strictly prevent any funny business.

At least since Putin.
And would have continued whether Trump or Clinton became President. I'm sure they were thrilled when their machinations paid off and Trump actually won. Because having a compromised bought off President makes their job easier and probably will speed up and embolden their plans even more. But it would have gone on regardless. But Hillary may have at least fought back and alarmed Americans to the facts more.

Oct 25, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/russian-presence-near-undersea-cables-concerns-us.html

Oct 19, 2016
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/19/russia-possibly-mapping-underwater-internet-cables/

Dec 14, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/14/russia-could-cut-off-internet-to-nato-countries-british-military-chief-warns

Dec 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russian-submarines-are-prowling-around-vital-undersea-cables-its-making-nato-nervous/2017/12/22/d4c1f3da-e5d0-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html?utm_term=.9ba1917a623b

Jan 12, 2018
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/3381