Undersea cable between Latvia and Sweden damaged by ‘external influence’
Latvian navy coordinating with Nato over incident which comes after military alliance boosted its presence in Baltic Sea in December
How long can they keep doing this without some type of significant action being taken? Couldn't Russian ships be blocked from the canal?
Recently heard a podcast about this. The current law about international waters was made before sea cables became widespread. So it just doesn't contain anything useful about sabotage acts like this.
The only way to do anything is by suing the country under whose flag the ship is registered at the sea court in Hamburg. But it's not like the random countries that those ships are registered under would care much. Usually these are small island states that are cheap in terms of taxes, and don't care much about European cables.
It's just we let international shipping become a tangled mess under US driven deregulation, and as long as it's just basic worker and human rights of sailors were affected we didn't give a shit, but now that this Cold War II idiocy is coming, it's biting us in the ass.
It's like the whole US ideological system and everything that was influenced by it assumed only corporations and the wealthy would be abusing the lack of sensible regulations, not hostile nation states.
Well, if it is small island statea with lots of ships registeres to them, the EU seizing all ships under that flag until the relevant countries end the shenanigans happening under their flag, would exert a lot of pressure quickly.
It is a terrible system of dodging reslonsibilities like you have pointed out. It should be abolished towards ship registrations fitting the actual commerce of the nations.
If they lost their ass in fines they might care a little.
It's international waters, or at most EEZs, so if they did that, it would validate all of China's shenanigans against the Philippines.
They could bomb Russian oil pipes I guess, but economic instability would get worse.
The Danish straits are territorial waters of Denmark. As international straits Denmark needs to allow innocent passage, which of course doesn't include ships that commit sabotage. I wonder if a case could be made to block ships using flags of convenience, since countries like Panama or Liberia allow effective pirate fleets to use their flags, so innocent passage can't be assumed anymore
... canal?
The Baltic Canal :)
When will we retaliate against Russia making a joke of us?
As of November 6th, not in the next four years.
I hope I'm wrong, but I feel that a fair election won't be happening for much longer than four years. Even if the cheeto in chief dies, he's not the guys behind the curtain, and they're not going to give up power willingly... we've already seen that four years ago.
I think it's time to start turning off BGP routes into Russia. They can see what losing internet is really like.
For sure.. should have happened a while ago already. I'd sever all communications except for a single phone to the negotiation team for diplomatic communications, the rest goes away.
Europe has some fine submarines. I don't think there is currently a better task for them, but patrolling the cables. They can catch those fuckers red handed and even threaten to torpedo them to bits.
[staring at russia and china intensifies]
must be the blue speckled subseacable eater again. curse it
China: It’s aliens.