Whatabout it? Not a very good comparison since Ivy Bells was minimally disruptive (by design since disruption raises likelihood of discovery). That’s like saying the USA invented surgery so it’s totally cool for RussiaShadow fleet to keep doing chainsaw amputations.
Scientific capacities directed towards war or other international dominance purposes is nothing new, but it’s getting increasingly frustrating to see and wonder how much more good all those resources could do for civil improvements, if only we as a species could shed our age-old compulsion to kill each other for power.
China has a patent for a special anchor for cutting such cables
https://splash247.com/chinese-anchor-like-device-to-cut-cables-makes-headlines/
Of course they would…
Think the Americans and Russians don’t?
The Americans kinda invented attacks on undersea cables:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
Whatabout it? Not a very good comparison since Ivy Bells was minimally disruptive (by design since disruption raises likelihood of discovery). That’s like saying the USA invented surgery so it’s totally cool for
RussiaShadow fleet to keep doing chainsaw amputations.University of China dedicating it’s resources on innovating new ways to terrorize rest of the world. Sweet.
Scientific capacities directed towards war or other international dominance purposes is nothing new, but it’s getting increasingly frustrating to see and wonder how much more good all those resources could do for civil improvements, if only we as a species could shed our age-old compulsion to kill each other for power.