• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    29 minutes ago

    And gently pull on the cable to slowly tow Greenland over to Europa where it belongs

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    The US spent decades telling Europe to trust the transatlantic relationship, then somehow managed to make a literal cable across the Arctic look like the more reliable connection. That’s an impressive achievement in diplomacy: when your allies start routing around you like a network failure.

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        1 hour ago

        Calling Trump “senile” downplays the traitorous duplicity.

        At this point, he’s done so much shit that “ineptitude” no longer cuts it as a plausible explanation. Occam’s razor says he’s trying to destroy the US on purpose.

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          12 minutes ago

          I would argue it says he’s trying to increase his own wealth at any cost. Destroying the US is a byproduct of this behavior, not the intention.

  • lench@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Would this influence the latency from Japan to EU in a significant way?

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      Potentially, yes, but only if the cable actually reaches Japan. Greenland to Europe alone changes little. A comparable Arctic project, Far North Fiber, targets 142 ms round trip from Tokyo to London, over 50 ms faster than existing routes.