Something Weird is Going On With the Cut Internet Cables

We have had three major fiber optic cables cut, and they , carrying the bulk of internet traffic for the Middle East and India, and it's been confirmed that ships did not cut internet cables with their anchors.

Three widely spaced cables have been severed, and the chance that this would occur as random chance is vanishingly small.

I don't know what it is.

It's unlikely to be terrorist, because media like the internet help them both in their internal communication and their propaganda.

It could be some sort of attempt by some of the more despotic regimes in the area to get control of the internet, but the economic consequences of this does not make sense.

If I put on my tinfoil hat, I think that it's the NSA using creative destruction in order to get taps on the lines, kind of how they used submarines to put taps on lines running from the Kamchatka peninsula to the Soviet mainland during the Cold War.