So after months of accusations, the various European and American intelligence agencies are saying that the damage to communications cables in the Baltic are the result of accidents.
Gee, who could have seen that coming!
Ruptures of undersea cables that have rattled European security officials in recent months were likely the result of maritime accidents rather than Russian sabotage, according to several U.S. and European intelligence officials.
The determination reflects an emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services, according to senior officials from three countries involved in ongoing investigations of a string of incidents in which critical seabed energy and communications lines have been severed.
The cases raised suspicion that Russia was targeting undersea infrastructure as part of a broader campaign of hybrid attacks across Europe, and prompted stepped-up security measures including an announcement last week that NATO would launch new patrol and surveillance operations in the Baltic Sea.
But so far, officials said, investigations involving the United States and a half-dozen European security services have turned up no indication that commercial ships suspected of dragging anchors across seabed systems did so intentionally or at the direction of Moscow.
So, the problem seems to be the greedy and negligent ship owners, like the ones who knocked over a bridge in my town, aren't Russian moles?
They are just corrupt capitalists?
The problem is deeper than Russian rat-fuckery. It's that shipping is dedicated to socializing the negative consequences of their ineptitude and malice while privatizing the profits that result.
Maybe if we started arrested shipping executives whose chronically under maintained ships and chronically under trained crews do this, we would see a change in behavior.
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